Back To Mine with B1980

1. Warm Leatherette – The Normal

Love his layback calm vocals on top of the nervous, uptempo groove. It has something magical and I never get tired of it. I wish Daniel Miller (check him out!!) would have released more solo stuff around that time!

2. Sometimes – Les Rhythmes digitales

I fell in love with their album their album Darkdancer released in 1999. This track is an amazing collaboration with Nik Kershaw, an amazing songwriter, and a great combo with the sounds of Les Rythmes Digitalis. This track makes you forget the dark side of life :).

Les Rythmes Digitales - Sometimes

3. Dialogue – FRONT 242

As a Belgian artist I am really proud of this legendary band. This track is only 2 minutes but it makes me wanna move every time. It’s from the album Geography 1982, the sounds on this album are extremely inspirational to me.

Front 242 - Geography - 06 - dialogues

4. Daft Punk – Alive

Daft Punk is a huge inspiration to me when it comes to electronic music being organic and human. They also teach me there are no boundaries when you make music, as long as it’s your own style. Every album takes you to a different world, but still in the same Daft Punk universe.

Daft Punk - Alive (Official Audio)

5. Electrostatic – Terence Fixmer

When I go running on this album, I run twice as fast. It gives and takes energy at the same time somehow. Love the punk attitude of this album. It feels like terence had no regard to anything or anyone when he made this. It’s brutal!

Terence Fixmer - Electrostatic

6. Depeche Mode – Photographic

It’s really hard to pick just one song from Depeche Mode because they have soooo much good stuff. This one is one of my favorites since the first time I heard it on a cassette tape in a car from a friend :). After you listened to this one, listen to Enjoy The Silence, it works really wel somehow. Enjoy The Silence is a typical Depeche Mode track as it is one of their biggest hits, but it touches me every time again. 

Depeche Mode - Photographic

7. The Island (back to me) – Die Orangen

I recently got to know this band better because one of the members is Kris Baha (which I love). I chose this track, but you need to sit back relax, close your eyes and listen to the whole album and let it take you away.

Die Orangen - The Island (Back to me) [MALKATUTILP008]

8. RUBI – Kangding Ray

As an EBM and techno lover I’m not that much of a clubber somehow. I love to listen to very monotonic techno at home to calm down or even for falling asleep. It makes my thoughts go from chaos to a calm straight line.

Kangding Ray - RUBI [Stroboscopic Artefacts SALP005 - SACD008]

9. Eurocold – The Hacker

The hacker has always been a big inspiration for my music. He doesn’t care for rules or expectations by someone else. For that reason, I am blessed that my EP State Of Nature will be released on his label ZONE records. This album is a cold, dark trip which I know by heart.

The Hacker - Eurocold

10. Forever And A Day – Syndrome

This is the solo project from the guitar player of AMENRA, a Belgian down tempo metal band. After I fell in love with this band I soon fell in love with the solo projects from their members Syndrome and CHVE. For listening to Forever and a Day you need to lay down, close your eyes and let the music do its thing. Enjoy and no skipping allowed!!!

Syndrome - Forever and a day (2016) - FULL ALBUM

B1980 – State of Nature EP (Zone Records)

Zone Records welcome B1980, a producer from Belgium who is part of well known rock band Goose, but here offers four tracks of blistering analogue techno. Bert Libeert is a live techno artist who uses just two synths and a drum machine to cook up raw, spontaneous techno from another dimension. EBM and old school aesthetics feed into his work, but he then takes it somewhere else entirely. Opener ‘State of Nature’ has mysterious air with a nimble baseline keeping you on your toes while eerie pads circulate all around and lock you in the moment. The Second offering, ‘Silence’ is far from it – instead of layering up rugged bass and well-swung drums into an industrial tinged cut where synths grow ever more haunting and haunted up top. The excellent ‘Black Disco’ is a high speed, acid-laced workout with far-sight chords and bristling techno energy before this dystopian fusion of techno, industrial and disco comes to an end with ‘Audience of One’. The closer is full of suspense thanks to the rising lead synth and sounds of a spaceship taking off with crashing metal drums adding more tension as things eventually unfold into a foot-stomping bit of cosmic techno. These are four superbly stylish tracks that evoke a whole new world of feelings.

B1980 – State of Nature EP (Zone Records) Release: March 30th 2020 Cat. No.: Zone 39