Posts Tagged Soulwax
Das Pop is back
Posted by JayAre in Albums, Big in Belgium on October 18th, 2009
It took Bent Van Looy and the other guys from Das Pop almost 4 years and the help of the Dewaele brothers (Soulwax) to get their third album, conveniently called Das Pop, in the stores. But the waiting time was totally worth it: Das Pop is back and what’s more, they sound better than ever.
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:
Absynthe Minded reworks poem by Hugo Claus into new single Envoi
Posted by JayAre in Big in Belgium, Music News, Music Video on August 30th, 2009
Last week the slightly fantastic Ghent based band Absynthe Minded released its new nameless album through the belgian magazine Humo. No doubt they will shortly be topping the charts in Belgium…
The second single from the new album, Envoi, is a real gem. And it even becomes better if you know it is based on a poem by one of Belgium’s finest writers ever Hugo Claus. Absynthe Minded did so after an invitation by Poetracks, a Dutch initiative for setting Dutch or Flemish poems by famous writers to music:
One image in the music video struck me as familiar. It seems to refer to a cover of a single by Ghent based companions Soulwax:
Absynthe Minded – Envoi lyrics:
My verses stand gawping a bit
I never get used to this
They lived here long enough
Enough!
I send them out of the house
I don’t wanna wait
Until their toes are cold
Enough!
I wanna hear the humming of the sun
Or that of my heart,
Hardening
Enough!
They don’t screw classically
They babble commonly
And bluster nobly
Enough! Enough!
In winter their lips leap
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth
They ruin my summer
And in autumn it’s girls and a broken heart
For another twelve lines on this sheet
I’ll hold my hand over their head
And then I’ll kick them out
Enough!
Go and pester elsewhere, one-cent rhymes
Find somebody who cares
Enough!
Go now on your high feet
This is where the graves laugh
When they see their guests
Enough!
One corpse on top of the other
Go now and stagger to her
Whom I do not know
Enough! Enough!
In winter their lips leap
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth
They ruin my summer
And in autumn it’s girls and a broken heart