Eight Dutch Singles

While looking for all this great Dutch punk music, several people stumbled on weird 7"s from The Netherlands which are not punk at all. I lump them together here in this post. The Bugs 7" is mentioned in that dutch punk, but it's nowhere near anything punk, more like dub and reggea. Kontakt Mikrofoon Orkest is on MCCB, of which several other 7"s can be found on Mutant Sounds, and it has involvement of Geoff Leigh of Hnery Cow. Also from Rotterdam is How To Get Rich In Rotterdam about whom I know nothing, just as Nadagen. I have no clue about them at all. I believe they released this as a 12". Kewi A Go Go Party later where called De Kewi's and their members are founders of the 1000 Idioten label. Also no information The Rooftop, the oldest record of this bunch. Another is the solo 7" by Charlie The Frank, former vocalist of Suspect and recorded at Backstreet Backlash. As a teaser I also enclose the only 7" by J'nitors United C.O.D. of whom I'll post more soon, when I transferred their tape. More on them then.


Kewi A Go Go Party - De Meester Van De Zesde Klas Heeft Beatlehaar (7", De 1000 Idioten IDI 4444, 198?)
The Rooftop (7", A Knock Out Production, 1978)
How To get Rich In Rotterdam - Dapper Dan (7", Vormgeving Rotterdam Records VR 1, 1981)
Kontakt Mikrofoon Orkest - Do The Residue (7", M.C.C.B. 004, 198?)
J'Nitors United C.O.D. - Zix Cuts 81 (7", Small Town Sounds R001, 1981)
Bugs - Amstel (7", Amstel 1, 1982)
Nadagen (12", ?, ?)
Another (7", Backstreet/Backlash Records BBR 007)

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Dutch Punk - Fourth Post

So I said it would be chaotic posting, but this one focusses entirely on the city of Utrecht. The great Rock Against Records put out some lo-fi records, mostly 7"s but also LPs. The LP here is untitled and even hard to decipher what is on there. But with the help of 'Het Gejuich' I could name all tracks (although slighty inaccurate, but let's not bore with the details). I also added the 'Utreg Punx' compilation 7", that also included The Ex, one of the members came from Utrecht. I will only post music by The Ex when it's part of a vinyl collection, and nothing else by them. All of the material is on CD and I suggest you buy them all. The third one is a seven inch by the all female The Nixe, also from Utrecht.

1. Untitled LP compilation, Rock Against Records b1, 1981
2. Utreg Punx, Rock Against Records z2, 1980
3. Nixe, Rock Against Records, 1981

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Enno Velthuys - A Glimpse Of Light (tape, Exart EA 021, 198?

Enno Velthuys is a somewhat obscure character in the world of Dutch electronic music, who released a whole bunch of tapes in the 80s, mainly on the Exart label from IJmuiden. Highly ambient synthesizer music. He is the son of the well-known children book author Max Velthuys. From what I remember when reading an interview with him, he said he had son which was a troublemaker and a psychiatric patient. I have no clue what Enno does these days. I tried separating the pieces but failed, so I made one long track of side a and side b. And unfortunately the sound quality is not the best around.

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The Softies - two singles, one LP

This post could have been labelled 'Dutch Punk Fourth Post', since the two 7"s are mentioned in 'Het Gejuich Was Massaal', but the Softies are merely a power pop band, but a very nice one. On the two 7"s, there is guitarist Frank N Stein who played also in Helmettes and Speedtwins. When he left the other two members left for England and recorded the LP. The nice thing about 'Jet Boy Jet Girl', a song about a gay relation, is that it was recorded with Captain Sensible, who by then had left the Damned and lived in Amsterdam for a while. He didn't want to have this single on the UK market because of the content but couldn't read the Dutch contract. New wave lovers will recognize that song as a cover of Ca Plane Pour Moi, from Plastic Betrand.

The Softies - Suicide Pilot (7", Charly Records CYS 1036, 1978)
The Softies - Jet Boy, Jet Girl (7", Poker Records, POS 15077, 1978)
The Softies - Nice 'n Nasty (LP, Charly Records CRL 5012, 1978)

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De Kommeniste - 1000 Titels (LP, Mastik, 1980) Wonder Der Techniek (7", Payola Records, 1979)

When I talked with the Kees of yesterday's post about Dutch punk, he said (what he always does when this subject comes up): forget everything from Dutch punk, and listen to De Kommeniste, a Belgium group from the late seventies. Well, come on, let me borrow that record. I must say this is indeed a great record, of which I never heard of in those days. They opened for The Cure and Joy Division and made this LP '1000 Titels', which in fact was pressed in an edition of 1000 and had a blank square on the cover, so each could be called different. The band consisted of Marc Meulemans on vocals, bass Herman Tallein, drummer Bob Campenaerts and another guitarist called Mark Meulemans. The vocalist became well known designer, designing cover for dEUS and 2many DJs and he died in Janaury 2007.

Two days after this initial post of the LP, here is also the 7" by them! great! thanks anonymmm


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Dutch Punk - Third Post

To answer a question from the comments of a few days ago: no, I don't have all of these records, only some. But I try to borrow them, make fresh rips and new scans. So I headed out to a nice guy called Kees, here in Nijmegen, (not the same Kees as from the punk in holland website), and borrowed a whole bunch of 7"s and albums, of which this is the first post (except the Studs which I had myself). It harks partly back to the very first punk records in The Netherlands, and some 7"s are pretty short, so we get no less than 10 today. Mecano's first record is in there, as well as the other two releases (God's Heart Attack and The Helmettes) on No Fun Records, which eventually became Torso Records, and the first 7" on Plurex by Tits, which might be considered a forerunner of Minny Pops. Vopo's are from Zwolle, Princess Of Peace (nice picture disc there and hardly punk) from Arnhem, Suzannes from Enschede, The Brommers from Den Haag and finally The Studs from Amsterdam.

1. The Brommers - Defect (7", Pleasant Piece Of Plastic s3275, 1980)
2. Paul Tornado - Van Agt Casanova (7", De 1000 Idioten IDI 1111, 1977)
3. Princess Of Peace - x-Ray Proved/Nothing You Got (7", Royaltie 1, 1979)
4. God's Heart Attack - Treat Me Like A Doll (7", No Fun no 1, 1978)
5. Helmettes - I Don't Care (7", No Fun no 1/2 2, 1978)
6. Mecano - Face Cover Face (7", No Fun no 2, 1978)
7. The Vopo's (7", Redlux rcs 1109, 1980)
8. Tits - Daddy Is My Pusher (7", Plurex 001, 1978)
9. Suzannes - New Disease (7", De 1000 Idioten IDI 3333, 1978)
10. The Studs - Warning High Voltage (7", Vögelspin bite 003, 1981)


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Bruitiste Boxset Tapes (2 tapes, RRRecords, ?)

The great US noise label RRRecords released often limited editions - 'boxsets' of their vinyl with something extra, which were usually down to fifty copies. The 'Bruitiste' 2LP featured four of the better known industrial bands of that time, P16.D4, Esplendor Geometrico, Etant Donnes and Vivenza. Some day I might transfer the 2LP set, but here are the two tapes that came with the limited box set. I am not sure if it's all really exclusive material - the die-hard fans should tell us, I guess.

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