Lords of Acid
Encyclopedia
Lords of Acid is a Belgian
-American
post-industrial/techno band, led by musician Praga Khan
. They debuted with the controversial new beat
single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988. Created by Jade 4U, Praga Khan, and Olivier Adams; their debut album, 1991's Lust (along with additional singles
"Rough Sex" and "I Must Increase My Bust"), were critically acclaimed within the electronic music
and dance music
communities for their outrageously sexual
lyrics
and sound samples
. Their second album was Voodoo-U
, which featured a more industrial
sound. This was followed by Our Little Secret
(1997), Heaven Is an Orgasm
(1998) and Expand Your Head
(1999). In 2000 they released a more rock
-influenced album entitled Farstucker
and in 2003, after being in the business for fifteen years, released a greatest hits album called Greatest T*ts.
Their fans formed an online community called the Children of Acid.
In 2010 after being silent for almost ten years, Praga Khan announced a new EP, "Little Mighty Rabbit," was in the works with a Sept. 27, 2011 release date. A currently untitled full-length album is set to follow with an expected release in February 2012. Confirmed tracks for the album are "Children of Acid," "Paranormal Energy" with Zak Bagans, and "Pop That Tooshie" with Alana Evans
,
Lords of Acid's soundtrack credits include Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
, Sliver
, Strange Days
, Bad Lieutenant
and Paparazzi.
Key former members
Other contributors
, based on the controversial video game Mortal Kombat performing as The Immortals Jade 4U did backing vocals on "Kano (Use Your Might)"
Lords of Acid also performed under the name Digital Orgasm, with a less sex
-based and more rave
-influenced sound. Other pseudonyms included Channel X and 101.
Lords of Acid made a cameo appearance in an adult pornographic film 54, performing "Finger Lickin' Good", "Stripper" and "Stoned on Love Again".
Lords of Acid has also explored other genres of music such as hip hop
and R&B
, disco
, rap
, pop
, jazz
, Latin, reggae
, folk
and country
.
Although being named the "Queen of New Beat", Jade 4 U had expressed her distaste for the genre in the beginning.
Co-founder Olivier Adams is the heir to the Stella Artois
beer fortune.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
post-industrial/techno band, led by musician Praga Khan
Praga Khan
Praga Khan is a Belgian techno musician, primarily in the new beat style.-Overview:Praga Khan is one of the pioneers of the new beat / acid house / rave sound, and has contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in The Next Dimension and Code Red.In the late 1980s, he...
. They debuted with the controversial new beat
New Beat
New Beat is a term that was used in the 1980s to refer to two different genres of electronic dance music. It also refers to an underground 1980s Belgian music style.- Terminology :...
single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988. Created by Jade 4U, Praga Khan, and Olivier Adams; their debut album, 1991's Lust (along with additional singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
"Rough Sex" and "I Must Increase My Bust"), were critically acclaimed within the electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
and dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
communities for their outrageously sexual
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
and sound samples
Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
. Their second album was Voodoo-U
Voodoo-U
Voodoo-U is the second studio album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It was released in 1994 on Rick Rubin's American Recordings label. The album begins the band's move from the techno and rave sounds of prior album Lust to a heavier, industrial music style. Lyrically the band...
, which featured a more industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
sound. This was followed by Our Little Secret
Our Little Secret
Our Little Secret is the third studio album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It was released in 1997 on Antler-Subway Records. Both musically and lyrically, Lords of Acid maintain the industrial music and sexually-charged songs found on their previous album Voodoo-U. Lead vocal duties...
(1997), Heaven Is an Orgasm
Heaven Is an Orgasm
Heaven Is an Orgasm is a compilation album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It consists of B-sides, outtakes and unreleased material and was originally available exclusively through Lords of Acid's website. The initial pressing of 500 copies sold out quickly, and because of popular...
(1998) and Expand Your Head
Expand Your Head
Expand Your Head is a compilation album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. Consisting mostly of remixes, three of the album's sixteen tracks were new compositions...
(1999). In 2000 they released a more rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
-influenced album entitled Farstucker
Farstucker
Farstucker is the fourth studio album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It was released in 2000 on Antler-Subway Records and marks the band's full transition from the techno of their earlier work to an industrial music outfit, with use of more live instruments...
and in 2003, after being in the business for fifteen years, released a greatest hits album called Greatest T*ts.
Their fans formed an online community called the Children of Acid.
In 2010 after being silent for almost ten years, Praga Khan announced a new EP, "Little Mighty Rabbit," was in the works with a Sept. 27, 2011 release date. A currently untitled full-length album is set to follow with an expected release in February 2012. Confirmed tracks for the album are "Children of Acid," "Paranormal Energy" with Zak Bagans, and "Pop That Tooshie" with Alana Evans
Alana Evans
Alana Evans is an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jenna Talia .-Career:...
,
Lords of Acid's soundtrack credits include Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, released in 1999, is the second film in the Austin Powers series that began with 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and continued with Austin Powers in Goldmember. The film was directed by Jay Roach, co-written by Mike Myers and screenwriter...
, Sliver
Sliver (film)
Sliver is a 1993 film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas...
, Strange Days
Strange Days (film)
Strange Days is a 1995 cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott and Vincent D'Onofrio. Despite positive reviews, the film was a...
, Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous "bad lieutenant". The screenplay was written by actress-model Zoë Lund. She also played a small role in the film. Lund had been discovered by Ferrara and had starred in his earlier film, Ms...
and Paparazzi.
Band members
Current members- Maurice Engelen (aka Praga Khan) - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, synthesizers and programming - Mea Fisher (aka DJ Mea) - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Andre Karkos (aka Virus) - Guitars
- Murv Douglas - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Kirk Salvador - Drums and electronic percussion
Key former members
- Nikkie Van Lierop (aka Jade 4U and Darling Nikkie) - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, synthesizers and programming - Olivier Adams - Synthesizers and programming, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, drums - Deborah Ostrega - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
on Farstucker and Private Parts - Ludo Camberlin (aka Carl S. Johansen) - Guitars, synthesizers and programming
- Ruth McArdle aka Lady Galore aka Cherrie Blue - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
on Voodoo-U
Other contributors
- Zak Bagans - Guest vocals
- Alana Evans - Guest vocals
- Lacey ConnerLacey ConnerLacey Conner is a musician and reality television participant best known for her appearance as a contestant on Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and Rock of Love: Charm School...
- Live vocals (Sextreme Ball Tour) - Sin QuirinSin QuirinSin Quirin is a guitar player from LA. He was a member of Ministry and is featured throughout the 2007 Ministry album The Last Sucker.In addition to his role in Ministry and co-writing credits for RevCo’s Sex-O Olympic-O and Got Cock?, Sin Quirin has worked with DJ Hardware on the...
- Live guitars (Sextreme Ball Tour) - Kurt Liekens (aka Kurt McGuinness) - Drums and electronic percussion
- Hans Bruyninckx (aka Hans-X) - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Wim Daans (aka Shai De La Luna) - Live synthesizers
- Natalie Delaet - Live vocals, dancer
- Tejo De Roeck aka Tej-Doo - Additional synthesizers and programming
- Erhan Kurkun - Guitars
- Inja van Gastel - Live vocals, synthesizers, dancer
Further information
Praga Khan and Oliver Adams are also known for their work on Mortal Kombat: The AlbumMortal Kombat: The Album
Mortal Kombat: The Album is an album by The Immortals , released in 1994 to accompany the home versions of the video game Mortal Kombat.-Album information:The album featured a techno song for each of the 7 playable characters, as well as Goro, along with two...
, based on the controversial video game Mortal Kombat performing as The Immortals Jade 4U did backing vocals on "Kano (Use Your Might)"
Lords of Acid also performed under the name Digital Orgasm, with a less sex
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
-based and more rave
Rave music
Rave music may either refer the late 1980s genre or any genre of electronic dance music that may be played at an electronic dance party such as a rave. Very rarely, the term is used to refer to less electronic related genres glam, powerpop, psychedelic rock and dub music parties...
-influenced sound. Other pseudonyms included Channel X and 101.
Lords of Acid made a cameo appearance in an adult pornographic film 54, performing "Finger Lickin' Good", "Stripper" and "Stoned on Love Again".
Lords of Acid has also explored other genres of music such as hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
and R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
, disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
, rap
Rap
Rap may refer to:*Rapping, performance in which rhyming lyrics are used, with or without musical accompaniment ; while an MC performs spoken verses in time to a beat/ melody**Hip hop subculture**Hip hop music...
, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, Latin, reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
and country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
.
Although being named the "Queen of New Beat", Jade 4 U had expressed her distaste for the genre in the beginning.
Co-founder Olivier Adams is the heir to the Stella Artois
Stella Artois
Stella Artois is a 5% ABV lager brewed in Leuven, Belgium since 1926. In the UK, Canada and New Zealand a 4% ABV version is also available.-Production:...
beer fortune.
Discography
- 1991 Lust
- 1994 Voodoo-UVoodoo-UVoodoo-U is the second studio album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It was released in 1994 on Rick Rubin's American Recordings label. The album begins the band's move from the techno and rave sounds of prior album Lust to a heavier, industrial music style. Lyrically the band...
- 1997 Our Little SecretOur Little SecretOur Little Secret is the third studio album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It was released in 1997 on Antler-Subway Records. Both musically and lyrically, Lords of Acid maintain the industrial music and sexually-charged songs found on their previous album Voodoo-U. Lead vocal duties...
- 2000 FarstuckerFarstuckerFarstucker is the fourth studio album from Belgian electronic band Lords of Acid. It was released in 2000 on Antler-Subway Records and marks the band's full transition from the techno of their earlier work to an industrial music outfit, with use of more live instruments...
- 2012 TBA
External links
- Lords of Acid Website
- Children of Acid Website
- Lords of Acid Sextreme Ball
- Lords of Acid Facebook
- Lords of Acid Twitter
- Lords of Acid Myspace
- Lords of Acid on DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...