Name: Thumping Puppets - The Fat Lady Of Limbourg by William Davison
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: One-take basement jam recording of Thumping Puppets (Denton/Davison) performing Brian Eno's "The Fat Lady Of Limbourg". Recorded to cassette, ca. 1985, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. W.A.Davison - vocals and CS20-M synth, G.C.Denton - electric bass and backing vocals + some kind of very primitive rhythm box (Radio Shack?). Warts and all.

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Inspired by Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Clock DVA, Arno and Tibor were fellow students at the Center of Electronic Music (CEM) in Arnhem, Netherlands during the mid 80's.

After getting a record deal with the Belgian Antler Subway, and started producing their first EP, originally meant as EBM. But since they were in the middle of proceeding, they took the chance to incorporate some of those influences in their first record, 'Force D'Inquisition', in 1990, which became one of the earliest Dutch house records.

Track A2 is the legendary 'Apocalypse', which was quite a hit at the time both in the EBM and acid scene, with gentlemen like Frankie Knuckles playing it in his sets.
Arno Peeters was later part of Random XS and Urban Electro and worked solo as Spasms on Djax-Up-Beats.
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releases July 5, 2024

Voltage Control were Arno Peeters and Tibor Fülöp.
All tracks originally released between 1990 and 1992 on Antler Records and licensed directly from Arno Peeters.

Remastered by Arno Peeters.
Graphic design by AA.
Photos by Jolanda Cleo Kempers.

In memory of Tibor Fülöp, 17-03-2010.

MNQ 161
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Voltage Control 1990​-​1992 LP

Voltage Control - Apocalypse

there emerged plants twisted by radiation into something sinister. The Green Man, guardian of foliage, went undercover to investigate these mysterious growths. Disguised as a common plant, he ventured into this post-apocalyptic wilderness.

However, these were no ordinary plants; they had evolved into something predatory, thriving on the nuclear contamination that poisoned the land. Unbeknownst to the Green Man, these organisms started influencing him, their parasitic tendrils entwining with his will.

there emerged plants twisted by radiation - Telharmonium swing

I need to tell about
materials that we need
in order to decarbonize
they're pretty

Forecasting

6/14 Pride Rave Mix

One-take basement jam recording of Thumping Puppets (Denton/Davison) performing Brian Eno's "The Fat Lady Of Limbourg". Recorded to cassette, ca. 1985, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. W.A.Davison - vocals and CS20-M synth, G.C.Denton - electric bass and backing vocals + some kind of very primitive rhythm box (Radio Shack?). Warts and all.

Thumping Puppets - The Fat Lady Of Limbourg

W.A.Davison is a multidisciplinary artist who has been producing various forms of experimental art and music for over 35 years. As a composer and improvisor, Davison has performed solo (as The Bim Prongs, M.Stactor, Songs of the New Erotics, Th W rbl r, Panic Engines, etc.), in his own ensembles (Urban Refuse Group, Six Heads), and in various collaborations (with members of CCMC, Nihilist Spasm Band, AMM, MSBR, irr.app.(ext.), Nurse With Wound, and many others). His work has been presented at festivals such as TodaysArt (Den Hague, NL), Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland), Electric Eclectics (Meaford, ON), Spleencoffin (Baltimore, USA), Dictaphonia Fest (Gainesville, USA), Colour Out Of Space (Brighton, UK), and The Whitney Biennial (New York City, USA), as well as at various events in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Quebec City, London (Can.), London (UK), Paris, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, and Sydney. Davison's recorded work has been distributed on small labels, through informal networks around the world.

Material on this page is an odd collection of bits and bobs, mostly uploaded when I was contributing to the Nine Day Antler Society (http://sevengallery.blogspot.ca/).

Thumping Puppets - The Fat Lady Of Limbourg

William Davison

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