ANTWERP - sound of the city

City Same City

Flying Horseman - Hardcore

Opening track 'Optimists' Lp
out on Jj funhouse

Decades

Stafke Fabri - Smoort dan! 
DannyMan Dubbed Up version Chapter One

Stafke Fabri-Smoort dan! DANNYMAN DUB CHAPTER ONE

Valerie Van Roey : Voice / Akk Guitar / Composition / Arr

Ruben Machtelinckx : Elec Guitar / Arr

Mind Is

I played some chords and she started singing, so i looped my chords and added some drums.
10 min session

https://soundcloud.com/salamanderijn ! !! !

Blu Samu - Latenight freestyle

Available here: http://newsrecords.lnk.to/lacuna

TRACKLIST
1. Blackie & The Oohoos - In Silence 
2. Blackie & The Oohoos - Little Jewel 
3. Blackie & The Oohoos - Golden Rain 
4. Blackie & The Oohoos - Aphexy 
5. Blackie & The Oohoos - The Girl 
6. Blackie & The Oohoos - Drive 
7. Blackie & The Oohoos - Hero 
8. Blackie & The Oohoos - Lost Plane 
9. Blackie & The Oohoos - Black Sand Beach 

INFO
The new Blackie & The Oohoos album is something to indulge in.
Sounding dark, hypnotic and notably more electronic than before, the two sisters’ new songs are drenched in synths and melancholy. 
Martha and Loesje Maieu are known as the spellbinding backing singers and synth players of Antwerp’s finest Flying Horseman, but their own band remains their main focus. And with that band, they have just finished an extraordinary new album.
On ‘Lacuna’, their haunting dream pop is perfected, backed by Alfredo Bravo’s propulsive tribal drumming and colored by Milan Warmoeskerken’s otherworldly guitar. Studio wizard Dijf Sanders (Teddiedrum, The Violent Husbands) coproduced and mixed the album. The sisters’ songcraft and strong melodies remain at the core of every track, though on Lacuna the emphasis shifts towards rhythm and a coherent sound. This is a band at the top of their game, exploring the common ground between indie pop and electronica. The new record is undoubtedly their most consistent and simply strongest effort to date.

Blackie & The Oohoos - In Silence

Free DLL: https://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/rush-hour

Get a first taste of the magical Pomrad. His album will drop this spring and will be our first joint release with the homies from On And On Records from France. 

"Pomrad a.k.a. Adriaan Van de Velde has lots of it in his colourful trickster bag. Razor sharp keyboard licks, phat electro grooves and thick funk straight out of Chocolate City. "Rush Hour", the first single from his forthcoming album gives you a taste of whats to come. Big things happening."
credits

Get familiar:
https://soundcloud.com/pomrad

Free DLL

Pomrad - Rush Hour feat. Steve Kashala

Demo recorded at The Riffraff HQ on a Tascam PortaStudio 414mkii.


Putain

2nd track on 'Intact' (Jj funhouse, 2016)
http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj010

Data

Artists: various (see track list below)
Title: EXO2
Format: 2 x 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 14th of December 2016
Cat no: EKS011
Edition: 500

Continuing the EXO series with this second edition, to soothe your monkey mind from the hassles of this hectic world. Another double 12 inch (180g) containing 15 tracks by the artists stated underneath. Released in an edition of 500 with printed inner sleeves & download cards included. Mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Ångstrom mastering. Sleeve by Victor Robyn.

Fall 2016. Listening to a tune of your choice is only a gesture away. A gentile touch activates the translation from binaries to sounds and lights. In the blink of an eye the cloud provides connects and follows us everywhere. Wireless handhold devices that shine their light upon us became our companions and they know our likes. The whole world seems to be in reach and we gaze at the dreams and actions of others wile waiting for traffic-lights to switch color. Never before was waiting so comfy.
Plastics surround us in so many forms and products, they became a normal substance in our daily lives. It’s almost forgotten that in the core of their refined substance they are exotic. Synthetically composed so nearby that it takes a closer look or the gaze of a child to see the curiosity in all its shapes and colors.

EXO2 is a delicious selection of exotics that will grow on you the more you water them and give them the fresh grounding of your soul. May we kindly invite all listeners to adjust their velocity and let the music take over for there is a tantalizing glimpse of another world to be explored in each rhythmic harmony. Enjoy the journey! (Text by Raphaël Vandeputte.)

Track list:

A1: Elko B. — Sai Azul (macho)
A2: RHVR — Shady Palm
A3: RHVR — RH-6
A4: Dijf Sanders — SandWitches

B1: Shuffle Orch. — Bries
B2: Fregnacciarius — Untitled
B3: Milan W. — Vermona
B4: Polysick — Malacca Cane

C1: Ssaliva — Safe
C2: Hantrax — Improvisation
C3: ARE — 220 West
C4 Tyrone Douglas — Portrait

D1: Mathieu Serruys — Plaine Morte
D2: Panabrite — Canopy
D3: Orphan Fairytale — Garden Of Eva

EXO2

EXO2 Compilation preview — EKS011

Typhonian Highlife -  Zenith Umbaba - Xeno

Growing Woods

'SPOEL' is out now as a double LP on Black Sweat Records! (June 2017)
Spoel was originally released as a C62 cassette on SicSic Tapes in 2014.
The Lp version features 3 extra tracks from the same recording sessions.
One of these tracks, 'Verschuiving' was recorded january 2014 at CEM Rotterdam with the Arp2500.

Verschuiving (from 'Spoel' 2xLP - Black Sweat Records)

first song of the 'Hideaway' LP, out on Ultra Eczema, nov 2016
"Following two singles and an LP on UE , we are delighted to announce Miaux’s new album! Originally from Sarajevo, and a Belgian resident since 1989, Miaux - pronounced the French adult, not the feline way - returns with a propertearjerker in her classic deadpan style.
Mia Prce got her first keyboard when she was five years old. A rarity in the UE catalogue, and like labelmate Cassis Cornuta, Prce is a trained musician. But do read on!
Hideaway consists of seven stunning instrumentals that blend and gently warp Miaux’s formative influences: Mike Oldfield, Roxy Music, Krautrock and German electronic music, Vangelis and Badalamenti.
Despite being happier than you and I and her own earlier records, Prce’s daughter asked for “this sad music“ to be turned off when they were listening to the finished master for the first time."

Hideaway

Laguna - Hideaway LP, Ultra Eczema

Animals in one's own good time. 
Beestentijd is the second full album by HOERA. 

As animal species have different metabolism speeds and body masses, their perception of time, and thus sound varies.
credits
releases June 2, 2017 

BERT COOLS - electric & acoustic guitar 
DRIES LAHEYE - electric & acoustic bass guitar 
STIJN COOLS - drums 

Production, recordings and mix by STIJN COOLS 
Final master mix by PETER DESMEDT 
Mastering by UWE TEICHERT 
Cover art ‘Bonasus’ by JOHAN MEURIS 
Text by JASPER DE RYCKER 
Layout by SANDRA SENA 

gran14 
Produced & Published by granvat © 2017 
Recorded on 8 & 9 Februari 2016 at studio KipKaas 

>> www.granvat.com/projects/hoera

beestentijd

HOERA. - beestentijd (Album Compilation)

everybody's bringing bad news

stream on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2ie4QZD

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written and produced by Simon / PJ Nuytten
additional production by Chris Zane
mixed by Staff Verbeeck
mastered by Equus

BAD NEWS 🌀

Artists: various (see tracklist)
Title: EXO3
Format: 2 x 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 28th of November 2017
Cat no: EKS015
Edition: 500

All tracks written and produced by the artists stated underneath. Double 12" vinyl (180g) released in an edition of 500 with printed inner sleeves & download cards. Mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Ångstrom mastering. Sleeve by Victor Robyn.

Presenting the 3rd edition of our EXO series. The Exoskeleton.

The world outside resonants metallic. Its activity humming calm harmonics. I am in stasis. Liquified. Receiving alien signals. Unseen universes translated into sound. Notes bend like light reflected in a curved, hard surface. Sine waves as my sinews stretch. Muscles form and tie. Limbs from this soup. Pain is not the word for it. This flux. I am detached from my body. I listen to it bubble and evolve. Guessing at my shape. Serene. Yet I grow impatient. Anxious to be free as the world vibrates. I have my life to be getting on with after all. How long have I been in here? What will I find when I emerge? Celebrations? Or stamped on like a roach? Will I be wonderful with colour and wingspan? Dancing for a mate. I wonder as I wait and change. Change and wait. Would I be content on a diet of dirt? It goes like this. My thoughts in circles. Dream chasing worry. Worry chasing dream. Waiting to be reborn. Maybe I`ll soar. Riding warm swells on Summer days. Or will I dwell in the dark? No use for eyes. Only smell. Tasting the air for a sense of direction. Will I find myself one of a hive? Or will I remain alone? Expanding to crack this shell. Forcing myself out into the sun. Everything rings different in the light. I am slow in the warmth. A breeze drying my soft skin. Transforming it. Tempering it to steel. Polishing it until it shines. You can see your face in it. But I can`t see mine. Still left to suppose the presence I present. Old friends won`t recognise me. And I won`t recognise them. Remixed, remodelled, restructured. Bold explorers discovering purpose anew. Before all I did was eat. First steps I stumble. Unsure of how many legs I`ve got. The Sun seems to sing her reassurance. Her welcome. My joints clank and rattle. Like those of a machine. I move stiff and robotic, but swiftly now. Here comes the rain. Heaven cracks back to throw its shower against my armour and I feel invincible, immortal. Impenetrable in the private fortress of this exoskeleton. Shrugging off a god`s tears. Blood races. Oxygen pumps. What passes for a heart, this heart, is strong. With no measure of time, I busy myself with the business of being alive.
(Text by Robert Harris — banbantonton.com)


Tracklist:

A1. Hiele — Birdwatching
A2. Polysick — Misolidio
A3. Rembrandt Redandt — Blankenberge
A4. Soft Focus — Momentum

B1. Aloïs R. — Twee Beren
B2. Milan W. — Glaasjes
B3. Fregnacciarius — Ferragosto
B4. Elko B. — Verletztes Reh
B5. Hantrax — Walking With Raven

C1. Jonny Nash — Head Is Clearer
C2. Gigi Masin — Starshine

D1. Suzanne Kraft — Still Sick
D2. Hiele — Buchla For Sunday
D3. Componium Ensemble — Kats
D4. Roger 3000 — Nuptiale

EXO3

EXO3 Compilation preview — EKS015

Black Rider Run (feat. Mark Lanegan) - NEW

Secret beaches

I / II

Dans Dans - Ancient Aiethopia

USE-IT stands for no-nonsense tourist info for young people. USE-IT maps and websites are made by young locals, are not commercial, free, and up-to-date. Some USE-ITs also have a visitors desk, mostly run by volunteers. Every USE-IT publishes a Maps for Young Travellers that will guide you through the city in a no-nonsense way.