Got my finger outta the dike & headed over here for some
beer. So many great brews, so little time. Farmhouse saison. Gueuze lambic. Oud bruin. Finally I just
stumbled into a dive…
Dive is a Belgian
industrial band formed in 1990 by Dirk Ivens.
In 1978, Dirk started as singer & guitar player in the
punk band Slaughterhouse. They broke up a year later to form the more new wave
unit called The Few.
In 1990, Dirk released a his first solo album under the name Dive. It was released on his own label Body Records. The album is primitive, harsh & experimental, with the sound of abused drum machines pulsating through the songs. Dirk is considered to be one of the founders of the power noise genre. Many releases followed in the next 15 years, often in collaboration with groups like: Sigillum S; Controlled Bleeding; Kirlian Camera; & Diskonnekted , or individuals such as: Ivan Iusco; Rafael M. Espinosa; & Francoise Duvivier.
In 1996 Ivens started a new project, called Sonar, to create a more rhythmical noise combined with dark soundscapes, reminding one of laboring machinery & droning planes. With playing gigs & festivals worldwide; his Daft , Minimal Maximal, & Body Records labels; another side project, Blok 57; combined with his impressive discography makes Dirk one of the leaders of the Belgian electronic scene.
Concrete Jungle is Dive's 1993 studio album, with lyrics inspired in part by a 1991 auto crash of the bands tour bus that left Dirk Ivens, his wife, members of the band Vomito Negro (who were on tour with Dive) & others hospitalized for several months.
On Concret Jungle, Dive are: Dirk Ivens – voice &
electronics; Eric van Wonterghem – electronics; Ivan Iusco – electronics; with
Wendy van Dusen - voice & lyrics on "Welcome to Hell IV".
Dive – Concrete Jungle, Minus Habens Records MHCD018, 1993.
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Tracklist –
Slippin’ Away
Mindtorture
39 Stitches
Crosses are Burning
Take Your Dreams Away
Broken Meat
Mother
Welcome to Hell IV
Concrete Jungle
Lust
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February 2008. Will
Z & Majnun were tired of their band. They had been working on their first
opus, Lord Space Devil, since December 2000. They had unfinished &
unreleased tunes, experimental & conceptual ideas. They just needed to quit
what they were doing & finish it up, so they did. & Cosmic Trip Machine
was born, named in tribute to 60s & 70s psychedelic records.
In the studio, Cosmic Trip Machine discovered musical
freedom & were immediately addicted. They quickly finished Lord Space
Devil, a psychedelic concept album.
Cosmic Trip Machine
sez Lord Space Devil is:
"... an
experimental psychedelic folk album with songs that release themselves of any
constraints & explore differing sonic boundaries (odd instruments, studio
effects, imaginative rock inspired by Indian music & B-movies)..."
Cosmic Trip
Machine is one of Belgium’s
finest psychedelic bands, these night-trippers sound like Aphrodite’s Child
jamming with Gong imagining a psychedelic horror soundtrack wandering through a
free-flowing erotic surreal delirium with enough sitar, cosmic electronics
& wailing acidic guitar leads to blow your head off.
Lord Space Devil starts as a slowed-down Meat Puppets
(Up on the Sun era) dirge & becomes an amalgam of lysergic guitar riffage,
backwards tapes & percussion, Syd Barrett Floydisms & West Coast mantra,
sitar-driven heavy psyhe instrumentals, light pop psychedelia, electric folk,
1960s garage tunes, British psychedelic blues, short experiments/sketches for
future songs, Donovan, Tom Rapp, & a million more trippy flower power
details. However, where many hippie-dippy bands rely on extended jams, this
release contains 18 varied & succinct (jamless) tracks, which except for
the title track & the “Last Song” never pass the four minute mark.
On Lord Space Devil: Will Z – lead vocals, acoustic
guitar, bass, keyboards, sitar, theremin, flute, & percussion; & Majnun
– electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, sitar, E-bow, percussion &
effects.
Cosmic Trip Machine - Lord Space Devil cdr, 2008.
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Tracklist -
Lord Space Devil
Floor
Go Down Streets
Mantra#27
Sorry Edgar for the Spelling
Giallo
Another Venus
Plastic Hippie
Light Beyond Death
So Sad
Strange is Laughing under View
Time
Mariachi
Chiaroscuro
Lonely Grave
Conversation
In the Haze of Drugs
Last Song
Enjoy,
NØ
Dive
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Your blog is awesome. Thanks for this sonic travel around the world. a big hug from Colombia.
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