Cocktail Size was one of the premiere Hip Hop genius organizations functioning in Europe BACK IN THE DAY. Operating out of Stuttgart, Belgium, Cocktail Size (affectionately called “The Size” by its devoted and massive fan base) brought their unique and flavorful approach to popular music to the masses of disaffected and disillusioned Hip Hop and dance lovers across the globe. An international venture, The Size was comprised of a mysterious Canadian bass player named Zeb the Ham and an Egyptian synthesizer and electronics wizard named Bicky B, along with backup musicians, sometimes including dancers. Together they put on one of the MOST EXCITING, EXHILARATING LIVE PERFORMANCES this side of the mother fucking Rhine. The Size’s plan for world domination was hatched in the days when Zeb and Bicky were both posted in Germany as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Unit. Using the skills and the knowledge acquired during those crucial years, the two of them discovered the secret formula that would allow them to create music that fuses emotion, rhythm, technical proficiency, and political ideology into a perfect and immutable whole. The Size had a passionate interest and were deeply involved in the environmental and societal issues confounding the human race. They stopped at nothing to undermine the mores and values of today’s corrupt and archaic world order. They destroyed weak music and its pathetic practitioners. THEN was the time that the Size unleashed their Master Plan but their INFLUENCE can be heard to THIS DAY.

Image credits: Fred F.

Dr. NO was a semi-instrumental drums and bass band from Leuven, in the heart of Belgium.  The band was essentially a duo, with Bernard Van Hecke on drums and Michiel van Oudheusden on bass and vocals; although a third musician, Kris Putseys, frequently added instrumention to flesh out the sound.  The band members met in 1996 and have since worked together in and on several different music projects.  Dr. NO’s influences range from The Minutemen over Sabot to the minimalist and repetitive compositions of UI.  These influences can be heard on their 1999 CD (untitled), which contains seven of the band’s earlier songs. 
Artwork: Fred Feyfer

Minor Sore is a folk and rock-inspired three piece from Leuven, Belgium. The band formed in 2011, when Michiel van Oudheusden urged his girlfriend Elisa Vanderveken to stop wasting her voice by endlessly rehearsing existing medleys in the shower, and instead sing several songs he had been working on since his teen years. With Minor Sore, vocal melodies build on bare and basic guitar chords. A third musician (Philip D) often provides additional instrumentation, such as electric and slide guitar, which gives the music a light country-esque touch. The dark poetry and artwork of Michiel’ sister Katrijn serve as one of the band’s major inspirations.

ManBoob was born from the syncretisation of two extraordinary musicians’ efforts to paint a soundscape that echoes their unique experiences of living together in an Asian templehouse with a moat. To keep the python in the moat at bay, the two of them supercharged the water ripples, waiting for the python to attack - bruhahaha. Having vaporised the python with a blast machine, they activated the strong elements of the vaporiser trigger to crash the undercurrents using deltaloids provided to them by Bicky B of The Cocktail Size. With the python sedated, still around but unharmful, ManBoob found the space to compose their groundbreaking, widely acclaimed album, Hencethereforth, Wrinkle Star (from a vantage point only).

Manboob is: Zeb the Ham / Flip the Irk / Elvira Dungeon.

Nyumo is just me, my instruments and a few years worth of musical ideas. I draw inspiration from jazz, soul, fusion, postrock, neo-classical, hiphop and everything in between. I dedicate my songs to the memory of my parents.

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