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(Clicka qua per la versione Italiana)
Dirk Ivens of Klinik launched in 1990 the project Dive.
Their first album for the label Body, later reissued with additions as
First Album (Minus Habens, 1992),
tackled techno beats that were more telluric than the average
in compositions that overflowed with angst and distortions such as the anthemic
There's No Hope, the robotic march of Dead Or Alive and the feverish
So Hard
in the vein of Suicide.
Despite the lengthy
Menticide that closes the album, the other pieces are brief atmospheric vignettes.
The impetus of that work was made even more subtle on the
mini-album
Final Report (Minus Habens, 1991), which contains material originally
recorded under the moniker
Absolute Body Control,
whereas the single
Broken Meat (Minus Habens, 1992) greatly reduced the impact.
After the brief
Live Action (Daft, 1992),
the EP Images (Minus Habens, 1993)
and the album Concrete Jungle (Minus Habens, 1993), in particular the
lengthy
Lust, plunged into more sinister
atmospheres.
Inside Out (Hard) is an anthology and
No Pain No Gain (Discordia, 1994) is a collection of rarities.
Ivens also formed with Guy Van Mieghem of Vomito Negro the project
Blok 57 (Zoth Ommog, 1991), torn between the old sound of
Klinik
(This Is Not America) and rock music (Homecoming), a
program continued with the mini-album Mean Machine (Zoth Ommog, 1993).
Ivens was also active as
Absolute Body Control, which released several self-released cassettes
and the album Eat This (Vuz Records, 1993).
Dive returned with
Grinding Walls (Daft, 1996), a movie soundtrack that employs
Tangerine Dream-style sequencers and industrial sounds,
Snakedressed (1997),
True Lies
(1999),
Behind The Sun
(2004),
Underneath
(2017),
Where Do We Go From Here?
(2020).
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