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In the beginning of the 1980′s, I was forming rock bands all the time. At some point I was a member of 37 bands. Some were just a concept, a joke. I would meet two friends on the train going to Brussels, and we’d decide to form a band who would only play Casio mini synthesizers, and we’d call ourselves Los Casios. Next week we would make pictures and send it to the press to announce the start of the band. We never played, never did anything, we just existed. It was fun!
So, I had many bands, and some of them actually made music. The most important was called à;GRUMH…, a bizarre name, and the style was industrial noise at first, and then became more electronic bloody music (also labeled “EBM”, “body music” or “techno” at that time – 1983 to 1988).
In all these bands, I had stage names, all different. I was Steve Natrix, in another band I was Pliphon Nipiege, in another one I was Max, or Kruukuk Baallon, etc… and in à;GRUMH… I was Leon Noel. The logo of the band was created as a dart (triangle) with a circle in the middle.
The three sides would mean Originally, Freedom, Difference and the circle in the middle was Impulse. We believe people should follow their impulse, in a spirit of freedom, protecting difference as a quality, etc… We wrote lyrics about stuff like that – anti fascist, protecting difference, etc…
In the beginning of the 1980′s, I was forming rock bands all the time. At some point I was a member of 37 bands. Some were just a concept, a joke. I would meet two friends on the train going to Brussels, and we’d decide to form a band who would only play Casio mini synthesizers, and we’d call ourselves Los Casios. Next week we would make pictures and send it to the press to announce the start of the band. We never played, never did anything, we just existed. It was fun!
So, I had many bands, and some of them actually made music. The most important was called à;GRUMH…, a bizarre name, and the style was industrial noise at first, and then became more electronic bloody music (also labeled “EBM”, “body music” or “techno” at that time – 1983 to 1988).
In all these bands, I had stage names, all different. I was Steve Natrix, in another band I was Pliphon Nipiege, in another one I was Max, or Kruukuk Baallon, etc… and in à;GRUMH… I was Leon Noel. The logo of the band was created as a dart (triangle) with a circle in the middle.
The three sides would mean Originally, Freedom, Difference and the circle in the middle was Impulse. We believe people should follow their impulse, in a spirit of freedom, protecting difference as a quality, etc… We wrote lyrics about stuff like that – anti fascist, protecting difference, etc…
