Steven Marx: saxophone, mellotron, Rhodes, Hammond
Dave Houtmeyers: drums, percussion, glockenspiel
Influences
'60s/'70s psychedelic rock - King Crimson - Beatles - Grand Funk Railroad - Led Zep - Pink Floyd - Hawkwind - Flower Travelling Band - The Who - ...
Sounds Like
Hypnos 69 covers a broad territory from Space Jazz, over Prog influenced hard Psych Rock, to more laid back tunes with a spaced out Pink Floyd edge. They are often linked to the stoner-scene, but these four Belgian guys evade that label by embracing so many different forms of music and taking the best aspects of rock over the past 30 years and refine them into a sound of their own, which just never gets boring. "They sound so damn retro, unbelievably melodic and timelessly beautiful".
However, Hypnos 69 has not forgotten how to rock. They are extremely gifted musicians with a passion for playing music, who put their soul, their whole being into their performance on stage. When you've visited one of their shows, you'll know they're capable of conjuring up a massive wall of sound whilst keeping a high level of clarity. They manage to appeal to music lovers from different genres, and they always deliver top class rock'n roll.
Over the past ten years, Hypnos 69 acquired a loyal following wherever they appeared live and one of the band's greatest thrills to date has been the number of venues which immediately request their return and the new fans who instantly fall in love with the band. Their subsequent releases gave them a lot of attention from specialized radio stations and magazines all around the world. Hypnos 69 played hundreds of gigs in Belgium and around, visited some of Europe's finest rock clubs and outdoor & indoor rock festivals including Burg Herzberg Festival (Breitenbach), Roadburn 10th Anniversary (013, Tilburg), Swamp Room Mania (Hannover), Symforce II (013, Tilburg), Crescendo Festival (St Palais sur Mêr), Psychedelic Avengers Festival (Berlin), Stoned from the underground (Erfurt), Sauzipf rocks (Austria). They shared the bill with bands like Motorpsycho, Focus, Hawkwind, Opeth, Brant Bjork and The Bros, Space Ritual, 35007, Dozer, Five Horse Johnson amongst others.The band and musicians were asked to perform with respected musicians as Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet), Alfredo Hernandez (QOTSA, Kyuss, Yawning Man) and Sergio Chotsourian (Los Natas). Guitarist/vocalist Steve Houtmeyers was recently asked to join California jam band Ten East, which includes Gary Arce (Yawning Man, Sort of Quartet) and Greg Ginn (Black Flag).
We are releasing a new song called ''Human'' on our myspace page. This song has been recorded with the new band musicians, Walter Campos on vocals and Rodolfo Iriarte on keyboards. You will finally have the chance to get to know them! Come check out!
Also, I'd like to oficially announce that we have changed the band's name from Ruthless Cry to ''Still Alive''.
Don't forget to check out our new myspace layout and our new song ''Human''!
Wir nehmen an der Aktion Nazis aus dem Takt bringen teil. Mit unserem Song Kopfkino treten wir dafür ein, Grenzen des Denkens abzubauen und kritisch mit sich selbst umzugehen, um Ignoranz und Hass zu überwinden. Mit einem Klick auf folgenden Banner gelangt ihr auf die Seite, auf der ihr für uns stimmen könnt. Man kann bis zum 10.7. täglich seine Stimme abgeben. Das geht ganz schnell und vielleicht können wir dann schon bald auf einem großen Konzert mit vielen namhaften Künstlern unsere Kunde verbreiten. Wir würden uns wahnsinnig über Deine Unterstützung freuen!
While nowadays it often seems like all the Psy Trance labels either reduce the speed of their releases and turn to more and more body-orientated club sounds or crank up the tempo of their music to rather hectic levels, Solar Tech Records delivers an excellent selection of tunes that keeps the golden mean: With tracks between 142 and 145 BPM the music is powerful, driving and very psychedelic on the one hand but also progressive in the original meaning of the word and does not get stressful or kitschy at any point. For this second compilation label owner DJ Natron extended his network of promising producers from South Africa, Switzerland, UK, Germany and South America and again presents some sparking pearls for original Psychedelic lovers.
Solar Atmosphere trifft genau die selten gewordene Mitte zwischen immer langsamer und minimaler werdendem Progressive Trance und den zur Hektik tendierenden Geschwindigkeiten zeitgenössischer Psychedelic Produktionen: Mit 142 – 145 BPM sind die Tracks auf dieser zweiten Compilation des Labels Solar Tech Records treibend, druckvoll und psychedelisch, ohne jedoch stressig oder gar kitschig zu werden.
Hi from Fruits de Mer Records - classic prog, psych, krautrock and acid-folk - unearthed, dusted down and reinterpreted with love, affection and guitars.
Hope you can call in and check us out at www.myspace.com/fdmer2 and www.fruitsdemerrecords.com - new releases featuring Mark Fry and tracks originally by Caravan and The Zombies available now (or very soon) on ludicrously limited 7" colour vinyl.
Or as Record Collector magazine put it, "This is what 7" should be all about"
the new spacerock-album by dave schmidt aka sula bassana. comes in beautiful digipac!
still available:
SULA BASSANA CD-R "Sulatronics 2"
ELECTRIC ORANGE CD "Fleischwerk"
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE CD "Inside Your Head"
LAVA CD "Lava"
ZONE SIX CD "10 Years of Aural Psychedelic Journeys"
ANNOT RÜHL CD "Lost in the Woods"
SULA BASSANA and MODULFIX CD-R "Dämmerung"
SULA BASSANA and MODULFIX CD-R "Half Past Six"
SULA BASSANA CD-R "Endless Winter"
ELECTRIC ORANGE CD "Morbus"
ELECTRIC ORANGE CD "Platte"
SEID CD "Creatures from the Underworld"
and many more!
