Two legendary electro/EBM bands PORTION CONTROL & PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE on stage in Antwerp!
Both bands should need no introduction to you anymore...
Portion Control being pioneers of electro-industrial music from the early '80's inspiring bands like Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly and Orbital.
Plastic Noise Experience emerging with the second (German) wave in the early '90's with 'Transmission', a release that quickly became a cult album.
Meanwhile both bands kept on supplying us with countless dance-floor killer tracks.
Portion Control did this with classic tracks like 'Chew You To Bits', 'The Great Divide' and the more recent and harsher tracks 'Amnesia' & 'Deadstar'.
Also Plastic Noise Experience delivered their part of party pleasure with tracks like 'Gold', 'Memory Flow' and amazing cover-version of The Klinik's 'Moving Hands'.
Both bands are coming to Antwerp to promote their brand new releases as Portion Control has only just released a 12" vinyl (+ CD) 'Unrest In the Grime' on Minimal-Maximal Records and PNE has just released a brand new DCD album 'Therapy' on Alfa-Matrix on April 4th.
Support for this night is Akalotz, an EBM combo from Kaiserslautern, Germany Founded in 2007.
Timeschedule
20:00 Doors
20:30 Akalotz
21:30 Plastic Noise Experience
22:30 Portion Control
00:00 Afterparty beats & waves by DJ BORG vs SKULLSCRAPER
Tickets:
€ 15 (presale) / € 20 (@ doors) / € 5 Afterparty only
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ELEMENTS were founded in 2011 in Brugge, Belgium. They are a continuation of the legendary new wave band RED ZEBRA, with bass player Sam Claeys on lead vocals. Johan Isselée (drums, synths),Geert Maertens (guitar), and Chris 'Hazy' Deneve (guitar, synths) complete the line up.
Sam's melodic and eclectic vocals, as well as the landscaping synths layered on the repetitive (Red Zebra) drums and guitars, created a novel and interesting, but foremost beautiful, electro & guitar wave sound.
ELEMENTS produce a magnificent modern sound with a melancholic feel.
On their titleless maiden record several pearls such as 'Wisdom of Knowing', 'Renegade', and 'Undecided' emerged as Sirens of a new dawn for the band. Songs such as 'Weak and Lost' provide a propelling drive and will sound familiar at live gigs.
The record was home recorded and mixed by Johan Isselée, Steven Lorie (Mensen Blaffen) and Peter Van Mulders (Cinq Chevaux, live mix ELEMENTS), and gratiously mastered at Abbey Road studios by Adam Nunn ( who also did Radiohead, TV on The Radio, The Human League to name a few... )
. With ELEMENTS these Ex-Red Zebra men are ready to dwell across Belgian and European roads again.
20.06 Lavvi Ebbel + Elements @ Kavka - Antwerp (Facebook event)
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Legendary Vocalist For The Specials, Neville Staple, Premieres Gritty New Video From His Forthcoming New Album!
The Original Rude Boy returns! Neville Staple, charismatic vocalist/toaster for one of the most celebrated 2 Tone ska bands ever, The Specials, reclaims his place in the spotlight with a triumphant new album to be released on Cleopatra Records on May 13. Entitled Ska Crazy!, the album features phenomenal cover versions of ska/reggae classics by Prince Buster (“Time Longer Than Rope”), The Slickers (“Johnny Too Bad”), and Max Romeo (“Wet Dream”) plus brand new compositions including “Rude Boy Returns,” “Girl,” and the gritty single “Roadblock,” which will make its worldwide debut in a professionally shot music video that premieres on the syndicated music/pop culture webzine Something Else! this coming Monday, April 28.
From the cinematic opening scenes of urban decay filmed in Neville’s hometown Coventry, England, the video bristles with tension as the song’s melodic hook, a killer horn-guitar combo riff, pulsates over shots of graffiti walls and CCTV cameras, like the title sequence to a lost season of The Wire. The dramatic plot of the video, a drug deal that erupts in violence, unfolds as Neville and fellow toaster Daddy Woody act as a Greek chorus warning against youthful hubris. Director Joseph Wallace comments, “I wanted to film a video that approached the subject of street crime seriously, yet still very much retaining the relaxed mood and chilled tone of the music. I wanted Neville walking through Coventry’s cold, empty streets at night singing to the camera as though almost preaching his message; weaving in and out of the narrative itself and blurring the line between performance and social issues.” The video was produced by Rawline Entertainment.
Staple enthuses about the album, “I am so pleased and proud to have put this album together as it includes some old time classic favourites, which I grew up with and which I have added some ‘original rudeboy’ flavour to. My current band are brilliant and they put a lot of time into creating that authentic Jamaican sound with me, that you will hear in the tracks, as well as helping me with the creation of brand new material. You will also hear a lot of vocals from my wife Christine and my good friend and Jamaican DJ artist, Daddy Woody. I hope you all love it as much as I do and I’m dedicating the album to Jerry Dammers and my cousin Alvin who helped me on the way to a career in music.”
Fons Records present to you the splendid new single by Moonscape Echoes, a new project and a new sound from Ben Wyers (ex-Millionnaire). The song Crystal Ball appears on the EP Electric Aftermath released by FONS Records a few months back, and to put it in comparisons, it is made-up of Gainsbough-like guitars and bass, pumping Beatles-like drums and sweet & jazzy Chet Baker-like vocals.
At the end there are violins who become so distorted at the end, that you can almost hear the strings break... Best listened at in a dark corner of the room with headphones loud!
Do check this no-budget lof-fi video made by the singer himself. DIY till you die!
Universal Benelux releases Paranormal Activity - the Marked One on 5th May
Universal Benelux proudly announces the release of Paranormal Activity - the Marked Ones on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Director: Christopher Landon
Writers: Christopher Landon and Oren Peli
Stars: Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz, Gabrielle Walsh
Synopsis:
Jesse begins experiencing a number of disturbing and unexplainable things after the death of his neighbor. As he investigates, it isn't long before Jessie finds he's been marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity, and it's only a matter of time before he is completely under its control...
Soon we will reveal an exclusive extended preview featuring 10 minutes of the movie, in the meantime you can click below to see the creepy trailer.
