A split second
| A split second | |
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 A Split Second (2017) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Belgium |
| Genre (s) | EBM , rock music |
| founding | 1986 |
| Founding members | |
Guitar, vocals |
Mark Ickx |
Keyboard (1987-2012)
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Peter Boone |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, bass |
Mark Ickx |
guitar |
Djuro since 2002 |
Keyboard |
Roel Eysackers (since 2012) |
| former members | |
guitar |
Fedzjean Venvelt |
A Split-Second is a Belgian EBM / rock band that was formed from the previous band Extraballe . Alongside Front 242 , The Klinik and The Neon Judgment, they were one of the pioneering Belgian bands in the genre.
Band history
Guitarist and singer Marc Ickx had previously worked in the Belgian synth-pop band Extraballe, Peter Boone was a keyboardist and in 1978 founded the band Twilight Ritual, which still exists today .
After the catchy EBM was played on the first single Flesh , the band expanded their sound on the successor Rigor Mortis with heavy beats and threatening vocals. The debut album Ballistic Statues was a mixture of rock, EBM and compact, simple songs and received favorable reviews beyond the borders of Belgium. At that time Peter Boone was also active solo under the name Chrismar Chayell and in 1987 released the single It's Never Too Hot? , on which he covered the song Drinking Sand from the A split second album Ballistic Statues as a new beat track .
At that time A Split-Second was sold as an EBM band, although this categorization was only partially applicable to them. Most likely met this term for the second album ... from the Inside to where the dominated Ickx, energetic, often sexist rock songs like Bend My Body Armor , Colosseum crash or Mambo Witch beside flat, introverted titles like From the Inside were that were more influenced by Chayell. The album established the international scene success, which was consolidated with a large number of live performances.
Kiss of Fury turned out to be far less convincing than its predecessors, where the opposing teamwork of the duo was sacrificed in favor of an all too uniform, compact and primarily danceable format. The album, characterized by the striking, ostensibly macho texts and simple structures, did not fail to have an impact. The included singles The Parallax View , Firewalker or Crash Course in Seduction developed into respectable club hits. Nevertheless, the band had reached their limits, especially since Ickx and Chayell's interests had diverged too far. Peter Boone was still behind the controls working on the remix album Flesh & Fire , but left the band at the end of 1991 to work as a producer and focus on his project Twilight Ritual. Marc Ickx never officially dissolved A Split Second, but initially worked on various projects (including the founding of the D.Sign project with The Klinik musician Marc Verhaeghen and the French band Die Form , and later he was a guest in Marc Verhaeghen's band X. 10 included ).
In 1993, Marc Ickx single-handedly revived A Split-Second. Venegance COD , on which Ickx was able to sign the former live guitarist Peter Boone, but this was not crowned with success. In contrast, the album Never Felt So Alive , which Marc Ickx recorded under the project name Demonix with the ex- Christian Death musician Gitane Demone, turned out to be much more ambitious .
The last A split second album to date, Megabyte , was recorded again with massive support from Peter Boone and was even harder and rockier than its predecessor, but also left hardly any impression on critics and audience. In 1996 Peter Boone released the Twilight Ritual album Organic, recorded with singer Geert Coppens .
style
Despite the inclusion of the new electronic means of expression, tried and tested conventional song and rock structures dominated from the beginning at A Split-Second. The attraction of their sound lay in the tension between the tradition-oriented attitude of front man Marc Ickx and the innovative rock attitudes of the often contrary sounds of Peter Boone.
Discography
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- 1986: A Split Second - Antler Records
- 1987: Flesh / Rigor Mortis - Antler Records
- 1987: Smell of Buddha - Antler Records
- 1987: Neurobeat - Trance
- 1988: Ballistic Statues - Antler Records
- 1988: ... from the Inside - Antler Records
- 1988: Scandinavian Bellydance - Antler Records
- 1988: Mambo Witch - Antler Records
- 1988: Colloseum Crash - SPV / Antler Records
- 1990: Kiss of Fury - Antler Records
- 1990: Firewalker / Backlash - Carol / Antler Records
- 1990: Another Violent Breed (Live EP) - Antler Records
- 1991: Flesh & Fire - 1991 remixes - Antler Subway Records / SPV
- 1991: Introversion - Lay Back and Join (Compilation Album) - Antler Subway Records
- 1991: The Parallax View - Carol / Antler-Subway Records
- 1991: Rigor Mortis - 1991 remix - Carol / Antler Records
- 1991: Flesh - 1991 remix - FFRR / Antler Records
- 1992: Colloseum Crash - 1992 remix - Antler Records
- 1993: Venegance COD - Hypnobeat
- 1995: Megabyte - Hypnobeat / Indigo
- 2001: TransMIX - 2001 remixes - Antler Subway Records
literature
- Volkmar Kuhnle : Gothic and Dark Wave-Lexikon , Imprint Verlag, p. 10 ISBN 3-89602-277-6 .
Web links
- A split second on Facebook
- A Split-Second at Discogs , accessed August 28, 2013.