There is now a CIRCLE RECORDS fan page on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/CircleRecords

Many posts have been added already, with links to videos from nEGAPADRES.3.3., Theee Rebearth Corporation, and old industrial ambient à;GRUMH… tracks.

In 1986, à;GRUMH… toured with Skinny Puppy all over Europe. cEVIN Key, Dwayne and Ogre and us rapidly became good friends due to the promiscuity in our touring van, sound check and… smoking

When we were driving on the roads of Europe, we played lots of silly games. One of them was the Fart Game. Everybody in the crowded van would fart as bad as they could, and whoever opened a window lost the game. S3 used to create these huge noisy farts of several liters of methane, but not smelling that bad. The winner in that game was always Dwayne. His thing white body produced small farts but of deadly capacity. We usually ALL lost to him as it was impossible to breathe after he had emitted his dethly gasses.  We espescially enjoyed this game in Germany, since the highway exits say “AUSFAHRT” which to us sounded a lot like “Out farts” ands triggered the game, or a groupe shouting of “Ausfahrt, Ausfhart, Lekken meine Scheisse”. LOL.

Another habit of ours was to stop at rest areas to take gas, and also fill up with “disgusting food things”, either junk food like pre-packed sandwiches tasting like modelling paste, or chips, banana’s, chocolate, biscuits etc… The habit was called “Chudding” from the movie C.H.U.D. where some monster was living in the sewers of the city. The food we bought being, basically, shit, it was assimilated to shit, ergo sewers, ergo CHUDS – Rot and Assimilate. So each time we stopped at a gas station we yelled “CHUDS” and went raiding the shop for horrible things to nibble on.

Another game we played was NOT to throw our trash anymore but dump it on the floor of the van on purpose, like an ART statement. Trash, papers, wrapping, banana peals, etc, started to pile up to a level of 50cm or more, and was “naturally” flowing out of the van when the doors were opened. We considered the waste as an entity, a growing organism able to reproduce and grow based on the “food” we were prodiving to it. That experiment stopped after 5 days as LIO said it was smelling horribly and he kicked everybody out of the van to clean it and forbid us from starting another bash.

After the tour was over, we had three days off in Brussels before Skinny Puppy had to fly home to Canada, and we decided we should get into a studio and try to improvize something. We got to Paul Delnoy’s studio one full day, and cEVIN and S3 started improvising basic tracks and came up with one long industrial song. cEVIN basically played the drum machine, and then was spending more time on the phone than focused on the project, so it really ended up more a S3 project with cEVIN and the singers, than a real combination of the entire two bands. After the track was completed, J3 and Ogre  improvised some vocals on it. But J3 had got a big cold and was coughing a lot. Dave Ogilvie and Didier Moens were helping Paul Delnoy at the mixing desk.

During the mix, we took off most of J3′s coughing to mix SILENT SORROW that turned out as being the A-Side of the EP, and then, since we saw we wouldn’t have enough time to compose another song and everybody was tired, we just made another mix WITH the coughs and mixed PATIENT SORROW that ended up as the B-Side. The records was released as A CHUD CONVENTION on PIAS/à;GRUMH…’s “Circle Records” label. It sold very minimal at first, but later became a totally cult record. It is revered until now as a very rare piece of industrial music.

Finally, we have added most of à;GRUMH…’s shocking, provoking and sometimes funny lyrics to this site. The page also serves as a visual discography of the most prominent à;GRUMH… albums. Visit the lyrics section and treat yourself!

Amazing.

We were just informed, by the way of famous Brussels new-wave-era rock star Klaus Kläng, that TWO à;GRUMH… albums were listed in the record collection of the legendary JOHN PEEL !

Click on the link and scroll your mouse cursor over the records until AG

http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=A

WOW !!

S3

“We were à;GRUMH… and you were not!”, the new compilation album from à;GRUMH… is now available from Infacted Recordings. Get your own copy today!

The song “S-B” we had composed for the cassette-tape-issued compilation “Mad in Belgium” (1986) is now re-relased on the news compilation from Dirk Ivens’ label.

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CLOSE CIRCUIT CONNECTION – Various Belgian electro / wave artists

Unreleased and rare tracks from the 80ties compiled by Dirk Ivens

MINIMAL MAXIMAL MM004LP – Releasedate 1st of Sept

Ltd edition 520 numbered copies – No re-press !

Orders and wholesale at mmsale@scarlet.be

INSEKT – ‘Subway89’ (Unreleased 1989)

PARADE GROUND – ‘Entertain Me’ (Demo 1984)

à;GRUMH… – ‘S-B’ (Mad In Belgium Tape 4 – 1986)

VITA NOCTIS – ‘My Favorite Waste Of Time’ (Unreleased 1985)

SUICIDE COMMANDO – ‘Batman’s Crime’ (Unreleased 1986)

A SPLIT-SECOND – ‘Hunger V2’ (Demo 1985)

THE KLINIK – ‘Belfast’ (Evergreens 2 – Central Tapes 004 – 1984)

THE ARCH – ‘Do It On Friday’ (Unreleased 1985)

LUC VAN ACKER – ‘When The Good Turns To Bad’ (Unreleased 1985)

LIQUID G. – ‘Regression’ (Unreleased 1989)

THE NEON JUDGEMENT – ‘Sweet Revenge’ (Recorded live @ Arnoz, 1982)

“La Phobie du Cheval”, the new album from S3 & J3′s nEGAPADRES.3.3. has finally arrived from the manufacturer.

The cd’s are superb, the cover is marvellous.

Hermetique records has not yet issued an official release date but the band is scheduling a very private launch party for July 30th…

S3′s first solo album from 1985 “Musiques pour Feux d’Artifice” (Music for Fireworks) under the solo band name Polar Praxis has just been remastered and reissued and is now available from ONDERSTROOM records – direct link.

It is also available in the USA through the label DARK ENTRIES :

http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/?page_id=47

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It is an album of dance/new age electronic music, rhythmic, mixed, effects… that was quite succesful at the time and has now a new youth though this re-release.

It is a COLORED vinyl record, firework style, under glossy cover.

You can now follow à;GRUMH… on tWITTER: @agrumh33

See you there !

S3

S3 shot a movie called PERFECT DRUG for director TOON AERTS, produced by CZAR.

In this movie he plays a motel clerk who eats giant pickels and whose head is then ripped off by a giant tentacule. The beheaded body is then penetrated by another actor (from the belly, dirty minds, you!) and….  The rest on screen !!

You can view pictures from the shooting in this Facebook album.