MIX TAPES FOR TAPING POLICIES

A BENEFICIAL EVENT FOR TAPING POLICIES WITH A MIX OF LIVE PERFORMANCES AND SPINNING RECORDS.

”Cheap and convenient, customized mix tapes made the perfect personal gift. We made tapes for friends, lovers — we shared the depths of our souls through the carefully chosen songs. We aggregated our favorite party songs, ballads for suffering through heartbreak and our loudest, angriest punk rock anthems.” -THURSTON MOORE

NOVEMBER 2ND AT VOLKSHUIS - NIEUWSTRAAT 64 - 2440 GEEL
DOORS: 16.30H - FREE DONATION - ENTRANCE VIA PALLO (FOLLOW SIGNS)

LIVE SETS:
DIRK SERRIES’ EPITAPH
KISSA JUNASSA

RECORD-SPINNING PERSONNEL:
DJ SVN
HORUS’ TRIP
MODEL2020
JUUL
ELECTRIC BEAR
MOOSE
BAKESALE

Dirk Serries’ Epitaph

The Belgian-based artist Dirk Serries has experimented with
music on the border between avant-garde, industrial, experimental
and ambient for more than 30 years. He released his earliest work
(1984) behind the pseudonym vidnaObmana up to 2007 when he
closed the book on this project (realizing an extensive
discography). Other projects like Fear Falls Burning and his
Microphonics series made him collaborate with several keyplayers
like Steven Wilson, Justin K. Broadrick, Cult Of Luna, Steve
Roach and toured extensively on the sides of Jesu, MONO, Low, My
Bloody Valentine and Cult Of Luna.

In October 2013 Dirk Serries re-booted his classic vidnaObmana
ambient sound from the mid eighties/early nineties. In contrary to
his original music that was mostly synth-based, this ambient music
is constructed on electric guitar. Music that flows from its discreet
origins: sonic purity, washes of harmony, and organic textures
which slow time to a phase of transcendence. On the spot,
improvised and real-time.

Acclaimed albums were under his own name on Projekt Records
and his swansong EPITAPH on Consouling Sounds.
However, being a follower of (free) jazz for years, when meeting
Tomas Järmyr (Motorpsycho) and Kristoffer Lo to form YODOK III
his confidence in improvisation boosted and slowly shifted from his
meticulously executed subtle ambience to being a full improviser
on mostly the guitar. As heavily influenced by legendary
improviser Derek Bailey, over the past years Dirk manifested him
as a strong and new leading figure in the Belgian impro scene and
works extensively together with some of the best and modern
improvisors like saxophonists Alan Wilkinson, Rodrigo Amado,
John Dikeman, Colin Webster, drummers Tomas Järmyr, Steve
Noble, Tom Malmendier, George Hadow and Andrew Lisle, tuba
player Kristoffer Lo, viola player Benedict Taylor, Otto Willberg
(double bass), Kris Vanderstraeten (percussion), Patrick De Groote
(trumpet), etc. He also runs the A New Wave Of Jazz label,
dedicated to free improvisation and minimal avant-garde.

KISSA JUNASSA

Kissa Junassa (Finnish for ‘cat on the train’) is comprised of Yellow city locals Freek Cruysberghs (Yellowstock, absorb., Horus' Trip ...) and Bart Deckers (Traag &Donker, absorb. ...) The band was formed especially for this Taping Policies event and will explore a slowly droned-out world of ambient soundscapes consisting of purring basslines, furry sounds, and steamtrain rhythms .

DJ SVN

Where better to start than to emphasise that the, at the time, rather non-existing concept of concert-afterparty got serious in hometown Geel over more than three decades ago; more exactly in that era when one after another legendary concert was given at Jh De Bogaard. Feel free to do the math yourself, but over the decades I got to spin records on thousands of afterparty’s both in small, as well the biggest concert venues all over Europe; not to mention all those (inter)national Dj sets on little, as well huge festivals, stadion arenas, or unorthodox events in basements, squats, barns, parks or gardens, cave’s, brewery’s, rooftops, ruins, bridges, abandoned factory’s, churches, castles, boats or yachts, or any other thinkable out-of-the-box location you can come up with. Mind you, the internet was not there yet, but in total we are talking about almost 35 years of sharing European stages and beyond, with thousands of artists from every corner in the world; ranking from debutants all the way up to whether dead or still alive musical legends. Genres or styles is a favorite tool for only narrow-minded people, ergo anyone who encountered Dj SVN on his ongoing musical path got confronted there is neither a beginning, or ending. Since my roots are situated in Geel, I cannot think of a better moment more suitable than to paraphrase the late Charles Bukowski, who really cracks it down to what became my very core: ‘Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I’ve my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.’

It has to be good, it has to be wild, it has to make a difference…

MODEL2020

Model2020 is a Vinyl-loving dj with a growing enthousiasme for (Modern)Jazz.
Playing some of the finest Modern-Jazz-tunes for listening and dancing pleasures.

ELECTRIC BEAR
Electric bear is ANTIPOP!

MOOSE
Moose picks musical snippets from the forest floor. He feeds himself on precious tunes and good vibes. Moose is looking for beauty in the midst of jingling berries. Moose is Hans van der Linden

JUUL
Juul will take you on a journey with some good old alternative tunes.
Juul = a punk, Juul = Patrick Ooms.

BAKESALE

Bakesale, the 1994 album by Sebadoh was included in SPIN’s ‘20 Best Albums of 94’ and is subsequently the name for Kris Aerts’ set. Expect genre Lo-fi, Indie, singer-songwriter ...