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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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End of the Line
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noisethief wrote:
I just found "Fever" and "Plague" today, both on vinyl. Awesome!
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Smirnon wrote:
Black Leather is truly a landmark industrial album
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bsimpson1972 wrote:
Like one of my pen-pals described it so many, many years ago: The musical equivalent of an empty, white room lit with lots of neon-lights..... GRAND!
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bsimpson1972 wrote:
They are/were the best! Harbingers of so many things to come! At the time, they easily killed ANYONE in the genre!!!!!!!
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syllannibal wrote:
Hi everyone, listen to this song and check out the whole album if you liked it, thanks! http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/187606470/Boring.mp3
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FLORIAN_DARK wrote:
Биопсихоз тут вообще не причём melae4ko,Биопсихоз вообще произошёл намного позднее а Клиника гдето в 1982 году.
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Melancholic wrote:
Really Mario? But there's so much of it in your charts...
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Lord-Sagoth wrote:
> так вот под кого биопсихоз косит. nice! Какой в жопу биопсихоз, они с Klinik и рядом не валялись. Очнись!
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hurricane_mario wrote:
ive never heard anything just straight bad before. wow.
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PrimitiveInds wrote:
Also, 'Black Leather' says "Klinik" and 'Melting Close + Sabotage' says "The Klinik".
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syllannibal wrote:
Wikipedia, Discogs and MusicBrainz says "Klinik", Dirk Ivens official website says "The Klinik", so...?
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frequen-c wrote:
i love the klinik
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LordHali wrote:
New electronic/electro-industrial/EBM-ish/partially experimental album out! Check out and listen freely at: VäXELVERKAN - Interaction
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DAVERUIZ wrote:
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ALEXinTRANCE wrote:
" Klinik " mythical artist ... !! not comments….
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skinnydrifter wrote:
;) wow, explicit comments
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nightambulance wrote:
Soundtrack to my rape fantasies. :)
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Le-Samurai wrote:
a LEGEND .)
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unaesthetic wrote:
hank0242: the klinik guys had nothing to do with cyberaktif. that was bill leeb, with cevin key and dwayne goettel from skinny puppy. blixa guested on two tracks (vocals on "paradiessiets" and piano/fx on "meltdown"). but dive and sonar are both great projects. and noise unit is kinda fun but way less hard.
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square_m wrote:
both Klinik and The Klinik name variations are used by Marc, just refer to cd covers and dont say stupid things. for example http://www.discogs.com/image/R-306009-1137519268.jpeg
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Projeto Ferro Velho apresenta pela 1ª vez no Brasil: THE KLINIK!
Inferno Club, São Paulo, Brazil
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TolxloT, arthropodlove, Sex_polizei and 1 other person added Klinik to their libraries. yesterday morning
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mustweburn wrote about Klinik in setlist ebm floor Slimelight 06.02.10. Sunday afternoon
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life4ms, gullit1334, betty-splendens and 5 other people added Klinik to their libraries. Sunday afternoon
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Karppaky tagged Klinik with minimal electro, electronic, electro-industrial and one other tag. Wednesday evening
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VomitoLonne and bearhawker added Klinik to their libraries. Wednesday afternoon
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CromoRed connected Klinik to the group Zona Industrial. last week
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djgizmoe tagged Klinik with ‘industrial’. last week
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djgizmoe, kirstyfirefly, mart242 and 2 other people added Klinik to their libraries. last week
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odin242 wrote about Klinik in Playlist 22.01.2010 Odin Hour 21.45 - 0.45 auf Neurobeat Radio. last month
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villa-in added Klinik to villa-in’s library. last month
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setlist ebm floor Slimelight 06.02.10
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Playlist 22.01.2010 Odin Hour 21.45 - 0.45 auf Neurobeat Radio
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