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SPASMS

is Arno Peeters (1969) who discovered back in '83 that his inability to play an instrument and his lack of musical training didn't necessarily mean he couldn't make music. He gathered together tape-recorders, cassette-players, TV-sets, toys and basically everything else he could get his hands on and got to work. Influenced by people and bands such as Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Psychic TV, Coil and Kraftwerk, he used all kinds of sound to produce his first work. His 'tape music' soon received recognition from fellow fanatics at the Centre for Electronic Music (CEM) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Here his music was labeled 'avant garde'. He released two EP's and one CD on the Belgium Antler Subway-label under the name of Voltage Control. These works contain a rare mixture of Body and New Beat.

But soon afterwards, Arno discovered that these styles didn't reinvent themselves or kept evolving as he had hoped. So he turned away from his untill then biggest love and started experimenting with Techno. He was delighted to discover an underground techno-scene which focussed around the recordlabel Djax-Up-Beats. Djax' Leading Lady Saskia Slegers got interested in Peeters' new work.

Together with Sander Friedeman, working as Random XS, he released two EP's on Djax from which the first became an instant classic, as was the first SPASMS record (Djax 141). He went on to pursue this solo-career and released a second SPASMS album called 'RE Creation EP' (Djax-Up-185). The press labeled it an 'Ambient Techno'- project and it was far more experimental than the first and got a lot of positive reviews. Yet another release followed, the more acid/electro-orientated double 'RE Volt EP' (Djax-Up-220). .