STYLE...... EBM, Industrial, New Beat, Minimal Synth
LABEL...... Mecanica
QUALITY..... 320kbps / FLAC
COUNTRY... Belgium
Schicksal is the alias of Rudi Huybrechts coming from Hoboken, a small
town near Antwerp. He started experimenting with synths and drum
computers in 1982. Heavily inspired by Front 242 first album
“Geography”, DAF’s elektronische körpermusik “Alles Ist Gut” and
Kraftwerk’s “Man Machine” and “Computer World”, Rudi spent lot of hours
programming and composing at home with just some gear and a tape
recorder. Some of these tracks appeared on local compilations but it was
not until the hype of New Beat in Belgium that Schicksal gained a real
attention. In 1988 Rudi persuaded Marc Grouls, the resident DJ of
discotheque Prestige in Antwerp, to play the track “24 hours”. All the
people on the dancefloor just got wild and the next day Schicksal signed
a contract with Maurice Engelen for the release of a maxi-single on
Subway Records.
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