Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: nordwaves.info
Band Members: Well, who cares anyway… let's hear another story… between 1985 and 1989 BUZZ played France (Paris with Anne Clark or The Essence, Marseille, Brest, Lille with Minimal Compact, A Split Second or The Neon Judgement among others), Belgium (Ghent's Vooruit with Anne Clark, Kortrijk with A Split Second or Taxi-Girl, Eeklo, Sint Niklaas, etc…), Madrid's Yasta and so on. That was then but this is now, relaunched in 2006 the project has issued three albums since then and raided the following European venues:
06/30/06 - Nordwaves Party (private showcase) + Guerre Froide (F), Lille (F)
09/09/06 - Culto Club, Lisbon/Cacilhas (Pt) + Banister (Pt)
10/07/06 - Aliénor Festival 2006, Aéronef, Lille (F) + Ringel-S (B) + Neon Electronics (B) + Implant (B) + T 21 (F)
02/26/07 - 1 song with Severin 24 (F), La Condition Publique, Roubaix (F)
04/21/07 - BUZZ CD-release Party, Peek-a-Boo, Lille (F)
06/29/07 - Zwischentall, Bochum (D) + Guerre Froide (F)
12/01/07 - Aliénor Festival 2007, Le Gymnase, Lille (F) + Dirty Sweet Project (F)
12/14/07 - Nautilys, Comines (F) + The Dead Sexy inc.
01/04/08 - Ponto de Encontro, Almada/Lisbon (Pt) + Yellow (Pt) + Banister (Pt)
01/05/08 - Tambor Q Fala, Seixal (Pt) + Banister (Pt)
02/09/08 - Electrodark Festival, Kab-Usine, Genève (CH) + White Alien (It)
03/15/08 - BUZZ CD-release Party, Peek-a-Boo, Lille (F)
04/11/08 - Nautilys, Comines (F) + Bekie VanWam (F) + traumabikini dj-set (F)
06/28/08 - Botanique, Brussels (B) + 32 Crash (B) + Texas Trauma (B)
09/13/08 - Ultrafoxx, Stockholm (Sv)
10/04/08 - Cyberclash Festival, Lille (F) + Bak XIII (CH) + Dolls of Pain (F)
12/??/08 - Aliénor Festival 2008, Lille (F) + Darkmen (B) + Void Kampf (F)… to be continued…
Influences: BUZZ "Des cités en ruines"
Sounds Like: "Not bad at all" was The YOUNG GODS' verdict while BERTRAND SIFFERT (CH) remixed “La villeâ€. GARY ASQUITH features as guest-vocalist on “Sérénade pourun renégat†while DANNY BRIOTTET remixed “EVRâ€, commenting “Very oldschool Muteâ€. "Very cool minimal electro" was DAVID HARROW's comment. MOTOR's Bryan Black sent us a “Sounds good†that cheered us up no end… DAVID CARRETTA (F) covered “Berlin†(renamed “buzzâ€) in 1999 and recently remixed another track; so did MILLIMETRIC, PETER RAINMAN, SEVERIN24, LAURENT BERGMAN, NEOLYMB and DIRTY SWEET… LEN LEMEIRE from IMPLANT (B) did a lethal mix of “Sérénade†and “La ville†+ co-produced albums “Les musiques nouvelles†(Apr. 2007) and “Minimal & électronique†(out / Jan. 2008)… Jérôme from X-WAVES (Montreal) VERONICA VASICKA (East Village Radio, 2VM) Lieven DE RITTER and Remember Of Past have been long-time supporters… “BUZZ 1984-89†and Their releases are praised in ELEGY (F), ELEGY-Iberica (Pt), SIDE-LINE (B), HELLY CHERRY (Serbia), LET'S MOTIV (F), BLACK MAGAZINE (D), NONPOP (D), PRESTO (F), La GUIA del' OCIO (Sp), D-SIDE (F), BEST (F), ROSEGARDEN FUNERAL (D), GOTHTRONIC (NL), YAEW (F), ZILLO (D), DARK ENTRIES (B), AXESSCODE/MINDPHASER (F), TRINITY (F), 80's MUSIC CENTRAL (USA) , SINTETIQUE (Br), AVOPOLIS (H), ALTERNATIVE-ASSO (CH), D-SIDE (F), MINIMAL WAVE (USA), etc…
More info—blog, vids, sound, pics, news—on
http://www.nordwaves.info/musique/buzz/live2006.php
unclefabrik.com
and
minimal wave (US site)… See U Sioux.
Record Label: 100% self-produced so far !
Type of Label: None