| "We came into being about 5 years ago, our path wasn't strewn
with roses, people came, people went, but we kept going. We are gonna make it...music in the first place." Originally poppy-minded,Poesie Noire has now become one of the stormtroopers of the electronic body music. Poesie Noire plays urban society music.Using the latest electronical novelties.Fighting against the most conventional instrument-the guitar-" we try to come to a configuration that in one way or another is unique. We aren't ashamed to say that we use sequencers, drumcomputers and synthesizers. It's not the way you play it, but what you play that counts. After all, this is the computer age. Either you follow it or you resist it. Texts are important, because we think they have something to say. Texts are something like a therapy to us. They deal with impressions from the surrounding world or with introspections on our own lives." Poesie Noire is known for its stirring live performances. The public is being confronted with harsh rhythms,striking them like a whip. Screams, feedbacknoi- ses,electronical horror.Just let yourself go,endure it, or detest it... "We all have been through the punkperiod,our source of inspiration to play music. We all have been on the dole,some still are, we have studied. There is no future for us unless we make one ourselves. We are influenced by the world outside,our music is her reflection. The guitarplayer plugs in his guitar, the drummer takes his sticks, the computer start playing, the singer throws his whole being on the stage. The dream has become reality for one hour. No one can stop us now." |
About Morton/Sherman/Bellucci:
| Morton,Sherman and Belluchi are the Stock,Aitken and Watermen of Subway Dance records. They're responsible for the first hit of Erotic Dissidents "Move Your Ass." and released over 50 tracks which you can find on samplers like "Beat The Box" (Sub 050), the"New Acid House Beat Compilation" (Sub 046) and of course on about twenty 12 inches. |
| Taste Of Sugar is an invention of the producers MSB, the boys we meet throughout the whole Subway Dance story. With the track "HMMM" they created another hitrecord which is doing it very well on the Continent and especially in France, where the band is extremely popular and doing a lot of shows and tv-work. The very catchy line "You wanna suck my...(tuuuuut)" is probably one of the main reasons for the succes of this record, a line they originally sampled from Karen Finley's" Tales Of Taboo". Who knows what may follow... |
| Taking human sexual activity to the dance hall, under- laying it with a sweaty beat and making it larger then life, that's what erotic dissidents do during working- hours. Being havy consumers of sex in their leisure time, the three wild boys and the hyperactive woman who make up this mysterious unit were looking for a way to combine business with pleasure. They had known each other for quite some time,as they visited the same so- cial and/or private circles in uptown Ghent and down- town Brussels, were they acted out their fantasies and experienced the weirdest adventures during bacchanals involving sexually orientated food(?), love potions(?) and bare skin rubbing onto bare skin. Besides all that the quartet sometimes sat down to experiment in other fields. Music, for example, in particular electrified body music. After all, the three boys in the congregation had gained some notoriety on the Belgian and European music scene and could not keep from showing off to their female friend. On some cold and grey afternoon in winter time, while they were fidling with their electronics, she suddenly started singing to the tunes that were ringing out. It sounded hot,inviting and inspired. The boys came up with a feverish beat,the girl added some saucy lyrics and the whole transcended into something they had never heard before: a hypnotising aural orgasm, body language translated into musical notation,an exciting tempo with a pulsating groove... They decided to call themselves Erotic Dissidents, as this summed up everything they wanted to be: sexy and extreme. Their first vinylproduct "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat", slowly worked its way up into the Belgian charts. Released in February '88, it was picked up by several DJ's in clubs throughout Belgium and, starting from there, steadily gained a wider audience. For some time their succes went unnoticed by the press and the radiostations, but when Erotic Dissidents took their show on the road, rumour started to spread they were sensational. The three mystery men,fronted by the wicked lolita "Zoogie", a girl encountered at the Boccacio, the renewed megadisco near Ghent, stirred up quite a storm. With their specially designed bondage suits and their stage antics they were, to say at least, very suggestive. A ban on the Belgian television was all Erotic Dissidents needed to spread further their reputation and to cosolitate their appeal.. In May '88 an intensified remix of "Move You're Ass..." was released on public demand.In August the band released a brand new 12":"Shake Your Hips", the second chapter in the continuing adventure of Erotic Dissidents in Big Sexyland. While you receive this info their new record will be released on 12" and CDM. It's a cover from Marilyn Monroe's "I Wanna Be Loved By You" and it will probably break a few dishes, especially the dirty version that was released on a limited edition of 500 copies and was immediatly banned from all Belgian radio stations (again!!). Anyway Erotic Dissidents want to keep a bright outlook on human sexual behaviour and their own physical activities in particular. Tongue-in-eh... but never painting a vulgar picture, Erotic Dissidents bring joy and experiment in music and sex... Grab them!!! |
by Patrik Kruse & David Hulet. |
19/04/1999 |