In September they did an exclusive session in the StuBru studio. Das Pop played some surprising versions of five new songs and they even brought a string quartet. The playlist looked like this:

• Fool for love
• Underground
• Let me in
• The last thing
• Never get enough

And what’s even more, there is some live footage available from the StuBru Das Pop session. Enjoy!

Fool for love:

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Underground:

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Let me in:

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The last thing:

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Never get enough:

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You already might have heard the first Manhay single Exes or might have seen Daan‘s own Lumberjack clip for the song. I’m amazed by how many rhymes he managed to find for the word “exes”:

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Manhay tracklisting:

1. Exes
2. Your eyes
3. Brand new truth
4. Icon
5. Friendly fire
6. Crawling from the wreck
7. Bad boy, bad girl
8. Radio silence
9. A great retriever
10. Decisions
11. Beauty calls collect
12. The stealing kind

Exes lyrics:

Exes I’ve got no acces to my exes
I’m sure by now they’ve moved to Texas
or took a one way trip to Naxos
Exes I’ve lost the battle of the sexes
Like making love inside of taxis
They liked the sting but not the cactus

I know that exes reflect my youth
I know that exes are my male proof
I know they’re guilty of being the past
But you’ve killed the cupid
You’re over them
Exes I’ve got no problem with my exes
They loved me driving in my Lexus
A road’s as good as all its exits
Exes so out of date like sending faxes
I was the tree they were the axes
They liked the pray but not the mantis

The cynical collector of birds not bees
The problem detector got high on heels
The beauty protector with no degree
for exes

Which is good which is constructive
Which is what a woman needs
Don’t go asking for forgiveness
Go plead guilty all degrees
You were raised on definitions
With your dears obscuring deeds
Your actions

Exes you like ‘m young but not the acne
You like the team but not the referee
I wonder how it feels to ex me
So go ahead and ex me
Try to forget just don’t annex me
I thought I threw away the frisbee
I’d say we try to stick to plan B

Like a missile that ain’t guided
I was following my seed
Like a horse that hasn’t travelled
I took hay for upper purple weed
I got excommunicated
Cause I couldn’t play the creep
for exes
Exes too young to check all their reflexes
No use explaining who T-Rex is
They are the source of all complexes
You know… exes

Listen to Daan on last.fm

But that’s all about to change now with 2nd Line:

The ‘first line’ of the infamous jazz-funerals were the people as part of the ceremony, clubmembers, family and friends. Brightly coloured beads and feathers were offered to the ‘second line’. This referred to people who were attracted to the music. Such people would follow behind the ‘first line’. Later it became more common for these onlookers to mix in or even get ahead of the band and first line. To follow because one enjoyed the music came to be known as to ‘second line’.

First single of 2nd Line was Ethiopics, not Peter’s strongest singing performance, but a more than just nice song to enjoy during the long and hot summer that awaits us all:

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Tracklisting:

1. After the flood
2. 2nd Line
3. Gold
4. Brainwashed
5. Piece of mine
6. Come for you
7. Heartbeat
8. Funk today
9. Get down
10. Ethiopics

Listen to Moiano on last.fm

Tom is one of the best session and live guitarists in Belgium. To name just a few bands and artists Tom has performed with: Clouseau (Flanders’ biggest pop band), Milow, Jan Leyers, …

In 2004 he stepped into the spotlights himself and released his first solo album Motion. A few songs got some airplay on the radio and Tom became a little bit big in Belgium as singer/songwriter (try to find Sixteen and Greyhound).

Last month, Tom Vanstiphout released his second solo album Working Man. First single is Better Be Ready:

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Tracklisting:

1. Better Be Ready
2. The Party
3. Slept Too Long
4. Pretty Girls
5. Night
6. Working Man
7. Blood on Blood
8. Early Days
9. Good Times So Far
10. How Boys Get
11. Morning

Een echte cowboy houdt van aardappelpuree

A little more than one year later, Jasper has released his debut album The Brightest Story. The Gnarls Barkley cover that got him so far got so much airplay in Belgium that most people started to think Jasper wouldn’t be able to live up to the expectations. But they were wrong, so wrong. The sky is the limit if you can come up with such a great album at age 16. Just imagine what this little guy from Diest with a guitar will be able to do in a few years…

Tracklisting:

1. Everybody is the same
2. Waiting like a dog
3. Crazy
4. The brighter story
5. Dear diary
6. Elliot
7. How could I know
8. Pageturner
9. Stay alive
10. When would you tell
11. Needed

The first single is Waiting Like A Dog and after a couple of weeks, Jasper already managed to take first place in Belgium’s popcharts:

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Listen to Jasper Erkens on last.fm

And because we still like his Crazy-cover, here it is once again:

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Waiting Like A Dog lyrics:

I’ve been waiting like a dog now
and i’ve been waiting to get back on my feet
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
waiting on the ground to get a tree

i’ve been wainting for hours
thinking back to times that call my name
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
despizing the one that i became

I’ve been waiting like a dog now
weeks will turn into months and months turn into years
every colour is the same now
there’s no black no white there’s only grey

i’ve been waiting for hours
still there’s nothing changed
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
gazing at the backdoor once again

and i don’t want to wait untill i die
and i know i know i know i know
i know i know i know i know
it takes time
don’t leave me behind
and i’ve been to places and seen many faces
but nothing that could ease my mind
don’t leave me behind

I’ve been waiting like a dog now
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
I’ve been waiting like a dog now
I’ve been waiting like a dog now

and i know i know i know i know
i know i know i know i know
it takes time
don’t leave me behind
and i’ve been to places and seen many faces
but nothing that could ease my mind
don’t leave me behind

don’t leave me behind
but ease my mind
don’t leave me behind
but ease my mind
don’t leave me behind
but ease my mind

I’ve been waiting like a dog now

Their music is often compared to Radiohead, but maybe that’s a bridge too far. Think more of a combination of (hard)rock, progrock and electronics. In the french press Ghinzu is often called “le dEUS wallon“, or the dEUS counterpart from the french speaking part of Belgium.

The new album Mirror Mirror is promoted with this rather cool video:

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Tracklisting Mirror Mirror:

1. Cold Love
2. Take It Easy
3. Mother Allegra
4. Mirror Mirror
5. Dream Maker
6. The End of the World
7. This Light
8. This War is Silent
9. Je t’Attendrai
10. Birds in my Head
11. Kill the Surfers
12. Interstellar Orgy

Let’s wish them all the luck in the world, and maybe you can see them at this year’s Rock Werchter festival where Ghinzu has a spot in the Pyramid Marquee on sunday.

Enjoy their biggest success so far, Do You Read Me? in an acoustic version:

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The singles Mystery Bruise and Future Words (big hits on StuBru) were released earlier, but now we can finally enjoy The Hickey Underworld by The Hickey Underworld.

The album was produced by Das Pop.

Tracks:

1. Zero Hour
2. Sick Of Boys
3. Blonde Fire
4. Zorayda
5. Future Words
6. Mystery Bruise
7. Of Asteroids And Men
8. Plus added Wizardry
9. Blue World Order
10. Flamencorpse
11. VRMNSMR

Glad they didn’t use the tracklisting that was leaked to their MySpace page a few weeks ago ;-)

At 3voor12 you can enjoy a THU session.

Mystery Bruise by The Hickey Underworld:

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Future Words by The Hickey Underworld:

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