1996 In 1996, Milk Incorporated was founded. It started out as a studio...(More)

1996 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. 1997 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. 1998 "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.! 1999 "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". 2000 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". 2001 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). 2002 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. 2003 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. 2004 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. 2005 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. 2006 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. 2007 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. 2008 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. 2009 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. 2009 will be another succesfull year for sure, with new hits, a lot of performances and full live shows coming up, maybe winning some awards,... and of course the big party everyone is looking forward too: Milk Inc. Live at the Sportpaleis 2009 on September 25th and 26th! Awards 2009 Music Industry Awards MIA's Belgium - Best Dance/Electronica Awards 2008 Platina Record Belgium - Forever Album Golden Record Belgium - Forever Album TMF Awards Belgium - Best Live National TMF Awards Belgium - Best Album National TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Music Industry Awards MIA's Belgium - Best Dance/Electronica Platina Record - The Best Of Album Awards 2007 Platina Record - Supersized Album Golden Record - Supersized Album Golden Record - The Best Of Album TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Awards 2006 TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Awards 2005 TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Belga Dance Awards Belgium - Best Producer Regi Penxten Awards 2004 TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National TMF Awards Belgium - Life Time Achievement Award Awards 2003 TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Awards 2002 TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Awards 2001 Hitkrant The Netherlands - Best International Artists Hitkrant The Netherlands - Best International Single 'Walk On Water' TMF Awards The Netherlands - Best Dance International TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National TMF Awards Belgium - Best Video 'Never Again' Awards 2000 Top Rado Awards Belgium - Best Vocalist Ann Vervoort Radio Donna Awards Belgium - Best Holidaysong of the year 'Oceans' TMF Awards Belgium - Best Single National 'Walk On Water' Golden Record Belgium - Land Of The Living Single Golden Record Belgium - Walk On Water Single Golden Record Belgium - Losing Love Single Awards 1999 Radio Donna Awards Belgium - Pepper Award 'In My Eyes' Move-X Dance Awards Belgium - Best Dance Single 'In My Eyes' TMF Awards Belgium - Best Dance National Golden Record Belgium - In My Eyes Single Awards 1997 Golden Record France - La Vache Single .(Less)