Dive (Belgian band)

Dive
Origin	Belgium
Genres	electronic dance music, electro-industrial
Years active	1990–present
Associated acts	Sonar, The Klinik, Absolute Body Control
Website	Dive official website
Members	Dirk Ivens

Dive is a Belgian electronic dance music project formed in 1990 by Dirk Ivens (Absolute Body Control, Klinik, Blok 57, Sonar). Dive's "audio trademark" is the experimental sound of abused drum machines, pulsating through crackling distortion on almost every song.

Discography

Albums

• Dive LP (Body Records 1990)
• First Album CD (Minus Habens Records 1992; Dive LP with bonus tracks)
• Live Action CD (Daft 1992)
• Inside Out LP (Hard Records 1993; limited to 1000 copies. Contains tracks from previous EPs)
• Concrete Jungle CD (Minus Habens Records 1993)
• No Pain - No Game CD (Discordia 1994)
• Box 2CD (Discordia 1995; 'First Album' with 'Final Report', 'Images' and 'Live Action')
• Grinding Walls CD (Daft 1995; Soundtrack)
• Scraping Tokyo '95 CD (Gift Records 1995; Live)
• Snakedressed CD (Daft/COP International 1997)
• No Pain - No Game + Reported 2CD (Triton 1998)
• True Lies CD (Daft/Cop International 1999)
• Behind the Sun CD (Daft 2004)
• Through the Night CD (Q-Code 2006; Anthology 1990 - 2005, Limited to 1000 copies)
• Are You Real 3CD (Rustblade 2007; Box set limited to 100 copies, consisting of No Pain - No Game, Behind the Sun and additional live CD)

Singles and EPs

• Final Report MLP/MCD (Minus Habens Records 1992)
• Broken Meat CDS (Minus Habens Records 1992)
• Images MCD/Book (Minus Habens Records 1993)
• Extended Play MCD (Discordia 1994)
• Reported MCD (Daft/5th Column 1996)
• Reported Picture LP (Ant-Zen 1996)
• Two Faced Man CDS/Picture 7" (Daft/Triton 1999)
• Dive Mix 12" (Minus Habens Records 1999)
• Lies in Your Eyes MCD/12" (Daft/Pflichtkauf 2002)

Collaborations/Split Releases

• Obsession EP with Kirlian Camera (Discordia 1995; re-released on Triton 1998)
• Night Shadows CD (Fast Forward 1996, split CD with Controlled Bleeding)
• Frozen CD with Diskonnekted (Alfa Matrix 2006)