The Ex HHV Records 12 Items

Blueprints For A Blackout

2LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

28,99 €*

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emerging out of Amsterdam's vibrant squat scene in 1979, The Ex – a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray-painted onto a wall – have for four decades been an entirely self-sustaining musical entity, charting a course through the global underground with a spirit of freedom and radical exploration.

Blueprints For A Blackout, The Ex's fifth album and first double LP, combines caustic studio experimentations and loose songs from their gripping live-set at the time. The band consisted of singer G.W. Sok, guitarist Terrie Ex, two new recruits on bass, Luc and Yoke, and drummer Sabien Witteman, along with a plethora of guests including Mekons' Jon Langford and long-serving sound engineer Dolf Planteijdt, among others.

Originally released in 1984 on the band's own Pig Brother Productions, Blueprints veers from jagged punk explosions to sharply focused improvisations featuring field recordings that would become a hallmark of their subsequent forays into free jazz and experimental music. The overall effect is not unlike the menace of a slowly building winter storm.

Tracks like "Rabble With A Cause," "U.S. Hole" and "Scrub That Scum" stand out as exemplars of this phase of The Ex. Comparisons can be made to contemporaries Einstürzende Neubauten, NoMeansNo and Svätsox as well as later Crass label bands.

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LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

Pokkeherrie

19,96 €* 22,17 € -10%

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emerging out of Amsterdam's vibrant squat scene in 1979, The Ex – a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray-painted onto a wall – have for four decades been an entirely self-sustaining musical entity, charting a course through the global underground with a spirit of freedom and radical exploration.

On 1985's Pokkeherrie (Dutch for "terrible noise"), The Ex return to the more stripped-down instrumentation on their early LPs. A key lineup change would also see the arrival of drummer Kat Bornefeld (whose supple rhythms propel the group to this day).

Recorded at the new location of Koeienverhuur Studio in the basement of storied squat/venue Emma, Pokkeherrie is a testament to the angular momentum of a group in full creative flux. Right from the opening track, bassist Luc Klaasen generates a relentless pulse. Terrie Ex's sparse/acidic guitar and G.W. Sok's impassioned vocals combine in a vein similar to The Minutemen, Flipper or Rudimentary Peni, except The Ex have the patience and wherewithal to sustain their approach beyond just brief explosions.

Perhaps only The Fall from this period can match The Ex's ability to hold a melody together while utilizing otherwise harsh sonic elements over an extended piece, most effectively on "Soviet Threat," "1,000,000 Ashtrays" and "White Liberals."

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LP | 2025 | EU | Original (Ex)

If Your Mirror Breaks

26,99 €*

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In true `Ex fashion', If Your Mirror Breaks picks up where 27 Passports left off, and erupts like a musical short story collection, a ten-partseries of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pulse of time. What time could bemore appropriate to release this album in, as the current one? Arnold de Boer, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Terrie Hessels onceagain impress with their trademark urgency and creativity.Starting from a staccato Walt Whitman poem from 1861 and wrapping things up with the unstoppable, joyful thrust of"Great!", the new album by The Ex is equal parts exploration and determination, with wistful shades accentuating their live wire intensity,unpredictability and sheer determination. Yes, there are moments of doubt and insecurity ("reality is shifting / there is no escape"), ofdistress ("I get desperate / I feel the wide washing of death"), but time and again, perseverance wins. As Bornefeld sings so aptly in herbeautiful contribution "Wheel": "New life force unfolds for those who flow / with the song of their souls."De Boer has a striking way with images. Walls speak, spiders write and turning into an apartment block becomes a life goal.Imagination and language become a refuge, but also weapons in times of loss and division. When you're not afraid to question yourselfand realise, in James Baldwin's words, that "You could be that person / Be that monster, be that cop", you might find a way out of it. It'sthe way we interact that defines us. If Your Mirror Breaks is an album that brims with passion and commitment, with three guitars, voiceand drums ready to revitalize, or overthrow, the old formulas. It is rugged and fierce, connecting the dots between the swaying waltz of"Circuit Breaker" and the overflowing lava energy of "In The Rain". Steve Albini, whom the album is dedicated to, would have approved.With music (and words) as committed, poetic, exciting and imaginative as this, The Ex has made one for the a...

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Blueprints For A Blackout

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ex)

26,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Re-release of the double LP with original artwork.24-page LP-size magazine. Original release date: 1984."It's caustic. A real burner. (...) While still retaining an all important relevant edge to their musical comment , they'veintroduced elements of tunesmithing, attack, decay andcomposition that places them head and shoulders abovetheir contemporaries.""Well-known venom, but the music becomes more experimental(i.e. slower, richer, more stirring, fed by yet ratherremarkable set of instruments) with every new release."Recorded at Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Schellingwoude, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt + JonLangford.THE EX: Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Luc(bass), Yoke (bass), Sabien (drums), plus doublebass,organ, violin, oil-barrels, accordion, beercrates,piano. Guest musicians - Kees (oboe,flute, saxes), Jon Langford (marimba, rhythmbox,guitar), Dolf Planteijdt (guitar, drums), Vazant(sax), Marcel (marimba, drums), Adrie (drums),Bas (bass, double-bass), Ferrie (trumpet).

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ex)

Tumult

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gatefold Lp + B1-Poster."Tumult", Recorded At Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Schellingwoude, Netherlands, Jan. 10-19 1983. Produced By Dolf Planteijdt + Jon Langford. Original Release-Date: 1983.The Ex: Terrie (Guitar), G.W. Sok (Vocals),Bas (Bass), Sabien (Drums)."Music Of Malcontents, Rebellion And Impotent Rage About Everything That Is Wrong In This World... But They're Quite Aware Themselves, Too, That Reality Is Not Always Black And White... What They Lack In Pure Originality, Gets Compensated By Their Passion And Devotion. In A Time During Which Many Of Their Contemporaries Have Switched Their Brain Off, The Primeval Music Of The Ex Sounds Really Beneficial."Re-Release Of The Original The Ex Lp's! Completely In The Original Version. With All Artwork, Posters, Booklets And Flyers.

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ex)

Dignity Of Labour

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Re-Release Of The Singles Box, Now On Lp. Original Release Date: 1983. With All Original Artwork, A2 Poster And 16- Page Photo-Booklet."This Package Continues The Dance Of The Dispossessed, With A Thick Atmospheric Reconstruction Of A Factory's Death... The Ultimate Urban Blues, A Soundtrack That Sounds Like A Manic Collision Between Neubauten And The Gang Of Four.""Hammer Hard Beats With An Ever Present Human Touch Throb Along Mechanically. Man And Machine In Perfect Harmony You Might Say."The Ex: Terrie (Guitar), G.W. Sok (Vocals), Bas (Bass), Sabien (Drums) + Accordion, Double-Bass, Woodblocks,Percussion, Noise, Pile Driver, Bus Engine, Printing Press, Radio Commercials. Guest Musicians - Marcel (Drums), Rinus (Saxophone), Dolf Planteijdt (Guitar).

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Disturbing Domestic Peace

LP+7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Ex)

24,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Re-release of the very first The Ex LP from 1980!Completely in the original version. With all artwork, posters, booklets and flyers. All on the `different' The Ex record labels: Disturbing Domestic Peace on `Verrecords', the Live Skive 7" on `Eh Records'.Released 40 years ago, but still up-to-date and exciting!"This is prime stuff. It's primitive when compared with their current wide-ranging output, but even then they were embellishing their scratchy politico-punk with some interesting instrumental touches."Disturbing Domestic Peace (EX 004/005)Recorded at Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Schellingwoude, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt. (1980)+ Live Skive 7"Live recording at Drieluyck, Zaandam. August 30,1980.THE EX: Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Bas (bass), Ome Geurt (drums)

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History Is What's Happening

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ex)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Re-release of the second The Ex LP from 1982!Completely in the original version. With all artwork, posters, booklets and flyers. All on the `different' The Ex record labels: History IS What's Happening on `More Dirt per Minute Records'. Released nearly 40 years ago, but still up-to-date and exciting! "20 short songs, and this music is not pogo, but, hm, rather unusual. A signpost diversion from punkrock."History IS What's Happening (EX008)Recorded in 1982 at Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Schellingwoude, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.THE EX: Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Bas (bass), Wim (drums).

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7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Ex)

Great! / The Evidence

11,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Few bands are as focused on potential challenges, on what is yet to come, as The Ex. Which is prettyremarkable for a band celebrating 45 years of existence, a turbulent journey filled with an impressiveseries of highlights. However, nostalgia has never been this band's forte, as they like no other succeedin reinventing themselves, finding new alliances and fascinating challenges along the way. Stay outof that comfort zone for long enough and it just might disappear.The pandemic was a standstill for many, including The Ex. Or perhaps it was more a kind of recharging,as the band is back on national and international stages with new music, ready to return to thestudio.So, in 45 years they did more than 2000 concerts in 45 countries. It was time for a new 45rpm7" single. From the brand-new set they are playing full-on this year, they picked two blinking tracks:`Great!' and 'The Evidence'. Urgent, willful, adventurous, open hearted and joyfully obstinate. Assuch, The Ex remains true to that one, indestructible adage: forward in all directions!

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ex)

Pokkeherrie

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Re-release of the POKKEHERRIE LP! including original A2-poster and LP-size booklet. Original release date: 1985. "The Ex, with `Pokkeherrie' have produced a masterfulkiller weapon of raw power that rattles upthe spine into numbed pink brain cells and fills thevacuum with social issue.""They've done it again. While they maintain melody,dissonance, moodiness, and a hard edge, theycontinue to grow and encompass many styles.Their integrity is rock hard and dependable.""Subtleties, intricacies, complexities, repetitions,basic noise."Recorded in 1985 at Emma's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt. THE EX: Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Luc (bass), Katrin (drums).

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ex)

Too Many Cowboys

45,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Originally released in 1987, this reissue comes completely like the original release and includes newspaper & poster/lyrics-sheet."These fervent Dutch activists are seeking to hijack the trad rock format and fly it to their very own Cuba.""The Ex create music that's abrasive, driving and challenging, much of it recorded live, shards of guitar, bass and drums coalescing like jagged pieces of a puzzle, pumped up by influences that introduce the post-punk jar of Gang of Four, The Fall and Sonic Youth, and the spirit and experimentation of Crass, albeit more accessible. Intelligent, intriguing and well-executed."Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), John (vocals), Luc (bass), Katrin (drums).Recorded by Dolf (between October 16 and 26, 1986), in 't Paard - Den Haag, Vrije Vloer - Utrecht, Debarak - Zutphen, De Ark - Anna Paulowna, and Emma's Koeienverhuurbedrijf - Amsterdam, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ex)

Aural Guerilla

37,99 €*