History of the site (from the newest to the old).
Remember : The PopTelex-section (news, sites, releases,
contests ...) is fresh & new on an almost daily basis !!
May 5, 2002
- At this moment only the poptelex on this website is being updated. The bio's, cd-reviews and the forum are still available on this website, but will gradually be transferred to www.muziekcentrum.be. For each bio that will be updated in the future, a link will be placed to www.muziekcentrum.be, where new bio's also will be available.
February 5, 2002
The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives website is now entrusted to the Flanders Music Centre. The Flanders Music Centre is a music information centre established by the Flemish government. More information about the centre can be found on its website, www.muziekcentrum.be.
The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives website will maintain its place on the web untill further notice. Some items on the website will gradually be replaced by items (such as 'news', 'links', 'charts') of www.muziekcentrum.be. The biographies and cd-reviews written by Dirk Houbrechts however will be kept available. In the main time the Flanders Music Centre is developing a new exhaustive website with lots of information on Flemish music. Future plans are too merge the content of both websites. Feel free to contact the Flanders Music Centre (at info@muziekcentrum.be) for more information about both websites
December 16, 2001
The end (read the message in the Telex for more).
November 18
- New bio written about Marc Moulin (and Placebo,
Sam Suffy etc ...)
- New page in the archive: Fence
November 14
- Searching the site has changed somewhat: because it keeps on growing so much,
I had to make three "collections" which you can search : bio's, cd's
and news. Might take you a little bit longer to search, however now everything
is indexed again.
- new cd-review : DAAU "Life Transmission"
- new cd-review : Groep Jezus "Turn up Speed
or Show me Love"
October 17, 2001
- 2 new album reviews : Mauro "Songs from a Bad
Hat" & Fred & The Healers "Electerrified".
- made a new page with all the reviews waiting
to happen (now 35, sigh). There is already a page for each CD, with a tracklist
and details, cover, some audio, reactions in the Belgian press (sometimes), pointers
to info on the web about it, and a prize comparison.
October 6, 2001
- the September edition of the Belpoptop is online
- new band in the Archive, about Chitlin' Fooks
(Americana from Antwerp)
- new artist added : female singer & media-figure Yasmine
August 15, 2001
- new feature in the forum : the startpage
has list of the most recent messages, including those that recently got
a response from someone. Check it out, daily.
- New cd-review : Bar8 "Dwarfish Spectacles"
- and another one : Fluxus "N.O.E."
August 9, 2001
- the July edition of the Belpoptop is online
April 4th 2001
- added a "Shop"-page, where you can get
a quick overview of where you can buy the albums from all these Belgian bands
& artists online at the lowest price.
March 27, 2001
After a long silence on the What's New page: the return of the What's new page
(if you must know: the long pause was used to give the site a major overhaul,
and a few new extra's - reworked forum, an MP3-page,
mores items under each alphabet-letter ...).
Other new items during these months are a bunch of CD-reviews, which you can all
find on their normal spot : the cd-reviews page.
November 16, 2000
- new cd-review : Tongue and their debut "[a]venture"
November 12, 2000
- added a page about the melancholic rockband Tom
Helsen
November 6, 2000
New edidion of the Belpoptop is online, with
lots of changes in the ranking, and lots of new suggestions for the next list.
November 2, 2000
- Added a page in the archive about AngeliCo,
your localised version of Garbage.
- New page added about the rockabilly-surf-psycho-garage of Sin
Alley
November 1, 2000
- added a page about Janez Detd., punkheads
with a sense of pop.
- added some material to the Erik van Neygen page
October 9, 2000
- Added a page about the eighties band Kid Montana
(Jean-Marc Lederman & Dudley Klute)
- Added a few items to the "the press about this site"-page
(Inside Internet Award, interview in Weekkrant ...)
September 24, 2000 :
Most of the links to the Frontstage CD-shop have disappeared from the site, because
I'm totally fed up with their service. So I'm not referring you to their shop
anymore to purchase Belgian music, but to Proxis
instead.
September 12, 2000
- added a new demo-page, about the band Mildew.
4 september 2000
- another new cd presented, the Squeeze-pop of Aiming
Dishes
August 29, 2000
- new cd-review, of the techno-terrorists of Geschmacksverstärker
August 21, 2000
Back from nowhere : the Belpoptop, the chart
in which you can vote for your favourite Belgian artists or bands of this very
moment. New and improved.
August 20, 2000
- added a new bio to the archive, devoted to the folkrock of Kadril
August 16, 2000
- Added a new page in the Archive about seventies singer Bert
de Coninck.
August 10, 2000
added a demo-page about the band Bottom's Dream
August 9, 2000
added an interview with Olivier Adams & Maurice Engelen of Praga
Khan to the interviews section
August 7, 2000
- added a little review of "Seriewoordenaar" by rapcrew ABN
July 31, 2000
- added a review of the El Fish album "Wisteria"
July 26, 2000
added a chat from Frontstage with Luc de Vos of Gorki to the Interviews
page.
July 24, 2000
lost track of this page for a while, but there have been some new pages without
this page mentioning it:
- cd-review of Jaune Toujours with Brusk.
- demo-page about the band Barn Wolf
- cd-review of Thou's brilliant cd "Put us
in Tune"
- cd-review of the dancebeats of Buscemi on "Our
Girl in Havana"
- cd-review of the wacky songs of Kamagurka
on "De Tactloze Top 30"
June 13, 2000
- Added the first breakthrough-band of the year 2000 : Rumplestitchkin
- Changed the search-engine you can use from the bottom of your screen. Less pub.
June 6, 2000
- My PC survived a thunderbolt to bring you a review of Trap
by Dead Man Ray
May 28th, 2000
- Added a new bio-page (been some time!), of the acoustic rock band Venus
May 22nd, 2000
- Added a review of "The Golden Country", by the re-united Metal
Molly
May 15th, 2000
- added a review of the album Janez Detd. by
the punrock band of the same name.
May 8th, 2000
- added a review of the album "Glittering
2000", with Belgian bands covering glam classics
May 2nd, 2000
- added a page about Captain Moon in the "Fresh
Talents"-section.
March 28, 2000
- Added two new page for chansonniers from the South : Jeff
Bodart (ex-Gansters d'Amour) with knickerbockers & cap, and Marc
Morgan (ex-Tricheurs) with beret and glasses.
March 19, 2000
- added a page abous sixties' folk-duo Miek &
Roel
March 12, 2000
- Added a bio of Vive La Fête (dEUS-bass-player
& his girlfriend)
- Added a review of "Attaque Surprise"
of ... Vive La Fête.
- Added a new page in the archive about fifties-diva Jo
Leemans
March 5, 2000
- added a new bio (n° 222), of Volt (with Daan
Stuyven in 1993)
- added a new page about De Legende, literary
rock band.
- added a review of the site by "Het Nederlands
Popinstituut"
23 januari 2000
- new page, about the lofi-jazz-rock-country... of Kiss
My Jazz
- new page, about seventies singer Della Bosiers.
9 januari 2000
- new page in the Archive, about the female girly pop of K3
- added a CD-review, of "Sightseeing" by
Decibel.
1 januari 2000
- new page about Company of State, dark
electrowave 1983-1988
- new page about Rudolf Hecke, flipped underground
1989-1990
- new page about Pop in Wonderland, flipped
pop 1992-1997
November 29, 1999
- Added a page about Està Loco, flamenco-pop
by Rembert De Smet
- Re-wrote the entire Twee Belgen-page, added
some new songs too.
November 27, 1999
- added a page about "Antoylogy", a compilation
album of Toy + re-wrote the bio of that band with
material provided by Mark Vanhoeck.
November 1, 1999
- Added a bio for the wild and wonderful An Pierlé.
- Added a transcript of an interview with me that
was broadcasted last week on Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal.
- Updated the La Muerte page (new sounds too)
- Updated the Pitti Polak bio (new sounds too)
October 25, 1999
- Added a review of "Borlon" by the chansonnier vitriolique Daniel
Hélin.
- Added a review of "D-Day" by the D-Regulators.
October 24, 1999
- Added a page about the mixed-up band Soul Sucker.
- Added a page about the eternal rhythm'n boogie of Give
Buzze.
September 12, 1999
- New Layout in the English part of the site is almost completed
- The fourth Belpoptop is online. A new n°1
and plenty of new suggestions await you.
August 3, 1999
- Added a (rather late) cd-review of Marjan Debaene's
CD "Humanoid".
August 1, 1999
- The very first Belpoptop has been published
online (98 people voted this week).
July 31, 1999
- Added a page about Q with their debut single "Jelly"
in the Beginning Bands-section.
- Added a cd-review of Neon Electronics.
July 25, 1999
- Added an interview with Roos van Acker & Philip Madou of Eden
to the site.
July 23, 1999
- Added a new section to the website, "charts",
with info on the main hitparades in Belgium. Not only that, we've also started
our very own chart, the BelpopTop, containing
the 20 best current pop & rock songs in Belgium. You can vote on who's in
it and on what place, and you might win a CD in doing so.
July 18th, 1999
- The full-text search-function is now with another search engine, that returns
much cleaner results than the one I was using earlier.
July 13th, 1999
- Added a page about Katou, a talented female piano-vocalist
that will launch her debut-single next week.
July 12th, 1999
- Added a review of "Trio Dor", a classical
trio that made it's debut album in conjunction with Radio 3.
July 8th, 1999
- Added a page about Kamino, a brand new band (formerly
"Sven Nijs") that will debut next month.
July 7th, 1999
- Added a page about the cd "Autonome" by JMX
(aka Jean-Marie Aerts & Friends)
For everything older than July 1999, see What's
Older.
For everything older than July 1998, see What's
Older 2.
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