¡Discoteca! 3 with Selectors Frankie Francis, Quantic & Beto. All vinyl and recorded live at the 303, NYC, April 25th 2014.

Discoteca at the 303: Frankie Francis, Quantic & Beto

Eric Feremans
The Antwerp Killer
Finders Keepers Records

Release date: 20th November 2015

Teenage movie maverick meets synth scientist for bespoke Belgian B-movie. One of the rarest vinyl horror soundtracks of all time, 1983’s The Antwerp Killer is the rest of the remarkable homemade electronic experiments of the wunderkind synth designer and his unison with a smart-talking teenage movie maverick to create something almost unfathomable in the process. Combining self-propelled punk attitude and uninhibited confidence, the hyper pro-active work of these DIY prodigies pinpoints an important era where youthful ambition and creative technology meet.

By the age of sixteen Eric Feremans started building modulators and eventually his first proto synthesiser. Teaching musicians how this new technology worked became Eric’s mission. He found that in electronic music composition the understanding of the functioning of the machine is part of the musicianship. Without this they were just fooling around with new technology. By the early 70s Eric’s synths were becoming more and more complex and he even played a concert with Belgian electronica pioneer Karel Goeyvaerts. Eric decided to create his own school where he would teach his pupils to make build synthesisers and how to play them. The EEF (from Eric E. Feremans) was created. The build-your-own packages were created by volunteers and around 20 or 30 are said to have been made. After being a guest in a national television show the demand for courses exploded and Eric was lecturing nationally and internationally. Even attracting the king of the Amsterdam Mafia who would be driven down from Amsterdam with two body guards in his Rolls Royce every week.

One day Eric gets a visit from a Luc Veldeman a sixteen-year-old with a manner of speech way beyond his age and larger then life projects. Eric was in the process of making Antwerp’s first crime movie called The Antwerp Killer. He had seen Eric play live and he wanted some of his music to be used as the score and to press as a album to promote the film. Upon their first meeting Veldeman wanted a tape to convince his financial investors. Eric gave him one of the rare recordings he had made with the synthesizer. A session he had just recorded upon installing his new studio; a session, according to Eric, that was the result of the pure joy he experienced of having such a wonderful sounding machine in his studio and the bottle of vodka he downed during the session. That session was cut up by Veldeman and it was turned into the soundtrack of The Antwerp Killer.

Eric ended up playing a cop in the film and the film was the opening film of the Knokke Film Festival in 1983. It was honed away by the press and the audience. Bad acting, bad editing, bad script, cool s
undtrack though. Veldeman was nowhere to be seen and everybody involved who had quit their jobs or studies to coöperate on this film or put in their money in it saw their hopes disappear. Veldeman had even rented all the film equipment with a false identity and then dumped it all in the canal after the shooting. When the cops eventually found out about his they weren’t even able to arrest him being a minor.

A magnum opus of a true criminal and the synthesiser teacher of the Amsterdam Mafia King, The Antwerp Killer remains a prime document of the broody Belgian 80s and a heck of a soundtrack.

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Eric Feremans - The Antwerp Killer (Theme)

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First Heard on Todd Terje's BBC Essential Mix, Saturday 17th July 2013
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/todd-terje-essential-mix-2013

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Neşe Karaböcek - Yali Yali (Todd Terje Edit)

MAYA – SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK / DISTANT VISIONS
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005

A late night voicemail from Cherrystones: “Phone me! I’ve got something killer! It might not make sense at first but it’ll suck you in...”
After hearing the outsider psych of ‘Distant Visions’ we are suitably hooked and the wheels are in motion to reissue the music of Maya from 1975.

It’s at this point we realise we ain’t even heard the A-side yet! Turns out it’s the heaviest heartbreak jam going…

Following on from 2015’s acclaimed Critical Mass compilation, Cherrystones and Touch Sensitive come together again to proudly present a lost masterpiece from the U.S. hard rock and psychedelic underground.

Fully remastered and faithfully reproduced on limited 7inch vinyl with additional insert featuring lyrics and notes from Burk Skyhorse Price (Maya) and Cherrystones.

Two tracks of timeless, heartfelt outsider music.

“In the drying up world of unknown homemade underground rock sounds, there never fails to be at least one scurrying rodent running for cover; bug-eyed under the flashlight of the modern-day sonic adventure seeker. Nearly all the LPs have been brought to the surface. More recently rabid fuzz and loner sound explorers are rubbing elbows with Northern Soul speed-freaks in the deep cold, hour-eating world of coverless 45s to seek out what could be seen as the final frontier of no budget, big dream and no fan base homemade local vulnerable Rock ’n’ Roll.

So what do we have here? A UK discovered and repressed Ohio private nuclear soul bomb by Burk Skyhorse Price with his Maya unit from the shadows of Cincinnati Ohio, in the music-world turmoil years of 1975.

The single has all the ingredients: songs about heartache, bubbling synths, alien feelings, proto-punk, backwards feedback, isolation.

Two lengthy songs of two different moods: “SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK” a "Fuck You!” to all partners that want you to join the Real Estate game and turn in your misfired Envelope pedals for a suit and tie; rendered musically in a raging underground punk damage mode.

But I think the small band of freaks that have heard Maya’s lone 45 agree that its the pro-Alien sad dirge of “DISTANT VISIONS" that gets the pen scratching the history books for another legendary entry. This reflective afternoon delay lurker makes me wonder what happened AFTER the fade out to "Visions”. 
Maybe the homemade air siren blew out the studio?
Regardless, here is a big dreaming band that left quite a brief one-two punch to the face of the industry that had no place for their punk and lonely sound poems. Funny but fitting how they have finally found a home forty years later and many continents away. Solid homemade damage here, touching AND sensitive, albeit crushingly loud.”

John Olson (Wolf Eyes / American Tapes / Third Man Records) Michigan, 2016.
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Tracklisting:

Side One: Synthezoid Heartbreak	
Side Two: Distant Visions

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005 | 7inch / Digital
Release Date: Friday 26th February 2016
Mastering / Restoration: Stephen Quinn, Analog Heart 
Cut: Mike Grinser, Dubplates & Mastering

Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com


Maya - Synthezoid Heartbreak

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Recorded live @ Sameheads 09.12.16

Thee Psychedelic Frogfish Appreciation Society is proud to present for the first time in Berlin since many, many years, the legendary Loud-E of the CBS/ Intergalactic FM fame.
For some, simply the best Disco DJ out there, Rard is one of those elusive old school Dutch DJs who allegedly changed the game years ago. But unlike some of his pals like I-F or Intergalactic Gary, Rard is somehow a key figure which still hasn't been celebrated by the more "mainstream/ specialized" scene.
This is a very rare appearance and needless to say, it might take a few other years until you get the chance to see him at the decks again.
Loud-E will be supported by his long time friend, another longstanding DJ who has been part of the Berlin underground since the early 90s, Hauptstadt 's best kept secret Benji DF and Capablanca himself.
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09/12/2016

Loud - E live Dj 2-4am - The Psychedelic Frogfish Appreciation Society @ Sameheads

A mix with Moroccan music from the 60ies and 70ies!

The Wild does Morocco

***download available*** 
1. Anambra (Extended Mix) - Ozo
2. Aeo (Pt. 1 & 2) - Brian Briggs
3. Rifyx (Kuniyuki edit) - Jacob S. Desvarieux
4. Trying To Hold On (Gerd Janson Megamix) - Junior Byron
5. Un Fait Divers Et Rien De Plus (Re-Re-Mix) - Le Club
6. Plantas Falsas - Bruxas
7. Mexico (Lovefinger's Barrio Edit) - Sammy Barbot
8. Life in the Big City - The General
9. Avèou Doudou - Kassav' & Jean-Claude Naimro
10. Messages From The Stars (Long Wave Mix) - RAH Band
11. That Friday Pay (Eagle Flying Day) - Sonny Jenkins And The New York Potpourri Strings
12. Walkman (John Jellybean Benitez Re-edit) - Kasso
13. Hot Summer Nights (Medlar Dub Edit) - Love Club
14. Ecoute Le Son Du Soleil (Albion Edit) - Yannick Chevalier
15. Crossed Movements (Life Of Marvin Extended Version) - Roby J
16. Bouncing Atoms - Ben & Sadar’s
17. Can't Live Without Your Love - Tamiko Jones
18. Shake You Body - Mike Umoh
19. Parribean Disco - Cotonete & Dimitri From Paris
20. Blue Pyramid - Virginia
21. Can I Get A Witness..? - Witness01

Recorded at Studio Juice - 21/01/2018.

Winter '18 Mix

أبستراكتزم 1960

LOUD-E-Lets Disco The Night Away-CBSmix

2019/09/08 - Eupen | Music selected by Tako, recorded live at the Heuboden / dublab Sleepless Floor at Meakusma Festival 2019.

In September 2019 the Meakusma Festival took place in Eupen / Belgium for the 4th time, celebrating the unclassifiable through music, installations and lectures. Once again dublab set up shop at the Heuboden of “Alter Schlachthof”,  commited to create a cozy safe haven for all visitors from far and near, driven by respect for each other and a mutual love for the arts. 

In this surrounding a handpicked selection of live-acts and DJs from the musical cosmos of Meakusma and dublab shared amazing music all weekend long and was embraced by a gentle and highly attentive  audience. Top times!

The Wild does Morocco

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