Nasmak - Silhouette (LP, Plurex 3303, 1983)

Their fourth and final album, when they were reduced to a trio (Toon Bressers, Henk Janssen and Theo van Eenbergen). Some smooth and slick, a bit like Japan. Although it doesn't match the 3 previous records by them, it's not bad at all, but they do sound a bit tired, I think. Now it's time to work on posting their tape releases!

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RTC - Tomorrow We Talk About Your Career (2LP, De Fabriek Records & Tapes fabprod 10, 1987)

Already promised ages ago, but here its, RTC double LP on De Fabriek. RTC came from Groningen and played popmusic of an electronic nature. Sometimes with Dutch lyrics, sometimes english. The band consisted on Nick Roovers jr and Ron Overbeek, with various people helping out. The first record is 'yesterday' with songs from february till august 1986 and mainly from the core duo. The 'future' LP is a more extended line up.

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Randell - Aanhoudende Kwesties (LP, Keerpunt Platen, 1987)

Danny of Das Ding also gave me this album, of which I never heard, not the artist nor the album. Randell came from the same part of the Netherlands as Das Ding (Zeeland) and lived in Amsterdam, was a painter and made crazy experimental music and vague poetry and text. It has the punk tag of pay no more, but it certainly evolved out of that. Danny has no idea what he does now. Apperently there should be a second LP too.

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Cherry Orchard (miniLP, Lab Records lab 001, 1986)

One of the nicer things of doing a blog is the fact that I learn myself about forgotten music, or music I never heard (of). Cherry Orchard's miniLP was given to me by Danny Bosten of Das Ding, and it's a band he had with his brothers and is much more post-punk than electronic. 10 short pieces, with the 'pay no more' on the cover. The record didn't sell very well, and some 700 were put next to the garbage a long time ago. On Youtube there is a small film in which you can see them. They are the first band. The second is Cash Meat with Johan from Les Yeux Interdit (see previous post on Das Ding) on bass.


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Stichting Ruimte - Follow Mod Compositions (tape, 198?)

In Vinyl there was an article on a new sound system developed at Steim, which if you read it, looks like very early sampling. The musicians in the article later released this tape of rather early primitive sampling techniques. Part rhythmic, part musique concrete. Besides the tape, I scanned the article for some reference. It's however in Dutch only.

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Three Mad Dog (tape, 1985)

More percussion only music today, with this tape, private release by Three Mad Dog, the forerunner of Generated progression, of whom I posted a LP a long time ago. Three Mad Dog was Roderik Henderson and Anton Sauve, who studied carefully the works of Test Department. Lots of metal percussion. They won a prize, kind a like De Grote Prijs van Nederland,http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif and split up. Henderson recorded the Generated Progression album and is these days a photgrapher. Sauve is a shepherd.I was away in the weekend, so today 3 posts, 2 now, 1 when I wake up.

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Paleis van Boem - Mowgli Goes Kaka (LP, Plexus 08-23355, 1985)

Today I read a film review of a new Dutch film 'TBS' and it said it had too much music by Paleis van Boem. Some research learned that Paleis van Boem did a lot of movie soundtrack, including Oscar winning 'Karakter'. The band is a duo of Martin Vonk (Rotterdam, 16 january 1959) and Jaap de Weijer (Wageningen, 20 may 1959). In 1985 they recorded their album 'Mowgli Goes Kaka', which apparently is their only release ever. It's full of percussion music, which in those days was fasionable (Motel Bokassa and Slagerij van Kampen were other Dutch percussion only bands). This one is rather subdued and not rhythm heavy, more Steve Reich than ethnic, if you catch my drift.

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