A principios de los años ochenta TB Frank y Dirk Da Davo dan vida a The Neon Judgement, una formación creada en Leuven, una pequeña ciudad ubicada en los alrededores de Bruselas, donde este dúo empezó basando sus producciones en Electronic Body Music salpicada con riffts de guitarras.
Su trabajo combinaba la tecnología “low-fi” con un sonido totalmente alienador repleto de sinceridad emocional donde los drones industriales eran la base precursora en la mayoría de sus canciones.
Hace unos tres años el sello Pias reeditaba su primer álbum ” The Neon Judgement 1981-1984″ (Scarface,1985), con nuevo título, eso sí, conocido como: “THE FIRST JUDGEMENT E.P.’s”.
En el 2006 los “Nitzer Ebb” visitaban Barcelona dando el pistoletazo a una serie de conciertos de formaciones pioneras en sonidos procedentes de sintetizadores analógicos. Le han seguido: Anne Clark, Invisible limits, The Invincible Spirit, Front 242.… y el 17 de Enero del próximo año, en la Sala Salamandra 1 de Hospitalet de Llobregat, les toca al turno a otros legendarios: The Neon Judgement que nos harán disfrutar con un directo que promete tener todos los ingredientes para disfrutar de una noche más que interesante.
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| Since the early eighties, TB Frank and Dirk Da Davo have been the creative forces that have made The Neon Judgement a household name in circles where musical narrow-mindedness is not considered a bonus. | |
| Emerging vibrant and violent from the small town Leuven near Brussels, in the early eighties, they started to build up their own sound.Their early work combined low-fi technology and emotional sincerity to create a sound both warm and alienating. Going from strenght to strength, they released a string of haunting albums that displayed an adventurous variety of songs, where downright industrial drones stood side by side with twisted love songs and campfire ditties from hell.The Neon Judgement have been ahead of their time longer than is just. Somehow their whirring daring momentum, their haunted homage to rock ideology (all shades and leather), their anger and sense of loss, can be sighted (albeit diluted and refracted) in many of today’s more pertinent chart acts. Dirk and Frank have always explored the seedier side of life while admitting the constant yearning of everyday / every night romantic.
Recently PIAS recordings re-released TNJ’s first album 1981-1984 on double 12”, this time titled THE FIRST JUDGEMENT E.P.’s. The recordings recieved a brand new mastering!! Previewed next is the release of a 12” containing remixes of the TNJ tracks ‘Factory Walk’ done by ‘THE HACKER’ and a ‘Nion Nion’ remix made by no one less then ‘TERENCE FIXMER’. After the summer of 2005 there is the release of a double cd titled ‘BOX’ containing live recordings,previously unreleased material, original recordings and remixes by a wide range of producers. Live, The Neon Judgement will continue to give art terrorism a good name, finding new ways of marrying noise and beauty, machines and magic. This aggressive heart keeps on beating. Light up a legend! |
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