An Introduction To Dutch New Wave Vol. 29


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. Although both bands are on one of those cassettes, the tracks come from the Grote Prijs van Nederland compilations of 1983 and 1984. On/Off , Two Supply, Just Like Eddie and X-Ray are from vinyl singles, while Tool & Die, Turf and Spectral Display are from lp releases. Swedisch Kok I got through a befriended engineer, Richenel comes from the compilation "De geschiedenis van de Nederlandse pop muziek 5" 1985 - 1994 and D'Men and The Two I found on the internet. This brings me to...

The tracklist:

01. Two Supply - Hotel Supply (3:14)
02. Sukersaal - Drop Curtain (play) (3:55)
03. On/Off - Little Things (2:29)
04. Tool & Die - What I Had In Mind (3:59)
05. Swedisch Kok - Imagination Of Reality (5:36)
06. Rebel - Run (live) (2:54)
07. Te Clean - Eleanor (3:08)
08. Just Like Eddie - Hy Spy (3:21)
09. Brown Jenkin - The Final Case (3:34)
10. X-Ray - She's Gone (3:09)
11. The Two - Until Daylight (4:37)
12. Primitive Art - In The Eye (live) (3:53)
13. Richenel - Dance Around The World (4:45)
14. D'Men - Day By Day (3:51)
15. Spotlight Kids - We Go (live) (2:37)
16. Turf - Sorrento (3:31)
17. Buster Smiles - Modern Times (live) (2:43)
18. Supersonic Seasick Band - Little Woman (live) (2:43)
19. The Dutch - Better Than The Movies (3:08)
20. Spectral Display - Legendary (4:44)

Enjoy




Last but not least the front cover. The  past week was spend in Otterloo, a village in de Veluwe, where I enjoyed a holiday with the family. During the week we visted the Kröller Müller Museum at the Hoge Veluwe Park, where I made a picture of the flowers in the patio of the museum. This patio can be found in the Van Gogh gallery.

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