Clinic (band)
| clinic | |
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_004.JPG) The Klinik at Amphi Festival 2014 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Industrial , electronics , EBM , avant-garde |
| founding | 1980 |
| Founding members | |
| Marc Verhaeghen | |
| Current occupation | |
Programming |
Marc Verhaeghen |
| Dirk Ivens | |
live |
Peter Mastbooms |
| former members | |
| Dirk Ivens (1985–1991, since 2003) | |
| Eric van Wonterghem (1985-1987) | |
| Sandy Nys (1985) | |
| Mark "Merlin" Burghgraeve (1981–1982 (?), 1995) | |
| Thorsten Stroht (1995) | |
| Tom Claes (1996) | |
| Stefan Mertes (1996) | |
| Nickanor (2002, 2004) | |
Clinic is an electronics - / Industrial - EBM project from Belgium , founded in the early 1980s by Marc Verhaeghen, which is the only permanent member.
history
At first the clinic consisted of Verhaeghen alone. In 1985 he merged with Dirk Ivens and Eric van Wonterghem (Absolute Body Control) and Sandy Nijs to form the “ Supergroup ” Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs. This awkward name was soon abandoned and the name was simply The Klinik. Sandy Nys and Eric van Wonterghem soon left the band (the latter started the insect project together with former Vomito Negro member Mario Vaerewijck ), so that only the duo Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen remained, from The Klinik in the most successful Phase of the band existed in the late 1980s.
The Klinik made a name for themselves for their cold, harsh electronic sounds and live shows, where both musicians wrapped their heads in gauze bandages, wore long black leather coats, or painted their upper bodies with crosshairs. Also typical were the minimalist texts that Ivens performed with a distorted voice, as well as the synthesizer sound and the sporadic use of electronically distorted trumpets by Verhaeghen. After the album Time ( 1991 ), with which both were not satisfied, they split up due to creative differences. Ivens focused on his project Dive; Verhaeghen continued under the name Klinik, sometimes as a solo project, sometimes with the support of various guest musicians. Since 2004 , the music of Klinik can best be described as ambient with techno influences. The split albums together with Vidna Obmana tend increasingly towards dark ambient .
All members of The Klinik were also involved in other musical projects. In addition to the aforementioned Absolute Body Control and Dive, Ivens played with Sonar and Blok 57, Eric van Wonterghem also played with bands like Insekt, Monolith and Dive and Sonar. After leaving The Klinik in 1986, Sandy Nys formed the band Hybrids, which still exists today. Verhaeghen was probably involved in the most famous side projects, such as Noise Unit (with Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber from Front Line Assembly ), D.Sign (with Philippe Fichot and Eliane P. from Die Form ) and X10 (with Niki Mono, Marc Ickx from A Split Second and Vidna Obmana). He also published the CD Zentese with his wife, Sabine Voss, under the project name Para .
In 2005 Marc Verhaeghen published together with Vidna Obmana, with whom he had previously worked, the CD Gluttony under the name Klinik 7 Vidna Obmana , which is the prelude to a seven-part series ( 7 Deadly Sins ). On October 23, 2006, the second part of the series, Klinik 7 Vidna Obmana - Greed, was released .
On October 31, 2007, Verhaeghen released the best-of double CD Nineties on Hands Productions. CD 1 contains the complete tracks from the Contrast albums and the limited live CD from 1993. CD 2 contains the best tracks from the Zoth Ommog and Off Beat albums To The Knife , Stitch , Awake and Blanket of Fog . Another best-of double CD, Projects on Hands Productions, followed at the beginning of February 2008, containing 33 tracks from Verhaeghen's projects from 1989–1992 (eleven songs by Noise Unit , ten songs by X10 , nine songs by Para , three Songs by D.Sign ).
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Since 2003 Ivens and Verhaeghen have been playing concerts together again to present the "classic" The Klinik sound of the 80s live. The recording of one of these concerts was released on CD in September 2004. At the appearance at the Amphi Festival 2008, two new songs were presented for the first time, which again come from Ivens and Verhaeghen. After 22 years, the first new CD or limited LP entitled "Eat Your Heart Out" will be released in March 2013.
During the appearance at the Tinitus Festival in Stockholm on April 11th, 2009 Marc Verhaeghen was replaced by Peter Mastbooms, also known as DJ Borg and Vomito Negro, due to health problems. A concert in Berlin shortly afterwards was canceled. A little later it was announced on Dirk Ivens' official website that Marc will not perform live in the future due to health problems, but will only produce music in his home studio. Future live performances will be carried out with Peter Mastbooms, who is then responsible for both the music and the visualization.
Discography (selection)
Albums
- 1985: sabotage
- 1986: De Fabriek
- 1986: Walking With Shadows
- 1987: Plague
- 1988: Face to Face
- 1989: Clinic box
- 1991: Time
- 1992: Contrast
- 1993: Clinic - Live
- 1995: Stitch
- 1995: To The Knife
- 1996: Awake
- 1998: Blanket of Fog
- 2002 Sonic Surgery
- 2003: Akhet
- 2004: Dark Surgery
- 2004: Live at Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2004
- 2005: Clinic 7 Vidna Obmana - Gluttony
- 2006: Clinic 7 Vidna Obmana - Greed
- 2013: Eat Your Heart Out
- 2014: The Klinik 84 91
Singles and EPs
- 1986 : Pain and Pleasure
- 1987: Fear
- 1989: Feve
- 1989: Insane Terror
- 1990: Black Leather
Compilations
- 1987: Melting Close + Sabotage
- 1988: The Clinic
- 1989: Face to Face - Fever
- 1990: Black Leather
- 1991: States
- 1996: Forma Tadre, Covenant, Klinik, Dementia Simplex - The O-Files
- 2001: End of the Line
- 2007: Nineties
- 2008: Projects