One Voice - The Swamp (tape, Egmondse Klank Op-sessie 22, 198?)

Another tape by the two brothers Valkering, Fred and John. Guitars, keyboards, rhythm machines, vocals, percussion etc. Like the previous, packed inside a book.

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One Voice - It Ain't Music (tape, Egmondse Klank Op-Sessie 1, 1985)

One Voice was the band behind the label Egmondse Klank Op-Sessie, two brothers, Fred & John Valkering. Improvised, rock-like, with dub influences. This one, like the other soon-to-be-posted, came in a book with a cut-out part for the cassette. According to the Nederlandse Cassette Catalogus, this was their first release.

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Comrads Creating - In The Combat Zone (tape, Egmondse Klank Op-sessie, 1987)

I posted tapes before from this label, but at long last here's another one. Comrads Creating is a loose concept of musicians from the label playing together, in a dub like manner, but hardly reggea like.

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Recycled Body Programm - Themes Of Scenes (tape, Egmondse Klank Op-sessie, 1989)

More music by Bart Hanselaar, whom we also met with Black Death, The Hess Group and Royal Flush, which were all variations on the theme of noise, but here as Recycled Body Programm (he was also on the 'Statue Series' four cassette compilation with some rather ambient music) returns to the sampler and plays around with samples of classical orchestral music and reminded me a bit of a primitive late 80s Laibach. Nice enough. download

Fred Valkering - Soundtrack One (tape, Egmondse Klank Opsessie, 198?)

Solo electronic music by this member of Dust & The Minds. More relaxing ambient like synthesizer music. Probably intended as soundtrack to films or art exhibitions, but it doesn't say on the cover.

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Dust & The Minds - To The Garden Beyond Our Nerves (tape, Egmondse Klank Opsessie, 198?)

I posted some tapes of this label before and this was a band which had various members who also recorded solo for this label, such as John & Fred Valkering. I believe it was more a fleeting band. More of a rock band with free influences. download

Comrades Creating - Underground (tape, Egmondse Klank Op-sessie 35, 198?)

Another release by the Egmondse Klank Op-sessie, and its by Comrades Creating. I believe this was one of those bands by this label, which involved Fred and John Valkering, who operated in various guises. Also like other releases a fine combination between rock, improvisation, electronics and experiment.


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The Eject Project 1-5 (five tapes, EKO Tapes 23, 24, 27, 29, 31, 1988-1989)

This weekend I have two postings which include five releases in one series. The first is 'The Eject Project', as released by Egmondse Klank Op-sessie. Four C45 tapes and one C60. A bit of a strange affair, certainly with the first two, where they just list who contributed, but not the order of the tracks. The later three have band names per track, and number five is the longest and most varied one. As far as I can judge only Dutch bands: Slowval, Range Day, Un Voixm Emmy van Egmond, John Valkering, Valdig Fer, One Voice, Edgar Jacobs, Szarkov, Little Seed, A.D. Eker (of De Fabriek fame), Boris, Art The Corp, The H.E.S.S. Group, Hafre, Post Mortem, Tijd Is Geld, Linefarmer 117, Uzi, Militia Chresti, Honeymoon Production and Kapotte Muziek. Many electronic music projects around, but also some more rock outings. More from this label soon. 

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Egmond (three tapes, Lor Teeps 23, 24, 25, 1989)

The second trilogy this weekend is a look at the small Dutch village Egmond aan de Hoef. Here hailed a pretty active group of musicians, around the brothers John and Fred Valkering, who recorded solo, as well as with bands such as Comrades Creating, Hafre and Dust & The Minds. They had a label called Egmondse Klank Op-sessie, of whom I will be posting some tapes in the future. Today however three tapes they released on Lor Teeps, from Amersfoort. One tape is by Hafre, one by John Valkering and one is a split by Slowval and The Art Corp. Except synth music by Valkering, experimental stuff by Slowval and The Art Corp and rock avant-garde by Hafre. download

The Netherlands (tape, Harsh Reality Music HR 106, 1989)

I was looking for a good oppurtunity to mention the blog by Beequeen with all their live recordings, and today's post is the right one. 'The Netherlands' is a compilation with only bands from the Netherlands (duh) and was part of a larger series with other countries. I remember at least two volumes from the USA, Germany and France - I no longer have them. On this volume the omni-present Kapotte Muziek (who borrow this one to me, and Frans says that his track should be called 'Audio Plagio 6' and not 'Audio Placio 6', as it says on the cover) and Odal, also Gorgonzola Legs, Weltschmerz, Dva Met Dva Nichts solo and with PDM (another moniker from Frans de Waard then), Winter (being Peter Duimelinks of THU20, Kapotte Muziek, Goem), Honeymoon Productions (being Freek Kinkelaar of Beequeen), Splendor Solis (the guy that ran Interrupt, of whom we we put some tapes up too), Y Create, and Beequeen, with a cut from their first concert ever. Also there is John V (not to be confused with John P of Zimbo), this is John Valkering from Egmond binnen) and Havre (which is also a misspelling,it should be Hafre). Both of them were part of Egmondse Klank Obsessie, and I will put some tapes up from them too in the future.

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