Category Archives: anything goes

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Love For New Toys

My mad professor friend Jenamu6 got some new toys. -NoiseRing -AntiOsc -PLL -A143-I -QMMG -MATHS -HertzDonut -A155 If: (You have no idea what these things are or do) Then: (This video probably isn’t for you) Else: (enjoy!) If you’re into this sort of thing be sure to check his youtube channel for more synthesizer wackyness

the mad lettre: afterparty @ de effenaar

The Popronde went out with a bang this weekend! After what was supposed to be the last show @ Dynamo Eindhoven (photos here), our friends from The Mad Trist convinced us to join them for a guerilla gig @ de Effenaar @ 03:30. Avant La Lettre & The Mad Trist on stage, together. Ofcourse way [...]

Het Grote Onvruchtbaarheidsfeest

Club Interbellum & Avant La Lettre come full circle. We played our 1st gig ever @ the 1st Club Interbellum @ de Balie 2 years ago. Now we play the last Club Interbellum to be held @ de Balie. Laurens and Alexandra (of Saelors) will also be performing a song they wrote especially for the [...]

Money

Barrett Strong recorded this in 1959 for motown records, it got to number 2 on the R&B charts and 23rd on the US Pop charts making it Motown’s first hit. Barrett Strong later went on to become one of Motown’s most famous song writers. in 1979 The Flying Lizards released this equally brilliant cover version:

how the 00s were actually the 80s

As the decade draws to an end, looking back, you could argue that, culturally, it wasn’t really the 00s that we lived in, but that it was actually more some kind of synthesis of the 00s and the 80s. A retro fad at the beginning of the decade, the infiltration of 80s culture into 00s [...]

Classic Goldie… coming soon to BBC Two

In a spin-off from last year’s Maestro series on BBC Two, and in collaboration with the BBC Proms, Classic Goldie sees the drum ‘n’ bass pioneer commissioned to write a seven-minute composition to be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the BBC Proms, reflecting the theme of evolution. for the time being here’s an [...]

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JC Thomaz&The Missing Slippers

Erwin was spotted playing bass for JC Thomaz & The Missing Slippers. check out J.C. Thomaz & The Missing Slippers here: www.myspace.com/jcthomazthemissingslippers

how to be miserable as a professional musician: a ten-step guide

taken from RobbieFulks.com 1. Regard your skill set with self-satisfaction — as rounded, complete, and impeccable. 2. Imagine that your tiny corner of the world of music is the world of music. 3. Treat the grubby commercial aspects of the profession — poring over contracts, comparing the fine points of different distribution platforms, self-promotion — [...]

gangsters

Gangsters zijn bijzonder geschikt voor akoestische performances zo werken bijvoorbeeld guns, bitches en bling niet op stroom. En hebben pimped out cadillac’s enkel benzine nodig. in een akoestische setting blijft er dus genoeg van het image overeind om zowel het publiek alsmede de gangster zelf een fijne avond te bezorgen zonder te veel concessies te [...]