Het Zweet - HET ZWEET - ARCHIVES VOL. I ('82-'88) [2LP+CD]

Format: 2LP+CD
Catalogue No.: MALP03
Release Date: 27 Feb 2023
Genre: Industrial/Noise

01 VOICE OF CALAMITY
02 ZANGSTUK & PERC
03 EXCUSE
04 BLACKS
05 ZANE - INSTRO
06 MASIVE TRANCE
07 T L NR18
08 TOTENTANZ
09 ATTACK
10 STEM GELUIDEN
11 INDUS I
12 MATO GROSSO
13 EIGEN OPNAME
14 PROEF OPNAME
15 UNTITLED
16 RADIO TROMMELS

Modal Analysis proudly presents Het Zweet - Archives Volume 1: 1982-1988, a compilation of the Dutch outsider legend painstakingly picked from over 100 hours of unheard tape. An early electronic pioneer who deployed an array of homemade instruments alongside synths and a tape recorder to craft his searching sound, Marien Van Oers occupies a lonely branch on the tree of this music's early efforts, sliding between pounding industrial grooves, ambient fragments, and extended, entrancing compositions bridging this divide. Most closely akin to Muslimgauze, Test Dept. or Fad Gadget, who shared his outsider practice while remaining thoroughly entrenched in contemporary sounds, Het Zweet is striking for his diversity and for its meticulous composition, formed of carefully arranged layers of sonic detritus culled from his collection of homemade devices and electronic distortions. Finally rising to greater exposure since his death in 2013, Modal Analysis passionately continues this mission with our first volume of archives dedicated to the memory of this bold innovator gone before his time.