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MICH

"Your name like ice, into my heart."

About Me




(c) - Chloe Piene 'Fin' - 2004

My Interests

My girl, my friends, the bands I play in : HITCH and GALATASARAY (now defunct!) Our little organisation : VLAS VEGAS Entertainment & RECORDS which involves a recordstore, running our own label and for whom I promote shows and do all kinds of shit, music, t-shirts, ART in all its forms and expressions, graphic design, people, books, deejaying with Rock4, vynil records !, photography, animals, shadowanimals collective, vegetarian cooking, All Tomorrow's Parties, skateboarding, roadtrippin', enjoying all sorts of red & white wine, coffee, Oalbeke Rock City, cows, Kortrijk aka K-Town, Farmfest, The Pit's, (Silly) dancing, hangin' out, going to shows, Britisch comedy, tattoos, paper fanzines, writing for the now defunct musiczine SEMTEX MAGAZINE . I work fulltime for a music club called DE KREUN in Kortrijk.

I'd like to meet:

Cool carbon units, friends all over the world & likeminded souls. I only add bands I like, so don't bother ...

I do artwork for bands, concerts, shirts etc... Drop me a line if u need anything.
I would't call myself a DJ, but I love deejayin'... Check the bands on my profile and you know what to expect. Drop me a line if you want me to rock your party. :)

Music:

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Jawbox, *MELVINS*, Unwound, Three Mile Pilot, Slint, Battles, Metroshifter, Fugazi, 31 Knots, Iron & Wine, Rocket from the crypt, Joy Division, Deerhoof, Neurosis, Trans Am, Drive like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Coalesce, Girls against boys, Blonde Redhead, Big Black, Sweep the leg Johnny , Massive Attack, Big Business, Four tet,Interpol, Neon Blonde, Quicksand, Shellac, Refused, Swing Kids, Switchblade, Black Heart Procession, Autechre, Man or Astroman?, A day in Black and White, Antipop Consortium, Sole, Pelican, Red Sparowes, Sage Francis, Gang of Four, The Stone Roses, Be your own pet, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Beans, Enon, Todd, Shit and Shine, Brainiac, Aphex Twin, Alias, Q and not U, Haymarket Riot, The Paper Chase, No Knife, Minor Threat, The Ramones, The Kills, Vaz, Part Chimp, Isis, Old Man Gloom, Judge, Godflesh, Converge, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Arab on Radar, The Locust, Unsane, Blood Brothers, Bikini Kill, Rye Coalition, AC/DC, DJ Shadow, Blade, Pinback, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Television, Carcass, (old) Entombed, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Mogwai, The Kills, Squarepusher, Themselves, Ultra Dolphins, The plot to blow up the Eiffel tower (rip), The Jezus Lizard, Stop it !!, Jawbreaker, Government Issue, Boards of Canada, Johnny Cash, Floor, Earth, Doomriders, Public Enemy, Fireside, Lewis & Clarke, American Heritage, Sleep, Floor, The Who, Joanna Newsom, Black Dice, Neon King Kong, Om, Le Tigre, Glass Candy, Tar (rip), Mono, Melt Banana, Boredoms, Einsturzende Neubauten, Clouddead, New Bomb Turks, Destructo swarmbots, Black Sabbath, The (early) Hives, The Ex, Karp (rip), Hammerhead (rip), LOW, Cows, Daniel Johnston, Oxbow, Dälek, Lightning Bolt, QOTSA, Kyuss, Mudhoney, Hammerhead, Yellow Swans, House of low Culture, Harvestman, Rachel's, Swans, Serge Gainsbourg, Rites of Spring, Lungfish, Wilderness, Clipd Breaks, Sunno))),Get Hustle, Celebration, Pinebender, And you will know us by the trail of dead, Les Savy Fav, Miracle Chosuke, The Pixies, Denali, Engine Down, Numbers, the Roger Sisters, Kool keith, Boom Bip, Madlib, Why?, Atmosphere, Busdriver, Moving units, Chromatics, Numbers, Fennesz, Miles Davis, Year Future, Some Girls, the Jai Alai savant, Black Cobra, Ultramagnetic MC's, From Monument to Masses, Between the devil and the deep blue sea, Coyote, Sinaloa, Gris Gris, High on Fire, Rocky votolato, Kill Me Tomorrow, Subtitle, Saul Williams, Jagga Jazzist, Gossip, The Velvet underground, Catpower,Made out of Babies, Battle of Mice, Wolf Eyes, Flipper, The Hope Conspiracy, Negative Approach,Apparat Organ Quartet, Plaid, John Wiese, Dntel, Nine Inch Nails, The Supremes, Trap Them, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Crowpath, MSTRKRFT, Magik Markers, Kania Tiefer, Religious knives, Landed, Young Widows, Lords, Channels, Hyacinth, Lack, La Quiète, Suis la Lune, Yage, Orchid, Comets on Fire, CSS, City of Caterpillar, Prurient, Danse Macabre, The Death of Ana Karenina, Apse, Kid606, Matmos, Shitmat, Burial, Woven Hand, Ground Unicorn Horn, Fuck Buttons, Crystal Castles, Vitalic, Genghis Tron, No Kids, Maserati, Celeste, Fear Falls Burning, Fiery Furnaces, This moment in black history, Zozobra, Silvester Anfang, Atlas Sound, Phosphorescent, Alela Diane, Skull Defects, Graves at sea, Sightings, Eats tapes, No Age, High Places, Deerhunter, Maninkari, A Place to Bury Strangers, Errors, Barn Owl, These are powers, Six organs of Admittance, ... and a shitload more....

Amenra, Rise & Fall, Vandal X, Flipo Mancini, De Portables, tRam, Vuur, White Circle Crime Club, Building Transmissions, Köhn, Guernica, Vegas, Shadowanimals collective, Ignatz, Hawai, Pinguins know why, Bronze, Milgram, Sunpower, Rosenkranz, Isaac, all shadows and deliverance, Black haven, Jerusalem the Black, Drums are for parades, The Hickey Underworld, We're wolves, Dead Stop (RIP), The Sedan Vault, Tomàn, The Germans, Reproach, Confuse the cat, Justice, Sunpower, Damaged goods, Autumn Delay, BHR, Mauro related stuff, Kazuamsumaki , Wixel, Ansatz der maschine, Loathus, Kingdom, Silvester Anfang, Hellvete, Syndrome, Vogue, Blind of Faith, and I probably forgot a shitload of equally great Belgian bands ...

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange (best movie ever!), Control, Taxidriver, Requiem for a dream, Eraserhead, Gummo, Scarface, Naked, True Romance, Akira, Old Boy, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Les triplettes de Belleville,Festen, The Godfather trilogy, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Lost in Translation, Ghost in the shell, C'est arrivé pres de chez vous, Dogtown & Z-boys, Scarface, Down by Law, Night on earth, Coffee and Cigatettes and anything by Jim Jarmush, no country for old men, Gomorrah, ...Anything by Jeunet, Marc Caro or Jan Kounen, Lars Von Trier, Mike Leigh, Kislowki, P. Almodovar, Hitchcock, M. Haneke, Fassbinder, D. Aranofski, Wong Kar Wai, Mathew Barney, ...

Television:

League of Gentlemen, Twin Peaks, Monthy Python, Alias, The Fast Show, Absolutely fabulous, Fawlty Towers, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Extras, Californication, Top Gear, Coupling, Little Britain, ... >> "Television : drug of a nation!" Skip it.

Books:

Not really a reading kinda guy ... love comics though, books on graphic design, posterart, illustration, painting, music and DIY culture, etc and biographies.

Heroes:

"No heroes" -> let's call 'em people I look up to :...my MOM ! - my girl - Nick Cave - Ed Templeton - Chloe Piene - Raymond Pettibon - Tony Wilson (rip) - Christopher Wool - John Peel (rip) - Michael Borremans - Abramoviç - Chris Spencer - M. Duchamp - W. Burroughs - C. Bukowski- Dale Crover - A. Warhol - Iggy Pop - Johnny Cash - Buzz Osbourne - Rothko - Egon Schiele - Anselm Kiefer - A. Corbijn - Christophe Denys - ...

My Blog

New K-Town label...entroducing Radical Pigeon

New label in town !! Radical Pigeon Records is the brainchild of some people that are or used to be in the bands Hawai and Galatasaray. Fascinated by experimental music, improv, noise and ambient, we...
Posted by MICH on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:16:00 PST

FARMFEST 2008

So we've been doing this fest for about ten years now with a bunch of friends (my band Hitch and Vlas Vegas) and it's happening again this year. It started out back in the day as a BBQ amongst friends...
Posted by MICH on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:42:00 PST

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?  - Immanuel Kant -
Posted by MICH on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:29:00 PST

2007 - the list...

Probably forgot a shitload of stuff, but here's a little list of records I utterly enjoyed in 2007 ... Battles  Mirrored Deerhoof  Friend opportunity Chromatics  Night drive Les savy fav  let...
Posted by MICH on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:33:00 PST

playlist okt 2007

crowpath - old cuts and blunt knivesom - pilgrimage tragedy - nerve damage Sinaloa / ampere split 12"pinback - autums of the seraphshigh on fire - death is this communionpanda bear - person pitchanima...
Posted by MICH on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:51:00 PST

nag nag

some people need to stop nagging about everybody and everything. seriously...Last weekend I was organising this two day nice little festival with a bunch of friends, something me and my friends&n...
Posted by MICH on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:39:00 PST

Showtime!

The amazing Dälek is releasing a new album (Abandoned language) in february. Here's what I wrote for Semtex Magazine about it : http://www.semtexinc.com/news/news.php?ID=215 And they're playing De Kre...
Posted by MICH on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:47:00 PST

PLAYLIST september '06

Envy - Insomniac doze : Then new album on Mogwai's Rock Action label, perfecting their unique blend of athmospheric soundscapes, screamo (or whatever you wanna call it) and postrockish sounds. En...
Posted by MICH on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:52:00 PST

Interviewing Saul Williams - South Africa

When we were in South-Africa with Hitch and Das Pop, I got the chance to do a short interview for Studio Brussel with Saul Williams, a poet/MC/actor...of which I happen to be a quite big fan......No n...
Posted by MICH on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:17:00 PST

Interview with Mich/Hitch [february '06]

Davy C interviewed me some weeks ago about Hitch, touring, the new upcoming Hitch album, vlas vegas , ... Check the interview here : http://tomataduplenty.blogspot.com Interview about me, the new Hit...
Posted by MICH on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:41:00 PST