More releases follow after the 1936 single and 1987 sees the band touring all over Europe in an original fire engine. Later that year they form a band called Antidote together with British punkers Chumbawamba and record the 7″ Destroy Fascism!. Also an Antidote bootleg 7″ appears carrying the title One Does Not Sell The [...]
The Ex Files: The early years (1987-1988)
June 14, 2010
The Ex Files: The early years (1984-1986)
June 7, 2010
In collaboration with the anarchist quarterly Gramschap (Anger), The Ex release a split 7″ with the Iraqi Kurdish group Awara in 1984, their first encounter with non-western musicians. Non-western music will prove to be of great importance for The Ex in their later developments. In the same year they do a benefit tour with Morzelpronk [...]
[Watch] Sonic Youth – The Burning Spear live in 1985
June 5, 2010
The Ex Files: The early years (1980-1984)
May 31, 2010
In June 1980 The Ex make their recording debut: the 7″ EP All Corpses Smell The Same. Two more releases follow that same month: a 7″ flexi-disc for the anarchist punk magazine Raket from Rotterdam, and a contribution to Utregpunx, a 7″ vinyl compilation. In October they release their first LP Disturbing Domestic Peace. In [...]
The Ex Files: The early years (formation, 1979)
May 25, 2010
The Ex has been a highly influential band in punk, experimental and avant-garde scenes for over three decades now. In 1979 the band formed out of the squat scene of Amsterdam and Wormer and has since then developed into a prominent musical force covering such diverse styles as punk, noise, rock, jazz, improvisation, and ethnic [...]
The Ex Files: Beautiful Frenzy
May 17, 2010
Watch this trailer of Christina Hallström and Mandra Wabäck’s Beautiful Frenzy, a documentary on legendary Dutch anarcho punk/noise/avant garde collective The Ex. The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.
Tonight: Wouter Jaspers cd preso at Paradox
December 9, 2009
We home they let this Berlin hipster in, cause he will be presenting his new cd at Paradox tonight. It’s the new album by Wouter Jaspers as Franz Fjödor. An album filled with deep haunting tracks of avant garde electronics, electro acoustic instruments combined with fieldrecording from all over the world. Guestmusicians: Bram Stadhouders, Emil [...]
Junior Eurovision 2008 WINNER Georgia – Bzikebi – Bzzz
November 24, 2008
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSolwgGq5_A] The singing bees from Georgia won the Junior Eurovision. Listen to the song. It’s quite of a weird avant garde production.
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[Incubate Scene Report] A Guide to Bristol
May 21, 2012
Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]