Struggle for Pleasure

Struggle for Pleasure (1983) is a song by Belgian composer Wim Mertens. It is featured in the Peter Greenaway movie The Belly of an Architect, and is the theme song used by the Belgian phone operator Proximus. Energy 52's song Café Del Mar (1993) features a melody based on Struggle for Pleasure.

The song was a hit in 1997 with the version by Three 'n One, and in 1998 with the version by Nalin & Kane. The cover (2000) of Struggle for Pleasure by the Belgian dance-music group Minimalistix reached dance charts across Europe. In April 2011, the song was voted number one in Pete Tong's (English disc-jockey) Top 20 Dance Tracks of the last 20 years.

Wim Mertens (born in 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. Known primarily as a composer, Mertens is best known for his song Struggle for Pleasure. He is also well known for his piece Maximizing the Audience, composed for Jan Fabre's play The Power of Theatrical Madness, which premiered in 1984 in Venice, Italy. Mertens has released more than 50 albums, and is the author of the 1980 book American Minimal Music, which discusses the school of American repetitive music and the works of LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.

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