From Aksak Maboul to Crammed Discs, Marc Hollander Envisions a Musical Melting Pot


"'Growing up in Belgium, there wasn’t just one dominant scene or style of music,' says Marc Hollander, who founded Aksak Maboul with his friend Vincent Kenis in Brussels in the spring of 1977. ... Described as 'a significant record…way ahead of its time' by Gilles Peterson, Onze danses pour combattre la migraine was a visionary album that incorporated minimalism, fake jazz, avant-pop, world exotica, and proto-techno into something that is still hard to pin down more than 40 years later. Released on Marc Moulin’s short-lived Kamikaze label, the LP would create the template for Hollander’s own Crammed Discs imprint, which he formed in 1980 to release Aksak Maboul’s second LP Un Peu de l’Âme des Bandits...."
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2014 November: Aksak Maboul, 2017 July: Made to Measure, Vol. 1 (1984), 2018 February: Before And After Bandits: Marc Hollander Of Aksak Maboul & Crammed Discs, 2020 March: Tout a une fin / Blaue Bleistift (2020), 2020 August: Aksak Maboul ‎– Figures (2020)

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