Anticlub biography

Anticlub is a collective that started in 2005 founded by two notorious underground personalities from Eindhoven. After hitting the streets with their stickers, posters and underground parties, Anticlub was expanding and recruited some more like-minded artists who spread the word fast over the south of Holland. With the underground/ illegal parties they caught the attention of newspapers and even the national TV. A record label called Anticlub followed, releasing mostly techno and electro tracks. After this great run the two notorious personalities went their own way, leaving only one of the originals at Anticlub. A break followed and Anticlub was put into the freezer and the collective took the time to decide on a new direction because it was getting bored with the repetition.

As time went by, new music and a new vibe was born. Anticlub recruited some vocalists and a talented rapper from London to join the gang. This resulted in the collective’s debut album called “Freaks And Followers”. With the album Anticlub shows that besides the pervious events and label activities it is not only a collective that spots and organizes art-related objects, it is also able to create art itself. As Anticlub learned from their past experiences, that doing too much, takes away the focus and satisfaction. With this lesson, Anticlub decided only to focus on producing music and perfecting their incredible and controversial new live act.

As the music needed to be released, Anticlub searched and found a good partner in the less is more label from the same Dutch city. Lessismore was going in a different direction musically and was going through the same phases as Anticlub and that was probably why both parties their faith intertwined and resulted in this “collaboration”. As Anticlub is notorious for being eccentric and non-negotiable, the lessismore label gave them cart blanche to display their artistical, political and corporate believes. But what did the Anticlub style have in common with less is more? On first sight the album has nothing to do with traditional minimalistic music, but the Anticlub album showed a different approach to the lessismore principal. Freaks And Followers was made with minimal use of instruments, as 90% of the productions are made with only the use of one hardware device, this could only be titled as lessismore. The Lessismore principal not seen in the context of doing little, no lessismore in the context of doing more with less, and thus being creative and making your “disadvantage” your strength.

Musically the Anticlub style can be described as cross-over rooted in an area of electronic design. Besides this the underground mentality was key and leading in making this album. Underground is also a term that is being misinterpreted and wrongly use by many. The definition Anticlub uses in the musical context, is not being for sale, not being depended on the money that is being made with the music and having no fear in doing something that the audience does not like. The live act incorporates this state of mind and will be visualized on stage. One can expect total and complete chaos, as a freak circus will pass thru that displays experimental and controversial points of view that not everybody will appreciate. So please do not bring any kids as this is no PG13 show as most nowadays acts are. This show will never see the light of day as it can and will only be preformed in a nightly setting and is sure to be one of those unforgettable shows, with academic sustains and cultural status.