Now, Nieuw Hip Stilen was a band from Rotterdam, the members were Maarten van Gent – bass, drums, guitar, percussie and vocals, Jan Willem van Mook – bass, sax, keyboards, percussion and computer and Rutger van Otterloo – sax, drums and percussion....
In 1983 they played at one of the three legendary Pandora's Music Box festivals. Loads and loads of bands played there, basically the cream of the crop of underground bands from those days and this was one of my most favorite performances (as were Psychic TV, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Gun Club, Clock Dva, KIEM and a bunch of other bands.... I was standing in the front of this performance.... A while later, in 1983, I bought a cassette at the great Haddock Record Store in Rotterdam from Nieuw Hip Stilen and the concert at the Pandora's Music Box festival was on that cassette as were eight instrumentals, never released (without the vocals). And this is that cassette.... They only had that one cassette for sale and the mystery is that.... Well, I talked to their front man Maarten (who also played guitar in Rotterdam punk band the Rondos) about this cassette and they never released it, it's a mystery where this tape came from and who put it out....
So there you go, a nice little mystery at the end of 2025.... And great music to boot!
GET IT HERE
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