Distel makes electronic music difficult to label. This project of Peter Johan Nijland (also singer of Hadewych) consists also of Nijland, an electronic percussionist (also member of Hadewych) Scramasax. Gonzo Circus describes their music as ‘personal, electronic intense new wave’. It is based on a dark industrial electronic sound combined with vocals which makes it intense and elusive. The name that comes to mind while listening to their music is Coil.
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Amen Dunes stands for dark wayward guitar sounds. It is the project of Damon Mc Mahon (Philadelphia, USA).
His solo career started in 2006, when he released the album ‘Mansions’ under his own name. Later that year he began recording as Amen Dunes, sequestering himself in a cabin in the Catskills (NY).
Nowadays Amen Dunes seems to be drawing attention of a larger audience and to be understood. The new album ‘Love’ is his most accessible record, but still it sounds claustrophobic, inimitable, deliberately sloppy and incomplete. He has been working on ‘Love’ for a year and a half, collaborating with members of Iceage and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Shitcluster is an experimental, lo-fi soundproject of Charlie Watkins, who collaborates with different musicians, Jan van Duivenvoorden is one of them. He is the founder member of the famous industrial acid-technoband from the 90’s, Unit Moebius. Unit Moenius produces loud, raw and uncompromising lo-fi and low budget-techno. Since the start in 1998 Shitcluster is using minisamplers, distortion, turntables, cassettes, effect-pedals and microphones, and that’s not all: samples are looped in all kinds of different lengths. This results in a fusion of weird and dark sounds.
Nowadays many electronic live-acts appear on stage as autistic button-clickers/turners. That’s why Shitcluster focus more on the visual aspect; their performances are described as confusing, surreal and even funny.
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High Wolf makes psychedelic, electronic music combining tape-loops, guitars, synth, mystic vocals and tribal instruments. He creates overwhelming soundscapes inspired by primitive, ceremonial music and contemporary experimental music.
High Wolf has been touring and performing continuously since the beginning of 2009 and has been working with artists such as Sun Araw and Ethernal Tapestry.
Action Beat is an instrumental improvisation noise rock band from Bletchey, Engeland. For a gig the band is put together out of musicians who are available on that specific date. The band usually consists out of at least 4 guitarists, a bass player and 1 to 4 drummers.
This year G.W. Sok (ex The Ex) was asked by Action Beat as a guest-musician and this has led to an unique collaboration. G.W.Sok is best known as the frontman of the Ex, the most interesting Dutch underground band to derive from the punkscene in the late 70’s. In 2008 he left the band to focus on a solo career and has time for new projects such as Action Beat.
The line-up of Action Beat may be a surprise, the musicians and G.W. Sok will definitely overwhelm us with their performance.
