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10 years de portables

Add to My Profile | More VideosOriginally de portables were founded as a kind of rock out outlet in 1996. Its a kind of motherband for lots of other projects. The current line up includes Wio, Jurgen Deblonde, Hans Gruyaert and Bertrand Lafontaine. To make it easy for everybody they often been put into the postrock section. Which is more or less accurate but seeing their wide palet of styles a bit a tunnelvision. The dynamics from live-concerts are not comparable with their albums. Their songs are often soft, melodramatic and full of pop-melodies while the concerts can be very hard. Humour is a fifth member of the band.visit our zuper-de-poeper blogfriends, fans, musicians, okapis and body builders

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Member Since: 5/8/2006
Band Website: studiomuscle.com/blog/
Band Members: Hans Gruyaert, Wio D'Hespeel, Jürgen De Blonde, Bert Lafontaine, Hendrik Dacquin
Influences: Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Guided by Voices ,ABBA, Pet Shop Boys, Slint, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Trans AM, Seefeel, Autechre, Hood, Built To Spill, Heavy Vegetable, Pan American, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Jonathan Richman, Philip Glass, Beethoven, Shellac, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Codeine, To Rococo Rot, Schneider TM, Mark Hollis, Sentridoh, Rodan, Talking Heads, Dead Kennedys, The Postal Service, Trans Am, Wixel, Hitch, Stereolab, Rob Crow, Beatles, Fennesz, Bartok, Gorecki, Chopin, Steve Reich, Reily, Monk, Glass, Mertens, Frank Zappa, Jean Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Charles Mingus, Sebadoh, Europe, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Seefeel, Aphex Twin, The Cure, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, German Schlager Musik, Pierre Henry, Biosphere, Ryoji Ikeda, Pan(a)Sonic, Suzanne Vegas Solitude Standing, Nova Bossa , Sebadoh, Daniel Johnston, Snoop Doggy Dog, The Cure, Franklin Bruno, , Montgolfier Brothers, Ogüz Yilmaz, Manu Chaos Clandestino, Karate, George Michael,Wham! , Michael Jackson, Mark Hollis, rolling Stones, toman, mote, loobke
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Record Label: (K-RAA-K)3
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new portables EP

Yihaaaaa! Our new E.P. Haut Gay is now available is a record store near you. Of course you can order it on iTunes or you can listen to the hitsong "Haut Gay" and "What Would Genghis Do Demo" on our my...
Posted by de portables on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:30:00 PST

Now here we stand

"Now here we stand" is a 20 minute film documenting the rise and the fall of de portables. A lot of work went into it. Four long nights, fuelled by Chouffe beer and whiskey to come up with a...
Posted by de portables on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:19:00 PST

Check out this event: 10 years de portables!

Hosted By: de portablesWhen: Tuesday Oct 31, 2006 at 8:00 PMWhere: Balzaal De VooruitSt-PietersnieuwstraatGent, BEDescription:de portables Click Here To View Event...
Posted by de portables on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:15:00 PST

10 years de portables: 31/10/06 Balzaal De vooruit

Posted By:de portablesGet this video and more at MySpace.comThis is the trailer for the anniversary of "de portables 10 years":-)Groot feest metLive optredens van...- de portables!!- Benjamin Franklin...
Posted by de portables on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:02:00 PST

breaking news

Our holidays are over, we've been barbequeing on uninhabited beaches, brought newly born babies on this world and solved longlasting conflicts in the Middle East. But now we are back and we are edgier...
Posted by de portables on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:19:00 PST

Tomorrow we love you tomorrow


Posted by de portables on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:09:00 PST

De portables BIG summer Quiz

Its been a bit quiet lately but that doesnt mean that we sat on ducks. Besides working, making babies, travelling to the Togo-Trinidad, recording new albums, Mühle rehearsals and sucking on gallippos...
Posted by de portables on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:29:00 PST

Mühle = metaphorically pissing in your mouth

We have no idea who sumbitted this brilliant mashup of Mühlosovic and Kim but we do know who just won herself/himself thé "Win a free backstage pass for Farmfest 2006" contest. The jury reports: "T...
Posted by de portables on Tue, 30 May 2006 01:36:00 PST

de portables bigger than das pop!

.. language="JavaScript"> '); return true; } } // end hiding --> ..> There is still hope for Belgian music! Thanks to the scientifically correct Google Trends analyze...
Posted by de portables on Sat, 27 May 2006 10:10:00 PST

soldiers of love, a letter to bert ancieux

Dear Bert, The Eurovision song contest semi-finals proved to be yet another dissapointment for Belgium, our conservative eurobeat feelgood unit shifter got kicked by dark and melodic pop-noise from ...
Posted by de portables on Fri, 19 May 2006 05:06:00 PST