The Ex discography

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.^[1]

Studio albums

• Disturbing Domestic Peace (1980)
• History Is What's Happening (1982)
• Tumult (1983)
• Blueprints for a Blackout (1984)
• Pokkeherrie (1985)
• Aural Guerrilla (1988)
• Joggers and Smoggers (1989)
• Mudbird Shivers (1995)
• Starters Alternators (1998)
• Dizzy Spells (2001)
• Turn (2004)
• Catch My Shoe (2011)
• 27 passports (2018)

Live albums

• Too Many Cowboys (1987)
• The Ex at Bimhuis (2015)

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)^[2]
• "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)

Compilation albums

• 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)

Video

• Beautiful Frenzy (2004)
• Building a Broken Mousetrap (2006)^[3]
• And So Say All of Us (2015)^[4]

Solo and collaborative recordings by individual band members

References