The More You Live, The More You Love

the tracks: 01. The Dutch - Nous Some Tres Petit (4:25) 02. Viva Voce - There's No Wrong (4:02) 03. Div - Write The Walls Down (4:35) 04. Da Klute - Golden Years (3:36) 05. Nasmak - Silhouette (4:00) 06. Secret Sounds - Johnny & The Rites Of Sin (4:02) 07. The Essence - The Afterworld (3:09) 08. Mo - Asia (3:44) 09. Gruppo Sportivo - Blah Blah Magazines (2:03) 10. Splitsing - Wind en zeilen (4:34) 11. The Phones - Cities (4:37) 12. The Nits - Tons Of Ink (live) (3:18) 13. X-Factor - X-Factor (live) (4:25) 14. Neon - Promised Land (4:57) 15. Qua Dance - Parc de Ville (4:42) 16. Urban Heroes - We Are Urban Heroes (3:19) 17. Michiel Peeters - Infant King (4:09) 18. Modern Times - Sixteen (3:27) 19. Sammie's America's Gasphetti - I Need It Too (3:39) 20. Clan Of Xymox - Back Door (4:53) the link

the tracks: 01. Skeletronics - Coming Alive (4:18) 02. Corridor Des Affaires - The Newsmen (3:25) 03. Look Who's Talking - I Don't Know (3:08) 04. Six Plys Tzar - Faith (2:50) 05. Menko - But I Only Got A Motorcycle Babe (4:04) 06. Pizniz - Help Yourself 4:08) 07. Rebel - Baby, Baby (don't listen to that guy) (3:25) 08. Alerta - Park Avenue (3:44) 09. Geluidshouwerij - Cool Wind (4:37) 10. Broertje Dood - Fada Fada (3:22) 11. Blurpz - Escape (4:21) 12. Margamania - Matter Of No Time (2:35) 13. Bibi Martin - Look At Me (radio edit) (4:32) 14. This Dawn - Unknown Land (3:47) 15. Shift - Tranquilizer (6:21) 16. Media - Blackmail (4:31) 17. Exa - Silence (3:58) 18. D'Men - Miss You (4:33) 19. Minny Pops - Time (3:43) 20. Roberto Jacketti And The Scooters - I Save The Day (3:11) listen here

So in the last days of 2019 I present to you the first of the last three Volumes of Dutch New Wave. Since September I have been collecting and searching for new stuff. This resulted mainly in the tracks featured on Volume 33 and 34. Volume 35 is a closing Volume featuring the well known artists of the Dutch New Wave. But first Volume 33: 01. Zero Zero At The Olympics - Little Boy (4:02) 02. Casual Affairs - Heavy Commercial (4:49) 03. Beau Nasties - Prego (3:46) 04. Rosie Future - Is She Your Girlfriend Now (3:03) 05. Urban Heroes - Pay Out (3:49) 06. Bibi Martin - Lovin' You (3:33) 07. W.A.T. - Love Suspect (3:38) 08. Me Primitive - Mrs. Ozkan (3:37) 09. Streetbeats - Poor Boy (3:28) 10. Plane Of Section - It's Over (4:54) 11. Secret Camera - Voice Of Your Heart (3:26) 12. City And State - In America (part one) (4:04) 13. Ludwig Wisch - Dr. Neville (4:54) 14. Cartrouble - Sao Paulo Baby (4:34) 15. The Chainreaction - Whispering Glades (3:26) 16. Conc...

Here is Volume 90 01 By Chance - Soul Kitchen (4:25) 02 Innocence In Danger - Innocence In Danger (short version) (3:50) 03 The Rimshots - I Was Wrong (2:54) 04 Nervus Rex - There She Goes (2:45) 05 Zoo Boutique - Forgive And Forget (3:08) 06 Gods Gift - Discipline (4:25) 07 Humpe Humpe - Geschrien im Schlaf (3:28) 08 Rexy - Running Out Of Time (4:16) 09 Belgravia - Talking Strangers (3:33) 10 Viva Lula - Dad Sings The Blues (extended version) (4:20) 11 23 Skidoo - Ethics (3:40) 12 Difford And Tilbrook - Love's Crashing Waves (3:03) 13 Eastern Bloc - Dancing Barefoot (4:23) 14 Lone Justice - Shelter (4:35) 15 Original Mirrors - Boys Cry (2:34) 16 The Chiefs Of Relief - Freedom To Rock (3:37) 17 Frank Chickens - Shelfish Bamboo (4:18) 18 Float Up CP - Joy's Address (3:37) 19 Kuruki - Crocodile Tears (3:25) 20 The Last - She Don't Know Why I'm Here (single version) (3:26) 21 Karen Marks - Cold Cafe (3:04) 22 The Diagram Bros. - We Are All Animals (2...

Here is Volume 89 01 XTC - Grass (3:11) 02 Playground - Going Overdrawn (6:17) 03 ESG - You're No Good (3:10) 04 Kuruki - Souvenir Souvenir (part 1) (3:58) 05 Actuel - Things (3:57) 06 Random Hold - Etceteraville (3:55) 07 Opposition - Someone To Talk To (3:25) 08 Gene Loves Jezebel - Sweetest Thing (3:06) 09 Swiss Navy - Back To The Wall (3:33) 10 Love And Rockets! - Waiting For The Flood (3:38) 11 The Belle Stars - The Entertainer (3:33) 12 Empire - Talk Free (7" version) (3:47) 13 Pop Will Eat Itself - Sweet Sweet Pie (2:14) 14 Toni Halliday - Time Turns Around (3:42) 15 Camera · Obscura - Village Of Stars (3:46) 16 Zip - Your Love (3:23) 17 Danny Elfman - Gratitude (short version) (4:54) 18 Graduate - Ambition (3:49) 19 Anne Pigalle - Hé Stranger (7:27) 20 The Members - Radio (3:58) Listen here

Here is Volume 88 01 Jo Lemaire + Flouze - Precious Time (3:06) 02 Boom Crash Opera - Great Wall (3:48) 03 End Of Data - Sahrah (5:03) 04 The Other Ones - Money And Gold (4:03) 05 Combo Audio - Romanticide (3:37) 06 The Jazz Butchers - Southern Mark Smith (3:34) 07 Art Interface - Wardance (4:28) 08 Eye Eye - Faithfully Yours (4:39) 09 Inertia - The Screen (3:49) 10 Marquis De Sade - Rythmiques (2:53) 11 Rita Matsouko - Restez Avec Moi (4:13) 12 Michael Des Barres And Holly Knight - Obsession (4:02) 13 The Parking Meters - Adventures At The Bottom Of The Sea (3:20) 14 Destination Venus - Oh Lucille (4:50) 15 The Other Ones - Holiday (3:33) 16 Intimate Strangers - In The Wilderness (3:36) 17 The Supreme Court - Ethical Crime (3:39) 18 Anna - Systems Breaking Down (4:26) 19 Snowy Red - The Long Run (5:12) 20 Bamboo Fringe - Someday (3:42) Listen here

Here is Volume 87: 01 David Singleton - If You Can Sing In Tune (3:14) 02 Kon Kan - Harry Houdini (7"edit) (3:53) 03 The Other Ones - Emotional Baby (4:01) 04 Oingo Boingo - Say You (3:35) 05 Dole - Rumroad (4:46) 06 Prima Voice - Kings And Queens (6:52) 07 Debbie Neon - American Nightmare (3:28) 08 Devo - Cold War (2:31) 09 Random Hold - Avalanche (4:23) 10 The Cabinet - Language And Words (edited) (3:36) 11 Crazy House - Burning Rain (lp version) (3:36) 12 Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls - Searching For Heaven (2:59) 13 Max Q - Way Of The World (lp version) (4:09) 14 Secret Affair - My World (3:39) 15 Vision - Lucifer's Friend (4:00) 16 Luna Twist - African Time (7") (4:37) 17 He Said - Could You (4:26) 18 Intimat Strangers - Raise The Dragon (4:04) 19 Models - Evolution (3:26) 20 The Angels - Dance With Me (4:09) Listen here

...I present you volumes 1-76 of The Unknown Beauty Of The 80's available for a week. Volume 01-10 Volume 11-20 Volume 21-30 Volume 31-40 Volume 41-50 Volume 51-61 Volume 62-70 Volume 71-76 Enjoy the holidays.

Just for the end of the year I return with five new Volumes, which I will present to you in the upcoming days. Here is Volume 86: 01 Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me (3:53) 02 No Bizniz - Cairo (4:22) 03 Book Of Love - Lullaby (7" remix) (4:16) 04 Digital Dance - Treatment (5:16) 05 Humpe Humpe - 3 Of Us (3:40) 06 The Questions - Building On A Strong Foundation (3:37) 07 Royal Family And The Poor - Art On 45 (4:47) 08 Martin Dupont - I Never Tried 5:19) 09 Naked Eyes - No Flowers Please (4:05) 10 Carol - Breakdown (4:04) 11 Payolas - Eyes Of a Stranger (4:54) 12 Topolinos - Mustafa (2:39) 13 C Cat Trance - Dreams Of Leaving (5:09) 14 Code 61 - Drop The Deal (5:52) 15 Celebrate The Nunn - Ordinary Town (4:19) 16 The Comsat Angels - Day One (3:49) 17 Boys Brigade - Melody (4:00) 18 The Call ft. Jim Kerr & Peter Gabriel - Everywhere I Go (4:21) Listen here

When I mention Texel the first thing family and friends mention is a visit to the Texelse beer brewery. Well to be honest after this long weekend on the isle the first brewery which pops up in my mind won't be this brewery but the Tesselaar family brewery Diks. A small brewery where you are welcomed home, with an enthusiatic family that produces a small line of well crafted and sublime tasting beers (father Maurice Diks was for years the brewmaster of the Texelse and quite so ms beers are from his hand), which are served in a cosy tasting room. Things and encounters happen for a reason. On Thursday we visited a local retailer in De Koog, when someone with a Tesselaar logo on his shirt walked in and checked the stock. I asked him, later it turned out to be Jasper Diks, if it was possible to visit the brewery and do a tour. There were no tours on Thursday and the tour on Saturday was already full, but we were welcome in the tasting room. So after shopping we drove t...

Some indept information about SkeletronicS, after I spoke with Alice Schreij. After Danny Shoshan released the single "What Did It?" under the name Skeleton, Alice and Danny met each other in the Netherlands and SkeletronicS was born. On the first single "Your Love Is Right" the record company forgot to mention her, which was set right on the 12" version of the single where she is credited as "assisted by Alice Schrey. On the second single Coming Alive she is mentioned as one of the co-writers of the song. Although more material was written during the short period the band existed, nothing of that got a proper release since the band broke up due to the hugh success in Italy and Spain (in both countries they scored a top 10 hit), which, looking back, came too quickly for the band. Nowadays Alice still works under the name of SkeletronicS, while Danny, returned to his native country Israel long ago. A couple of years ago Alice came into poss...

And that brings us to Volume 32 of An Introduction To Dutch New Wave. This time 65% of the numbers came from recent purchased vinyl. I will keep telling that Discogs has become a major resource for discovering and hunting vinyl from bands and artists, that sometimes released one single only. But since a couple of weeks I am using a great cross reference site called Nederlandse vinylsingles . The guys behind this site are doing a great job, tracking down all Dutch vinyl singles. Some information on several songs. The Kimono track is spelled wrong. I kept it this way, since the cover of the single shows the same title. It’s one of the groups of which I used the single b-side instead of the a-side. The others are Blackout (b-side of Obscure Disco), G.T. Modell (b-side of Scratch Your Act) and Weekend At Waikiki (b-side of The Valley). Frederic And The Flies was a one off project by producer duo Bolland and Bolland. Not only the group name refers to Adam And The Ants, t...

And so, a bit by surprise, DHL delivered the vinyl yesterday around noon, just when we were about to leave for a visit to Bergen (Noord-Holland). after returning from Bergen, I went straight up and ripped the vinyl. This afternoon I worked on this new Volume, of which most of the songs were arranged already. Some switching here, some changing there and even some re-recording, which in the end resulted in this track list: 01. Toilets - Unspoiled Land (3:40) 02. Bert Barten - Hold On You (3:00) 03. Check The Computer - 1985 (6:51) 04. Spivs - Visions Like Echoes (4:08) 05. Tool & Die - Girl's Song (3:33) 06. Non Alignment Pact - Oceans & Islands (3:08) 07. The Monotones - Mono (3:25) 08. Switch Bitch - Data (3:55) 09. Labyrinth - Help Me Out (3:22) 10. La Danza Moderna - Moments In Time (7") (3:45) 11. Rite De Passage - Armegeddon (3:52) 12. Blue Suit Grey Tie - Open Windows (4:35) 13. Bombitas - Stay In My Life (3:32) 14. Modern Complex - Amusement ...

The last Volume for this week. Tracklist: 01 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Balloon (3:35) 02 Silent Running - Emotional Warfare (5:14) 03 Jo Lemaire + Flouze - Satellite (2:53) 04 Swing Set - Blackout (4:26) 05 Venetians - Bitter Tears (edited version) (3:43) 06 Allen Chaney - The Sound Of Muzak (3:11) 07 Great Nation - Beat The Wall (3:32) 08 Slow Children - Spring In Fialta (melo edit) (3:58) 09 Kan Kan - Memories And Dreams (4:39) 10 Art Interface - Secretaries From Heaven (3:59) 11 The Instigators - We Don't Know What We Want (3:59) 12 Rita Matsouka - Jalousie (4:30) 13 The Doll - Rescue Me (3:31) 14 Project Four - Life After Life (3:55) 15 Académie - Rendez-Vous (3:57) 16 Shadow - Coming Down (5:55) 17 Anna Domino - Summer's Here (7:32) 18 Unity And Fire - Nothing Brings You Nothing (4:03) Listen here Unfortuantly the promised new Volume of An Introduction To Dutch New Wave for this weekend is put on hold since DHL sorted my parcel incorrectly which resulted in a r...

Day four, time for the next volume. The tracks: 01 Simonics - Under A Glass Bell (7:44) 02 Steve Braun - When I See Your Eyes (radio mix) (3:47) 03 Commotion Upstairs - Before You (3:35) 04 Xynn - Schooldays (4:42) 05 Heroes - Driftaway (4:42) 06 Steve Lake - Welcome To The Monkey House (3:22) 07 Kid Montana - Smiling Faces (4:18) 08 Big Bam Boo - Fell Off A Mountain (3:38) 09 Intimate Strangers - The Blue Hour (3:48) 10 Edwina Laurie - Dark Glasses (3:35) 11 Shoc Corridor - Holding Treasure (3:44) 12 Martin Stephenson & The Daintees - Boat To Bolivia (4:02) 13 The Arrows - Talk Talk (3:44) 14 Snowy Red - The Long Run (5:12) 15 The Questions - Tear Soup (7") (4:02) 16 Software - Human Situation (2:38) 17 Eleven Pond - Tear And Cinnamon (5:00) 18 Ten Ten - When It Rains (4:53) 19 John Dark - Silhouette (3:23) Listen here

The third day, so the third Volume of the week. The Tracklist: 01 Edith Nylon - Cinemascope (2:41) 02 The Modern Mannequins - Streets Of Broken Glass (5:14) 03 Teai Benet - 2:00 Love (2:52) 04 Zoo Boutique - Forgive And Forget (3:08) 05 Peter Beethoven - You're The One (2:27) 06 The Dance - Stay Down (4:47) 07 Go2 - I Like My Own Company (2:54) 08 Rough Trade - Rescue Me (4:30) 09 Uropa Lula - She Appears To Vinish (3:58) 10 Eric Blake - Born To Be Special (3:19) 11 The Wait - Cry (without tears) (4:19) 12 Drinking Electricity - Subliminal 7" (4:16) 13 Sidewinder - Basil Herd (3:00) 14 Josef Garret - Without Sex 93:21) 15 Six Sed Red - Shake It Right 96:55) 16 Fanatics - Total Confusion (3:35) 17 Spoons - Nova Heart (6:41) 18 Room 101 - One By One (3:18) 19 Fear Of Falling - Like A Lion (4:17) 20 Dragon - Rainy Days (3:56) The link

As promised today a new Volume. The tracklist: 01 Stolen Pets - Changes 3:22 02 Cry Before Dawn - Flags 3:41 03 Lili Berlin - Midnight Lady 5:54 04 Secession - Sneakyville 3:44 05 Creatures Of Habit - Double Vision 3:47 06 The Perils Of Plastic - The Love I Love 4:24 07 The Big Supreme - Remind Me 3:49 08 The Technos - Spirit Of The Thing 3:01 09 Eye To Eye - Am I Normal? 3:30 10 Martha And The Muffins - Was Ezo 3:30 11 The Pale Fountains - (there's always) Something On My Mind 2:44 12 Red Roder - Breaking Curfew 3:43 13 The Clowns - My Bed Is A Boat 2:48 14 1000 Ohm - Love In Motion 6:16 15 Rupert Holmes - Adventure 4:04 16 The Reegs - See My Friends 5:13 17 New England - Get It Up 4:37 18 Revenge - 7 Reasons 4:06 19 The Recognitions - This First Dance 3:32 20 Nick Nicely - Dct Dreams 4:08 The link

The past few months have been very hectic. Did a course for the foundation and passed, after a few weeks of intense learning, my Exchange exam. I can call myself MCSE now So new Volumes were piling up. And Although I was able to give them a good listen, I didn't find the time to put them online.  The plan is to put up one new Volume each working day this week in anticipation to a whole new Volume of "An Introduction To Dutch New Wave" scheduled for this weekend (I expect to receive a parcel with vinyl tomorrow). Meanwhile I hope to seduce your ears and minds with the following tracklist: 01. The Quick - Down The Wire (7" vocal) (3:24) 02. Klang - Wailing In The Moonlight (3:27) 03. Madame - Glupi Numer (2:45) 04. Susan Fassbender - Twilight Café (3:17) 05. Simonics - In This Heat (3:25) 06. The Escape Club - Shake For The Sheik (4:02) 07. The Visions - The Ghost (2:19) 08. Telekin - Imagination (3:09) 09. Into A Circle - Inside Out (4:10...

The milestone Volume, which took a lot of time. This time I went through old top 40 tip parades, bought some vinyl, and used discogs a lot. The result is a various volume full New Wave with a twist of Pop Rock, Synthpop and Progressive Rock. Tracklist: 01. Wau Day Rechy - Waiting For The Man (4:06) 02. Moscow tops - Siberian (live) (4:06) 03. Bibi Martin - Expect A Miracle (3:10) 04. Rick Nolov - Stay With Me (3:30) 05. SOS Bikini - Time (live) (5:53) 06. Just Like Dad - The Beasts And Plants (3:49) 07. Pavlow - Camels Here, Camels There (3:00) 08. Lady Di - Aquila City (3:50) 09. The Meteors - Candy (3:05) 10. Nadieh - Lovers Eyes (3:14) 11. Baden Baden - Golden Dreams (3:25) 12. Basic Scream - Black Widow (3:42) 13. Jan Rot - Counting Sheep (3:23) 14. Maarten Peeters And The Dream - Burn Your Boats (5:00) 15. Rotjoch - Tomorrow (1:52) 16. The Mark Band - Innocent Children (4:42) 17. To-Lips - Desire (5:32) 18. The Marks - I Can Wait (2:53) 19. The Millionair...

Two new additions to this continues series. Volume 79: The Mask - Never (4:40) Miro Miroe - Nights Of Arabia (3:30) Luxeria - Public Highway (5:05) IQ - Drive On (4:58) A Popular Hisory Of Signs - Ladder Jack (live) (3:46) Divinyls - Pleasure And Pain (3:53) APB - Open Your Eyes (3:46) Virginia Ashley - Darkness Has Reached Its End (3:56) Calling Rain - Laid In Ruins (4:45) Die Partei - Strahlsund (3:41) Look Back In Anger - Flowers (2:32) Mylene Farmer - Sans Contrefaçon (4:20) Indian Summer - Just Like Flowers (7" version) (3:58) Belfegore - Belfegore (3:49) Hex - Diviner (4:45) The Happy Family - Puritans (3:15) Mirrors Of Kiev - Take Me Down (2:14) Dislocation Dance - Violette (3:01) Ministry - Say You're Sorry (4:18) Steve Kilbey - Fireman (4:40) I follow the band IQ and the singer Mylène Farmer since the eighties. IQ I saw live for the first time in September 1986 during a double concert (with Pallas) the Amsterdam Paradiso. since then it has become the band I have s...

It has been over four months since the last compilation on the Dutch New Wave front. But behind the scenes I bought some new vinyl and searched the internet for possible new additions to this compilation. To start the background information on this Volume, I was very pleased to discover the compilation album "Groeten uit Amsterdam". It featured the never elsewhere released track Better Than The Movies of The Dutch, of which I am a huge fan since their first official release Working At Los Alamos. The band was featured a lot on Dutch radio during the release of Wastelands, and I even used to have several FM recordings of the band on tape, which went lost when moving houses. Brown Jenkin is from the same compilation. Several of the live songs are from tapes released by Milkyway Cassettes, which was a cassettelabel featuring recordings from bands who played the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Besides Buster Smiles, featured here with Modern Times, and Rebel, featured here with Run....

The Easter special with the following tracks: Session - Unit The Forces (5:08) Shox - No Turning Back (2:53) The Names - The Astronaut (5:11) Hula - Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass (4:39) Trevor Herion - Big City (4:25) Illustrated Man - Day Without End (4:42) The Photos - Now You Tell Me That We're Through (3:31) John Watts - I Smelt Roses (in the underground) (3:54) Jih - Big Blue Ocean (3:44) Seona Dancing - More To Lose (7" version) (3:48) Tactics - Binoculars (3:10) Repetition - The Still Reflex (4:03) Lyon In Winter - The Haunting Moon (3:33) Tango In Mono - Expressos (3:19) Original Mirros - Sharp Words (4:27) Whirlywirld - Window To The World (3:40) Boxbury Beat - Windows (3:11) The Lucy Show - The Price Of Love (4:46) The Group - Technology (5:33) The Young Jacques - Jacques Cousteau (2:35) Listen.

It has been quiet for a couple of months concerning new volumes. But behind the scenes I worked on several new volumes to reach hopefully the milestone Volume 80 this year. This Volume mainly was created through the searches for The Spleen radioshows and the references I received on Discogs. It turned out that checking the list of a seller can present you  quite some pearls. This searching filled a pool of potential new featured artists on the upcoming Volumes. But for these I take my time. I listen each Volume several times now, polish on the tracklist or simply replace a song when I am not satisfied. The final result of number 77, compared for 80% with the list I came up with in the first place. The track list: 01. Absolute Body Control - The Man I Wanna Be (3:50) 02. Sacred Moment - Symphony (04:50) 03. Symbols - Speed Of Light (04:45) 04. La Mode - Diálogo (04:02) 05. Days Of Sorrow - Wild World (05:59) 06. Metro - America In My Head (05:42) 07. Di...