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Opium Monks is: Herman Gillis, Jo Casters, Roland Beelen...
3, New Beat heavy weights... responsible for about 90% of all, New Beat music to come out of Belgium...

Roland Beelen: Was the CEO of the Antler Records label, which he set up with Maurice Engelen (Praga Khan).
Using the pseudonym Bellucci, he was part of the Belgian trio Morton, Sherman and Bellucci. They were among the founders and most productive artists in the New Beat movement of 1987, releasing an estimated 100 recordings in one single full year under a plethora of names.
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Jo Casters [Johan Casters]: Seminal Belgian musician and producer has been a key part of the Belgian music scene for over 20 years. Originally the founder of Poésie Noire, Casters was later one third of the Belgian trio Morton, Sherman and Belluci. Casters was Morton and Sherman was his Poésie Noire bandmate Herman Gillis. Together, the three were among the founders and most productive artists in the New Beat movement of 1987. They released around an estimated 100 recordings in one single full year under a plethora of names.

He and Gillis also formed the fake Yugoslavian band In Sotto Voce, where he adopted the name Ilya Dimitrijevic.

His various aliases also include Joey Morton, Pateke Morton, Jill (or Jille) Johnson and Alessandro Di Ravo.
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Herman Gillis: Herman Gillis formed his first band, the Primitifs, when he was 18. He built a number of instruments for the band, including an air-scratcher, a drum machine (including self-made drum pads), a primitif computer system and a MIDI.
When the Primitifs split up, the three remaining founders continued as The Passion of a Primitif and won second prise in Humo's Rock Rally in 1986. Their prize was to record an album produced by Jo Casters of Poésie Noire. Jo Casters asked Herman to join Poésie Noire as guitarist.
Around 1987, Herman began developing new ideas and programmed the first dance beats of several famous New Beat songs, such as Move Your Ass and Feel the Beat, Taste Of Sugar, etc. As Sherman, he became one of the most productive producers of the new beat era, working alongside Jo Casters (Morton) and Roland Beelen (Belluci) as Morton Sherman Bellucci (allegedly a parody of Stock, Aitken & Waterman).
In 1988, reportedly after a journalist called Poésie Noire to “poppy”, he adopted the name Boris Mikulic and recorded as In Sotto Voce with Jo Casters (as Ilya Dimitrijevic), pretending to be a Jugoslavian band.
After the New Beat era, Herman went on to form and produced different dance acts, including MC Baker and Maree. Herman also played in the band Running Cow, later Volt, produced by Herman in cooperation with Wouter Van Belle.
After Volt split up, Herman grew tired of the music industry and dedicated his time on the development of electronic gear. From 1993 to 1996, he spent his time entirely on making a new synthesizer and worked as a repair-man for artists and music stores.
In 1996, the first prototypes of the Sherman Filterbank came out and became hugely successful. Herman has, in recent years, produced art and performances, including prototypes of an image synthesizer, in combination Sherman Filterbanks.
In 2010, he reunited with Jo Casters to record a new Poésie Noire record.
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Other New Beat Projects they were behind, included the following:
Balearic Beach, Beat Professor, Berliner Meisterschaft, Boys & Girls At The University, Bulgarka, Chinese Ways, Danse Macabre, Ei Mori, Erotic Dissidents, Explorers Of The Nile, Freak Brothers, Fruit Of Life, J.E.T., Kings Of Agreppo, Mission Impossible, Morton Sherman Bellucci, Mr. Horse, New Beat Generation, New Beat Sensation, Probably The Best Band In The World, Secrets Of China, Super Nova, Taste Of Sugar, The Acid Kids, The Airplane Crashers, The Brotherhood Of Sleep, The Brothers (4), The Crumbsuckers, The Hippies On LSD, The Moneymakers, The Techno Bastards, The Vacuum Cleaners, TNT Clan, Trio Balkana...