The More You Live, The More You Love

By popular demand available for just a short time all 28 Volumes of An Introduction To Dutch New Wave as seperate downloads.  So here we go with the list. Volume 01                                   Volume 11                                   Volume 21 Volume 02                                   Volume 12                                   Volume 22 Volume 03                                   Volume 13                                   Volume 23 Volume 04       ...

I could not resist. So to end the year in style I decided to come up with two new compilations to round up the number to 70. Volume 69 Volume 70

The last installment of the year. This Volume is based around the following three compilations: De grote prijs van Nederland 1983, Overlast? Zomer Parkfeest '83 en 6 Souvenirs. The result a mix of styles from the synthpop/disco of the Time Bandits to the powerpop/pop rock of Tower. Both featured tracks reached number one in the Dutch top 40. Tracks: 01. 12" From Heaven - Care (4:51) 02. A Hammer Hangs - The French Windows (5:27) 03. Les Yeux Interdits - Sonnenschein (3:11) 04. Neel - Sensuous (live) (4:41) 05. Adinda - Jealousy (2:48) 06. Die Null-Null's - Frühling (4:29) 07. Technoville - Dressed Up (live) (4:49) 08. A Live Detail - Desert Waves (3:52) 09. Frozen Tears - Surgerie (3:20) 10. Nar-Cist - Stone Wall (4:15) 11. Piu Piu - Laga Laga (live) (3:35) 12. Secret Sounds - Heartbeat (2:47) 13. De Munck - Ik hou van jou (3:07) 14. Time Bandits - Live It Up (3:58) 15. Robert & Robert - Aninda (3:18) 16. Whizzguy - That's M...

And if it is not enough the festivities, by popular demand, continue with another installment of An Introduction To Dutch New Wave. This time a mix of new names and already featured names on early installments. Volume 27 contains the following additions: 01. Alides Hidding - Hollywood Seven (4:27) 02. This Dawn - Fortress Of Love (3:59) 03. Exa - Mirror (4:00) 04. boy Look Now - The Cold Day (5:42) 05. Concern - Nothing But Trouble (4:45) 06. Rud- A-Dub-Dub - Russian Soldier (3:10) 07. The Puzzles - It's Puzzle Time Again (4:46) 08. Kewi A Go Go Party - Sie wünscht sich ein Kewi ins Bett (extended version) (4:13) 09. Beau Geste - Friend (live) (3:46) 10. Viva Voce - Fight (single version) (4:18) 11. The Bills - Three People In A Room (2:14) 12. eM - Where Ever You Go (3:30) 13. The Scene - The Beat (2:34) 14. Exploiting The Prophets - All Of It...For Life (5:11) 15. Poppi UK - Ramadan (live) (4:36) 16. Diamond Dogs - Today (3:10) 17. The ...

Back to 2005 when I created a compilation series of eighties tracks collected from various sources over the internet. The series ended after 60 volumes and a bonus volume. Ten years after date I picked up the project by trying to find all featured tracks in a 320Kbps MP3 rip. It took me several months but in the end was able to get the job done. The funny thing is that each time I was triggered to return to those 80s music styles after I decided to quit, or taking a break from, writing for the Dutch progressive rock magazine iO Pages. This summer the magazine celebrated their 150 issue. For me time to call it a day. So as expected I turned back to the 80s favorite music styles like new wave, post punk, synthpop, gothic and more. Over the months I collected a lot of new unknown songs to me and created seven new volumes. Through this blog entry I temporarily offer you, just before Christmas, the volumes 62 to 68 as seperate downloads. So what can you expect. A great bunch of,...

A new Volume in the continuing series An Introduction To Dutch New Wave with the following tracklist: 01. A Modest Proposal - Ite Missa Est (5:32) 02. Joep Bruijnjé - Typical (2:59) 03. Bramlaan - An Ordinary Lady (3:20) 04. Willy Nilly - Music For Parents (5:01) 05. The Decoy - Walkin' On Squares (3:42) 06. Monomen - Square On Both Sides (3:14) 07. Altara - Behind The Fence (3:25) 08. Bert Barten - No Principles (2:29) 09. Rick Nolov Band - White Shoes (3:09) 10. X-Factor - Heartbeat (3:35) 11. The Clear - Right Phrases (2:30) 12. De Koffieband - Himalaya (5:08) 13. Naga - I Want To Be Alone (3:53) 14. U-Tang - Pop/Tune/Sound (4:43) 15. Clan Of Xymox - Louise (5:17) 16. Human Toys - Video Junkie (3:48) 17. New Holland - Replacement (3:15) 18. Malice In Wonderland - Nice (4:33) 19. The Bruno's - Lies (3:44) 20. The Missing Link - Minutes (3:55) link The picture was made in Monnickendam.

The Volumes still appear although I take my time to create them. Not only since it gets harder to find (or buy) new names, but also because I want to come with a nice mix of featured tracks which gives a pretty much idea of the style these bands / artists were presenting themselves. The result is a Volume which limps on two thoughts, although most of them share the common denominator: They were singles. For some it meant their only release, for others it resulted in a top 40 hit. So what to expect on this celebrating 25th Volume. Well the main style featured is New Wave and Synthpop varying in side styles from pop, latin to progressive rock. Well know Dutch names like Robert Jan Stips (of Supersister, Golden Earring, Sweet d’Buster and Nits fame), Renée, Quando Quango (okay we can start a discussion but the band was formed in Rotterdam in 1980 and 2/3 was Dutch at that time) and Max Werner (former singer of the symphonic rock band Kayak) stand alongside bands who had ...

tracklist: L'Horloge Sans Contrefaçon Allan Pourvu Qu'Elles Soient Douces La Ronde Triste Ainsi Soit Je... Sans Logique Jardin De Vienne Deshabillez-Moi The Farmer's Conclusion Mylène Farmer is born as Mylène Jeanne Gautier on 12 September 1961 in Pierrefonds, Quebec. At the age of eight the family moved back to France. Although she loves horseback riding and even qualifies as a horse instructor, she is gripped by acting at the age of 17. She follows a course at the Cours Florent, a drama school in Paris, where she changes her name, as a homage to the thirties Hollywood actress Frances Farmer to Mylène Farmer. She earns her first money with acting in TV commercials. In 1984 she met the film student Laurent Boutonnat. He will prove to be of great influence on her career, through the many, often controversial, video clips he shoots for her music. In addition, he writes, especially on her first albums, the music while Mylène Farmer herse...

tracklist: The Ghost In You Here Come Cowboys Heaven Heartbeat My Time Like A Stranger Alice's House Only A Game Highwire Days The Psychedelic Furs was founded in February 1977 by the brothers Richard (vocals) and Tim Butler (bass). Occurred from the post-punk scene, the band developed in the following years towards new wave and hard rock. In 1980 the band debuts with the album the Psychodelic Furs, which is produced by Steve Lilywhite. In addition to the Butler brothers, the line-up consists of Duncan Kilburn (saxophone), Vincy Ely (drums), John Ashton (guitar) and Roger Morris (guitar). The album manages place 18 in the British album charts and also delivers success in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Australia. Successor Talk Talk Talk ensures success in America and delivers with Dumb Waiters and Pretty In Pink the first single success in the UK. The latter will be the inspiration in 1986 for the eponymous film by John Hughes. In 1982 follows t...

tracklist: 24 Hours Oomachasaooma (feel the love) Yes I Am Americana Panorama City Lights Food For Thought Working Girls Taxi Taxi I got to know 10CC at the end of the seventies / early eighties through my cousin, because everyone has inscribed Dreadlock Holiday in his memory. The first album I heard from them was Live And Let Live. A very strong live album, I have something with live albums, which is still among my favorites. Eric Stewart, who after the departure of Godley & Creme in 1976 together with Graham Gouldman remained responsible for the sound of 10CC, got involved in a heavy car accident in 1979. After rehabilitation, he was no longer the old one, which certainly did not benefit the compositional aspect of 10CC. In addition, the group was confronted with a record company that demanded hits. To pull the car back smoothly, the duo worked together with Andrew Gold, but the songs they wrote with him did not end up on the European version of Ten Out ...

Or the compilation of the local compilations.        Local record stores were always willing to promote local bands. So over the years these collaborations resulted in a lot of these compilations from cities, counties or provinces. Good for the record store and of course good for a local band as well, because it gave the band a change to present itself. During more than a year that this project is going on now I found a lot of these compilations, but up till now there were never so much compilations forming the base for a Volume. For most of those bands co-operate to such a compilation album meant their only opportunity to officially release their music. Most of the times the result was one or two tracks getting out in the open. But it meant they were able to generate some interest from the public. Very little bands made it to an official release under their own name. Although for most of them it meant a one or two track only band. For a small group of ...

tracklist: We Are Sane Human Being This City World Without End Fact And Fiction The Poet Sniffs A Flower Creepshow Love Song It was quiet for a while, but I picked up the thread with an album that I had been confronted with in a pleasant way. The C: Live Collective released the debut album The Age Of Insanity in early March. Behind this "collective" is multi-instrumentalist Clive Mitten, who was part of the progressive rock band Twelfth Night in the eighties. In 2016, Mitten, who had not composed any new music for more than 30 years, was triggered to come into action when an intense personal event got a huge political charge. Mitten's wife was vilified on the front page of one of the UK's most notorious tabloids. As Mitten said, he learned that day in the mainstream media, being tried by a tabloid is more important than whether there is a glimmer of truth in the headlines on the front page of the tabloid (this was not the case). He also l...

Just a quick and small update on An Introduction To Dutch New Wave. All Volumes sofar released are available through this link . BTW just to inform you over this year several new volumes will at a certain time see the light of day. I am collecting new vinyl, which need to be ripped and judged for the upcoming volumes. So watch this space for an update.

tracklist: Oil On Canvas Sons Of Pioneers Gentlemen Take Polaroids Swing Cantonese Boy Visions Of China Ghosts Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer Nightporter Still Life In Mobile Homes Methods Of Dance Quiet Life The Art Of Parties Canton Temple Of Dawn The year is 1983. At a time when the new wave and the synthsound are the order of the day, Japan is there, a group averse to the entire music scene, which occupies a separate place. Not when one looks at the genesis of the group, which in the early days mainly propagates punk or derived musical styles. And although those musical indulgences do not weigh the group in the country with the same name, the rest of the world still looks at the band with a strange look. Because whatever the group in Europe is trying to do, they seem, partly because of their androgynous image, not to get a firm ground under their feet and after the third album Quiet Life, which notes the first steps towards the ...

tracklist: Drowning In The Sea Of Love Broken Land You Don't Have To Cry Anymore The Trip To Bountiful (when the rain comes down) Heaven Knows Which Way Hold Me Now The Sound Of Summer When Your Heart Was Young One Step From Heaven The Adventures was a Northern Irish rock band founded in Belfast in 1984 by singer Terry Sharpe and guitarist Pat Gribben. They already knew each other from the punk band The Starjets. At their first concert in February 1984, the band further consists of Gribben's wife Eileen (vocals), Gerard Murphy (guitar, percussion, vocals), Tony Ayre (bass) and Paul Crowder (drums). The group manages to score a record deal with Chrysalis, moves to London, and after four singles, all of whom have reached the lower reaches of the UK Singles Chart but do not make a major breakthrough, the group debuts in 1985 with the album Theodore And Friends. It is released in a period that the band is on the world tour of Tears For Fears as suppo...

If there is something I have learned over the years than it is "never say never". With the year just six weeks on the run, I have to admit the hunt on Dutch New Wave vinyl has intensivite. At the moment the counter is already on more than 25 purchases (7" singles included). In January and February I bought a large portion on Discogs (Blue Murder, Boom Boom Mancini, Castilian Drum, De Steile Wand, Dreams Die First?, Hedda Gabler, I Spy, Piu Piu, Ricochet, Sens Unique, Shift, Slauerhoff, Spotlight Kids, The Clear, Top Dogs?, Trespasser W and Zsa Zsa). Another part of these purchases I obtained during a nice weekend in Amersfoort, where my wife and I stumbled by chance on a free vinyl fair (One Two, Tent, Ad Visser).  We were attracted to the fair by a sixties compilation played just in front of the doorstep. Afterwards I was able to score the Crystal Fire album of I Spy at the local record store Velvet Sound. Besides that I found some nice other stuff as well (...

tracklist: Intro The Big Money Subdivisions Marathon Turn The Page Manhattan Project Mission Distant Early Warning Mystic Rhythms Witch Hunt (part iii of fear) The Rhythm Method (drum solo) Force Ten Time Stand Still Red Sector A Closer To The Heart I became familiar with Rush in 1982 when I got a tape with a copy of the double lp "Hard Rock Live. The first album I bought from them was "Grace Under Pressure", an album that leaned heavily on the new synthesizer sound of the band and can be described as one of the darkest if not the darkest album in the history of the band. The numbers are heavily influenced by the increasing tension of the Cold War and the thread throughout the songs is "pressure" and how people act under the influence of it. Despite the dark themes, the group experiments with reggae and even returns to the classic hard rock sound.  Although "" Grace Under Pressure" certainly belonged to ...

tracklist: Dream Within A Dream The Murder Of Love Jewel Duel P–Machinery Sorry For Laughing Dr. Mabuse (first life) The Chase The Last Word / Strength To Dream A Secret Wish of Propaganda is, by BMG, seen as one of the most influential debut albums of the eighties. The band, founded in 1982 by Ralf Dörper, Andres Thein and Suzanne Freitag, with, for that time, progressive hard electronic beats. These are provided with dark texts, reminiscent of the work of Edgar Allen Poe and William Shakespeare. By attracting the classically trained Michael Mertens and singer Claudia Brücken, the line-up is complete and after signing a contract with Trevor Horn's ZTT label, they debut in 1984 with the single "Dr. Mabuse". Although the singles, after "Dr. Mabuse" follows "Duel" and "P: Machinery", reaching the highest levels of European and American charts, even the number one spot here and there, the album does not offer commerci...

tracklist: Wonderful Life Everything's Coming Up Roses Sometimes For The Asking Finder Paradise I'm Not Afraid I Just Grew Tired Blue Just Making Memories Sweetest Smile Colin Vearncombe, Dane Goulding and Greg Leyland make their debut in 1981 as Black with the single "Human Features". A second single, "More Than The Sun, follows, after which the duo reduced group is signed by WEA. Black will be the solo project of Vearncombe, while fellow member Dave Dix will act as his producer from that moment on. The first single for WEA is called "" Hey Presto", which, partly due to the frequent running on MTV, is well known outside the United Kingdom. However, when a reissue of "More Than The Sun" flops, WEA dumps the group. Vearncombe, plagued by car accidents, confronted with a sick mother, a divorce and living on the streets, writes as a sarcastic reaction "Wonderful Life", released on Ugly Man Records, wit...