Their latest album NeuMaschinen (ION006) is set to be a new start, going back to their roots and not willing to make any compromises, because old school EBM is what they started out with and that's what they will die with. Their eternal rage against the acoustic is not over yet!
It's the end of an era when three guys, enjoying electronic tunes like Nitzer Ebb, Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk went their own way after spending quite some time on the same schoolbenches. At a sudden moment they summoned again and at that point they didn't realise themselves they created the bases for this group. Sven Lauwers, being the only one busy with pure electronic music since 1986, bought himself a drummachine. Soon enough there was a follow up by the other members, Andy De Decker and Kurt Rotthier. At the end of 1992 they had some arrangements and ideas ready to be recorded. They recorded one of these tracks ('ashes and dust' it was actually the first track ever recorded, but this version is gone lost) on the day they would go to a party. At this "Black Celebration" they asked the DJ to play the demo-track and amongst tunes from DAF, Nitzer Ebb, Pouppee Fabrikk, the crowd seemed to enjoy this fresh Belgian product, without knowing who this band was.
Few months later when they borrowed a synthesizer from a fellow electro-friend they started recording their first demo. Einen Tanz Traumen, a compilation of aggressive and bashing EBM, following the Nitzer Ebb line was created. Belgium never had any hard and pure EBM like this. This made them decide to send this demo to several local music magazines to see the reactions. So they got in touch with Side-line music magazine, in those days already a rising magazine. Together with them, Ionic Vision would become bigger and more known year after year.
