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Can any .nl-ers out there tell us whether the title of the Mike P / Speedy J disc 'Slag boom van loon' means anything? Looks crazy enough to mean something in dutch :-) The disc itself is better than I anticipated. Not as good as either of them on their own, but then they probably only spent a couple of days on this one. Paddy np: Sun Electric "Via Nostra". Niiiccce. lp: Horse Opera "3 Cornered Room". Shooorrrrttt (but cheap, so that's OK).

quoted 3 lines Can any .nl-ers out there tell us whether the title of the Mike P / Speedy J

>Can any .nl-ers out there tell us whether the title of the Mike P / Speedy J >disc 'Slag boom van loon' means anything? Looks crazy enough to mean something >in dutch :-)

Mmmm... my dictionary translates 'slagboom' (one word) as just 'barrier' - which can mean just about anything. A 'slagboom' is the thing that's used to close a road (or the entrance and exit of a parking etc.), a long pole that can swing up to let cars through, or be crashed through by the bad guys during a car chase in bad police movies when it's closed. Is there a better word for that than just 'barrier'? 'Van Loon' doesn't actualy mean anything, but it's a pretty common Dutch last name (now that i think of it, there was a Robin van Loon in my class at primary school). However.... 'Slagboom Van Loon' appears to be the name of a electrotechnical company from Rotterdam (where Speedy Jochem lives), so I suppose they got it from there, and put in the space between 'Slag' and 'boom' to avoid legal stuff or something. Maybe it's even the company that did all the wiring in Speedy's house or studio (just as he probably dines out a lot at the Indian restaurant on the inside of the cover). Anyay, it makes more sense than Sonic Youth's "Slaapkamers met slagroom" form earlier this year, which translates as "Bedrooms with whipped cream". Oh well... Maarten

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Maarten D. Schermer wrote:

quoted 4 lines Anyay, it makes more sense than Sonic Youth's "Slaapkamers met slagroom"

> Anyay, it makes more sense than Sonic Youth's "Slaapkamers met slagroom" > form earlier this year, which translates as "Bedrooms with > whipped cream". Oh well... >

If "bedrooms with whipped cream" doesn't make sense to you, you've led a sheltered life.