I still remember the first time I heard Arne's outlet! We (My allready deceased Blues-Thrash-outfit called A.R.S.E.!) were doing this interview on Louvains student radio “Radio Scorpio”. After he show the DJ put on this record and I instantly asked: “Who is this??? This is amazing…” Turns out to be Styrofoam!

Styrofoam

From http://www.scaruffi.com/vol7/styrofoa.html

Belgium's Arne van Petegem abandoned the guitar-based space-rock experiment of Tin Foil Star's Too Late Then Too Late Now (Noise Museum, 1999) to focus on Styrofoam, a laptop-based project devoted to abrasive and distorted electronic pop, bordering on Autechre's glitch aesthetics, that debuted with…

This week, user ARedFox mailed me this review! I like it a lot so I decided to give it a go on this weeks featured artist here we go: IC 434

BIOGRAPHY
IC 434 began its story in 1991 as Tales of Doom, when Geert de Wilde (Antwerp, Belgium) started making electronic music after several years of experimenting with pianos, tapes and old radios. While appearing with the industrial act Genocide and the performing as keyboarder with the death metal band Haradwaith, things changed drastically in August 1994 when a more professional synth made its entry: the legendary…

I know Bert Vandewynckele, better known as user Constant_Wegman from the days of the elaborated Sparrowfall collective! And I'm glad to meet him here too. According to me WAY to little attention! So here's my two cents!! The recommended songs come from the freely downloadable album Gravity is cruel!Enjoy

Here's the info from his website: http://users.pandora.be/AMF/

What's AMF?
Alien Masturbation Foundation is a one man electronic band from Belgium that brings a wide variety of electronical music. The AMF sound is best described as electronica with influences from across the musical spectrum. (Drum 'n Bass, Triphop, Experimental, Downtempo, Trance,…

Sven Van Hees:

www.svenvanhees.com

Born in May 1968, that truly remarkable month that was the apotheosis of the '60's when French students almost succeeded in toppling over an atrophied and authoritarian government, Van Hees cannot help but being an revolutionary and an innovator. But hey, this rebel comes in the guise of an emotive latin lover, flashing a seductive smile and sporting a thin moustache.

Starting out at the tender age of 15 when he hosted a jazz funk radio show for a local Antwerp station, Van Hees followed up with the popular Liaisons Dangereuses radio show, which ran…

Here's one of the artists that I've never heard of before. But when hearing the tiny preview of the only track here on last.fm "Electric Café" I'm sure I wanna hear more.

Xingu Hill

John Sellekaers was born in 1973 in Montreal, later moved to Brussels. Around 1988, under the influence of electronic music pioneers such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, he began experimenting with synthesizers. At the same time, he starts a magazine devoted to electronic music, and writes for it.

In 1994, he makes a contract with [label[Nova Zembla label and in 1995 his first album Maps Of…

Allthough I'm not a big fan of popular Trance / Dance, I must admit Christophe and Eric have made masterpieces (from a producers kind of view). And yes it's Belgian! So here's this weeks featured artist

Ian Van Dahl:

Ian van Dahl is a Belgian trance music group, made up of five members. The band’s members are Annemie Coenen, Peter Luts and David Vervoort, with producers Christophe Chantzis and Erik Vanspauwen. Luts and Vervoort have also worked with the trance group Lasgo. Ian van Dahl is best known for the 2001 summer hit Castles In…

So my CD is released so I'm ready to spam you all with it and as promised I give you a new featured artist! And this week has a very hard one. You can find absolutely nothing of him besides these tracks on last.fm and his work in Front 242! More reason to feature him here

Prothese (a.k.a. Daniel Bressanutti of Front 242)

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Front 242 was created in 1980 by Daniel B (Daniel Bressanutti) and Dirk Bergen. After a few singles, Jean-Luc De Meyer (vocals) and Patrick Codenys joined the group and the first album, "Geography", was released.…

Hey, Distant Fires Burning – Messierobjekten, is finally out now! I'm asking 9,00 EUR per CD (This doesn't include shipping costs). But you get a pressed CD with 12 tracks, in an 8 page Digipack! You can listen for free on my site ( www.doorchaser.tk ) and on the album page here Messierobjekten.

It is my attempt at learning how to make a CD. I wrote all the songs, produced and engineered them, mixed them, mastered them, all by myself. I compiled the CD and did the overall mastering of the CD. It is pressed on 300 copy's…

Hey, Distant Fires Burning – Messierobjekten, is finally out now! I'm asking 9,00 EUR per CD (This doesn't include shipping costs). But you get a pressed CD with 12 tracks, in an 8 page Digipack! You can listen for free on my site ( www.doorchaser.tk ) and on the album page here Messierobjekten.

It is my attempt at learning how to make a CD. I wrote all the songs, produced and engineered them, mixed them, mastered them, all by myself. I compiled the CD and did the overall mastering of the CD. It is pressed on 300 copy's…

This weeks featured artist: Goose: They were the winners of Humo's “Rock” rally in 2002. But their pumpin techno set on Rock Werchter last year totally blew me away and really convinced me to buy Bring it on! So I'm bringin it on to you!

Goose

Formed in the summer of 2000, they won the Belgian National Humo Rock Rally which led to a live session on the Belgian Radio One and MTV equivalent. Later in 2002 they recorded the debut single 'Audience' with producer Teo Miller (Placebo - Nancy Boy). In 2006 they released their first full…