Hello, last week a commenter noted i should post some Belgian Aetix, clearly not a regular then, but nevermind i still had some Belgians on the backburner...
Today's artists are all from Belgium, as true reflection there's a Walloon, A Fleming and an immigrant the latter is the main star here ah yes the world loves those petite girls... ......N'Joy
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Roger Jouret started out as the drummer for the group Hubble Bubble, which is one of the first Belgian punk bands. (note: being the first, certainly does not imply being the foremost, a title which is reserved for the Kids). Together with producer Lou Depryck he created the persona of Plastic Bertrand, a jolly satire on the safety-pin image of punk (the name he got from Bert Bertrand, punk-journalist and later on singer of The Bowling Balls).
A year later he made what would be one of the best selling singles by a Belgian artist ever : "ça plane pour moi" (all's well for me or This life's for me). This production and composition by fellow Belgian Lou de Pryck was an inspired attempt to capture the punk-spirit and still make big bucks out of it. According to Oor's Pop Music Encyclopedia, the song became "the laughing stock of the world's punk scene". Still, Rolling Stone (the Magazine) classified "ça plane pour moi" in the top 100 of best rock songs ever.
Or, as David Fricke says it on the Trouser Press website : "ça Plane pour Moi" is truly great dumbness--Bertrand singing verbose, seemingly nonsensical French lyrics over a classic three-chord Ramones roar with Spectorish saxes and a winning falsetto "oooh-weee-oooh" on the chorus. The Album An 1 (year 1) also contains more of the hilarious same--a spirited remake of the Small Faces' "Sha La La La Lee" and "Wha! Wha!," wherein Bertrand does barnyard animal imitations.
Since that, Bertrand has continued to make music, with considerably less success though. His 2nd album "Je t'fais un plan" (I'll draw you a map) and the third release "L'album" moved his musical direction steadily toward the new-wave scene, with exercises in reggae and synth pop in between.In 1988, Plastic Bertrand smelled some money once again when the Belgian New Beat-dance craze came about. His "Slave to the beat" was one of the more successful singles of this form of music (more than 50.000 copies sold).
Plastic Bertrand - An 1 (flac 260mb)
01 Le Petit Tortillard 2:12
02 Bambino 2:02
03 Naif-Song 2:52
04 Ca Plane Pour Moi 2:58
05 Sha La La La Lee 2:08
06 Pognon Pognon 2:50
07 Dance Dance 2:35
08 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 2:20
09 Pogo Pogo 2:38
10 Wha! Wha! (Je Suis Un Chien, Nous Sommes Des Chiens, Vous Etes Des Chiens!) 5:18
11 Solo Naif-Song 0:35
Bonus
12 Ça Plane Pour Moi (Instrumental) 3:03
13 Ça Plane Pour Moi (Remix) 3:01
Plastic Bertrand - An 1 (ogg 86mb)
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Lio (born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos, 17 June 1962) is a Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a family friend. She took her stage name, Lio, from a character in the Barbarella comic books by Jean-Claude Forest. In 1979, together with songwriter Jay Alanski, she and Duvall began working with Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman from the electro-trio Telex. "Le Banana Split", which sold over 1 million copies, and "Amoureux solitaires", a song originally by punk rock band Stinky Toys. Both songs rose to the top of many pop charts in France, and Moulin and Lacksman also produced her self-titled first album.
In 1982 the American music duo Ron and Russell Mael, of Sparks, worked with her on the album Suite sixtine, on which some of her previous songs were translated into English. Suite sixtine was compiled and art directed by Ralph Alfonso for Attic Records Canada, where it was originally released. Her second album, Amour toujours, was produced by Alain Chamfort and released in 1983. The same year, she first appeared on the screen in Chantal Akerman's film Golden Eighties, a lighthearted, humorous French pop musical about the people who work together in a Parisian shopping center. Lio plays a carefree hairdresser in the movie.
In 1985, she met record company executive and producer Michel Esteban, of ZE Records. She continued to have hit singles in Europe, including "Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes", and travelled to Los Angeles with Esteban to record her next album Pop model. Several of the tracks were co-produced by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground, and the album produced the hits "Fallait pas commencer", "Je casse tout ce que je touche", and "Chauffeur". In 1988, after she had given birth to a daughter with Esteban, she resumed her acting career, starring in Claude Lelouch's film Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté. The Lio-Esteban partnership produced another album, Can can, recorded in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. She also designed a fashion collection for the European department store chain Prisunic....more up next
Lio - Lio (flac 348mb)
01 Amicalement Vôtre 2:44
02 J'Obtiens Toujours Ce Que Je Veux 2:39
03 Comix Discomix 3:54
04 La Panthère Rose 3:16
05 You Go To My Head 2:35
06 Amoureux Solitaires 3:32
07 Si Belle Et Inutile 3:30
08 Bébé Vampire 2:43
09 Speedy Gonzales 3:15
10 La Petite Amazone 3:14
11 Le Banana Split 2:35
12 Oz 2:15
Lio - Lio (ogg 98mb)
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Lio appeared in three films in 1990 and 1991, Chambre à part, Sans un cri, and Après l'amour. Her 1991 album, Des fleurs pour un caméléon, was produced by Étienne Daho, she had already contributed vocals for one of Daho's earliest and biggest hits, "Week-End À Rome". Daho was given carte blanche in the studio because Lio was busy shooting a film; however, when his work was over, he showed no interest in promoting the album with her, limiting the success of the album. Her next album, Wandatta, presenting a more mature approach in contrast with her previous image, and with a sleeve designed by Guy Peellaert, was released in 1995. However, it was relatively unsuccessful, and she withdrew for a time to live near Angoulême with her partner and children. In 1998, she recorded with Esteban in Cuba, and in 1999 she appeared in 50 performances of the French adaptation of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, a musical staged at the Folies Bergère. She had two kids that year. She released the single "Je suis comme je suis" and the album Chante Prévert containing interpretations of the poems of Jacques Prévert, in 2000. After performing the songs on tour throughout France, Europe and North Africa, she released the live album Cœur de rubis in 2004. She also appeared in over 250 performances of the theater play Le Bébé, an adaptation of a book by Marie Darrieussecq staged by Marc Goldberg.
Lio has been busy on the breeding front too she has six children: Nubia (born September 1987), Igor (born 1994), Esméralda (born 1995), Léa and Garance (born 1999), and Diego (born the 21 of May 2003).
Since 2008, Lio has been a judge on the French "pop idol" show Nouvelle Star. In 2009, she returned to music with the rock band Phantom. In 2011, she became a judge on The Voice Belgique. In 2014, she gave an acoustic rendition of several songs by the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi at the Archiduc café in central Brussels.In March 2018, Lio released her new album Lio Canta Caymmi on the label Crammed Discs. It consists of half-Portuguese, half-French covers of songs by the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi. It was the first time she recorded an entire album in Portuguese, her mother tongue.
Lio - Best Of (flac 276mb)
01 Amoureux Solitaire 3:39
02 Mona Lisa 2:56
03 La Reine Des Pommes 3:34
04 Petite Amazone 3:14
05 Speedy Gonzales 3:15
06 La Vérite Toute Nue 3:09
07 Suite Sixtine 3:41
08 Banana Split 2:33
09 Amicalement Votre 2:45
10 Baby Lou 4:06
11 Zip A Doo Wah 3:25
12 Sage Comme Une Image 2:40
13 Plus Je T'Embrasse 2:16
14 Si Belle Et Inutile 3:26
Lio - Best Of (ogg 104mb)
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It was summer 1982 when Luc Van Acker wrote the first songs The fear in my heart and Jump and shout . They were originally released as a 12 inch and became quite succesful on a cult level. As a result he even won a press prize as Best New Artist.
His first solo album was Taking Snapshots. This album was recorded in his home in Tienen (Belgium) and he distributed it by driving around Europe with several hundred copies in his car, begging record stores to buy as many as possible. This was followed by the mini-album Zas Buddhist. It was at this time he decided to become more professional and he signed a record deal. While touring as a member of the Belgian band Arbeid Adelt in autumn 1982 he did some production work (in between shows) for an Anna Domino album (East/West). It was then that he was introduced to Blaine Reininger of Tuxedo Moon (USA) who played violin on three tracks. Anna Domino and Luc co-wrote four songs which seem to have the magic touch that makes a song a hit.
He met Dave Allen after a Shriekback (UK) concert at Plan K in Brussels. He played him some of his music and ended playing guitar on Shriekback's album Jam Science. Together they started what was to be a dance studio project called Noise Abroad. As on most other tracks on that album they got a lot of help from Brian Nevill (Pig Bag - UK) who played drums, piano and sax. Also Ian Caple engineered most of it and was responsible for the amazing string arrangements on Heart And Soul. Dave supplied the solid bass lines and convinced David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel Band) it was an international career move to play guitar on a Belgium record.
For the finishing touch his good friend Jean-Marie Aerts (TC Matic - Belgium) came along to record some overdubs and give the mixes the production they needed. Kevin Mulligan (Talk Back - UK) wandered in from the studio next door and played rhythm guitar on Zanna. Gaby Lang supplied some exotic backing vocals on The Ship and Heart and Soul while her manager Rose looked through a porno magazine and gave us a discount.
After the release of The Ship he put a live band together and did 56 concerts in Europe. At the D.N.A. club in Brussels he met Richard 23 from Front 242 (Belgium) who put him on the phone with Al Jourgensen of Ministry (USA), which resulted in his being on a plane to Chicago. Having lost all sense of reality he discovered he had become a member of The Revolting Cocks.
He toured The States for a couple of years with The Cocks and Ministry and ran into Dave Allen again in Los Angeles. Together they set up World Domination Records and Luc's own career got back on its feet.
Luc Van Acker - Taking Snapshots Vol. 1 (flac 281mb)
01 Introduction Fanfara 1:49
02 Moments During A Lifetime 0:39
03 Taking Live Serious 2:48
04 Try To Say Something 3:34
05 Fanfara 1:17
06 Find A Way 3:10
07 China 0:54
08 Vision One 1:40
09 Freezing 2:05
10 African Medicin Man 1:13
11 It's A One Day Chance 2:24
12 Frozen Tears 2:52
13 Forced Into Light 2:44
14 Take Her Away 1:14
15 Vision Two 1:39
16 What's Downtown 2:27
17 Business 2:50
18 Outro Fanfara 2:55
Luc Van Acker - Taking Snapshots Vol. 1 (ogg 97mb)
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Today's artists are all from Belgium, as true reflection there's a Walloon, A Fleming and an immigrant the latter is the main star here ah yes the world loves those petite girls... ......N'Joy
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
Roger Jouret started out as the drummer for the group Hubble Bubble, which is one of the first Belgian punk bands. (note: being the first, certainly does not imply being the foremost, a title which is reserved for the Kids). Together with producer Lou Depryck he created the persona of Plastic Bertrand, a jolly satire on the safety-pin image of punk (the name he got from Bert Bertrand, punk-journalist and later on singer of The Bowling Balls).
A year later he made what would be one of the best selling singles by a Belgian artist ever : "ça plane pour moi" (all's well for me or This life's for me). This production and composition by fellow Belgian Lou de Pryck was an inspired attempt to capture the punk-spirit and still make big bucks out of it. According to Oor's Pop Music Encyclopedia, the song became "the laughing stock of the world's punk scene". Still, Rolling Stone (the Magazine) classified "ça plane pour moi" in the top 100 of best rock songs ever.
Or, as David Fricke says it on the Trouser Press website : "ça Plane pour Moi" is truly great dumbness--Bertrand singing verbose, seemingly nonsensical French lyrics over a classic three-chord Ramones roar with Spectorish saxes and a winning falsetto "oooh-weee-oooh" on the chorus. The Album An 1 (year 1) also contains more of the hilarious same--a spirited remake of the Small Faces' "Sha La La La Lee" and "Wha! Wha!," wherein Bertrand does barnyard animal imitations.
Since that, Bertrand has continued to make music, with considerably less success though. His 2nd album "Je t'fais un plan" (I'll draw you a map) and the third release "L'album" moved his musical direction steadily toward the new-wave scene, with exercises in reggae and synth pop in between.In 1988, Plastic Bertrand smelled some money once again when the Belgian New Beat-dance craze came about. His "Slave to the beat" was one of the more successful singles of this form of music (more than 50.000 copies sold).
Plastic Bertrand - An 1 (flac 260mb)
01 Le Petit Tortillard 2:12
02 Bambino 2:02
03 Naif-Song 2:52
04 Ca Plane Pour Moi 2:58
05 Sha La La La Lee 2:08
06 Pognon Pognon 2:50
07 Dance Dance 2:35
08 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 2:20
09 Pogo Pogo 2:38
10 Wha! Wha! (Je Suis Un Chien, Nous Sommes Des Chiens, Vous Etes Des Chiens!) 5:18
11 Solo Naif-Song 0:35
Bonus
12 Ça Plane Pour Moi (Instrumental) 3:03
13 Ça Plane Pour Moi (Remix) 3:01
Plastic Bertrand - An 1 (ogg 86mb)
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Lio (born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos, 17 June 1962) is a Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a family friend. She took her stage name, Lio, from a character in the Barbarella comic books by Jean-Claude Forest. In 1979, together with songwriter Jay Alanski, she and Duvall began working with Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman from the electro-trio Telex. "Le Banana Split", which sold over 1 million copies, and "Amoureux solitaires", a song originally by punk rock band Stinky Toys. Both songs rose to the top of many pop charts in France, and Moulin and Lacksman also produced her self-titled first album.
In 1982 the American music duo Ron and Russell Mael, of Sparks, worked with her on the album Suite sixtine, on which some of her previous songs were translated into English. Suite sixtine was compiled and art directed by Ralph Alfonso for Attic Records Canada, where it was originally released. Her second album, Amour toujours, was produced by Alain Chamfort and released in 1983. The same year, she first appeared on the screen in Chantal Akerman's film Golden Eighties, a lighthearted, humorous French pop musical about the people who work together in a Parisian shopping center. Lio plays a carefree hairdresser in the movie.
In 1985, she met record company executive and producer Michel Esteban, of ZE Records. She continued to have hit singles in Europe, including "Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes", and travelled to Los Angeles with Esteban to record her next album Pop model. Several of the tracks were co-produced by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground, and the album produced the hits "Fallait pas commencer", "Je casse tout ce que je touche", and "Chauffeur". In 1988, after she had given birth to a daughter with Esteban, she resumed her acting career, starring in Claude Lelouch's film Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté. The Lio-Esteban partnership produced another album, Can can, recorded in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. She also designed a fashion collection for the European department store chain Prisunic....more up next
Lio - Lio (flac 348mb)
01 Amicalement Vôtre 2:44
02 J'Obtiens Toujours Ce Que Je Veux 2:39
03 Comix Discomix 3:54
04 La Panthère Rose 3:16
05 You Go To My Head 2:35
06 Amoureux Solitaires 3:32
07 Si Belle Et Inutile 3:30
08 Bébé Vampire 2:43
09 Speedy Gonzales 3:15
10 La Petite Amazone 3:14
11 Le Banana Split 2:35
12 Oz 2:15
Lio - Lio (ogg 98mb)
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Lio appeared in three films in 1990 and 1991, Chambre à part, Sans un cri, and Après l'amour. Her 1991 album, Des fleurs pour un caméléon, was produced by Étienne Daho, she had already contributed vocals for one of Daho's earliest and biggest hits, "Week-End À Rome". Daho was given carte blanche in the studio because Lio was busy shooting a film; however, when his work was over, he showed no interest in promoting the album with her, limiting the success of the album. Her next album, Wandatta, presenting a more mature approach in contrast with her previous image, and with a sleeve designed by Guy Peellaert, was released in 1995. However, it was relatively unsuccessful, and she withdrew for a time to live near Angoulême with her partner and children. In 1998, she recorded with Esteban in Cuba, and in 1999 she appeared in 50 performances of the French adaptation of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, a musical staged at the Folies Bergère. She had two kids that year. She released the single "Je suis comme je suis" and the album Chante Prévert containing interpretations of the poems of Jacques Prévert, in 2000. After performing the songs on tour throughout France, Europe and North Africa, she released the live album Cœur de rubis in 2004. She also appeared in over 250 performances of the theater play Le Bébé, an adaptation of a book by Marie Darrieussecq staged by Marc Goldberg.
Lio has been busy on the breeding front too she has six children: Nubia (born September 1987), Igor (born 1994), Esméralda (born 1995), Léa and Garance (born 1999), and Diego (born the 21 of May 2003).
Since 2008, Lio has been a judge on the French "pop idol" show Nouvelle Star. In 2009, she returned to music with the rock band Phantom. In 2011, she became a judge on The Voice Belgique. In 2014, she gave an acoustic rendition of several songs by the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi at the Archiduc café in central Brussels.In March 2018, Lio released her new album Lio Canta Caymmi on the label Crammed Discs. It consists of half-Portuguese, half-French covers of songs by the Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi. It was the first time she recorded an entire album in Portuguese, her mother tongue.
Lio - Best Of (flac 276mb)
01 Amoureux Solitaire 3:39
02 Mona Lisa 2:56
03 La Reine Des Pommes 3:34
04 Petite Amazone 3:14
05 Speedy Gonzales 3:15
06 La Vérite Toute Nue 3:09
07 Suite Sixtine 3:41
08 Banana Split 2:33
09 Amicalement Votre 2:45
10 Baby Lou 4:06
11 Zip A Doo Wah 3:25
12 Sage Comme Une Image 2:40
13 Plus Je T'Embrasse 2:16
14 Si Belle Et Inutile 3:26
Lio - Best Of (ogg 104mb)
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It was summer 1982 when Luc Van Acker wrote the first songs The fear in my heart and Jump and shout . They were originally released as a 12 inch and became quite succesful on a cult level. As a result he even won a press prize as Best New Artist.
His first solo album was Taking Snapshots. This album was recorded in his home in Tienen (Belgium) and he distributed it by driving around Europe with several hundred copies in his car, begging record stores to buy as many as possible. This was followed by the mini-album Zas Buddhist. It was at this time he decided to become more professional and he signed a record deal. While touring as a member of the Belgian band Arbeid Adelt in autumn 1982 he did some production work (in between shows) for an Anna Domino album (East/West). It was then that he was introduced to Blaine Reininger of Tuxedo Moon (USA) who played violin on three tracks. Anna Domino and Luc co-wrote four songs which seem to have the magic touch that makes a song a hit.
He met Dave Allen after a Shriekback (UK) concert at Plan K in Brussels. He played him some of his music and ended playing guitar on Shriekback's album Jam Science. Together they started what was to be a dance studio project called Noise Abroad. As on most other tracks on that album they got a lot of help from Brian Nevill (Pig Bag - UK) who played drums, piano and sax. Also Ian Caple engineered most of it and was responsible for the amazing string arrangements on Heart And Soul. Dave supplied the solid bass lines and convinced David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel Band) it was an international career move to play guitar on a Belgium record.
For the finishing touch his good friend Jean-Marie Aerts (TC Matic - Belgium) came along to record some overdubs and give the mixes the production they needed. Kevin Mulligan (Talk Back - UK) wandered in from the studio next door and played rhythm guitar on Zanna. Gaby Lang supplied some exotic backing vocals on The Ship and Heart and Soul while her manager Rose looked through a porno magazine and gave us a discount.
After the release of The Ship he put a live band together and did 56 concerts in Europe. At the D.N.A. club in Brussels he met Richard 23 from Front 242 (Belgium) who put him on the phone with Al Jourgensen of Ministry (USA), which resulted in his being on a plane to Chicago. Having lost all sense of reality he discovered he had become a member of The Revolting Cocks.
He toured The States for a couple of years with The Cocks and Ministry and ran into Dave Allen again in Los Angeles. Together they set up World Domination Records and Luc's own career got back on its feet.
Luc Van Acker - Taking Snapshots Vol. 1 (flac 281mb)
01 Introduction Fanfara 1:49
02 Moments During A Lifetime 0:39
03 Taking Live Serious 2:48
04 Try To Say Something 3:34
05 Fanfara 1:17
06 Find A Way 3:10
07 China 0:54
08 Vision One 1:40
09 Freezing 2:05
10 African Medicin Man 1:13
11 It's A One Day Chance 2:24
12 Frozen Tears 2:52
13 Forced Into Light 2:44
14 Take Her Away 1:14
15 Vision Two 1:39
16 What's Downtown 2:27
17 Business 2:50
18 Outro Fanfara 2:55
Luc Van Acker - Taking Snapshots Vol. 1 (ogg 97mb)
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3 comments:
I love everything in this selection. Thank you so much.
Ha ha you're wrong. I am a regular and I'm fully aware of the many Belgium artists you've posted over the years. There is so much more great music made in Belgium during the early eighties though.
Anyway, thanks very much for today's post, especially Luc van Acker!
Cheers,
Ben
Nicely done.
Anyone in here could get his hands on this one in FLAC?
https://www.discogs.com/Danceable-Weird-Shit-Heres-The-CD/release/1017980
Looking for this for a very long time.
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