Lichaambeien - Frasse Gestilte (tape, Knust, 198?)

I think I may know someone involved in this release on any level - be it music, or be it the cover - and that person has his birthday today - happy birthday. I borrowed a whole bunch of cassettes from a mutual friend and I'll be posting that in the next few days. Some of that is truely bizarre and obscure, and this is certainly one of them. Knust was in the 80s a squat in Nijmegen where people printed comics and magazines with lots of colors on ancient stencil machines. Also musicians played over there and it was a funny, lively and free scene. Out of that scene came Extrapool, which is to this very day a great funny place for music, art and the print place this exist. They print for loads of people, but sometimes have their own publications. According to my friend this might be the only cassette they ever released. No names on the cover. The music is no wave, postpunk and experiment. No doubt only a handful were produced.

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Motorway (tape, Schutt Und Asche, 1987)

And then compilations can also be short, like the thirty minutes of 'Motorway'. It deals with cars passing under bridges and has pure field recordings by The Haters, Claus van Bebber, P.C.R., Kathrin Borsche and Kapotte Muziek. Only the latter gives extra information with his track. The whole thing is rather put together in a very naive manner, and released in an edition of 10 copies. This label was run by Markus Schwill of Exterminator and various other label incarnations. Though nothing says 'Schutt Und Asche' it says so on the Kapotte Muziek discography at the Beequeen website, so we better believe that.

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Rub Out The Word (two tapes, Big Body Parts BBP C3, 1989)

Following yesterday's blast, here is a somewhat minor thing, only two sixty minutes, dealing with voice related music, 'Rub Out The Word' compiled by Jeph Jerman of Hands To, and released by his own Big Body Parts label. Mainly US experimentalists to be found here: Bunker Club, Mental Anguish, Swinebolt 45, Illusion Of Safety, Eric Lunde, City Of Worms, PBK, Big City Orchestra, David Montgomery, If Bwana, CBC III, Allegory Chapel, Crash Worship, Terre Blanche, Then Behavior, David S. Hastings, Yeast Culture, Black Coke, Hands To, Blackhumour, AMK, Lab Rat, John Hudak, Criss and what seems to be the only European contribution by Kapotte Muziek. An edition of 100 copies.

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Intrendent Fansette (three tapes, MAM Aufnahme, 1987)

Weekend again, and again I am serving two big compilations. The first one is really big, three ninety minute tapes, but still not the biggest compilation I have in my collection. That one is lurking still to be digitised. This particular compilation was compiled by a German guy whose name escaped me, but its a truly great selection of all sorts of music, although mainly electronic. Included are, and I just type up some of the more famous names now, De Fabriek, Das Synthetisches Mischgewebe, Z'EV, Julius, Kapotte Muziek, P16.D4, Klinik, Problemist, Vox Populi, Pacific 231, Tara Cross, Sack and then many more. 68 tracks in total. There is also an extensive booklet, which I didn't scan, because it might fall apart then, and hey, it's too much work anyway. Originally an edition of 300 copies.

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Band Of Pain - Argento (LP, Dirter Promotions 24, 1994)

"Started in 1994 as a side project from Splintered, the band Steve Pittis was part of. After several vinyl and CD releases and two John Peel Sessions, Steve felt it was time to break away. Before long, Band Of Pain became the main concern, and Splintered split at the end of 1996. Since then Band Of Pain has released numerous records and CDs" it says on the website of the Band Of Pain.
This LP, which was recorded by Pittis and Dave Collins with assistence of Richard Johnson and James Machin, was the first release as Band Of Pain, and released on Pittis own Dirter Promotions label in an edition of 500 copies. Later a limited edition of 40 copies were released on CDR. Uk noise rock scene stuff.

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Death Leaves An Echo (LP, Les Disques Du Crepuscule TWI 663, 1987)

One of the first cassettes I ever bought was 'From Brussels With Love', which I thought was brilliant (a post about this will be done in the future). I heard/have several other compilations on this label, including this one, which seems a sort of best of previous work, rather than a compilation of new work. But I still quite like, since I don't have many other records on this label (and which seem hard to find on other blogs. It has pieces by Paul Haig, Isabella Antenna, Wim Mertens, The Pale Fountains, Piscine & Charles, The French Impressionists, The Border Boys, Winston Tong, 52ND Street, Stanton Miranda and Ludus.


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Institut für Feinmotorik - Archivmaterial (LP, 1997), Untitled (10", 1997)

From Discogs: "Institut Für Feinmotorik (= institute for precision motoricity) is a project which is interested in the complex relationship between perception of micro-phenomenons in acoustic and visual spheres and the precisioned stumbling through micro-social behaviour in daily situations. The group’s work is focused on the acoustic sphere beyond usual gain signals. Elements of noise containing no original sense emerge to significant structures. The setup consists of six to eight "empty" record players which means that no gain signals but empty or manipulated lock grooves or the paper labels of the records are played. Besides that Institut Für Feinmotorik have found some other ways to generate acoustic signals out of empty record players: house-rubberbands, adhesive tape and tooth brushes are just a few instruments used to produce different sounds. Not only for friends of minimal techno in Brinkmann and Studio 1 style."
This band didn't release much and some of it was in extremely limited editions, such as these, their first two records from 1997, both in an edition of 100 copies on their own label. Lots of crackling and popping here. I will post some of them in the future.

their website

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