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 (1980-1984)
May 31, 2010
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 [...]
[Watch] A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
February 11, 2010
The history of the Boombox
January 24, 2010
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20 tracks every techno head should know
September 10, 2009
Beatportal made a very nice post about the twenty tracks every techno fan shoud know. Including those songs for streaming! From Detroit, it spread east and west like a virus, using microchips, circuit boards, and wires as vessels. It mutated, and split into separate strains, each with their own unique characteristics – hard, deep, and [...]
Video on cyberpunk
August 17, 2009
via nerdcore, of course.
Jazz is all you need
April 28, 2009
The Guardian has put up another piece on Jazz history, this time focusing on Benny Goodman. Read it here! Ellington’s music and motivation was different to that of Benny Goodman, a white virtuoso clarinetist from Chicago who became a bigger star than Ellington during the 30s boom in big-band swing – a phenomenon as big [...]
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[Listen] (Not yet released) Ides of Gemini – Constantinople
May 22, 2012
“Imagine being followed by a choir of ghosts in ancient, desolated and haunted ruins of the city of Constantinople” is what we wrote about Ides of Gemini when we were announcing this band for our festival. During Incubate this band will play at Friday the 14th of September. Officially their new album will be released [...]