XX-XX-1989 & 1992

Two collaborations can already be found on the internet. The first one is with Bart Hanselaar's The H.E.S.S. Group. Both working on eachother sounds.
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Kapotte Muziek & The H.E.S.S. Group (c30 - 1989) Tranches des Vies. Comes with a small booklet

And something similar can be said of this. Although if I am right both Kapotte Muziek and Telepherique worked on shortwave radio sounds. My side was later re-issued as part of the 'Verder' CD, and still a particular favorite.
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Kapotte Muziek & Telepherique (c46 - 1992)
Drahtfunk Productions DFP 027

And I am not sure if this one was actually released. The cover you see here is not the real cover. Trev Ward from The Grey Wolves wrote on the backside 'Will send new cover for this next time', but I don't believe I ever got it. A pretty noisy collaboration, all done by The Grey Wolves. I have no idea from which year this is.
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The Grey Wolves & Kapotte Muziek - Assasin. 30 minutes of collaborations, released by Strength Through Awarness Branch. Other side by The Grey Wolves and JFK.

XX-XX0-1987 & 1990

Here a case where I mailed some sound material to someone to rework, in this case Stefan Schwab of Tonspur Tapes and the band Context. This on side one, and side two I work with sounds from Context. Later on Context also released a tape with various shorter pieces of collaborations, and there is also one with Kapotte Muziek. That one is here.
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Context & Kapotte Muziek - Verbindungen (c60 - 1990) Tonspur Tapes TT28

There weren't that many collaborations with Odal's Peter Zincken. But here is one that is pretty rare. When I moved direction with Korm Plastics, one of the ideas ws to sell stuff in advance of release and give those buys something extra. So when Korm Plastics announced the release of Odal's 'The Choice Of A New Generation', people who paid upfront got a free fifteen minute of work by Odal & Kapotte Muziek. Apparently 12 were made.
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Odal/Kapotte Muziek. C15 which was given away for free to subscribers of Odal's The Choice Of A New Generation (C60 on Korm Plastics kp 487). Only 12 copies made.

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XX-XX-1991

Two collaborations here, both dealing with tapeloops. Chris Phinney is Mental Anguish and was once the owner of Harsh Reality music. He finished the mix of this tape.
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Mental Anguish & Kapotte Muziek - Thrust (c60 - 1991) Harsh Reality HT 211

Swab Sound Horror was local Benjamin Jansen who had a strong fixation on Severed Heads and Nurse With Wound. We exchanged sound material. His side of this release was already posted, this is my side, which I must admit sound quite nice still!
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Swab Sound Horror & Kapotte Muziek - Mormorare (c60 on Interrupt Products IP 04)

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XX-XX-1989-1990

Another lesson learned from Factory Records was to branch out, so there has been one release as Korm Plastics USA (led by Jeff Surak of Watergate Tapes then) but the most active was the Canadian branch, run by Al Lincoln Roy of Not Half and Industry Therapy Unit. This is the complete catalogue, as Discogs lists only one release (and wrong at that)

KPC 001 Kapotte Muziek - Frozen Environment c15
KPC 002 Core - Kernen c45
KPC 003 Kapotte Muziek - Al Lincoln Roy's Birthday Tape c30
KPC 004 Not Half - The Presence Of Music
KPC 005 Odal & Kapotte Muziek - Water & Fire
KPC 006 John Hudak & Frans de Waard - … In The Netherlands c46
KPC 007 Core - Frans de Waard's 25th

Core is was a collaborative effort between Not Half and Kapotte Muziek. In today's download you will find all of these releases, except KPC 001 which was posted before and KPC 005 side A, part of the Blossoming Noise 10 cassette set; side B is included. KPC 003 and KPC 007 were released in an edition of 2 copies, so true rarities. The others were editions of 50 copies. I hope Not Half and John Hudak don't mind putting their work in here. I have no cover for KPC 007: it got lost, I think when releasing these on CDR.

XX-XX-1987-1993

And the finally a look at various collaborative efforts. The first is my work with Merzbow. I corresponded with Masami Akita since 1985 when he submitted a track for 6x10=60 Volume 1 compilation. We then traded sound material of which the first one was a cassette on ZSF and Therapie. Apperently they have different mixes, although I only have a copy of the Therapie release.
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Merzbow Kapotte Muziek. (1987) C60 for ZSF Produkt (00C - limited edition of 40 copies) and Therapie Organisatie (teip BO 11 - limited edition of 100 copies). These are different mixes and have different covers for it.

Then, in 1989, Merzbow played his first concerts in the Netherlands, on a tour organised by V2. One was at Diogenes in Nijmegen and earlier that afternoon we set up at an illegal radio station where he and I played together for 40 minutes. Freek Kinkelaar was at the control, adding tapes by Emil Beaulieu and SBOTHI. On The LP that I released only the first 20 minutes are used of this, and on the b-side are two transformtions of that sound material.
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DOCUMENTATION/COLLABORATION (LP - Korm Plastics LP 3390 -1990)

"This work uses as source-material, recordings made of a Merzbow concert at Diogenes (Nijmegen, Netherlands) on October 3rd 1989. From these recordings a process was started in which Kapotte Muziek and Merzbow transformed the original material by various means (like repetition, electronic manipulation). Each new transformation was sent to the other, to be reworked again, but only that specific transformation. In the final mix (first mix by Kapotte Muziek, second mix (this record) by Merzbow) all previous steps could be used. Digital recording of the live concert was made by Peter Duimelinks."
Kapot Produkt ORJ: MERZBOW KAPOTTE MUZIEK: CONTINUUM (12" - 2 Tracks - Edition of 1000 copies - 1993)
Cheeses International C02

Two further tracks with Merzbow material were made:

Kapot Produkt OBO: "Speedback Variation Nr.1" on Motop 2 (CD - Dec. 1991)
IF Records IFR 0-10016-2
(Booklet with 1 visual)

Kapot Produkt OBZ: "Speedback Variation Nr.2" on Neue Muster Volume 8 & 9 (2xc45 - june 1992 - edition of 200 copies)
Tonspur Tapes tt040-tt041
(this is in fact a collaboration track with Merzbow)

I still have plans to release a 3CD set of all of this work, including the entire Radio Rataplan concert.

Two further collaborations won't be available for download, since they are part of the Blossoming Noise 10 cassette set:

The Grey Wolves & Kapotte Muziek. C45 in the Death Pact Mailmusic series (on Death Pact Tapes 2 - limited edition of 75 copies)
http://www.discogs.com/Kapotte-Muziek--Grey-Wolves-Death-Pact-2/release/687139

Vidna Obmana & Kapotte Muziek. C45 in the Death Pact Mailmusic series (on Death Pact Tapes 8 - limited edition of 75 copies)

XX-XX-1994-2005

Ah, almost forgotten is the very first Kapotte Muziek CD. I was thrilled when Nicolas Malevitsis asked me for one. I am still very pleased with the music, and not so much with the cover, which perhaps looks a bit too much like a Dark Vinyl release (or maybe I was into logo jacking back then? - who knows). Nicolas, still a good friend, has a blog when you can download this beauty.
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VERDER (CD - 1994)
Harsh Dept Abyss 002

 Another record not to be posted is this one, since I posted both shows before. This is one I love very much also. Two entirely different concerts, the noise of Boston versus the quietness of Pitssburgh and a great cover by Kit Blake.
LIVE USA (LP - 1995)
RRRecords RRRecords, SSS Productions RRR 090, SSS 48

I spoke before of the [Not] Lost release, time to tell more. The first version was a single CDR of tracks that were, for whatever reason never released and then later on I compiled a 4CDR set with more tracks. I then had left Staalplaat and thus my Bake Records label. I believe both are out of print, but one day they will show as a paid download.
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[NOT] LOST (1) (CDR – 2002)
Bake Records 055
[NOT] LOST (4CDR - 2005)
Audiobot BOT 101

Which is (paid downloads to generate some needed cash!) what I intend to do with following two releases. The first being a feedback release, one of the loudest I ever did. It also uses Korg Ms-20 and contact microphones and no input mixer.
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MAGNETIC DIGITAL RESPONSE (CD-R - 1998 - edition of 96 copies)
Xerxes ES 96
(one track is a remix of the track that appeared on Pure Power Picnic)

And this one, which is more music recorded with Korg synthesizer. Originally intended to be a LP by Ten Bob's Swerver, but the label disappeared before this was released.
5IVE (CDR – 1999)
Bake Records 019

For this one I lost the master - I think. One side was re-released on 'The Use Of Recycling'. A nice package!
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Two Stringquartets For Amplified Toy Guitar (c15)
Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers

And also for this one I lost the master, so nothing to download. I received the material from a group called Thread, of whom I no longer remember anything.
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THREADMENTS (7" - september 1996)
Self Abuse SR 12
(using sound material from Thread)

And finally this master also disappeared, it seems (unless it shows up one day, but that goes for all things lost and mentioned here). A sort me doing Henri Chopin vocal sound poetry noise! One could assume it was never proper released: its not on discogs!
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Kapot Prdoukt OBH: TO CLOSE HARMONY
Nihilistic Recordings

But there is something to download, this pretty rare lathe cut 8" on Meeuw (their only 8"). All the sound material was by Merzbow, and I did a remix of that. More on collaborations in the next few days. The liner notes are a joke! Download has both sides into one track.
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LUISTEREN NAAR... (8" - september 1996 - edition of 50 copies)
Meeuw Muzak 004

07-09-2010

Now available. 10 euros postage paid. Paypal: info [at] kormplastics [dot] nl

25 Years Of Kapotte Muziek
Korm Plastics kp 3039
CD only - 200 copies
barcode 7 53907 98952 6

2009-2010 sees the celebration of twenty years of Kapotte Muziek, the first musical project of Frans de Waard. Expanded in 1993 with members Peter Duimelinks and in 1995 Roel Meelkop, this trio explores the world of micro electro-acoustic music, playing on waste found on the streets and with a fine addition of field recordings. Before 1993 Kapotte Muziek was largely known as a player in the field of industrial music and musique concrete. To celebrate their 25th anniversary they staged two nights, one at Extrapool in Nijmegen and one at Occi in Amsterdam and asked long term friends to pay hommage. This CD is a compilation of 'edited highlights' from both nights, displaying a variety of interests, old and new:

Radboud Mens offers a piece of drone music using 'three sinewave guitars', DMDN, as guest DJ present, played old and new tapes and vinyl from the past twenty five years of Kapotte Muziek in a striking collage of industrial sounds. Howard Stelzer, known for his extensive use of cassettes, restricted solely to cassettes from the past, while Jos Smolders showed up with his laptop and reel-to-reel machine to incorporate even dance music like moves. Asra and Asmus Tietchens, as well as Kapotte Muziek, use detailled improvisation on a variety of junkyard instrumentation and real instruments. An excellent compilation showing a true love of sound exploration by all involved.

Overal design for posters and CD by Redbol.