2012-02-18 Robert Henke aka Monolake will play live in Brussels - not at the Atomium but at the Recyclart via das Goethe Institut. New album "Ghosts" coming up! Hey and do check our 2001-02-20 interview in [uzine 01.04]!
http://www.monolake.de/
http://recyclart.info/nl/agenda/nl/1802
http://www.goethe.de/ins/be/bru/ver/nl8450686v.htm
http://www.goethe.de/ins/be/bru/kul/dub/rmx/de8773213.htm
http://www.factmag.com/2011/09/21/monolake-stirs-up-ghosts/
http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/23/monolake-summons-ghosts-in-surround-with-shackleton-and-peverelist/
http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/17/monolake-on-how-we-cope-with-death-mythologies-rituals-drugs-and-ghosts/

John Olson (unrelated to Peggy) was a war photographer in Vietnam, first and foremost. He took these photographs for Life Magazine in 1971. They kinda remind me of Hannes Schmid's work ...

Alan Vega rules, Martin Rev rules. Today everyone acknowledges how unique and important the Suicide duo were. But here's Suicide beeing boo'd off stage at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels (Belgium) on 1978-06-16, opening for a hostile crowd that had come to see Elvis Costello and clearly wasn't ready to take in Rev & Vega's pioneering sound …
http://www.blastfirstpetite.com/suicide.html
http://www.discogs.com/Suicide-Suicide/release/627068
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Minutes_Over_Brussels
http://www.fromthearchives.com/av_mr/chronology.html
http://fillip.ca/content/riot-show-some-notes-on-the-archive
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=6508
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/suicide/1978/ancienne-belgique-brussels-belgium-73d1d2f1.html
http://altmusic.about.com/od/historyofaltindiemusic/a/Suicides-23-Minutes-Over-Brussels.htm
http://markusvanniemendael.skynetblogs.be/archive/2005/09/15/klassieker-suicide-23-minutes-over-brussels-suicide-1977.html

Yankee act on Factory, halfway between Throbbing Gristle and Be Music … For an introduction, check the "1980-82 Collected" cd on Acute (ACT008, 2006) which features quite a bit of unreleased work from 1981-1982.
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/New_York_Noise_legends_Ike_Yard_return
http://www.ithacatimesartsblog.com/interview-with-gregg-gillis-of-girl-talk/stuart-argabright-of-ike-yard-talks-to-popcorn-youth/
http://blog.bleep.com/2010/10/21/bleep-interviews-stuart-argabright-ike-yard/
http://everythingischemical.blogspot.com/2011/01/eics10qs-wike-yard.html
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/ike-yard/1980-82-collected.htm
http://desire-records.blogspot.com/2010/07/ike-yard-nord.html
http://www.factmag.com/2010/10/12/ike-yard-return-with-nord/
http://www.phisteria.com/phi020.html
http://cerysmaticfactory.info/ike_yard.html
http://myspace.com/ikeyard

Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day!
http://www.robincrutchfield.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Crutchfield
http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/darkday.html
http://burningflameblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/robin-crutchfield.html
http://ripitupfootnotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/footnotes-5-chapter-4-contort-yourself.html
http://totallywiredbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2009/04/interview-with-robin-crutchfield-of-dna.html

... and the Peel version via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Sessions_1979%E2%80%931983 and the studio version via http://uzine.posterous.com/carol-with-snowy-red-and-a-machine-or-two or http://www.discogs.com/Orchestral-Manoeuvres-In-The-Dark-New-Stone-Age-Bunker-Soldiers/release/2545637 or http://www.omd.uk.com/discography/orchestral_manoeuvres_in_the_dark

P. Funk All-Stars, 1983 … precursors, as ever … the full lp wasn't as great, but this 12" was & is … I was reminded of this classic by the sensational symbiosis of Stijn & Brzzvll yesterday …
http://www.discogs.com/artist/P-Funk+All+Stars
http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1076
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Dancefloor_Guerillas
http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_gcpfas/alb-udguerillas.html
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/89283/P-Funk%20All%20Stars-Pumpin

Ann Steel was masterminded by Roberto Cacciapaglia. They recorded an untitled lp in 1979 (dedicated to the life and work of Guglielmo Marconi), of which "My time" was pulled as a single … and covered by Telex in 1980, on their "Neurovision" lp (both the English and the French version). Later on they released the disappointing "Media" 7" (1980, not on the original lp, bonus on the way too expensive cd via Recording Arts). Half Machine have reissued the lp (HMR020) on 2011-10-24 … by hipster demand, I'm sure ;-)

Top notch disco edits by Glasgow's Al Kent of Million Dollar Disco now (re)compiled by BBE!
http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-dj-al-kent-burn-through-his-nsfw-disco-demands-box-set
http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?release=BBE173CCD
http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?artist=2076
http://www.milliondollardisco.com/mdd.html

Etta James' 1973 original on Chess was pretty great - see http://uzine.posterous.com/james-etta - but Esther Phillips' 1976 remake on Kudu (~ CTI) is the best take, imho! It's been reissued on cd by Sony in 2010 - see also http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2010/03/esther-phillips-capricorn-princess-to.html