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Belgian pioneers of ebm and minimalist electro-industrial. Also known as The Klinik. See also Dive, Sonar, Monolith.
In 1985, Verhaeghen joined forces with two other bands, Absolute Body Control (with Dirk Ivens and Eric van Wonterghem), and “The Maniacs” (Sandy Nys) to form one “super group” Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs. This rather unwieldy name was soon dropped in favour of the shorter name “The Klinik”. Nys soon left the band to form Hybryds, followed in 1987 by van Wonterghem, leaving The Klinik as the “classic” duo of Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen.
The Klinik soon made a name for themselves with their cold and harsh ebm sound and their live shows, where both Ivens and Verhaeghen performed with their heads wrapped in gauze, wearing long black leather coats. Ivens’ hissing vocals and minimalist lyrics were complemented by Verhaeghen’s synthesizer skills and distorted trombone playing (the latter giving the music a slightly feverish sound). This however, did not last forever; after Time, an album neither member was fully pleased with, musical differences became too great, and they decided to go their separate ways.
Ivens concentrated on his own project Dive, and Verhaeghen continued as Klinik; sometimes as a solo project, sometimes with various other members. Recently, Klinik is a Verhaeghen solo project, making mostly instrumental dark ambient techno.
Most Klinik members have also been active outside the band. Ivens has been in bands such as Absolute Body Control, Dive, Sonar, and Blok 57; Eric van Wonterghem played with Ivens in Absolute Body Control, and has later been part of or collaborating with bands such as Insekt, Monolith, Dive and Sonar.
Belgian pioneers of ebm and minimalist electro-industrial. Also known as The Klinik. See also Dive, Sonar, Monolith.
In 1985, Verhaeghen joined forces with two other bands, Absolute Body Control (with Dirk Ivens and Eric van Wonterghem), and “The Maniacs” (Sandy Nys) to form one “super group” Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs. This rather unwieldy name was soon dropped in favour of the shorter name “The Klinik”. Nys soon left the band to form Hybryds, followed in 1987 by van Wonterghem, leaving The Klinik as the “classic” duo of Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaeghen.
The Klinik soon made a name for themselves with their cold and harsh ebm sound and their live shows, where both Ivens and Verhaeghen performed with their heads wrapped in gauze, wearing long black leather coats. Ivens’ hissing vocals and minimalist lyrics were complemented by Verhaeghen’s synthesizer skills and distorted trombone playing (the latter giving the music a slightly feverish sound). This however, did not last forever; after Time, an album neither member was fully pleased with, musical differences became too great, and they decided to go their separate ways.
Ivens concentrated on his own project Dive, and Verhaeghen continued as Klinik; sometimes as a solo project, sometimes with various other members. Recently, Klinik is a Verhaeghen solo project, making mostly instrumental dark ambient techno.
Most Klinik members have also been active outside the band. Ivens has been in bands such as Absolute Body Control, Dive, Sonar, and Blok 57; Eric van Wonterghem played with Ivens in Absolute Body Control, and has later been part of or collaborating with bands such as Insekt, Monolith, Dive and Sonar.
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Black Leather
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End of the Line (disc 2: Best of 1982-1991)
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Melting Close + Sabotage
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TroubleAngel666 wrote:
I call it Klinik when I mate them (dirk Ivens) and with my friends I say Klinik. Thres CDs with klinik only and the klinik, like the 2 unfortunately pages here in LastFM. Please contact the band or if Dirk Ivens read this go to the another one taht one: The Klinik and upload the albuns like in this page. I would love to make scrooble of some works I get and I cannot. I think its not dificult. Ill apreciate. Thank you.
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Replicant-77 wrote:
KLINIK - actually solo person of Marc Verhaegen. The Klinik - Original old band Dirk Ivens & Marc Verhaegen 1986-1990. In December 2003, the duo reunited for a one-shot celebrative performance at the BIM Festival in Belgium. The huge success and overwhelming requests from fans led to the appearance of The Klinik in the original line up at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig the following year. Other festival appearances followed. In 2009, The Klinik are back as a full time band, with a new studio work to be released in the future. Because of continuing health problems of Marc Verhaegen, it's not sure that he can join The Klinik live on stage in the near future. Therefore, he will concentrate on creating music in his homestudio. The Klinik members anno 2009 are Dirk Ivens (Voice/Lyrics), Marc Verhaegen (Studio Music) and Peter Mastbooms (Live Sounds and Video Images This is not an incorrect tag for The Klinik. Correct is http://www.lastfm.pl/music/The+Klinik
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skalberg242 wrote:
Fucking great concert at Bodyfest!
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jesseleehooker wrote:
Hey if anyone who enjoys this group gets real bored, why don't check out some of my music, i'm heavily influenced by them. http://www.last.fm/music/Jesse+force
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TroubleAngel666 wrote:
Theres to pages of Klinik. The kilinik (1) and Klinik(2). Unfortunately i think its to late to change the profiles. The band of dirk Ivens gets albuns named The Klinik and onathers named Klinik only. This one is more complete. Te another one is there: The Klinik
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vx_GASMAN wrote:
Moving your hands. You're moving your hands.
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Jez333 wrote:
Yet another act that put on a great performance at the Kinetik Festival.
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Current87 wrote:
Das is zajebiste.
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inflikkt wrote:
black leather is so sick
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sublimewreckage wrote:
lol... Klinik [2] (Finnish christian rock band.. currently on hiatus of undetermined length). Anyway... Darkest electro-industrial/ebm pioneers --- ahead of their time.. I know it goes without saying, it's just so great to hear cd comps like "The Kilinik" and "Black Leather" all over again and know where all these modern groups ideas originated.
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motorpussy wrote:
holy shit.
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BelcantoInTheSp wrote:
Long live Belgium:-)
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bsimpson1972 wrote:
Thanks, hypersphere! Thank goodness, I got the CD a few years ago for a reasonable price on Amazon, If I'm not mistaken... ;)
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hypersphere wrote:
@ bsimpson1972: Buy 'Time & Plague' from Hands Productions, sorted :-).
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bsimpson1972 wrote:
The lack of both the "Time" as well as the "Plague" album here on last.fm begs one question: Where the heck have you all been? Seriously!
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syllannibal wrote:
I really really love their album "To the Knife". "Awake" and "Face To Face" are great too.
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bsimpson1972 wrote:
Groundbreakers! Right up there with Portion Control, Cabaret Voltaire, Test Dept. This is music, once you're hooked, that NEVER gets old!
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Violetdusk wrote:
Some of the vocal style remind me of GGFH
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Hrodebert wrote:
Memories-Liquid Child remix ... a mesmerizing track!! fantastic!!
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Frank_Lenthe wrote:
cool.......anyway....
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