Het Zweet

Dutch Experimental Industrial Project

‘Het Zweet’: Not a group but one man: Marien Van Oers, native of Breda in the Netherlands active from 1983 to about 1988. The music consisted of long 10 minute percussion pieces played on self built instruments (shopping trolleys amplified with pickups, blown cardboard tubes etc.) with repetitive shouted vocals by Marien. The music was often placed in the industrial camp and linked with the likes of Test Dept. but in fact Het Zweet were more concerned with ‘tribal’ music, physicality and trance effects like Z'EV. During concerts he often performed together with other players. Marien Van Oers passed away on 8 januari 2013.