RFI: Dutch acts/genres that have broken in the rest of the world.

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Apart from Gabba and Vitalic I can't think of so many... anyone?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ex?

― bohford, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Weren't 2 Unlimited Dutch?

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Golden Earring? and Shocking Blue, of course...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Vitalic is not Dutch I guess, but Bettie Serveert, Urban Dance Squad, Tiesto, Shocking Blue, Golden Earring, Solex, I-F, Sander Kleinenberg?

― sander, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

they had also a couple of excellent freakbeat groups in the 60's...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Focus were Dutch.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the nightblooms - they released a pretty good indie pop lp on fire in the 90s. kinda teenage fanclub-like

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

but obviously they didn't hit it big!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Bettie Serveert

Um, The Cats?

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry for repeating Bettie Serveert, but I think they rate it. I also heart the Nightblooms.

And there's Legendary Pink Dots, a "rest of the world" act that broke big in the Netherlands.

One of those excellent freakbeat groups was Group 1850 - obv never made it big, but man they blow me away.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Group 1850 were great - their _Agemo's trip_ album is a mini-classic.
I like also what I heard from bands like the Motions and Q65: savage garage rock, more American than British in its tone.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll 3rd or 4th the Nightblooms and Bettie Serveert. I just got a load of Nightblooms records for cheap off Ebay! :D

I LOVE Bettie Serveert's cover of "I'll Keep It With Mine" from the I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack.

― marvin wang (marvin wang), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like the album CQ by the Outsiders.
And there was a good 2cd comp of new rock (Int'l Noise Conspiracy, etc) and old rock (60's freakbeat and assorted oddities) called Who Will Buy These Wonderful Evils? that I reviewed for college radio that was brilliant. Well, the sixties disc was, anyway.
Bo Hansson!

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Shoot. Just realized that comp and Bo Hansson are Swedish. Sorry.
But the Outsiders. They're Dutch!

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

GRUPPO SPORTIVO, people!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Herman Brood.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam Curry. hah!

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Holiday Rap from... DJ Sven and ... fuck I can't remember the MC's name.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Miker G.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Adam Curry's an act. I think we traded that Tom guy for him...a goodwill exchange of sort.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Gathering are a Dutch band with a decent int'l following.

― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

VAN HALEN, for fuck's sake!!!!

― matulageci (matulageci), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Georg Baker Selection had a couple of hits in the Seventies, Little Green Bag and Una Paloma Blanca. They were from Volendam, one of the biggest tourist traps in Holland. Golden Earring (still going!) and Shocking Blue were probably the biggest. The latter are extensively sampled on the new Prodigy album!

One-hit-wonder Taco had a US Number 1 in 1982 or 3 with Puttin' on the Ritz. Mai Tai had a couple of UK Top Twenty hits in 1985. Urban Dance Squad had a US Top Ten hit in 1989.

Junkie XL aka JXL had a massive hit with that Elvis remix. He lives in LA now, and has remixed the new Britney single.

More underground but nevertheless international succes in dance music: I-f, Orlando Voorn aka Fix (he is based in Detroit now, part of the Submerge crew), Legowelt, Funckarma.

The Netherlands have been doing quite poorly compared to non-English speaking European countries like Sweden, Germany and France, probably.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

If Van Halen is a Dutch act, then Metallica are Danish.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Saxophonist Candy Dulfer is starring in Prince's current, very succesful US tour. Her dad Hans (also a saxophonist) is big in Japan.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No, cuz there's only one Ullrich, but two Van Halens :-)

― matulageci (matulageci), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My boss used to play the guitar in the Minny Pops. They've done Peel Sessions!

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Solex have been doing alright, on an underground level. New album in September!

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Netherlands have been doing quite poorly compared to non-English speaking European countries like Sweden, Germany and France, probably".

...but infinitely better than Italy...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that might be a shorter thread, at least until people started bringing up the brief vogue for Romanesque pop crooners back in the 50s.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, the crooners! maybe we can consider Italian even Dean Martin...truth is, with a couple of exceptions, that Italians are mostly about pomp & circumstance but simply can't rock.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Marco, you've got to start (or revive?) an Italian music thread! If only so that ILM can once again rehash the glories of Chrisma.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

well, Chrisma were REALLY a great band - probably the only Italian band able to cook something interesting out of the whole new wave/ post punk scene. Of course, they're criminally underrated in my country.
Well, I should start a thread only to describe how moronic and annoying were our Seventies - and this was by far our most musically interesting period!

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My prog-rockin' friend rates the Italian bands highly: Banco, PFM, Goblin & that lot. Like you say, pomp & circumstance.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And we recently saw a revival of this thread:

Search: classic, overlooked Italian pop and disco

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

JOOST VISSER owns this thread. i love him so much.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD BLESS ILX POSTER BAKED BEAN TEETH FOR UNLEASHING THIS ON MY EARS. :-D !!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Tee Set - "Ma Belle Amie"

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Speedy J

― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Tulips, Hash, Clogs, The Windmills, Bike, Dykehouse?

all purveyors of fine ... Clogrock?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

serious answer: Family Underground (formerly F.L.O.W.E.R.) are pretty grand. like a Double-Dutch Leopards. aw, cmon. i couldn't resist.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't Junior Senior dutch?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh, no.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

steve rachmad/sterac

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sensurreal (and breakout star Gert "Gerd" Jan-Bijl), Stefan Robbers, Erwin van Moll, David Caron, Sonar Lodge, Unit Moebius, RA-X, Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks, Radboud Mens, and the rest of the Staalplaat-Bottrop Boy-V2-Korm Plastics-(etc.) crew, EEM pioneers Dick Raaijmakers and Jan Boerman, ...

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

...but infinitely better than Italy...

Only if you exclude the Italo disco continuum (from the 70s up to and including Eiffel 65/Gigi D'Agostino).

steve rachmad/sterac

Damn right. One of my favourite producers.

And Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Michel de Hey and tons of other DJ's obviously. As far as genres go, Holland can credibly claim responsibility for gabber, "new school" trance, hardstyle, happy hardcore.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and the Vengaboys.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mind you, We Like To Party. is a killer song. Best Dutch album ever, possibly: Public Energy No. 1 by Speedy J.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Weren't Nemo Dutch? They were sort of on the same level as the Nightblooms at one point, I think. Their first album got a US release and it's kind of fun fake Pixies, though probably too goofy to win over US fans.

The core of the Nightblooms still record as Safe Home...sounds like the slow song on each Nightblooms album. Nice, but not as good as the old band's huge guitar sound.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Gygax!, thanks for the Joost V. love -- I still hold a fond place in my heart for that album.

Also worth hunting down is the De Artsen album Conny Waves with a Shell -- Joost Visser sings, and the core of Bettie Serveert backs him up.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Laid Back of "White Horse" fame were Dutch, and aren't the Raveonettes?

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Laid Back & the Raveonettes are Danish...

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Thursday, 29 July 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Do any of the hardcore acts count as 'big in the rest of the world' cos they were mostly only big in Scotland/North of england, Milwaukee and Brooklyn, but they were big:

Paul Elstak
Party Animals
Dye Witness

and my personal favourites: Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of the Vengaboys (well, Job did) they appear to have a single in the Indian charts. It's either a) not them and a different act is using the name b) a typo, or c) just the producers rather than the front-act. Anyone able to shed light?

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'm not mistaken, I haven't seen DJ Tiësto mentioned here. He's produced a fair few successful singles as well...

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Weren't 2 Unlimited Dutch?

No, nor was Nemo. Although the front guy and girl were Dutch, the man behind it was Belgian (and a good friend of the man behind Technotronic). Never liked Nemo much, I was more a Metal Molly fan.

As far as genres go, Holland can credibly claim responsibility for gabber

Let's say they are *accused*. Noone else would take the blame. ;-)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

BBT writes:

Also worth hunting down is the De Artsen album Conny Waves with a Shell

Yes!!! A great one.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty years pass...

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top 10 desert island picks from Arnold of the Ex and of Zea

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 16:31 (ten months ago)

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