The More You Live, The More You Love

Just back from a great week on Texel. Enjoying a nice atmosphere, the family and the friendly locals. Done a lot, seen a lot and drank a lot. Even within this week of relaxing an family time, I was able to find some new names and finally some albums I was searching for since the start of this project. Unfortunately you, the listener, will have to wait another week, since those bands will be featured on Volume 8 scheduled for next week. The tracklist for this weeks Volume: 01. Das Ding - Reassurance Ritual (3:42) 02. Bell's Of Home - Fall Down (2:49) 03. Tempo Di Marcia - Russian Dream (live) (1:56) 04. The Rooftop - That's How It's Done (3:02) 05. Nadieh - Windforce 11 (3:15) 06. Störung - Empire SX (5:17) 07. The Tapes - Bits And Pieces (4:12) 08. Toylets - Marble Arch House (4:58) 09. Judy Nylon - Broken Glass (3:39) 10. Mecano - Robespierre Re-Marx (2:22) 11. Kewi University Of Swing - Someone (3:20) 12. Naftha's Preview - Bonfire (4:42) 13. The...

Just a quick one. Will be off within a couple of hours. So here is Volume 06. Again a diverse set of tracks and groups which again I enjoyed to create. The tracklist for this Volume is: 01. 12" From Heaven - Fall Out (live) (4:50) 02. Casual Affair - Sand In My Eyes (3:26) 03. Ce Soir - Lost In Dreamin' (3:57) 04. Coka - Modern Girl (2:49) 05. Factory Toys - Vapouring Pictures (3:50) 06. Fay Lovsky - Maggie (3:05) 07. How To Get Rich In Rotterdam - Dapper Dan (4:20) 08. Kid Montana - Today (3:17) 09. Menko - Debra (3:35) 10. Mondo Cane - A Long Way From Home (4:47) 11. Naftha's Preview - The Guest (4:11) 12. Niew Hip Stilen - No Crisis Nozeclock (3:10) 13. Ovens Van Ondank - Paradijs (6:28) 14. Prima Volta - Show The World (7" version) (4:01) 15. S.M. Nurse - Cannibal (4:15) 16. Slauerhoff - Clicks (5:18) 17. Sleepless Nights - Radio Airplay (2:56) 18. The Essence - The Cat (3:44) 19. The Phones - * (2:47) 20. Tranquil Eyes - Finding Out F...

This week I reach half the number I have in mind. I think 10 volumes gives a nice idea of what the Dutch music scene was capable of when it comes to New Wave. Volume 5 contains a nice mixture of bands which were not on any volume before and about five which already had their contribution. Concerning the pictures, since I did not give any information when releasing Volume 4. The one of Volume 5 was taken during a January sunset near Uitgeest. This picture of Volume 4 was taken just a couple of weeks ago, when returning back to the Central Station after enjoying the concert of Haevn. It is the weight house on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. Getting ready for a nice evening of Steve Hackett. Looking forward to hear a mixed set of solo- and Genesis songs. A good start of this Easter weekend. Tracklist: 01. Da Klute - Empty Room (4:39) 02. Duplex Johnson - Double Date (4:00) 03. I Spy - Channels (2:24) 04. Kewi University Of Swing - Girls On Vacation (2:16) 05. Media - Maga...

Just another week past. Besides the normal 40 hours working week, it was a rollorcoaster week concerning the Music. On 28 March I was, with friends, at the last concert of the ARW tour at the Vredenburg theater in Utrecht. A great sold out show of veterans Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman accompanied by Lee Pomeroy and Louis Molino III. On Sunday my wife and I saw Haevn, a band known for their music in BMW commercials at the beautiful Koninklijk Theater Carré. A sold out show again with most music never heard before. And than on Wednesday followed the music of Clock Opera, the band of Guy Connelly, in the small lounge of Paradiso. If this wasn't enough, finally I received my first review promo's with only a near three weeks to go until the deadline. Albums of JPL (Le Livre Blanc), Magenta (We Are Legend) and Citizen Cain's Stewart Bell (The Antichamber Of Being (part 2) Stories From the Antichamber). At last finished an interview with Alan ...

And so with the last and beautiful day of March we come to Volume 3. Never thought the creation process would continue to be so flourishing. The hunt for tracks and bands has brought a variety of New Wave from this low country, which unfortunately not always fits to my ears. I can live with Joy Division alike bands, have no problems with the kind of Siouxsie And The Banshees or likewise with Sisters Of Mercy or The Mission. But soundscapes or simple noise is not my kind of stuff. I think to be honest the best music of the eighties I adore is the kind made by the New Romantics. Well with that in mind, I was certain only one volume has to be dedicated it to the makers of noise, soundscapes and unidentified mumble jumble. The best accessible of these will be featured on the last Volume in this series and bands featured on that volume will only be available with one track. On the upcoming Volumes I will be presenting more of the kind already featured on the first two and this Volum...

I was quite surprised by the amount of visitors to the blog in ages. Probably since I also came with a treat. A treat to be honest I was not complete satisfied with after listening to it completely. Some of the songs are not so loud in the mix compared with the others, which unfortuantly is something that I can't repair for the moment. Two of the songs came from original sources, of which unfortuantly even the latest re-release did not get a remaster. For both I am searching for a better repelacement, which might be a live recording of the song. The first Volume offered a nice retrospect on bands that I came familiar with during the late seventies and the eighties. This second volume offers a lot of bands which were introduced to me in the last 15 years. I became interested in the music of my youth again after a drive back from a holiday in Switserland. It was the song The Great Commandment by the German band Camouflage which made me decide to search for New Wave and Synt...

It has been awhile since my last post, but in the background I have been working on a new project. After the remastering of The Unknown Beauty Of The 80s compilations at the end of 2015, I have been hunting on releases of Dutch New Wave bands from the period 1977-1988. The New Wave marks my teenage years. In 1978 I went to high school. You could say nearly at the start of the New Wave. The first concerts I visited were at a local festival called Beeckestijn Pop. A yearly free festival which featured after the first years of local bands (f.e. The Bintangs and Carlsberg), a range of bands on their point of break through: Powerplay (1981), Urban Heroes, Neon, Diesel (1982), Coïtus Int., Het Goede Doel, Margriet Eshuijs Band (1983), Binberg (collaboration of The Bintangs and Carlsberg), Gruppo Sportivo (1984), Time Bandits, Gigantjes, Secret Sounds (1985), Fatal Flowers, I've Got The Bullets, De Dijk, Claw Boys Claw (1986), Belgium vocalist Raymond van het Groenewoud (1987). I have t...