Het Zweet

Het Zweet

Het Zweet (Sweat) was the band project by Marien van Oers, native of Breda in the Netherlands active from 1983 to about 1988. The music consisted of long 10 minute percussion pieces played on self built instruments (shopping trolleys amplified with pickups, blown cardboard tubes etc.) with repetitive shouted vocals by Marien. The music was often placed in the industrial camp and linked with the likes of Test Dept. but in fact Het Zweet were more concerned with tribal music, physicality and trance effects like Z'ev. During concerts he often performed together with other players. Marien Van Oers sadly passed away in 2013. This self-titled album originally came out on the great Dossier label in Germany in 1987. The bonus material included on this reissue consists entirely of previously unreleased material. There's three untitled tracks and two live excerpts presented as long experiences that belie their disparate origins with a unity of sound and purpose. Van Oers percussive nous and distantly yelled chants certainly sound capable of working up a sweat in both the performer and any movement-minded listeners, but maybe the most striking thing about Het Zweet is how vital it still sounds, despite its age and relative obscurity.

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CD - 1 disk
Release date
21-10-2022
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559633
EAN
5052571100721
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. CRY OR LAUGH
2. FROM THE LOWLAND
3. TOPSY TURVY
4. WILD MAN
5. RAM
6. ON EARTH
7. RED ROBE
8. MASSIVE TRANCE
9. UNTITLED
10. UNTITLED
11. UNTITLED
12. LIVE IN ELSLOO
13. LIVE