KRAAK

10/01/2025

TODAY: DE NEUS VAN GOD'S GRAND ENTRY INTO THE 25 ~ with special guest Benwa Meneers aka the Venediktos Tempelboomer coming into the Radio Panik studio to share anecdotes about his feted Syne Vuyle Hoeck LP out on onze label last year ~ sound bites, inspirations and probably some more YouTube deep dives on the docket today! PLUS we premiere our saucy new jingle by none other than Bear Bones, Lay Lowtje ➿ trippy radio times from 3:30 to 5:30 CET on radiopanik.org or 105.4 FM in bxlee

09/01/2025

NEXT WEDNESDAY 15/01::: Kraak presents Decimus (us) + Natasha Pirard (be) + Orphids (be)
As per tradition, KRAAK’s Nieuwjaar’s Fête greets the year’s follies in grand style, this time at Etterbeek’s finest cultural establishment Atelier210 💖 Setting the tone for a better 2025 will be three artists that perform the art of ecstasy in their own way: No-Neck Blues Band legend Decimus brings self-disintegration by way of synthetic ragas, Ghentian prodigal child Natasha Pirard unfurls cyclical loopings of time itself, and Brussels duo Orphids combine forces of chaos and order by way of danceable electronica. Hitting the right notes to re-center the self before the year’s rowdiness goes into full swing!

03/01/2025

LAST DAY TO COP OUR FULL DIGITAL DISCOGRAPHY AT 90% OFF! 87 releases for under 60 buckies, not a shabby way to enter the post-listicle era 🤑
& happy new year to all our friends and followees, lots of news and new things happening next week, stay plugged folks ~~~

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27/12/2024

A small blast to end the year 💥
~ listen back to DB & GG's arguably festive end of year Kiosk show, strained dance moves viewable on yt
~ dig some extremely anti-xmas offers on our bandcamp if there's still any bank left in your bank: use winterdisc25 at checkout for 25% off everything/anything (valid till end of January!) PLUS a temporary NINETY (90)% discount on our whole digital discography for a gesture of support to our struggly label operation ~ this one's running till Jan 3!
~ One more DNVG for the year with GG solo in the Panik studio for a most average radio show: little talk and no shenanigans, just plenty of heartfelt tunes to carry one through the slog of the last Friday of 2024
~ these hounds do lead to a forest of youknowwhat! info and links to this and all the above on our kraak.net (or in each image if you wanna get a better look)

Might have one more post left in us but don't hold us to that ~ much love to all!

23/12/2024

Some news for yearly closure & things to come 🐩🐩▶️

Poached from the belated newsletter, with a double Bandcamp promo and some dates for 2025 to burn into your brain.

11/12/2024

RADIO ROUNDUP because there's been a lot of catching up to do! Check out the latest shows and mixes on our resident slots at Kiosk Radio Radio Panik & LYL
1. DB & GG press play in the park ahead of Bouwsel Blastings at de Koer
2. DB solo show at kiosk with some weirdo continental pop seleckshuns ahead of the second Kranky Stars instalment at Muziekcentrum Kinky Star
3. THE RETURN OF DNVG, with some amateur airplay fails by GG and the usual oversharing by both
4. A mix for sleepless nights by GG on our bi-monthly LYL slot
Some shows may have been lost to the ether but not forever! These & more on https://kraak.net/radio 📻

09/12/2024

Photos of the Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok | Ancienne Belgique from last month! Some wild intensity in that backstage catering, thanks to the mysterious alternative teKen for the shots!

Photos de concerts >> alternative teKen

07/12/2024

TONIGHT IN MECHELEN:::: setting up for Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE)
DOORS 7:30pm
Lagno 8:30pm
Ameel Brecht 9:30pm
& then off the show circuit till Jan 15 👀

05/12/2024

Also Saturday at Grambacht::: Ameel Brecht 🤠 Brecht Ameel’s alter for waking dreamscapes rendered with guitar, mandolin, organ and whatever implement available to drone you into surrender. Check out his last kraaking almost exactly two years ago at SMOG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDM41PTn0Y and come clink some glasses with us at Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE) ~~

One part of Razen, deep KRAAK fam ~ guitars, mandolins, violones and whatever stringed or non-stringed tool of elegant collapsehttps://kraak.net/https://kraa...

04/12/2024

SATURDAY AT Grambacht::: LAGNO 💫 Elodie Leneindre’s alter for improvisational pilgrimages on violin and electronics through samples, loops and tonal escapades of the realest order. A true discovery! Check out her gorgeous tape Natural Language
https://dasandereselbst.bandcamp.com/album/natural-language and see/hear in the real at Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE)

LAGNO (Elodie Le Neindre) @ SPETTRO - 5 MAR 2022 BRESCIA ITALY

02/12/2024

THIS SATURDAY 7/12 ~ LAST KRAAK SHOW OF THE 2024 🐉✨ Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE)
Our incidental end-of-year visit to Mechelen's warmest gallery home comes not a moment too late! For this year's collab: the electroacoustic pluckings of Paris-based Lagno, and Ameel Brecht's stringed or non-stringed tools of elegant collapse ~ join us for a last beer-laced buzz to close this buzzed-out year!
Doors at 7:30, first show at 8:30 ~ CHOOSE YR PRICE: 5-7-10 EUR

25/11/2024

THIS THURSDAY 28/11::: KRANKY STARS #2 w/ KOU (FR) + FROM (ES) + De Kat Memwa DJ !! For our penultimate show of 2024 we’re back to barking at the Ghentian moon from the age-old Kinky Star stoop, this time with two off-kilter acts of pop-adjacent sensibilities: KOU's enveloping world of musical quirks prefaced by young FROM’s Spanish bedroom croonings. Plus De Kat Memwa’s musical selection for intros, outros and between-os 🌚 PAY WHAT YOU WANT, ANYTHING YOU WANT 𓃤

22/11/2024

TODAY: DE NEUS VAN GOD, back in full swing at Radio Panik! With a nod to our last two shows of the year 🙃: KRANKY STARS #2 w/ KOU (FR) + FROM (ES) + De Kat Memwa DJ set next week at Kinky Star in Ghent & Grambachting with Lagno (FR) & Ameel Brecht (BE) December 7 at Grambacht Mechelen! Plus some more listens to our latest Venediktian record, new releases of note from friends and buddy labels, and our picks for shows and stuff to do/hear/play/dig in these last weeks of 2024 ~ tune in forever at 105.4 FM in BXL // radiopanik.org everywhere else!

20/11/2024

OUT NOW:::: Venediktos Tempelboom - Syne Vuyle Hoeck LP 👁
Following his 2021 tape Het Vuil Volkske, our favorite long-haired Ghentian vagabond Venediktos Tempelboom drops a new nugget of transcendent guitar spiels on the KRAAK label, this time in solid LP format. With Syne Vuyle Hoeck, the full gamut of the Tempelbomian vernacular reveals itself through the seven pieces that form the album. From primitive Americana to bohemian melancholia with good dousings of Flemish acidity by way of gloomy tape echo, it’s a particular but vast world contained within these dirty corners. Listen & order on our Bandcamp in bio nuuuuu!
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/syne-vuyle-hoeck
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K129
Recorded at Ambacht Studio in 2022-2023
Mixed & mastered by Victor Goemaere
Mastering and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering
300 copies of coal black wax (like Venediktos's heart) featuring original neo-primitive artwork by Felix Baele + sleeve adorned with ghoulie stamp drawn by Benoit Monsieurs and crafted by Dieter Durinck and a broken string memento ~ beheaded trickster knight on the label for those smokey evening listens!

16/11/2024

SETTING UP FOR Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok | Ancienne Belgique
7:00PM DOORS
7:45PM ISHTEMBASHTOK
8:30PM JOOKLOYD
9:30PM VENEDIKTOS TEMPELBOOM
10:30PM EVERYONE OUT
🎭💦

15/11/2024

TOMORROW SATURDAY AT SYNE VUYLE HACKS aka Triple bill presented by Kraak: the strange sonic universe of Ishtembashtok 🗣 Long-haired Ghentian Jeffrey Andréka - also part of the psychedelic jam quartet De Regering Van Treffelijke Zaken alongside the Tempelboom - uses the moniker Ishtembashtok for his myriad musical experiments which range from murky hip hop to Flemish country hymns to garbled garage punk. A one-man band with many tricks under his hat, he’ll be bringing some unhinged compositions to AB Club, using guitar, loopers and a karaoke twist to multi-tracked songs of undisclosed genres. A true discovery for adepts of inscrutable DIY aesthetics and aspiring bedroom producers! Some soundbites over on his bandcamp https://ishtembashtok.bandcamp.com/album/hygiene-technician-other-mistakes and come see what he has in store for us tomorrow at ABClub!

6 track album

14/11/2024

OUT TODAY!!! Venediktos Tempelboom - Syne Vuyle Hoeck LP 👁
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/syne-vuyle-hoeck
Following his 2021 tape Het Vuil Volkske, our favorite long-haired Ghentian vagabond Venediktos Tempelboom drops a new nugget of transcendent guitar spiels on the KRAAK label, this time in solid LP format. With Syne Vuyle Hoeck, the full gamut of the Tempelbomian vernacular reveals itself through the seven pieces that form the album. From primitive Americana to bohemian melancholia with good dousings of Flemish acidity by way of gloomy tape echo, it’s a particular but vast world contained within these dirty corners. Listen and git your copy over on our Bandcamp! And don't miss out on Saturday's release show:: Triple bill presented by Kraak: Venediktos Tempelboom, JOOKLOYD & Ishtembashtok |at AB - Ancienne Belgique 🎭

7 track album