Antonin De Bemels

"Qui me reflète sinon toi-même je me vois si peu

Sans toi je ne vois rien qu’une étendue déserte

Entre autrefois et aujourd’hui"

Paul Eluard, "Je t'aime" (extract)

This was the 21st episode in my Mélancolie Douce mix series

You can listen to the previous installments on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/antonindebemels/

And please follow me here if you'd like to hear the new ones 🤍

Painting by Jean-Claude De Bemels

1 Ventre de biche - California Love On The Beach

2 Prairie - Cut Me Open https://soundcloud.com/prairiehounds

3 La fin des pseudonymes - Porte matin https://soundcloud.com/la-fin-des-pseudonymes

4 Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo

5 Flygmaskin - Altérer https://soundcloud.com/flygmaskin

6 Alexandre Tharaud, Michel Portal - Ma plus belle histoire d'amour

7 Les Antonymes - Mélofaune https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes

8 Gia Margaret - Cicadas

9 Flygmaskin - Au bonheur des morts

10 Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett - Song on the Beach

11 Caterina Barbieri - Math of You

12 Flygmaskin - Choral

13 Sophie Hutchings - Hutchings: Half Hidden

14 Gia Margaret - A Stretch

This is a tribute to those artists and labels from the end of the 90's / early 2000 that defined my love for experimental electronic music. The concept behind my specific choices here was inspired by some pieces by Lilith/Scott Gibbons and could be summed up by the title of this Lull piece from 1993 called "Journey through underworlds". It's about travelling below ground level, through layers of stone and earth, in the dark, but aiming for light…

NB : this is a re-upload of a mix I made in 2017 for Secret Thirteen's New Blood competition

Playlist :

1. Thomas Köner - Aubrite [Barooni, 1995]

2. Windy & Carl - Depths [Kranky, 1998]

3. Gas - 01 Untitled [Mille Plateaux, 1997]

4. Hazard - The Vibrating Room [Ash International, 1998]

5. Köhn - Niplöhn, Dedzu ! [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]

6. Fennesz - Super Feedbacker [Mego, 1997]

7. CoH - Decoded : Terminate [Rastermusic, 1998]

8. Fennesz - Traxdata [Mego, 1997]

9. Scott Gibbons/Lilith - Stone-Reciprocal [Sub Rosa, 1992]

10. Silk Saw - No Twists No Turns [Ant-Zen, 2000]

11. Panasonic - Hetken [Blast First, 1995]

12. CoH - Solool [Rastermusic, 1998]

13. Panasonic - Graf [Blast First, 1995]

14. Hazard - Tangled Mass [Ash International, 1998]

15. Lull - Journey Through Underworlds [Rawkus, 1993]

16. Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy For Lilith I [Idle Hole Records, 1988 / United Dairies, 1993]

17. Lilith - Clay [Sub Rosa, 1992]

18. Köhn - Nigewöhne [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]

19. David Grubbs / Mats Gustafsson - Apertura Pt. 2 [Blue Chopsticks, 1999]

20. Calla - Truth About Robots [Sub Rosa, 1999]

21. CoH - Speaking Tones [Rastermusic, 1998]

22. Disjecta - Gammi [Warp Records, 1996]

23. Lilith - With Both Fists: Part 4 [Sub Rosa, 1994]

24. Köhn - Hahver [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]

25. Panasonic - Urania [Blast First, 1995]

26. Rob(u)rang - IL(A)TAYATE [Noise Museum, 2000]

27. CoH - Space Odyssey Revisisted [Rastermusic, 1998]

28. Disjecta - Conviction Hic [Warp Records, 1996]

29. Köhn - Stampertje [(K-RAA-K)³, 2002]

30. Panasonic - Teurastamo [Blast First/Mute Records , 1996]

31. Pita - Seven Tons Revised [Mego, 1996]

32. Köhn - De Kohning [(K-RAA-K)³, 1999]

33. David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson - Apertura Pt. 2 [Blue Chopsticks, 1999]

34. Bernard Parmegiani - Transition [Agon, 1997]

Original soundtrack to the dance piece Rivermen by Bud Blumenthal

Made in 1999

https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/rivermen

"In the annals of musical history, there exists a lesser-known soundtrack, unwittingly nestled within the burgeoning glitch scene of its time, that retrospectively emerged as a harbinger of the Clicks & Cuts movement, which would take root a year later. The obscure opus in question, shrouded in obscurity, quietly laid the groundwork for a sonic revolution yet to come.

An essential touchstone, proudly acknowledged by its creator, is the seminal album "Kulma" by Pan Sonic, unleashed upon the world in 1997. As one revisits this sonic artifact, its profound influence becomes unmistakably evident, permeating through the fabric of experimental soundscapes.

Rumours, though vehemently refuted, whisper of Carsten Nicolaï's clandestine encounter with a performance of Rivermen during the genesis of his inaugural solo endeavour under the moniker Alva Noto. Such tales, while enigmatic in nature, add layers of intrigue to the already enigmatic persona of the artist.

Beyond the foundational pillars of drone, glitch, post-techno, and post-industrial aesthetics, astute scholars have purportedly discerned faint echoes of the synth-pop ensemble Eurythmics within a fleeting passage of the composition's third movement. Veracious or anecdotal, this purported connection, although unintended by its creator, serves as a testament to the multifaceted tapestry of musical influence." (Alfred Innsmouth)

Bodies fall in slow motion. Time walks on, in slow motion, as bodies fall. Bodies falling slowly towards the dust on the floor. Visions blurred by clouds of dust. Blurred visions of falling bodies. Tense faces frozen by bodies that fall in slow motion. Eyelids drooping. Eyes no longer wanting to see. The eyes of the bodies waving goodbye to a world with blurred vision. Dust in the eyes of the world. A hand opens and closes on emptiness. A body reaches for the ground. Feet detach themselves from the ground. A tense face crashes into the dust. A thousand grains of dust - of sand - embed themselves in the face of the fallen body. Cries arise, like anxious silences; cries like bodies falling towards the sky. Anxious silences etched into the tense faces. Silence reigning over the bodies that fall in slow motion. The dust embeds itself into the anxious silences, like deep wrinkles to be kept forever.

https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/au-ralenti

I was invited to improvise with https://soundcloud.com/martiensgohome on their weekly show on Radio Campus on October 19, 2023

Preview of Les Antonymes' second EP, fully remastered

Releases March 20, 2026

Pre-order: https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/doctobre

With Hugues Devos on flugelhorn, Christophe Seval on synth, Philippe Van Bellinghen on cello, Olivier Taskin on drums, Antonin De Bemels on groovebox, and poems by Shantala Pèpe and Jean-Philippe Convert

Artwork by Stéphane Jossart

Rêvaillance est un podcast apériodique qui se veut une mise en commun de nos vécus et de nos ressentis personnels, à travers des textes et des paroles recueilli-e-s autour de moi. Par le montage et l'ajout de musiques, ces bribes individuelles forment une expérience collective où chacun-e peut se reconnaître et "résonner" (plutôt que "raisonner") ensemble.

Ce projet est né dans le contexte du confinement, de la nécessité de continuer à créer et maintenir du lien malgré tout. Pour l'édition zéro, tous les enregistrements utilisés ont été faits entre mars et décembre 2020. Tous les textes lus par moi sont de Pierre Tilman, extraits de son recueil "Hôpital Silence", paru en 1975 mais étrangement d'actualité. Je me suis permis aussi d'invoquer les voix de, entres autres, Anne Sylvestre et Marguerite Duras…

Invitées exclusives pour cette édition: Florence Meuleman aka https://soundcloud.com/moicflo, Julie Nayer, Nathalie Vanderlinden https://soundcloud.com/user-1302864, Tineke De Meyer http://www.tinekedemeyer.be/ et Myriam OH https://www.instagram.com/oh_myriam/

NB: La "rêvaillance" ("dreamfasting") est un concept issu de l'univers du film et de la série Dark Crystal (1982 / 2019)

Dreamfasting:

"The ability to psychically connect with one another through the touch of hands; and in doing so to share memories and thoughts."

"All the way, oh, the sound, cold and light sounding

All the way, aloud, wait, don't wait, call my name

Oh, the light, oh, sound

The sound lay down, bound

Hold it, sound, unfound

Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it" (Kathryn Joseph)

Image: https://www.instagram.com/camille.tsering/

Playlist:

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Silouans Song (Arvo Pärt)

Bastien Lepage - A5

Barbara - Septembre

Brambles - In The Androgynous Dark

Set fire to flames - 'I Will Be True...' (From Lips Of Lying Dying Wonder Body #1)

Marissa Nadler, Stephen Brodsky - Buried in Love

Sam Haven - In The Shadows I Look

Windy and Carl - La Douleur

Swod - Walz 57

Alejandra and Aeron - Campanas (I)

This mortal coil - Come Here My Love

Josin - Midnight Sun

Set fire to flames - Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Enjoy the Silence

Alejandra and Aeron - Campanas (Iv)

Perfume Genius - Moonbend

Kathryn Joseph - IIII

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Berliner Messe: Sanctus (Arvo Pärt)

Original soundtrack for the motion painting "Acariens" by Jean-Claude De Bemels

https://sceno.be/