Belgium Underground : interview van Stephan Barbery

15 July 2016

Camera Obscura, cold wave, Digital Dance, Digital records, Ink, Kid Montana, Marine, new wave, post punk, punk, snowy red, stephan barbery, thrills

Active since the end of the 1970s, Stephan Barbery has gone through (and taken part in) punk, new-wave, cold wave, post-punk and is now pursuing a career made of his own experimental music and the psychedelic improvisations of Babils. Guitarist for numerous bands, such as Thrills, Digital dance, Snowy red, Marine, Kid Montana or Ink (with Drita Kotaji), he is also a graphic designer, he has conceived a lot of record covers, and he has produced a number of fanzines (the punkzine Bobel Simplex, among others). He is also the founder of the labels Camera Obscura and Digital records.

Belgium Underground : interview met Nicolas Ekla

24 June 2016

electronic, electropop, Lem, Les Brochettes, Ming, Nicolas Ekla, Paratroops, pop, post punk, Trumpet Call

Since his beginnings with his band Paratroops and then with Trumpet Call, Nicolas Ekla has carried on in his own sweet way with legendary groups such as Les Brochettes, Ming and today Lem, a path he narrates in details on his blog mémoire du futur. Fascinated by the french poètes maudits, by Rimbaud, by Baudelaire, Fassbinder’s cinema, Jacno’s electropop, science -fiction, synthesizers, his only fear is airplanes. Belgium Underground interviewed him at home.