Hands Up! You're Free

by The Ex

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	1.	Crap-Rap 02:14
	2.	U.S. Hole 03:20
	3.	Pleased To Meat You 03:20
	4.	Scrub That Scum 07:39
	5.	Choice 03:04
	6.	Hands Up! You're Free 05:04
	7.	Butter Or Bombs 04:37
	8.	Uh-Oh Africa 03:55
	9.	Knock 02:41
	10.	Ignorance 02:52
	11.	Job / Stupid 02:37
	12.	Business As Usual 05:30

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"Maybe in bursts, where the undertow doesn't need to be ribbed with volume, this record represents the real Ex, the complex, hyperfast, mobile scourge of convenient ignorance and partyline stupidity."

Ex Records, 1988.
EX 035D

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released January 1, 1988

Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), John (vocals tks.9-12), Luc (bass), Yoke (bass tks.1-4), Sabien (drums tks.1-4), Katrin (drums tks.5-12).
Guest musicians - Kees (saxophone tks.1-4), Wineke (violin tks.1-4), Dolf Planteijdt (heavymental guitar tks.1-4), Tom Greene (guitar tks.5-8), Susy Honeyman (violin tks.5-8), Jon Langford (singing gardensnake tks.5-8).
Recorded as Peel Sessions at BBC's Maida Vale Studios, London, England. Tracks 1-4 produced by Roger Pusey, 1983. Tracks 5-8 produced by Dale Griffin, 1985. Tracks 9-12 produced by Dale Griffin, 1986.

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The Ex Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Ex started playing in 1979. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as their starting point The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day: collaborations with jazz musicians and an Iraqi-Kurdish band, Kamagurka, Tom Cora, Sonic Youth, Han Bennink, Jan Mulder, Shellac and Wolter Wierbos. In 2002 The Ex set up a lively musical exchange with Ethiopia. ... more

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