Live Happily While Waiting For Death (The Complete Demo Collection 1986-1990)

by The Ultimate Dreamers

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1.	I Love You?! 03:33 video	buy track
2.	Japanese Death 02:59 video	buy track
3.	Drifting Feelings 03:11	buy track
4.	Never Die 04:56 video	buy track
5.	Female Zone 04:22	buy track
6.	Education 02:48	buy track
7.	Funeral Waltz 03:59	buy track
8.	Crystal Man 02:31	buy track
9.	I Hate You?! 02:43	buy track
10.	Bekasi 04:08	buy track
11.	A Long Time Ago 04:11 video	buy track
12.	Laughing Furniture 03:30 video	buy track
13.	Nameless 02:41	buy track
14.	No Matter 04:15 video	buy track
15.	Don’t Let Me Go 03:59	buy track
16.	Don’t Pray For Us 04:07	buy track
17.	Mystery & Pictures 02:45	buy track
18.	I Want A Twin 03:24	buy track
19.	Fatal Fall 03:01	buy track
20.	S’envoler 07:24	buy track
21.	The Game (live) 04:13	buy track

about

Lessines, Belgium, mid-1980s. The city that saw the birth of surrealist artists René Magritte and Louis Scutenaire, but looked like a musical desert. Three friends decided to create a band: voice, bass guitar and synthesizers, to be joined later by two more.

THE ULTIMATE DREAMERS were influenced by Belgian cold wave and British post-punk but the teenagers set upon their own path. Frigid, organic tones with tainted with melancholy melodies, sometimes catchy, sometimes 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 numerous tracks at home before their final resting.

Thirty years on, COVID oblige, the recordings resurfaced and were brought to the ear of the record label magnate behind Wool-E Discs who immediately suggested an album deal. Eleven tracks were resurrected under the banner of Live Happily While Waiting For Death, released on September 26, 2021.

“I Love You?!” preceded the album release as a digital single. The video for this synthwave/EBM danceable track is illustrated by images from the cult sexploitation film "Olga's House of Shame".

THE ULTIMATE DREAMERS are reverie no more, they are back in a new configuration including three original members and a new one. The repertoire is exhumed, resuscitated and enriched with new creations...

These good old recordings are available in limited quantities on Vinyl format (black 180gr), on CD and on all digital platforms with bonus tracks (21 in total!) through the band’s new label Spleen+ (cold wave/post punk division of the Alfa Matrix Label Group).

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released February 3, 2023

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬:

I Love You?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=93LAe60XRoY
Laughing Furniture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIF0vrB-4g
Female Zone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6H1qWjPs7Y
S’envoler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_njDf7edR4
No Matter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAg4-tPT6hY
Never Die
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpuunge1uM
Long Time Ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJ0h0KfjA8
Japanese Death
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0IwCuhgRU

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The Ultimate Dreamers are a post-punk / cold wave band based in Brussels.

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