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Sickboy Milkplus (aka Jurgen Desmet) is one of Europe's most original and innovative electronic producers, with a myriad of projects including "breakcore gives me wood" and "servants of the apocalyptic goat rave" and an impressive string of releases on tigerbeat 6, peaceoff, mirex and wood. Favoring pop music appropriation and crushing breaks as a preferred medium to tear up the dance floor, Sickboys' performance will not disappoint the adventurous.

Discography

Ganja Bullet / Worst Trade Central (2002, Audiobot/Robo Records)^[1]
Swingin' in the Rain EP (2003, Death$ucker Records)^[2]
Owleygirl EP (2004, Junk)
Morbid Monster Breaks (2004, Peace Off)
Shake Hands With A Clenched Fist (2004, Tigerbeat6/Mirex)
Vive Le Mash-Up (2004, Surprise Records)
Into Oblivion (2005, Mirex)
Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave (w/ Bong-Ra) (2005, Suburban Trash)
Musical Therapy (2007, Wood)
Times Infinity (2007, Peace Off)

External links

milkplus.widerstand.org - Official website
www.myspace.com/milkplussickboy - Sickboy's profile on MySpace
www.discogs.com/artist/Sickboy - Sickboy on Discogs
wood.widerstand.org - Breakcore Gives Me Wood
Gonzo Circus 65 (pdf) - Interview with Sickboy (in Dutch)
peaceoff.c8.com Peace Off

Notes and references

[1] Sickboy - Ganja Bullet / Worst Trade Central

[2] Death$ucker Records

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+'''Sickboy Milkplus'''  (aka Jurgen Desmet) is one of Europe's most original and innovative electronic producers, with a myriad of projects including "breakcore gives me wood" and "servants of the apocalyptic goat rave" and an impressive string of releases on tigerbeat 6, peaceoff, mirex and wood. Favoring pop music appropriation and crushing breaks as a preferred medium to tear up the dance floor, Sickboys' performance will not disappoint the adventurous.
-'''Sickboy Milkplus''' is the performing name of [[Antwerp, Belgium]] based [[breakcore]] [[record producer|producer]] '''Jurgen Desmet'''.  He got the name Sickboy as a [[disc jockey|dj]] name and started producing/designing his own music as ''Milkplus''. About his fascination with some specific book and film he says: "I think the way Clockwork Orange glorifies violence is, eh, fun"
-Sickboy's style can best be described as soundclash or [[Mashup (music)|mash-up]] breakcore, throwing together samples from the most diverse sources alongside some heavy kickdrums and basslines to make you shiver.  He sees his music as a direct attack at [[pop music]], [[copyright]]s and [[commerce]].
-Jurgen grew up listening to classical music and later turned to [[hard rock]], [[punk rock|punk]], [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]], [[electro (music)|electro]] and [[jungle]]. For a short while Jurgen played [[bass guitar]] in the Belgian [[hardcore punk]] band ''Spineless'', the other bandmembers later founded ''Amen Ra''.  He is a big fan of [[Andrew W.K.]]. As more contemporary inspiration he lists [[jazz|experimental jazz]], [[noise]] and of course [[breakcore]].
-Jurgen started DJ-ing under the name Sickboy in [[1998]] playing [[techno]], electro, [[hardcore techno|hardcore]] en [[breakcore]]. As he wanted to make his own music, he started to use his [[laptop]] to this end and pretty soon he was composing his own [[laptop music]].
-He has toured with [[Toecutter]], [[Fanny]] and [[Shitmat]] and has collaborated with [[Jason Forrest|Donna Summer (Jason Forrest)]].  In [[2005]] he has collaborated with [[Bong-Ra]] as ''Servants of the Apocalyptic Goat Rave'' [http://www.goatrave.com/].  Their first ep ''The Servants Pt.1'' was released in December 2005 on the German label ''Russian Roulette Records''. Sickboy also planned a collaboration with [[Shitmat]].
-He has worked with Belgian rockstar [[Mauro Pawlowski]] in the improv band ''The Parallels'' and provided beats for ''Maskesmachine'''s ''Plaktang'' CD. And he's [[remix]]ed [[Vive la Fête]] and [[Venetian Snares]] amongst others.
-Before starting getting into music full time he worked as a graphic designer and he has done the art direction all of his own releases and some additional layouts under the name ''Milkplus'', the name of the drink in ''[[A Clockwork Orange]]''. Besides all that he's also part of [[Belgium|Belgian]] breakcore partycrew [[Breakcore Gives Me Wood]], doing live performances on all of their parties.
 == Discography ==