Clan of Xymox
Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band formed in 1981. Clan of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters — Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anka Wolbert — and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a third and fourth album on a major US label and scoring a hit single in the United States. Early pioneers of the dark and moody electronic music known as dark wave, their 1980s releases included synthpop/electronic dance music.
Though the band is still active and continues to tour and release records, of the original songwriters (Nooten, Moorings and Wolbert), only Moorings remains in the band today. After the departure of Nooten and Wolbert in the early 1990s, their music turned increasingly goth.
History
4AD and the Peel Sessions (1981–1988)
The band formed as a project of Ronny Moorings and Anka Wolbert in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1981, before moving to Amsterdam and joining Frank Weyzig and Pieter Nooten who added their own contributions. Assuming the name "Xymox", the group released a mini-album, Subsequent Pleasures, in 1983. They were invited by Brendan Perry to support Dead Can Dance on a UK tour and were signed to the indie label 4AD, which released their eponymous debut album in 1985. The track 7th Time, with Anka Wolbert on lead vocals, was picked up by John Peel, leading to the band recording two of the Peel Sessions at the BBC, in June and November 1985. Peel referred to the band's dark and melancholic sound as "darkwave".
Clan of Xymox (album)
Clan of Xymox is Clan of Xymox's eponymous 1985 debut album, and their first release on the 4AD label (CAD503, CAD503CD, GAD503CD).
The album was produced by 4AD co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell and recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh. The remixes included on the album ("A Day" and "Stranger") were mixed and produced by John Fryer at Blackwing Studios in London.
Fryer had gained notability for working with seminal bands on the 4AD, Mute, Rough Trade and Beggars Banquet record labels, including Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget and Cocteau Twins.
The album drew comparisons to Joy Division and The Cure and created a buzz in clubs. Reviewers in subsequent years have derided the album as dated and derivative, but accurately reflecting the emerging goth sound of the time, with "icy, throbbing keyboards; bummed-out vocals; chilly, robotic percussion; gloomy, ethereal guitars; and unusual, cryptic song titles".
In 1985, Melody Maker pronounced the debut "a nervous and brilliant record" from "guitar-splayed firefields of 'Cry in the Wind' and 'Stumble and Fall', and thrill(!) to the system clearing, bass bloodied '7th Time'... The range and depth of this mysterious record do not exclude arrogant electro dance anthems like 'Stranger' and 'A Day'; nor do Xymox avoid sentimentality as on 'No Human Can Drown'".
Clan of Xymox
ALBUMS
- Matters of Mind, Body and Soul released: 2014
- Kindred Spirits released: 2012
- Live at Castle Party released: 2011
- Darkest Hour released: 2011
- In Love We Trust released: 2009
- Breaking Point released: 2006
- The Best of Clan of Xymox released: 2004
- Farewell released: 2003
- Remixes From the Underground released: 2002
- Notes From the Underground released: 2001
- Live released: 2000
- Creatures released: 1999
- Hidden Faces released: 1997
- Remix released: 1994
- Headclouds released: 1993
- Metamorphosis released: 1992
- Phoenix released: 1991
- Medusa released: 1990
- Twist of Shadows released: 1989
- Clan of Xymox released: 1985
- B-Sides and Demos, Volume 1 released:
- Remixes released:
- Dark Pleasures released:
Remixes From the Underground
Released 2002- Anguish (Deep Inside Iris mix by Iris)
- Something's Wrong (Avatar mix by Angels & Agony)
- Number I (cut.rate.box remix)
- Innocent (Defiled remix by Assemblage 23)
- I Want You Now (Tri-State remix)
- The Same Dream (DJ RAM Nightmare mix)
- At Your Mercy (In Strict Confidence remix)
- Liberty (Damon Fries / Boudoir mix)
- Into Her Web (remix by Sophya, Idan K.)
- Internal Darkness (The Second Sight remix)
Remixes
- A Day (remix)
- Stranger (remix)
- Blind Hearts (club mix)
- Obsession (club mix)
- Imagination (Marshall Memory mix)
- Phoenix of My Heart (Spicy mix)
- At the End of the Day (Endless Day mix)
- Reaching Out (remix)
- Spiritual High (single remix)
- This World (C.O.X. mix)
- Phoenix of My Heart (Promo Only Radio Contest Winner mix)
- This World (John A. Rivers remix)
Your Vice
Faith, in your hands, lost it's meaning, to my surprise
Expectations turned out wry, it makes me doubt about
The whole situation
I trust today, you have found the road to hell a little
longer
You show me a hardened heart, and all you say is no
consolation
I live on hope, I live on lies, you wear the guilt, your
vice
Truth in your mouth are frozen words, leaving me darkness
These barren roads wear me out, a cold wind blows, it
would raise the fallen
I trust today, you have found, the road to hell a little
longer
You show me a callous mind and all you say is of no
implication
I live on hope, I live on lies, you wear the guilt, your
vice
Clan of Xymox
Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band formed in 1981. Clan of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters — Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anka Wolbert — and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a third and fourth album on a major US label and scoring a hit single in the United States. Early pioneers of the dark and moody electronic music known as dark wave, their 1980s releases included synthpop/electronic dance music.
Though the band is still active and continues to tour and release records, of the original songwriters (Nooten, Moorings and Wolbert), only Moorings remains in the band today. After the departure of Nooten and Wolbert in the early 1990s, their music turned increasingly goth.
History
4AD and the Peel Sessions (1981–1988)
The band formed as a project of Ronny Moorings and Anka Wolbert in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1981, before moving to Amsterdam and joining Frank Weyzig and Pieter Nooten who added their own contributions. Assuming the name "Xymox", the group released a mini-album, Subsequent Pleasures, in 1983. They were invited by Brendan Perry to support Dead Can Dance on a UK tour and were signed to the indie label 4AD, which released their eponymous debut album in 1985. The track 7th Time, with Anka Wolbert on lead vocals, was picked up by John Peel, leading to the band recording two of the Peel Sessions at the BBC, in June and November 1985. Peel referred to the band's dark and melancholic sound as "darkwave".
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