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A Split-Second playing 1st NYC show in 25 Years +++ belated pics from Crash Course in Science @ LPR & more

photos by Phil Maler

Crash Course in Science @ LPR, 8/8/2013
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Belgians A Split-Second will hit NYC for a rare appearance at Drom on December 7 — their only North American appearance, and first American show in 25 years(!). Tickets are on sale and Crash Course in Science will support. For the unfamiliar, A Split-Second is considered to be a pivotal band in the industrial-related EBM movement, along with names like Front 242, Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb and others:

After the Belgian synth pop group Extraballe disbanded, Mark Ickx joined up with Chrismar Chayell to form A Split Second, which debuted in 1986 with the dance single “Flesh.” The duo quickly took a detour into more industrial sounds with their next single, “Rigor Mortis”; both those tracks and others were compiled on their eponymous debut American EP, which followed their first Belgian album, 1987’s Ballistic Statues, by a year. A Split Second’s sound had by now coalesced into a mix of programmed industrial beats, synthesizers, heavily distorted guitars, and alternately melodic and vicious vocals; unsurprisingly, they were signed in America to the Wax Trax! label, which issued From the Inside in 1988. A number of singles and EPs followed on both Wax Trax! and the Belgian Antler-Subway label, some later taken from the 1990 album Kiss of Fury, which found the group switching to Caroline for U.S. distribution. Little new material was heard from A Split Second until 1995, when the duo returned with Vengeance.

You can stream a few A Split-Second tracks below..

Crash Course in Science, meanwhile, recently headlined Le Poisson Rouge with a little help from Xeno & Oaklander, and belated pictures from that performance on August 8 are available below.

And speaking of Xeno & Oaklander, you can check out the pair at Union Pool on September 13 with Bootblacks and Tempers, part of the ongoing RITUALS series. Tickets are on sale. As mentioned, the pair have a new video for an LP out this fall.

Last but not least, catch the-X&O-related-band Martial Canterel at Cameo on August 31, when he headlines the space with Figure Study, Forma and Hot Guts (tickets).

More pics from LPR and a selection of tracks by A Split Second are below…

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