Summer Holidays Highlights, Audiopleasures 4th Anniversary

Dear champs and champets, yesterday Audiopleasures turned 4 years and i've been a bit absent first cause of my summer holidays and also a bit too lazy to return to my routines, this summer was such a utopia that im still finding ways to take charge over my life.
Here are a bit of the highlights of whats happened while i was away, this year i went to Portugal by car with some friends and that was a hell of an adventure, to cross France was literally hell cause Paris was packed and the road to Bordeaux was so jammed that took us almost 12 hours to get to Bilbao, the rest was piece of cake, spend 3 insanely awesome weeks with my friends on beautiful beaches with gorgeous blue sky's and water, starry nights like we dont see so often any more and was in Vila Nogueira de Azeitão my place of birth, Setubal, Lisbon, Oporto, Leon, Bilbao and San Sebastian that is so gorgeous. After getting back to Holland had some of the best party's of the year waiting, Double party with Sex Beet in Club Tarantula summer edition and at Pacific Park, the all Dutch stars in my favorite place in Holland the "Phoenix 13" in Haarlem. stay tuned for the return of Audiopleasures, love to all, T.

Detachments @ Clube Ferroviário Lisbon 28 April

For the first time in Portugal the London Noir Synth-Pop band opens the live concerts collaboration between Audiopleasures and the super Lisbon Clube Ferroviário

"This enigmatic debut album of synth pop noir from Detachments , some two years in the making, more than distinguishes the band from their contemporaries. The promise and intrigue in the potent jagged Detachments sound that drew such creative luminaries as Andrew Weatherall, Trevor Jackson and Tim Goldsworthy to work with the band has been fully realised here.

Working with James Ford, the bands creative force Bastien Marshal has delivered an album of eleven tracks that belie any comparison with contemporary artists or bands. The eleven tracks included illustrate the Detachments ascendance to a pure synth group."



Watch | Detachments - Audio/Video
Watch | Detachments - The Flowers That Fell
Watch | Detachments - Holiday Romance

"Culled from almost 40 songs, Bastien worked day and night over a ten-day period in Hackney in the bitter snow-dusted cold of late February 2010 (our coldest in some 40 years) an experience which brought to mind the bleakness of Berlin in the midst of winter, a well trodden destination of Bastien’s.

The mutual love Minimal Wave and also the sonic experiments that emanated from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop informed the decision to fully utilise a vast array of vintage synth gear. This direction finessed the sound that seeps through every pore of their album." This Is Not An Exit Records

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29 April Detachments at Body Rock Crew @ Armazém do Chá in Porto

Summer Holidays Highlights

Aloha dear friends, hope you all had a kick ass summer holidays because we sure did, two weeks in Portugal in between Setubal, Azeitão, Lisboa and Sesimbra and as close to the beach as possible, Pocketwankers gigs in Ferroviario Lisbon and Mama Rosa Setubal went very well and we hope to return soon, it was great to see my friends and family and the weather was trilicious.

Next week Audiopleasures will resume regular postings and im ready for season 4, loads and loads of events are planed around Amsterdam in the next couple of month and i cant wait to be in all of them :)