Yesterday, an anonymous package was delivered at the Gent Al Jazeera affiliate. The package contained the barely readable words “studio muzzle"and held a betamax tape with an unusual video message. Until now it is still unclear who is responsible for the weird performance on this video recording, nor what message these supposedly Afghan women want to communicate… All tips are much appreciated!

More on facebook. And Herman also posted an official statement for his endorsement of de portables, playing at Rock Werchter

We are pretty psyched for this saturday’s Kraak festival in the Manchester of Belgium, Aalst.

Especially for the occasion we prepared a special festival act “de Moonbull worshippers of the sunsnake altar”. “de worshippers” make tetrahedron renditions of classic de portables songs, adding mystic flames of heavy psych energy and unconscious Atlantean hieroglyph lyrics. Sadly we had to cancel because Wio‘s house refurbishing program is slightly off schedule.

Luckily,  other cosmic powers will play the Festival. Amongst them, my favorite band from the nineties: Bugskull and the saz-psych of Voice of the seven Thunders So, no excuses, this saturday thou shall move your mythical arse to Aalst!

 
We added Wio’s very first 7” (1996) to the album section. I still get goosebumps from the weeping song Victory. It’s very rough around the edges and no-fi but still mesmerizing and beautiful. Wio’s second 7” (a split with notorious rockers on codeine,Mote) bears what are probably my all-time favorite Wio songs. Make me stay is a cathy sing-along anthem and Colors is typical upbeat Wio. In fact I love ‘em all except Bananas whose lyrics are a bit goofy (and that’s an understatement). Actually, Wio is still being mocked to this day for writing the sentence “I peel the banana, cause I want to eat it.

I confess, I am a search keyword voyeur. I just love to see how people find our lovely website through keywords. Search keywords are a sample of what’s going on in society.

From people trying to buy weed or fitted sheets to people trying to fulfill their secret desires for hindoe lilliputters and bearded musclemen (hey, you came to the right address) ! We welcome also all fans of De Kreuners and people searching for illegal de portables downloads (WE WILL PROSECUTE! ).

The biggest LOL I had with the realisation that one undergrad student is going to have really bad grade for his french paper when he thought we provided the right translation for the french word for shit.

Did you know that Wio shares his name with another great influential musical artist. They not only share their name! Like Wio (the real, huggable one), Jad Wio shares the same taste in fetisch leather pants, provocative live action and Rocky Erickson, the most influential artist of our times!

So make sure when you go to the Virgin Megastore to not buy Jad Wio, as this is not the lonesome lo-fi troubador we all love. Just download Wio‘s albums  here, instead of buying for that lofi garbage junk .

We just added the Haut Gay promo-only CD-single for your downloading pleasure! It includes an early acoustic hard-not-to-sing-along-to version of “What would Ghenghis do?”. (A later more droney version of the same song can be heard on this acoustic Duyster session recorded in November 2007)

Yea! We completely revamped our website. From now on you can download every little fart that has ever been produced by de portables or any related band. We believe farts should be set free and downloadable in highest quality. So enjoy our back catalogue and explore the universe of de portables en haute qualité!

PS: If you have suggestions or find little mistakes, don’t hesitate to tell us . Still to do: make a video section and add all compilation tracks we’ve recorded (a lot) and make a good bootleg series. 

Tuesday evening de portables received their first cork record from longtime portables fan Desmund Tutu. Cork records are only given to selected artists who sell 100 copies of their CD on one single day.

de portables hereby join the hall of cork records fame, occupied by the creme of modern pop music: Sonic Youth, the Beatles and Axl Peleman.

Listen, love and spread the word

  The Bay Of The White Purifying Bed  by studiomuscle

You can grab your album for free at the de portables album release party, including a live show from de portables and salvador for only 10 € (een zot batje) in Kortrijk on 10th of November.

You can order a CD or LP now (13 € + shipping) by mail (albums go out on 16th of November)

Or you can get the CD/LP in your favorite record store (including itunes and amazon but also your local vinyl farmer)  from the 16th of November onwards. Read more for back sleeve and liner notes

All songs written, recorded and produced by de portables except “John Terra” recorded by Frank Zaman.

Artwork by Carmen “Carman” Norman & de portables.

Cover photo by Anton Coene.

de portables are Burt Lala, Heinz Grubeh, George Deblowi, Yngwie D’Hedeb and Hennie Daver.

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Thank you: John Terra. Vlas Vegas Records, Vlasmarkt 5, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium. mail.

When the news broke last week that Thom Yorke of Radiohead fame and Chili Pepper Flea were about to start a new super group, our hearts started to pulsate at a never-before-seen speed. And this wonderful news just got better!

A music industry insider (who we cannot name by name) sent us a direct message via the microblogging site Twitter with a link to a recording (!) of this amazing new collaboration by these two Gods of modern music. So here it is, a studiomuscle exclusive, the new brilliant epic, tentatively titled Creepinification.

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For the setlist…

00:00:00.000 Ariel Pink – FlashBack
00:00:08.333 Burzum – Dunkelheit
00:00:37.270 Jazkamer – abomination
00:01:50.333 The Byrds – Everybody’s Been Burned
00:04:40.000 Hüsker Dü- Dreams Reoccurring
00:04:44.667 Danny Ben-Israel – Bad Trip
00:05:00.292 Unknown artist – Falafel Eastern
00:05:26.000 Aphrodite’s Child - Loud, Loud, Loud
00:06:14.860 Sonny Bono – Pammie’s On A Bummer
00:07:47.493 The Doors – Bird of Prey
00:09:11.000 Seven That Spells – Cosmoerotic Gateway
00:12:12.000 St. John Green – Goddess Of Death
00:12:58.333 Rameses – Molecular Delusion
00:13:38.806 Dandelions – Dandelions
00:14:25.000 Atomic Jazz Band - Dunia Ina Mambo
00:14:40.333 Patti Smith – Jesus Christ
00:14:44.827 NV G 65 – Dankzij De Heer
00:15:15.334 brigitte fontaine et areski – Il Pleut Sur la Gare
00:16:53.667 Catherine Ribeiro  – voyage1
00:17:55.667 The Velvet Underground - The Black Angel’s Death Song
00:18:41.000 Sonny Bono - Pammie’s On A Bummer
00:23:01.667 Lard Free – In A Desert-Alambic
00:23:29.000 Siloah – Road to Laramy
00:24:42.047 Kurt Vile – Intro in Z
00:25:01.667 Seesselberg – Side A
00:28:41.658 AphorditE ‘s Child - The System
00:28:51.333 Wand – All These Generous Men
00:29:12.667 Hüsker Dü- Target
00:30:54.000 The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded
00:31:59.333 Elliot Smith – Ostriches & Chirping
00:32:18.667 Moondog -  Trees against the sky
00:33:00.000 Daniel Padden - Bustle
00:33:34.000 Jefferson Airplane – Commercial White rabbit
00:34:34.136 Lubos Fiser – Confession – Brother And Sister
00:36:14.109 Amon Düül II – Eye Shaking King
00:36:33.972 Iriarte and Pesoa -  Libertad
00:36:58.333 Martin Bell - Magic Balloon
00:37:20.868 The George-Edwards Group – Some Fun
00:37:32.667 Harbinger – Cosmic Energy
00:38:40.386 Attilio “Art” Mineo – Space Age World’s Fair
00:38:53.000 Woods – Echo Lake
00:40:41.667 Amanaz – Amanaz
00:42:18.000 Limbus 3 – Oneway-Trip
00:42:51.811 Pedro Santos - Flor De Lotus
00:43:54.000 Sand – Sarah
00:47:06.667 Kalacakra – Nearby Shiras
00:48:34.848 Ariel Pink – FlashBack

“Gij Geile Rotsac” is the latest creation of ‘de portables’ and was inspired by Bertrand & Willeke’s latest creation “Castor” (aka Beaver). You can listen to it here. It was recorded in “Nolby Surround 5.hiss” for an ultimate Lo-fi experience.

Enjoy!

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It’s summertime. Time for bbq’s, gentse feesten, Ricard, camping and black holes. Summertime might also be quite an appropriate time to release a true summer single ! Free Ultimate Quality download

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Camper is culled from our forthcoming album John Terra to be released somewhere in October on the mighty label from Kortrijk h8000 Vlas Vegas

Enjoy and spread the summer of love!

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So! You need a babysitter (in Flanders), then go an make a hupskadee and finally start drinking again! Yihaa!

Yihaa! We had a really rocking week. For the first time this year we escaped from our grand lofty rehearsal space, where we are finishing the recordings for the new album, to play the Domino festival at the AB with the crazy hippies of Babils. It was a good show, quirky but focused. Kmeron put some great photos on his flickr. Tim ‘wannabees’ Broddin made a true backstage photo report. And daMusic wrote a rave review. Next stop: Werchter Classic.

On a unrelated note, Jasper Kinkystar gave StuBru airplay to the fabulous belfry interpretation of Jan Hammer’s (brother of MC) seminal masterpiece Crocket’ theme. Adaptively titled Clockett’ s Theme we include this little portables rehearsal recording here on popular demand. By popular demand we mean that one myspace mail we got from a fella called Rik, whose first ever record he bought was this Miami Vice tune. Say thank you Rik. “Thank you de portables”.

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Café “Den Hoek” will slowly transform into a portal to Jupiter on that evening, especially if you will be there.
All this will happen while expecting the new Köhn LP to come out in a couple of weeks!

Greetings and welcome in the New Age introducing the End Of Times.