NIEUW HIP STILEN MYSTERY TAPE!!

Now, Nieuw Hip Stilen was a band from Rotterdam, the members were Maarten van Gent – bass, drums, guitar, percussie and vocals, Jan Willem van Mook – bass, sax, keyboards, percussion and computer and Rutger van Otterloo – sax, drums and percussion....

In 1983 they played at one of the three legendary Pandora's Music Box festivals. Loads and loads of bands played there, basically the cream of the crop of underground bands from those days and this was one of my most favorite performances (as were Psychic TV, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Gun Club, Clock Dva, KIEM and a bunch of other bands.... I was standing in the front of this performance.... A while later, in 1983, I bought a cassette at the great Haddock Record Store in Rotterdam from Nieuw Hip Stilen and the concert at the Pandora's Music Box festival was on that cassette as were eight instrumentals, never released (without the vocals). And this is that cassette.... They only had that one cassette for sale and the mystery is that.... Well, I talked to their front man Maarten (who also played guitar in Rotterdam punk band the Rondos) about this cassette and they never released it, it's a mystery where this tape came from and who put it out....

So there you go, a nice little mystery at the end of 2025.... And great music to boot! GET IT HERE Enjoy!

ROTTERDAM COLLECTION

An album with punk, no-wave, new wave and other underground acts from Rotterdam, recorded during the winter of 1979/1980, produced by Martin v. d. Leer and Peter Graute., and this album really means a lot to me as I was part of the Rotterdam (punk) scene back in that time.... This is me in 1980, standing in front of a podium were various punk bands were playing (Bunker, Kotx, Debiele Eenheid and J. Dops Band) after we had a demonstration, walking through the centre of Rotterdam for a new place for concerts etc. after Kaasee, a place where punk concertts were held, and Eksit was closed down....

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CENTER - CENTER

Here's an album from Russian 80's new wave / post-punk band Center, this album came out in France in 1989.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

EXECUTIVE SLACKS - YOU CAN'T HUM WHEN YOU'RE DEAD

Here's the excellent first album from Philadelphia post-punk band The Executive Slacks that came out in 1984. Bought this when it came out and saw them live in Parkzicht, Rotterdam in the same year. Jonny at the excellent Die Or Diy blog posted a great live cassette a while back, check it out! GET IT HERE Enjoy!

TED MILTON, ANDREAS GERTH & PADDY STEER - OH PITY US

One of my all-time favorite bands is Blurt, and Ted Milton was their front-man. Here's an excellent ep with Ted playing sax and talking with music by Andreas Gerth and Paddy Steer.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

J A M E S C H A N G E & T H E C O N T O R T I O N S - B U Y C O N T O R T I O N S

Absolutely fantastic album from James Change and The Contortions.... Saw him live in 1981, in Rotterdam, and 41 years later, after seeing God knows how many great concerts I still say that that was THE best concert I've seen, Ever, first concert I danced my ass off, just amazing..... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

J A M E S C H A N G E & T H E C O N T O R T I O N S - L I V E A U X B A I N S D O U C H E S

Here's a live album from J a m e s C h a n g e & T he C o n t o r t i o n s..... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

RAMONA'S - SHAVE YOUR ASS

Great 7" from Rotterdam punk band the Ramona's, produced by Peter Graute.... GET IT HERE ENJOY!!!

OLD MIX TAPE POST-PUNK - AFRICAN BAND LIVE

Some 33 years ago somebody came to my house to buy some weed and he left a huge back full of tapes at my place. Never saw the guy again and this is one of those tapes, lots of old obscure post-punk and a live concert from some African band, probably recorded from Dutch radio. Would love to know who the first band is, I recognize the girl singing but really don't remember who they were, first was thinking Slafelose Nachte but I don't think so....

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SNAKEFINGER - CHEWING HIDES THE SOUND

Found this today at a second hand market in a box full of crap, cover is heavily damaged but the vinyl is in excellent condition, the great Snakefinger!!!

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METABOLIST - HANSTEN KLORK

I bought this album 39 years ago, I was sixteen and living in a squad house with a bunch of fellow punks, 1981. I was in the Haddock record shop with one of them, Tony, and he told me to buy this album and it's still among my favorite albums....

We had some wild motherfuckers living in that squad house and Tony was one of them. Every now and then Tony would get some pcp (angeldust), he would dress up like a pierrot, including the face paint, Bowie style, smoke his dust and go out by himself, next day he would be back, often with his face bashed in, beaten like a dog. Sometimes he wanted to get drunk quick and he would start shooting up whiskey... After a while almost everybody in that squad house was shooting up or smoking heroine and I left, never touched it, seeing what it did to my friends was enough to keep me away from it as far as I could, I was more of a speed freak back then and I loved those paper trips and shrooms....

About a year and a half or so later I got the news, Tony died, overdosed on new years eve 1982, they found him in his garden lying in the snow and me and a bunch of fellow punks went to his funeral, a dreadful affair with his poor parents going crazy, looking at us, all non-heroin users like we gave him his final dose. Never went to a funeral like that again (and there were quiet a few back then)....

Anyway, here's to you Tony, you mad-hatter crazy son of a bitch and thanks for all the fun we had and for making me buy this album....

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J E R R Y H A R R I S O N - T H E R E D A N D T H E B L A C K

The Red and the Black is the first solo album by Jerry Harrison, who rose to prominence as a member of The Modern Lovers and Talking Heads. This one came out in 1981....

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GEISTERFAHRER - STEIN & BEIN

Back in the early 80's I was very much into the whole Neue Welle, post-punk bands from Germany like Einsturzende Neubauten, Abwaerts, Palais Schaumburg (saw them all live a bunch of times too) and loads of other bands. Here's another German band from that era and that scene, Geisterfahrer from Hamburg. Here's their 1988 album Stein & Bein....

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D.A.F. - PRODUKT DER DEUTSCH - AMERIKANISCHEN FREUNDSCHAFT

Here's the great, very rare first album from the great Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft, before they became a two men act. Missed them when they were playing in the old legendary punk club Kaasee in Rotterdam but saw them a few years later at a festival in Den Haag, around the time when they came out with their Dance The Mussolini song....

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WAY OF THE WEST - DON'T SAY THAT'S JUST FOR WHITE BOYS

Here's a 1981 ep from Way Of The West....

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FACT 24 - A FACTORY QUARTET

Picked this one up in Holland and I'm so happy to have it AGAIN!!! Bought this one when I was a young lad aged 16 or so and it's one of my all time favorite albums, got lost when I broke up with some ex girlfriend way back in the 90's.... Dreamy music from The Durutti Column, fantastic music from The Royal Family And The Poor, great live recordings from troubadour Kevin Hewick and Blurt at their very, very best.....


DURUTTI COLUM / KEVIN HEWICK

BLURT / THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THE POOR





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MARK STEWART & THE MAFFIA

Here's an album from Mark Stewart and The Maffia... Saw them once, around '83, cool concert, they were mostly playing super heavy dub..... He used to sing in The Pop Group....

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HOLGER CZUKAY - ON THE WAY TO THE PEAK OF NORMAL

Here's Holger Czukay's fantastic On The Way To The Peak Of Normal....


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KUBIK - VELVET WORDS AND LIES

Here's a 2004 cassette from Jakarta band Kubik and as you will hear these guys liked bands like The Cure, Bauhaus and such....


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KIEM

Kiem was a Dutch band from my city of birth, Rotterdam, active from 1982 till 1987. I don't know how many times I've seen them live, quiet a few times and they were always great live. The members were Huub Kentie – Synthesizers & Vocals, Ger ‘Sax’ van Voorden – Tenor Saxophone and the incredible Cees ‘IJzermans’ Meurs who played drums on a drum kit that was made out of all kinds of pieces of metal. I saw Cees once live, playing together with Dutch jazz drummer Han Bennink and there are just no words to describe how great a performance that was.... Ger van Voorden later left the band and was replaced by Jos Valster....

Way back I had a friend, John, who always went with them on tour as a roadie and he would always come back with the wildest stories, those guys were always touring all over Europe, specially Italy where they had quiet a following....

Here's their website: kiemrotterdam.nl

They put out three albums and I'll upload 'em, not my rips though....

KIEM (1984)

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KEAM (1985)

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YOU SHOULD TRY (1987)

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