ARTISTSThe Neon JudgementBrussels (BE)
Emerging vibrant and violent from the small town Leuven near Brussels, in the early eighties, they started to build up their own sound. Their early work combined low-fi technology and emotional sincerity to create a sound both warm and alienating. Going from strenght to strength, they released a string of haunting albums that displayed an adventurous variety of songs, where downright industrial drones stood side by side with twisted love songs and campfire ditties from hell. The Neon Judgement have been ahead of their time longer than is just. Somehow their whirring daring momentum, their haunted homage to rock ideology (all shades and leather), their anger and sense of loss, can be sighted (albeit diluted and refracted) in many of today’s more pertinent chart acts. Dirk and Frank have always explored the seedier side of life while admitting the constant yearning of everyday / every night romantic. Recently PIAS recordings re-released TNJ’s first album 1981-1984 on double 12â€, this time titled THE FIRST JUDGEMENT E.P.’s. The recordings recieved a brand new mastering!! Previewed next is the release of a 12†containing remixes of the TNJ tracks ‘Factory Walk’ done by ‘THE HACKER’ and a ‘Nion Nion’ remix made by no one less then ‘TERENCE FIXMER’. After the summer of 2005 there is the release of a double cd titled ‘BOX’ containing live recordings,previously unreleased material, original recordings and remixes by a wide range of producers. Live, The Neon Judgement will continue to give art terrorism a good name, finding new ways of marrying noise and beauty, machines and magic. This aggressive heart keeps on beating. Light up a legend! Emerging vibrant and violent from the small town Leuven near Brussels, in the early eighties, they started to build up their own sound. Their early work combined low-fi technology and emotional sincerity to create a sound both warm and alienating. Going from strenght to strength, they released a string of haunting albums that displayed an adventurous variety of songs, where downright industrial drones stood side by side with twisted love songs and campfire ditties from hell. The Neon Judgement have been ahead of their time longer than is just. Somehow their whirring daring momentum, their haunted homage to rock ideology (all shades and leather), their anger and sense of loss, can be sighted (albeit diluted and refracted) in many of today’s more pertinent chart acts. Dirk and Frank have always explored the seedier side of life while admitting the constant yearning of everyday / every night romantic. Recently PIAS recordings re-released TNJ’s first album 1981-1984 on double 12â€, this time titled THE FIRST JUDGEMENT E.P.’s. The recordings recieved a brand new mastering!! Previewed next is the release of a 12†containing remixes of the TNJ tracks ‘Factory Walk’ done by ‘THE HACKER’ and a ‘Nion Nion’ remix made by no one less then ‘TERENCE FIXMER’. After the summer of 2005 there is the release of a double cd titled ‘BOX’ containing live recordings,previously unreleased material, original recordings and remixes by a wide range of producers. Live, The Neon Judgement will continue to give art terrorism a good name, finding new ways of marrying noise and beauty, machines and magic. This aggressive heart keeps on beating. Light up a legend!
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