Solex goes ULTRA-eighties
Because of the exhibition 'God Save The Queen' at Centraal Museum Utrecht, a lot of people join hands in order to relive the exciting period of 1977-1984. Solex will put in her two cents for the Amsterdam Underground!

26 feb: Hotel V, Amsterdam (between 4 and 6pm, Achievers-Lebowski)
01 mar: W139, Amsterdam (presentation book about ULTRA and magazine Vinyl)

07 apr: Solex with Plus Instruments Melkweg, Amsterdam




..and then there's still the audio map of The Netherlands, as made by The Solex.

Check out the Solex Ahoy teaser!

New Solex vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer record
Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown

Eur: BronzeRat Records (March 1st 2010)
UK and Ireland BronzeRat Records (April 5th 2010)
US and Canada, Australia and NZ: BronzeRat Records (May 11th 2010)

Punk rock royalty Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez have joined forces with Dutch electronic heroine Elisabeth Esselink, for the most exciting collaboration/confrontation since The Jetsons meet The Flinstones. Imagine if you will, a fisticuffs of funk, garage and soul between Captain Beefheart and Ike & Tina, with a sprinkling of hip-hop courtesy of Mike Ladd.

The triumvirate have created a sonic dilemma with Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown! Do you listen or do you dance? Whichever, you’ll have your shrink on speed dial as you contemplate whether it mocks Jesus to have this much fun, what with the apocalypse being just around the corner and all.Amsterdam Throwdown, Kingstreet Showdown! kicks off with the sugar-fix that is “Bon Bon”, a dirty, funky bastard of a concoction, complete with strings.

“Galaxy Man” is an outer-space go-go party with Link Wray’s corpse! “Dog Hit” is a tale of irresponsible pet ownership, as if told by sexed-up and AWOL philharmonic orchestra members on MDMA! “Aapie” is a tribute to our ancestry and invites us to unleash our inner monkey! As you can see, there is something for all tastes.

Throughout, Elisabeth Esselink has ingeniously fattened up a rich tapestry of cool, the perfect canvas for Cristina and Jon, who pepper-spray it with personalized lunacy whilst shrugging off the wannabes scrambling for their plinth.To wit: 3 pioneers. Meet them in the street after dark. There’s gonna be a psychedelic genre-bending knife fight. So don’t forget your scuba fins and get ready to dance! You lucky, lucky bastards you.


Solex on MySpace (more info on Solex Ahoy, an audio-map of the Netherlands)
Solex on Keeping It Peel, the John Peel memorial website.