The Ex are a Dutch music group from Amsterdam founded in 1979. In three decades as band, they have moved from playing anarcho punk to post punk, jazz, folk and African music. They have collaborated on records with fellow indie musicians Chumbawamba, Dog Faced Hermans, Tortoise and Sonic Youth, improvisers like Tom Cora and the Instant Composers Pool, and toured with African musicians Konono No. 1 and Getatchew Mekurya.
The band have released many albums on their own label, Ex Records. Members of The Ex also run small labels through which they release solo material and collaborations with other artists. These include Terrie Hessels' Terp Records, Andy Moor's Unsounds, and Arnold de Boer's Makkum. The Ex distribute all these through their website, along with recordings and publications by founding member and former vocalist G.W. Sok.
Collaborations and split records
Villa Zuid Moet Blijven (with Svatsox and De Groeten, 1981)
The Red Dance Package (with Alerta, 1983)
Enough Is Enough (with Awara, 1984)
Support the Miners' Strike (with Zowiso and Morzelpronk, 1985)
Pay No More Than 6 Fr. (with Svatsox, 1985)
Destroy Fascism! (with Chumbawamba, 1987) (released under the pseudonym Antidote)
Antidote Live in Wroclaw (with Chumbawamba, 1987)
Treat split live cassette (with Dog Faced Hermans, 1990)
Keep on Hoppin'/Crap Rap 7" (with The Mekons, 1990)
6.2 "Ceme Ryne"/"Millitan" 7" (with Brader, 1991)
Scrabbling at the Lock LP/CD (with Tom Cora, 1991)
6.4 Bimhuis 29/06/91 2×7" (with guests, 1991)
6.5 "This Song Is in English" 7" (with Kamagurka and Herr Seele, 1991)
Live at the Bimhuis (with guests, 1992)
And the Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders LP/CD (with Tom Cora, 1993)
Instant 2×CD (with guests, 1995)
In the Fishtank 5 LP/CD (with Tortoise, 1998)
Een Rondje Holland CD (as Ex Orkest, 2001)
In the Fishtank 9 LP/CD (with Sonic Youth and Instant Composers Pool, 2002)
Anne-James Chaton / Ex, The - In The Event - Événements N°19 (CD, Album), Al Dante, AJC AD26, 2004
Moa Anbessa LP/CD (with Getatchew Mekurya and guests, 2006)
Y'Anbessaw Tezeta 2×CD (with Getatchew Mekurya and Friends, 2012)
Enormous Door LP/CD (with Brass Unbound, 2013)
"Late Guma"/"Gue" 7" (with Fendika, 2015)
"From The Top Of My Lungs" 7″ (split with Selvhenter, 2015)
EPs and singles
All Corpses Smell the Same (1980)
New Horizons in Retailing (1980)
Live-Skive (1980)
Weapons for El Salvador (1981)
Dignity of Labour (1983)
Gonna Rob the Spermbank (1983)
1936, The Spanish Revolution (1986, UK Indie No. 6)
"Rara Rap"/"Contempt" (1988)
"Stonestampers Song"/"Lied Der Steinklopfer" (1990)
Dead Fish (1990)
6.1 "Slimy Toad"/"Jake's Cake" (1991)
6.3 "Hidegen Fujnak A Szelek"/"She Said" (1991)
6.6 "Euroconfusion"/"Bird in the Hand" (1992)
"Maybe I Was the Pilot"/"Our Leaky Homes" (2010)
"How Thick You Think"/"That's Not A Virus" (2015)
Hands Up! You're Free (1988)
Ample (cassette, 1991)
Ample 2 (cassette, 1995)
Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980–1990 (2005)
30 Years of The Ex (2009)
Beautiful Frenzy (2004)
Building a Broken Mousetrap (2006)
And So Say All of Us (2015)
KatJonBand - KatJonBand, Carrot Top Records, 2008 - with Jon Langford
Ab* & Terrie* – Hef, Terp Records, 2000
Han Bennink & Terrie Ex – The Laughing Owl, Terp Records, 2000
Rozemarie Heggen & Terrie Ex – Fiets (CD, Album), Terp Records IS-05, 2002
Han Bennink & Terrie Ex – Zeng! (CD, Album) Terp Records, IS-13, 2007
Han Bennink, Brodie West, Terrie Ex - Let's Go (LP), Terp Records, IS-16-lp, 2010
Paal Nilssen-Love / Terrie Ex – Hurgu! (CD, Album), PNL, PNL012, 2011
Xavier Charles / Terrie Ex – Addis (CD, Album)
Transparancy-Wolk 3, cd (2006, Rikordings #19) – with Rik van Iersel, Han Bennick, P Jacomyn, Bart Maris
Locks (2001, CD, with Kaffe Matthews, Unsounds)
Thermal (2001, CD, with John Butcher/Thomas Lehn, Unsounds)
Red V Green (2004, CD, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
Live in France (2007, CD-R, with DJ /rupture)
Marker (2007, CD, solo, Unsounds)
Patches (2008, CD, with DJ /rupture, Unsuitable Records)
Everything But the Beginning (2009, CD, with Colin Mclean, Unsounds)
Le Journaliste (2009, CD, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Rebetika (2010, CD, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
Folia (2010, CD, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
Lean Left (2010, CD, with Terrie Ex, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, live at Bimhuis Vol. 1&2, Smalltwon Superjazz)
Guitargument (2010, CD, with Mia Clarke, hellosQuare Recordings)
Décade (2012, CD, Album, Ltd, Book, with Anne-James Chaton and Alva Noto, Raster-Noton)
Lean Left Live at Café Oto (2012, CD, with guests, Unsounds)
Transfer (2012, CD, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Lean Left Live at Area Sismica (2013, CD, Unsounds)
A Life is A Billion Heartbeats (2014, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
Experiments with A Leaf (2015, with John Butcher, Unsounds)
Raft – Hope lies Constant in the Mouth (2015, download only, with Steve Heather, Clayton Thomas and Sofia Jernberg, Unsounds)
Transfer 1 Departures (22U) (2011, 7 inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Transfer 2 Princess in Car (23U) (2011, 7 inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Transfer 3 Flying Machines (24U) (2012, 7 inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Transfer 4 Inbound/Outbound (36U) (2013, 7 inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Epic (2000, Marion Coutts, short film)
No Evil Star (2003, Marion Coutts, short film)
Transit (2004, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi with Yannis Kyriakides, short film)
Blessed Are the Dreams of Men (2005, Jem Cohen, short film)
Moving Pictures (2007, Jem Cohen, four 1-minute films)
Why No Colour? (2007, Jem Cohen with Mia Clarke)
People of The Shadows (2008, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi with Yannis Kyriakides, documentary)
Kiba (2012, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi with Yannis Kyriakides)
Sud Eau Nord Deplacer (2015, Antoine Boutet with Yannis Kyriakides)
2-2-3 Fridges/Rid, 2010 with Oli Heffernan (i.e. Detective Instinct),
N.O.W.H.E.R.E with French group Cannibales & Vahinés, 2012
King Champion Sounds - Different Drummer, 2013, LP
Action Beat & G.W. Sok - A Remarkable Machine, Double 10, 2014 ERNEST JENNING RECORD CO.
Two Pin Din & G.W. Sok - Gifts, Milk And Things (2x7"), 2014
King Champion Sounds - Songs For The Golden Hour (10"/CD), 2014
Songs for a Free Body w/ Cannibales & Vahinés, 2015
"Illusies 1 & 2", 7", as Zoikle (w/ Lukas Simonis), 2011
Surplus 1980 - The World's Still Here (featuring G.W. Sok) on the album Arterial Ends Here, 2013
Detective Instinct - Black Floral (LP)
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Rotorotor (CD/LP)
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