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Frans de WAARD
“This Is Supposed To Be a Record Label”
In 1992, Frans de Waard (of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen and the Korm Plastics label) was asked to work for Staalplaat, then one of the biggest independent labels for experimental and electronic music. Staalplaat was the home for bands like Muslimgauze, :zoviet*france:, Rapoon, O Yuki Conjugate as well as Jaap Blonk, Normally Invisible and Kingdom Scum. With an average of three new releases every month, Staalplaat remained a major player for the next eleven years. Hired to set-up a database and to sell and buy new music, Frans de Waard over the years also assumed a role as (unofficial) business director and A&R man, and came to be regarded as the
head honcho. In 2003 he’d had enough and decided to quit.
This book tells his story about those eleven years, the many high and as many lows of working for a small independent record label, which also functioned as a shop, mail order, radio programme, news outlet, and concert organiser. It’s about embarrassing confrontations with musicians, labels, distributors, and the endless spending on the most unique packaging
CD-Land ever saw.
Including an interview with Staalplaat founder Geert-Jan Hobijn, a transcript of a radio interview with Muslimgauze, a 1980’s account of Staalplaat’s activities, and a discography, among others.
For everyone with an interest in the experimental music scene, and anyone else who wants to read a crazy, funny and sad story about a small struggling record label.
Anyone who is interested in a manual of how (not) to run your record label might want to take notes.
18,00€
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Frans de WAARD
“Everything But The Reviews – Writing About Music”
Frans de Waard is perhaps best known for Vital Weekly, his online weekly review magazine for all things musical in the realm of experimental, electronic, improvisation, ambient, and noise, distributed for free, since 1995. Over 1200 issues have been published, amounting to some 15,000+ reviews.
However, over the years Frans has also written liner notes, articles, obituaries, tour diaries, letters in support of artist grants, and personal observations.
This book contains liner notes for Roel Meelkop, THU20, John Cage 4'33 CD, If Bwana, Stillupsteypa, Trax Records, Rising From The Red Sand, Vice, press texts for Muslimgauze and Autopsia, tour diary Kapotte Muziek 1993 and 2001, texts about Noise Makers Fifes, Jason Zeh, Andy Ortman, essays about ambient music, electronics music, favourite music, cassette revival, Enno Velthuys, reviewing, Bjerga/Iversen, obituaries for Koji Tano, Christian Nijs, Geert Feytons, John Watermann. And one review, Peter Hook's book on New Order.
90 pages, hardcover.
10,50€