The Neon Judgement - the Fashion Party (1983)

Belgian ring

The Neon Judgement
Groundwork information
Origin	Leuven, Belgium
Genres	New moving ridge industrial synthpop EBM
Years active	1981–2015
Labels	DanceDelic-D Le Son du Maquis Play It Once again Sam
Website	world wide web.theneonjudgement.com
Members	Dirk Timmermans Franz Vloeberghs

The Neon Judgement is a Belgian new wave band, formed in Leuven in 1981 by Dirk Da Davo (born Dirk Timmermans, keyboards/vocalist) and TB Frank (built-in Frank Vloeberghs, guitarist/vocalizer). They accept oft been cited, alongside fellow Belgian band Forepart 242, as the pioneers of electronic body music (EBM),^[i] an electronic dance genre from the early 1980s combining industrial and electro music.

History [edit]

Dirk Timmermans (aka Dirk Da Davo) and Franz Vloeberghs (aka TB Frank) combined minimalist industrial drones and new moving ridge synthpop and dance music, with common cold, mechanical rhythms. Their early work was aggressive, danceable and dominated past synthesizers and pulsate-machines. Afterwards in their career, their work featured prominent guitars. Their early influences included The Velvet Secret and Pink Floyd.^[ii]

The band self-released a pair of cassettes earlier landing their offset single, 1982'due south "Factory Walk."^[ii] Most of their subsequent output was on the Belgian Play It Again Sam label, beginning with 1986's Mafu Cage. Their first American release came in 1987, with the sex-themed concept anthology, Horny Every bit Hell ^[iii] which included the well-received dance track, "Miss Brown.^[two] Subsequent recordings included Claret and Thunder (1989), The Insult (1990), and Are You Existent (1992). The duo took a three-yr hiatus in 1992, returning in 1995 with At Devil'south Fork, an LP recorded with percussionist Ben Forceville entirely in a wooded area.

The band stopped performing in 1998, but reformed in 2004 and started performing alive again to promote a series of remixes and re-releases of their textile. The touring connected into 2006, with the ring stating on their website that "Live, The Neon Sentence will go on to give fine art terrorism a expert name, finding new ways of marrying noise and dazzler, machines and magic".

Timmermans is besides part of the side project Neon Electronics, for which he started his own tape characterization Dancedelic-D and he both reworks old classics and composes new textile.

In November 2005, the Neon Judgement played at the Machina Festival at the Broadway Club in São Paulo, Brazil. The festival celebrated the first 8 years of the site FiberOnline and the launch of the label Cobweb Records. Fiber Records released the DVD The Neon Judgement – Alive at Machina Festival in 2005 featuring the whole concert of xiii songs.^[4]

In 2007, the band released the compilation anthology Redbox.^[5] The release followed the 100% vintage 2 CD Box released in October 2005. Redbox mainly contains the band'south work during the 2d half of the 1980s. The album as well features remixes from acts such as David Carretta, Blackstrobe, Lifelike, and Helmut Kraft. Redbox too contains a new cover version of "Heroes" by David Bowie.

The band released some other anthology, Smack, in 2009.

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

• Suffering (1981)
• MBIH! (mini-album) (1985)
• Mafu Muzzle (1986)
• Horny equally Hell (1988)
• Blood and Thunder (1989)
• The Insult (1990)
• Are Y'all Real (1991)
• At Devil's Fork (1995)
• Dazsoo (1998)
• Smack (2009)
• We Never Said Y'all're No Skillful (2012)

Compilation albums [edit]

• The Neon Judgement 1981-1984 (1985)
• The First Judgements (1987)
• General Pain and Major Disease (1989)
• The Showtime Judgements (2005 re-release)
• The First Judgements - Outbox (2005)
• Box (2005)
• Redbox (2007)
• Remixed Box (2007)
• A Fashion Party - Alive @ AB Bxl (2008)
• Early on Tapes (2010)

Singles and EPs [edit]

• "Telly Treated" (1982)
• "Manufactory Walk" (1982)
• "Cockerill Sombre" (1983)
• "Concrete" (1984)
• "Tomorrow in the Papers" (1985)
• "Awful Day" (1986)
• "Voodoo Nipplefield" (1986)
• "A Human Ain't No Human being When A Homo Ain't Got No Horse, Man" (1987)
• "Miss Dark-brown" (1987)
• "Goggle box Treated" (1989)
• "Games of Dearest" (1989)
• "1313" (1989)
• "Alaska Highway" (1990)
• "Babe'southward On Fire" (1991)
• "A Nicer Person" (1995)
• "Out Of My Heed" (1998)
• "Jazzbox" (1998)
• "Machine Life" (2005)
• Smack EP (2010)

Gallery [edit]

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References [edit]

1. ^ Reed, South. Alexander (2013). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music . New York: Oxford University Press. p. 157. ISBN9780199832583. OCLC 1147729910 – via the Cyberspace Archive.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Becu, Didier (April 2012). "Interview: The Neon Sentence" (PDF). Peek-A-Boo Music Mag. Ghent, Exist (5): 8. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
3. ^ Robbins, Ira. "Neon Judgement". Trouser Press . Retrieved ten May 2021.
4. ^ Van Isacker, Bernard (25 October 2007). "The Neon Sentence alive at Machina Festival DVD out now". Side-Line. Archived from the original on x February 2012. Retrieved 17 Jan 2021.
5. ^ Van Isacker, Bernard (10 Aug 2007). "The Neon Judgement announces 'Redbox'". Side-Line. Archived from the original on 6 Feb 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

External links [edit]

• Official website

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