Release-Konzert mit ZEA (live) & Knarf Rellöm Arkestra (Dubby King Knarf) (live)

Release concert for the new Krachladen Dub Release "Wat Ik Dacht Toen Ik Lag / ZEA The Dub Remix Album" with:

- ZEA (Arnold de Boer from The Ex) - live
- Knarf Rellöm Arkestra (Dubby King Knarf)- live
- Stefan Yürke - DJ

Doors: 19:00 | Start: 20:00
Admission B.O. only: 10 €.
Tickets only in bar
Drinks at the bar only with ticket!

The album will be released on 16.02.2024 on 12" vinyl and digital! On 17.02.2024 there will be a release concert at OCCII Amsterdam and on 18.02.2024 in Düsseldorf.
You can pre-order the album here:
http://krachladendub.bandcamp.com

or buy it at the merch table at the concert!

Liner notes for the album:
It's the kind of project where the old mad scientist cliché comes into play, "It's mad, but it might work." The madness in this case consists of a motley crew of Andy Moor (The Ex, Amsterdam), Desmond Denker (Cologne), Phanton (Cologne), Yürke (Düsseldorf), Dubby King Knarf (Knarf Rellöm, Hamburg), Istari Lasterfahrer (Hamburg) and Begritty (Cologne) recording their versions of tracks from the demento-a-go-go electro-pop-rock mono-mind called Zea.

How could we resist the spasmodic, schizoid, psychedelic menace of this diabolical Dutch juggernaut called Zea. On this bastardized twelve-inch record, Zea was sonically re-evaluated, dissected and turned on its side. And it had to happen, it had to be done.

"Standing up I forgot what came to mind when I was lying on the kitchen floor. Standing up I forgot what came to mind, something I tried to remember before." It is the punky pop intro to the song "Staande ben ik vergeten wat ik dacht toen ik lag", the Dutch translation of the first sentence of the song that provided the title for this collection of remixes. Zea, aka Arnold de Boer, a musician who skips sitting, who either jumps or lies on the floor fumbling with a dictaphone to remember the ideas that come to his mind, jumps from the couch straight into the kitchen and tries to write the next song while cooking spicy food that makes his head explode. Everything is in there, everyone is in there; shrinking people, growing people, dead people. And all "sub specie ludens" (from the perspective of human play).

Andy Moor and Arnold de Boer are in a band together called The Ex, and with Michael Heiber, the Krachladen Dub label maker and idea generator for this project, they share a love of dub, grime, dubstep, drum & bass, breakcore and much more. Zea, with his idiosyncratic breakpop-sampler-guitar-voice combination, has shared the stage with many weird electronic music artists, from 1-Speed Bike to Felix Kubin and Jason Forrest (who all remixed Zea in 2004) to the Japanese OLOLOLOP and Arakawa Atsushi. And with his friends Desmond Denker (Cologne), Knarf Rellöm, (Hamburg) and Istari Lasterfahrer (Hamburg). So the logic behind this album is not far from a celebration of friendship, and the music is very close to a fundamental experience of wonder and joy. Put this record on and see what comes to mind. Did we say it was essential? It is essential.
Arnold de Boer, November 2023