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1996
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In 1996, Milk Incorporated was founded. It started out as a studio project. The very
first release was a EP on the underground label of Dance Opera, including Cream,
W.O.O.W., Cowmen, Back To The House Of Pain.
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1997
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In april 1997 Milk Inc.'s first song with the name "La Vache". It wasn't a success in Belgium,
but in the UK and France, they loved this record! So Milk Incorporated couldn't profile itself
as a studio project anymore, but as a real group. Vocalist Jade 4 U (aka Nikkie Van Lierop)
and producer Regi Penxten performed a lot in the UK and France.
In France, they released under the label Hottracks of Scorpio Music France. Because they had
so much success with "La Vache", the recordcompany decided to rename the group into "La Vache",
so people could remember it! In October '97, a second song "Free Your Mind" was released! Because
Jade 4 U was also the frontgirl of Praga Khan, she left the Milk Incorporated as Praga Khan
became very popular in the USA. Sofie Winters took her place for a few months.
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1998
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"Inside Of Me" was released in February '98. This time, the vocalist was Ann Vervoort.
The song was popular in the clubs, but there was no commercial success. In March, they
released a first album in France, with the name "Apocalypse Cow", still under the name
"La Vache"! In December '98, they finally got a huge hit with "In My Eyes". The Belgian
breakthrough was a fact. With this release in Belgium, they changed their name to Milk Inc.
The French public didn't like this song at all and it was the last release in France for
Milk Inc.!
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1999
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"In My Eyes" turned into a gold record and in February they did a tour around
France and Spain. In March '99, the next song "Promise" was released and did very well
in the Belgian charts. In April '99, Milk Inc. received a "Donna Award" for "In My Eyes".
It was time for a first album in Belgium, called "Apocalypse Cow". This album
was released in May '99. "Oceans", the fifth Milk Inc. song, was released in June '99 and
it was even called out as the summer hit of '99. "Losing Love", number 6, was released
in November '99. Milk Inc. did so well they even received the TMF Award for "Beste National
Dance Act". They toured a lot in Spain but also in Australia. With the artists from Antler
Subway, they perfomed at a big "TMF Christmas 2000" show. Their was also a song together
with all the artists, "Antler All Stars", a coversong "Do They Know It's Christmas", but
each artist sang a coversong on their own, Milk Inc. made a new christmas song called "Alone
at Christmas".
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2000
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In April '00 they received a special Donna award "Best HolidaySong of
The Year". A new song was released "Walk On Water". In May '00, Ann anounced
that she was going to leave the group because she wanted to start a record
company "Benimusa" at Ibiza together with her boyfriend Pat Krimson. She
officially left the group at 15 September '00. September '00 was a exciting
month for the Milk Inc.-fans. The new singer, Linda Mertens, was
presented at the show "Hitkracht" together with the newest song "Land Of The
Living". In October '00 they performed 5 days in South-Africa. In Belgium, they
received the award for "Best National song 'Walk On Water'". In November '00, they
released a second album "Land Of The Living".
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2001
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In February 2001, the single "Livin' A Lie" was
released together with a video that was filmed in Brussels and Antwerp. In
March, Milk Inc. was nominated for the TMF-Awards in The Netherlands. On
April 7, they won the award for "Best International
Dance-Act" and their show was, as usually, wonderfull! The
next single, number eleven, was "Never Again". During the summer, they had
a lot of shows in Belgium, The Netherlands and Spain. In September, they went
to Germany with a Tourbus. The video for "Walk On Water" was shot during that tour.
Meanwhile, they were nominated again for the TMF-Awards from Belgium in
3 categories: "Best Dance National", "Best Single
National 'Never Again'" and "Best Video 'Never Again'". On October 27, they won
2 of the 3 awards. "Best Dance National" and "Best Video National". Linda even cried
when they received the award for "Best Dance National". Their
performance was again really great and they did present "Wide
Awake". On November 3, the newest single "Wide Awake" was
released together with a Best Of-Album, with songs from the two other albums
but also a cd with all the video's. At TMF there was a Milk Inc. Special
in November! They had a lot of shows and completed the succesfull year
with a big show at Sylvester-evening in Madrid (Spain).
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2002
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In January, they were nominated for the award "Best International
Dance-Act". They didn't win this award! In February, Milk Inc. was
nominated again for "Beste Dance Act International" at the Hitkrant Awards
in The Netherlands! They didn't won this award either! Linda came in the
"Notenclub" to prove she can really sing! They performed together with Sylver
at Donna's 10th birthday! togetherhey performed the greatest hits of ABBA and were also
dressed like them! In March, they started a tour in Canada! A video was
made for "In My Eyes" in the UK! In May there was also a video made for
"Sleepwalker" in Portugal! On May 13, the single was finally available! They
started their conquest of the UK with "In My Eyes" and reached the top 10 of
the charts! In July, they made a video for the second single in the UK, "Walk
On Water"! During the summermonths they toured a lot in Belgium, The Netherlands
and Spain! In September "Walk On Water" was released in the UK, and also an
album "Milk Inc.". The promotion began in the UK! But they also performed
a lot in Spain. "Walk On Water" also reached the top 10 of the charts! They
got nominated for the Belgian TMF Awards for "Best Dance Act" and "Best Video
- Sleepwalker". On October 26 , they received the award for "Best Dance Act"
and they performed their newest song "Breathe Without You"! From October, 27 ,
they toured with the Smash Hits Tour in the UK, together with big stars! Land
Of The Living became a top10 hit in the UK. They also worked on a dutch song,
for a good cause togheter with other belgian artists, called "Feest voor
iedereen". After touring in Belgium and abroad, Milk Inc. had a succesful
year.
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2003
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2003 started with a short vacation for Milk Inc.! After that, they
began touring again, in Belgium and abroad. At the end of April, the newest
single "Time" was presented at Radio Donna's 11th birthday. A first visit
to Scandinavia was a fact. In August the new single "The Sun Always Shines
On TV" was presented and it was released in September. The next release
for Germany was "Time" and "Breathe Without You". Thanks to their newest hit, they
had a lot of performances on TV, like 'Tien Om Te Zien', Top of The Pops,...
This year, Milk Inc. was nominated for 3 TMF Awards. And again, they won the
award for Beste Dance. The opening of this event was also really special, they
performed "Insomnia" by Faithless together with Lasgo and Sylver. This performance
was so great everybody was ready for the show. Milk Inc.'s performance was, as
usual, a big success. On October 6th, their newest album Closer was released.
14 songs, from which 6 already released. Some highlights on this album are the
ballad "November", the duet between Linda and Silvy which is called "I Don't Care",
the duet between Regi and Linda called "Maybe", but also the only instrumental
song on the album called "Blown Away" is a nice piece of art. Of course, the
other songs are completely songs like we are used to, all with the special
Milk Inc. sound. During their performance at Base Pop, Milk Inc. had the chance
to perform for the french part of Belgium. In October, a almost worldwide
release for "The Sun Always Shines On TV" started. The album Closer also was
released in several countries. On JimTv the fans could see a program about Milk
Inc., how one of their days looks like. In November, Linda posed for a 3rd time
for the magazin P-Magazine. To promote their work, they performed in Poland.
The last month of the year was also really busy. Performing in Germany and Spain,
visiting the Big Brother house, a showcase at JimTv, tv performance for Hitparty
2004,... This year was a very good one for Milk Inc., the yearreviews were the
proove of their success.
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2004
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At the beginning of 2004, "The Sun Always Shines On TV" was released in
several countries like Germany, Switzerland, Australia,... Their next single
was "I Don't Care", the duet with Silvy (from Sylver). In Poland, the album
Closer was released. Furthermore, "I Don't Care" almost reached the top of the
Belgian charts, but it couldn't get higher then the 3rd position. In March, they
were nominated for the Dutch TMF Awards, the award for Best Dance International
went to Special D. In April, they performed 3 shows in America and also once
at a big dance event in Russia. In the UK, the Sun Always Shines on Tv was
released on 12" with 2 brand new remixes. On May 31st, www.milkinc.be became
the official Milk Inc. site. Like every summer, their agenda was full with
performances in Belgium and The Netherlands. Several times, there were
duoshows together with Sylver, including their hit "I Don't Care". In August, a
Best Of 3cd box was released in Australia. In September, they released "Whisper"
with a nice video. This song became another number 1 hit on the day they
received the award for "Best Dance Act" and the "Life Time Achievement award" during
the TMF Awards 2004. The very first DVD with all the videos and an accoustic
set was released after the TMF Awards in October. The promotion for "Whisper" went
on and the DVD also had a lot of media attention, many tv shows (like Swingpaleis,
Kids Top 20, Top Of The Pops,...) and radio programs invited Milk Inc. to present
this DVD. On Christmaseve there was a special (prerecorded) tv performance Swingpaleis
Christmas edition where they performed "Do they know it's christmas time" together
with other dance artists and on sylvesterevening a prerecorded tv performance at
Tien Om Te Zien and Hitparty 2005.
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2005
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At the beginning of 2005, Milk Inc. supported the Tsunami 1212 show in Belgium.
They performed a lot in Belgium and Spain. On March 1, "The Sun Always Shines On Tv"
was released in the USA. At the end of March, a big dance event BelgaDance was organized.
Milk Inc. performed Blind for the very first time and Regi won the award for Best Producer.
"Blind" was promoted on tv and radio on several shows. In May, Milk Inc. had a 2 day tour
in Norway. In June, "Time" was released in the USA. The summer was very busy, with
performances in Belgium and abroad. In August, the album Closer was released in the USA.
As every year, they got nominated for "Best Dance Act" at the annual TMF Awards. On October
1, they won their 10th TMF Award and also presented their newest single "Go To Hell".
In October, "Go To Hell" was released together with a smashing new video. Also
another Best Of album was released, called Milk Inc. Essential. At the end of November,
they were the "warm up act" at the Junior Eurosong Festival. To end another great year,
in December, Milk Inc. performed in Norway, Spain, Scotland and of course Belgium.
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2006
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2006, Milk Inc.'s 10th anniversary, announcing a concert to celebrate 10 years Milk Inc.. Touring in
Belgium, Norway, The Netherlands,... In June, their newest single Tainted Love was released, a mashup from t
he song Tainted Love and It's Gonna Be Alright. This also being a hit again, they were invited several times
on the tv show Tien Om Te Zien. With the preperation of their very first concert at the Sportpaleis in mind,
they decided to try out their live band with some full live shows during summer. Of course, they also had a
busy summer with their usual performances. After the summer, they released their 4th studio album Supersized
and a new single Run. Ticketsales for Supersized concert went so good they almost decided to open up a second
date, but due to lack of time keeping it to one concert this year. After the Supersized concert, they announced
Supersized II 2007, Milk Inc. at the Sportpaleis will start to be a yearly tradition. In October, they won the
award for Best Dance one again. JimTv broadcasted the Supersized special and also a 10 years Milk Inc. Special.
In November, they toured in Norway, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Namibia,... . To finish the succesful year, they
released a DVD from the Supersized concert, re-released the Supersized album in a Digipack together with the
DVD and released a new single from the album called No Angel.
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2007
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In February 2007, Milk Inc. received a Golden record for their Supersized album, 15000 copies sold. They
continued performing, also with their live band on several festivals. Milk Inc. still has a good connection with
The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Poland,... . In May, they even perform in the USA at a big dance event. After
almost 11 years, Linda, Regi and Filip decided to leave Antler Subway/EMI. They signed a record deal with ARS
Entertainment. Their very first release at this record company was Sunrise released in June, with a nice video
recorded at Alicante, Spain. Once again a hit, once again invited for Tien Om Te Zien. In August, the Supersized
/Supersized Digipack album turned into a platina record. New single Tonight was presented at the Supersized II
concerts. This year, 3 concerts completely sold old. A new release The Best of and The Best of Limited 2CD,
containing all the Milk Inc. hits, after 3 weeks in the charts it turned into a Golden record too. In October,
as the yearly tradition seems to want it, Linda, Regi and Filip won the TMF Award for Best Dance. This year,
there was only an exclusive Supersized II release with P-Magazine.
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2008
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This year started in February, winning the MIA award for Best Dance/Electronica. While performing throughout
the year, Regi, Filip and Linda managed to find the time to finish the brand new album and single, called Forever. In
its second week, the album went to the first place in the album charts and stayed there for 8 weeks. During the summer
months, they performed at several festivals like Suikerrock, Lokerse Feesten,... Also at Tien Om Te Zien, they were
invited a lot. At one of the Totz shows, they received a golden record for their album Forever. In September single
number 29 was Race, including lots of remixes: Matt R, U&M, Wild Ace, Vandøren og Vanhøyland Drøm Remiks, but also a
lot of other ones on iTunes or on 12”. Of course, the highlights of the year were the concerts at the sportpaleis,
this year 6!! Almost 100000 people bought tickets to see Milk Inc. with their band. The evening before the last
show, the anual TMF Awards were held, people could vote for their favorite in each category once again. Milk Inc.
was nominated in 3 categories: Best Album, Best Live and, no need to think about this one, Best Dance. Amazing but
true, they did win all 3 awards. After their last concert, Milk Inc. was once more suprised, they received a platinum
award for 30000 sold copies. In November, Milk Inc. released the DVD with almost a complete registration of the
concert at the sportpaleis and a Limited Edition of their album including some live tracks from the concerts and also
the DVD. With this re-release, the album obtained the number 1 place again for 2 weeks, making this the best scoring
Milk Inc. up until now with 10 weeks number 1. Another album The Best Of turned into a Platinum award on November
11th, 2008, being still in the midprice chart.
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2009
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2009 started very special, the brand new radio station MNM started their broadcast with a very first song, and
it was voted Forever. January was also the nomination month for the MIA’s, with 2 nominations Best Dance/Electronica
and Best Song. They won the award for Best Dance/Electronica. Before summer, a new single Blackout was released, the same name as
the live concerts at the sportpaleis. During summer, they performed with their live band at several festivals. It was a big surprise
when they announced they would perform at the Rock Festival Rock Werchter, although there was much commotion about it, the show was
amazing with a full enthusiastic marquee. At the end of September, for the 4th year in a row, we can expect a big party at the Sportpaleis.
At the moment, more than 70000 tickets are sold for 5 shows.
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