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Live Happily While Waiting For Death
| Label | Wool-E Discs – WED084Dans Les Profondeurs – DLP004 |
| Format | CD, Album, Limited Edition |
| Barcode | 7438205696620 |
| Country | Belgium |
| Released | 26 Sep 2021 |
| Genre | Electronic, Rock |
| Style | Coldwave |
Lessines, Belgium, mid-1980s. The city that saw the birth of surrealist artists such as Rene Magritteor Louis Scutenaire looked like a musical desert. Three friends decided to create a band: voice, bassguitar and analog synths. Later, two other guys joined them.The Ultimate Dreamers are influenced by Belgian cold wave and British post-punk music but theteenagers explored their own way. The frigid, organic tones tainted with melancholy melodies maybecatchy, maybe verging on the dissonant, serve as a backdrop for themes dominated by raw dreams,distressed love and social criticism. Between 1986 and 1990, they wrote and self-recorded numeroustracks at home before falling asleep.Thirty years on, COVID oblige, the recordings resurfaced and were brought to the ear of Dimitri, therecord label magnate behind Wool-E Discs, who immediately offers an album deal. After selection andmastering, 11 tracks were to be selected for the LP and another 10 as bonus tracks for the CD, allunder the banner of Live Happily While Waiting For Death.
| 1 | I Love You?! | 3:34 |
| 2 | Japanese Death | 3:00 |
| 3 | Drifting Feelings | 3:11 |
| 4 | Never Die | 4:56 |
| 5 | Female Zone | 4:22 |
| 6 | Education | 2:48 |
| 7 | Funeral Waltz | 3:59 |
| 8 | Crystal Man | 2:32 |
| 9 | I Hate You?! | 2:44 |
| 10 | Bekasi | 4:09 |
| 11 | A Long Time Ago | 4:11 |
| 12 | Laughing Furniture | 3:30 |
| 13 | Nameless | 2:41 |
| 14 | No Matter | 4:16 |
| 15 | Don't Let Me Go | 4:00 |
| 16 | Don't Pray For Us | 4:08 |
| 17 | Mystery & Pictures | 2:45 |
| 18 | I Want A Twin | 3:25 |
| 19 | Fatal Fall | 3:02 |
| 20 | S'envoler | 7:24 |
| 21 | The Game (Live) | 4:14 |
Design – Frédéric Cotton
Design – Valentine Blanco
Mastered By, Restoration – Frédéric Alstadt
Written-By, Recorded By, Composed By – The Ultimate Dreamers
Design – Valentine Blanco
Mastered By, Restoration – Frédéric Alstadt
Written-By, Recorded By, Composed By – The Ultimate Dreamers
Written, composed and recorded in Lessines, Belgium (1986-1990).
Restored, mastered and cut by Frédéric Alstadt at Mont Analogue (2021).
Pictures by Duquenne (1934) - Lessines Cemetery (Arch, Henry Lacoste)
Cold Thanks to Valentine, Dimitri & Factory Records
The CD version comes in a Digipak with 10 bonus tracks.
Track times are taken from PC
Restored, mastered and cut by Frédéric Alstadt at Mont Analogue (2021).
Pictures by Duquenne (1934) - Lessines Cemetery (Arch, Henry Lacoste)
Cold Thanks to Valentine, Dimitri & Factory Records
The CD version comes in a Digipak with 10 bonus tracks.
Track times are taken from PC
Barcode – 7 0438205 696620