Couch Potatoes N6 - (Fanzine-Holland-1991)

 Number 6 of this Dutch zine, this issue in English language!! A nice zine focused on HC Punk music and related subjects. A good example of underground press. Here the interesting introduction. Enjoy it.

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SHOVLHED-Proud As A Moose(Incentive-K7-Canada-1989)+Stove Boy Serves Daily Special-(Konkurrel-Holland-1992)

 

Recorded Spring 1989 in Victoria, BC. Knobs and faders by Scott Henderson with arguably dodgy input from Ken and Chris. Converted to digital using a tape deck, some software and a couple of copies of the source material I found in an old shoe box. It's DIY punk on tape, this is what it sounds like, get over it.Released June 1, 1989. All songs written by Scott except where extensively noted in the Footnotes and Citations document which was unfortunately destroyed by Tom Holliston during a competitive duck herding mishap in September 1993.

 

Recorded Spring 1990 in Victoria, BC. Shovlhed was Chris Buck, Scott Henderson and Ken Kempster. All music and lyrics by Scott except where noted.released January 1, 1992 Produced by John Wright and Shovlhed.Mastered by Cec English and several other high rolling business suit types including Craig Bougie who was asked to leave the room on more than one occasion during the process. Originally manufactured and distributed by De Konkurrent / Konkurrel in The Netherlands. Shovlhed logo by Audrey A. Band pic by Cathy Phillips. Royal standard of Tunis 1907 by Order of the Queen. Ken and Scott still live and play music in Victoria. Chris passed away in 2004. He is remembered fondly by all those who loved him even though he eventually drove us all freekn' crazy.  

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THE PEOPLE`S WAR-Making Enemies-(Coalition Records-The Netherlands-2002)

Great  7inch by The People`s War, a hardcore-punk band from Memphis, Tennessee(USA). 

Their fast and furious HC punk reminds me of the energy and the rage of the first Hardcore punk bands from the States. 9 tracks of violent music with political lyrics spat on your face.

This edition comes with a 20-page booklet, poster and photo strip. The booklet has amazing graphics + lyrics.
 

Coalition Recs is a Hardcore punk & indie rock label based in The Netherlands. Releases material from a wide variety of international artists including a number of punk & hardcore bands from the United States. 

If you are into political hardcore punk then don`t miss this one.
Enjoy it.
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THE EX-Rara Rap-(Lala Records-Holland-1988)

Dutch band, formed in 1979 in Amsterdam. Initially an anarcho-punk band, over the years they have incorporated many different musical styles such as jazz, noise, free improvisation, and ethnic/world music while still keeping a focus on anarchism, lyrically.

Sites:

theex.nl, Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia, Bandcamp, setlist.fm, genius.com

(from Discogs)

 The Ex is an underground band from the Netherlands that formed in 1979 at the height of the original punk explosion. Initially known as an anarcho-punk band, they have since released over 20 full-length albums of musical experiments and numerous collaborations blending punk and free jazz with styles of folk music from all over the world. (from Wikipedia)

This 7inch was released in support of the Dutch RaRa militant action group, who fought against the involvement of Dutch companies in South Africa's Apartheid Regine in the '80s.
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Kapotte Muziek-Weapons Of Musick-(Midas Tapes-Holland-c30-1986)

Kapotte Muziek was founded in 1984 by Frans de Waard, then living in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Soon he was joined by Christian Nijs, who also lived in Nijmegen. They did not actually play together, though: Christian would record all the sounds at home on cassettes and give them to Frans, who would manipulate the material in different ways (pitch-change, loops, etc.).
This way of working (using 'second-hand' material and recycling it endlessly) became the core of the activities of Kapotte Muziek.
In 1987 Christian left the project in favour of playing rock-music in a real band. Until 1993 Frans continued the project on his own through the Kapotte Muziek By ... series, inviting as many musicians as he knew to send in material to be recycled. This resulted in collaborations with groups like S.B.O.T.H.I., Merzbow, De Fabriek, Yeast Culture, Odal, Asmus Tietchens and many others. Gradually, the harsh territory of industrial music was left behind and other forms of electro-acoustic music were explored.
Kapotte Muziek still exists as a studio-project of Frans de Waard. (from Discogs)

 Also part of the Blossoming Noise set (I have 2 left) was this august release, a particular early favourite. The a-side is recycling (as remixing was called back then) of the 'Electrocute' cassette and the b-side was a new piece of slowed down 'other' music. Released by my own Opus Dei Society (of which I will do a blog on its own soon) and Midas Music, cover shown here.
Details:
Kapot Produkt 45: WEAPONS OF MUSICK (c30 - 8/1986)
Midas Tapes taped 014 (ed. of 80 copies)
Opus Dei Society opus 10 (ed. of 113 copies)[from the blog Kapotte Muziek 25th Anniversary]click me

 

v.a.-CLAUSTROPHOBIA-(Interrupt Product-Holland-c90-1988)

Another great compilation by the amazing Dutch label Interrupt Product and dedicated to the subject Phobia, I have already posted the sampler Schizophobia and the one named Necrobophia both released in 1989.

In this 90 minutes cassette, we find a number of artists playing old school industrial,noise-ambient, experimental electronics and more rather difficult music to digest.

Interrupt Product was a small tape label from Holland active during the 80s, it has a sublabel called Non-Interrupt, a sub-label still active nowadays.
Enjoy it.
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A1	–Dwarf Farm	Clusters
A2	–Szarkov	Sodomie
A3	–Odal	Nihil Pt. 1
A4	–Vidna Obmana	Under Him And The Blue Sky
A5	–Ditto	Crawling Up, Brain-Death
A6	–No Unauthorized	Bang Bang (Live 18/06/888)
A7	–Kapotte Muziek	The Process 2
A8	–Ioss*	Untitled
A9	–Dva Met Dva Nichts* & PDM*	Netley Abbey
B1	–Travalla 4	No!
B2	–Thae Collective	Sound
B3	–Ioss*	Untitled
B4	–Odal	Nihil Pt. 2
B5	–S·Core	Escapism
B6	–M.Nomized	Lowpass Filter
B7	–6de Kolonne	The Ninth Enochian Key
B8	–Swimming Behavior Of The Human Infant*	Untitled
B9	–Sluagh Ghairm	Join The Tribe, Baby!
B10	–PSY 231	Behind The Glass Door (Live In Eureka, USA)

BROBAT ENEMA-Lady In Red-(Exart-Holland-198?-)

Excellent tape-work by this unknown project somehow related to Enema Digest, A group of three hardcore industrial musicians from London, named after Paul Daniels, who was a famous magician & TV personality in the UK. The band set up a gig and announced it as Paul Daniels World Tour. Paul Daniels is the same musicians as Brobat Enema and Enema Digest.

The music evolves in areas such as "primitive" minimal synth, repetitive electronic jingles and Rhythmbox music.

 EXART (label, studio and archive) was founded by Hessel Veldman and Nick Nicole (2) in October 1982. In 1978 Hessel had started composing experimental music and before 1978 he was playing the guitar in several local blues- and rock bands. The label wanted to spread new experimental and improvised music. The studio was the place to improvise, compose, record and make radio-programmes, mixes and remixes. At the same time, Veldman started to preserve sounds in the Exart archive. The label ended its activities in 1995, although there are rumours that Veldman has plans to do digitalized reissues of some of the releases.
Variations on the label name (Exart Cassettes, Exart K7) are used on some of the releases. (from dijima blog)click me

Tracklist

A1	Animals
A2	Refuse In My Prepuce
A3	What Do You Think I Came Downstairs For?
A4	Social Activity
B1	Readymade Suit
B2	Organization Of Computer Duration
B3	Gently Sex Penis
B4	Tequila
B5	Spin The Bottle
B6	Not Exactly What You Expected
B7	Essentially Wanting A Group
B8	Bored To Boogie
B9	Sello Tape
B10	Blues Cooperation Composition
B11	There's A Hair In My G-String
B12	My Old Man's A Dustman

Notes

Side A: Live at St Chad's, Durham, U.K.
On this release, the label is called Exart Cassettes.

DE FABRIEK-Members Only-(Fabprod-Holland-1982)

De Fabriek (The Factory) hails from the Dutch City of Zwolle and started in December 1977 as a collective project.Currently De Fabriek consists of Richard van Dellen, Louise Nanuru and Klaas Mons.
Their goal was to do minimal experimental music.
You could see this minimal thing in the products themselves - limited handmade copies with special packages-(from their Bandcamp Page)
14 tracks in this old tape exploring spoken words, industrial and minimal jingles.
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GORGONZOLA LEGS-Piscatorial Debris-(Exart-Holland-1988)

An astonishing CD by Gorgonzola Legs, for whom not familiar with them then I already posted their great tape Salmon Squeezing In Weird Weirs in that post you`ll find some very useful info about this project. 

This cd is yet another great gift by my friend Dante who kindly sent me this as Flac files and suggested to me to add an inspiring quote by  Hessel Veldman (one of the founding members) taken from the booklet of this cd.

My gratitude to you, dear Dante.

  EXART (label, studio and archive) was founded by Hessel Veldman and Nick Nicole (2) in October 1982. In 1978 Hessel had started composing experimental music and before 1978 he was playing the guitar in several local blues- and rock bands. The label wanted to spread new experimental and improvised music. The studio was the place to improvise, compose, record and make radio-programmes, mixes and remixes. At the same time, Veldman started to preserve sounds in the Exart archive. The label ended its activities in 1995, although there are rumours that Veldman has plans to do digitalized reissues of some of the releases.
Variations on the label name (Exart Cassettes, Exart K7) are used on some of the releases.

(from dijima blog)

To complete this post I am also adding a review originally published on Soft Wath magazine and then re-published on a Discogs page dedicated to this album.
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 This is an album which undoubtedly falls into the category of Jazz, albeit at it’s most loose & unstructured. “Piscatorial Debris” comprises two rather long tracks - entitled parts 1 & 2, but the sound changes so much that there could be more than a dozen tracks in here.
“Piscatorial Debris Part One” gradually fades in on calming sounds with some RESIDENTS-like odd voices speaking in strained tongues in the background. This gradually builds into a very subtle and understated rhythm over which percussion cuts and hacks as if some vandal were defacing some grand work of Art with a severely blunted knife. The sound metamorphosizes, only the two-note bass sound maintaining the pretence of rhythm as electronic soup and harnessed feedback build up and fade away, creating an ever-changing shape-shifter of noise. Sax appears, twisting it’s serpent way through to the front of the sound, almost obliterating the drifting mist of sound which skulks along in the distance. Eventually, the sax fades out and the grey Industrial morass folds back towards the front of the mix. About 16 minutes into the track grating electronic sounds like honed blades breakthrough before the noise sets off in a sort of TG ‘rising from the ashes’ type thing with another understated rhythm over which the sax swoops and ascends. It finishes on such a promising note, you feel you have been cruelly robbed.

Opening on a pattering handclap rhythm and ear-scraping saxophone, this soon collapses into understated non-rhythm reminding me a little of CLOCK DVA’s earlier work - the two tape albums. This fades almost to silence, saved only by well-controlled feedback and tinny piano before a thick black cloud of noise drift into the arena, distorted and impenetrable. This forms into a sort of non-rhythm reminiscent of LEWIS & GILBERT’s more drifting music. This in its turn yields to a rippling harp / quiet sax piece which would be quite beautiful if not for the grating, squeaking sound in the background. This fades into the next part again with bassy sounds providing understated rhythm while the vocalist sings in a non-language again, his voice doubled - one bassy, one higher-pitched, both used more as subtle instruments than as actual vocals. This again changes it's sound still without apparent structure, with noises like metal claws slashing the inner synapses, charging, transmuting, yet despite it’s apparent lack of control, they still seem to be keeping a calm hand at the reins. It forms into a much more controlled piece by the time it fades away.

I admit I wasn’t too impressed the first time I heard it - I listened ‘with one ear’ and had formed an impression that they were okay but... Now, after reviewing it - listening to it at a more intense level, I’m willing to say they qualify for the non-existant SOFT WATCH top ten recordings. It’s a great little disc - one I’ll play again & again. If THROBBING GRISTLE had chosen a less stark image, and a couple of them had a Jazz background, it’s conceivable that they would have sounded like GORGONZOLA LEGS. If you like the "TGCD", then chances are you might like this - there are a lot of similarities.

Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.

v.a-Viva Umkhonto!-(Konkurrel-Holland-1987)

uMkhonto we Sizwe (Xhosa pronunciation: [uˈmkʰonto we ˈsizwe], meaning "Spear of the Nation"; abbreviated MK) was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government.^{[1] from Wikipedia)} 

This was a Benefit compilation LP for Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC.It includes a 20-page booklet with articles and lyrics. Some copies also include a 'Viva Umkhonto' newsprint.

All the scans provided here. 

The selection of bands and tracks is just amazing including some of the best names from the lively international HC Punk scene of the fabulous 80s.

Enjoy it.

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A1	–Scream (2)	Feel Like That	4:16
A2	–Challenger Crew	Holidays In Amsterdam	1:36
A3	–Morzelpronk	Frippery	2:14
A4	–Social Unrest	American Steel	2:53
A5	–The Ex	Dallas, Texas 1988	4:25
B1	–Depraved	Visions Of Change	1:54
B2	–Victims Family	Lock Of Interest	1:16
B3	–B.G.K.	Nothing Can Go Wrong	1:49
B4	–Rhythm Pigs	Funeral Of A Friend	1:30
B5	–Everything Falls Apart	Pain	2:45
B6	–Kafka Prosess	Children Of Love	1:58
B7	–S.C.A.*	Frustrated	3:49
B8	–76% Uncertain	Another	1:31

ENEMA DIGEST-Baby Guts-(Exart-Holland-1984)

Recorded in Durham(UK) in October 1983 this tape is another manifestation by the projects Brobat Enema and Paul Daniels: 

A group of three hardcore industrial musicians from London, named after Paul Daniels, who was a famous magician & TV personality in the UK. The band set up a gig and announced it as Paul Daniels World Tour.
Paul Daniels is the same musicians as Brobat Enema and Enema Digest. 

(info from Discogs)

This cassette contains 10 tracks exploring the unlimited world of minimal lo-fi music touching the weird pop, the industrial music, some strange improvisations, rhythms and vocals experimenting the impossible and a new crazy muzak.

 

  EXART (label, studio and archive) was founded by Hessel Veldman and Nick Nicole (2) in October 1982. In 1978 Hessel had started composing experimental music and before 1978 he was playing the guitar in several local blues- and rock bands. The label wanted to spread new experimental and improvised music. The studio was the place to improvise, compose, record and make radio-programmes, mixes and remixes. At the same time, Veldman started to preserve sounds in the Exart archive. The label ended its activities in 1995, although there are rumours that Veldman has plans to do digitalized reissues of some of the releases.
Variations on the label name (Exart Cassettes, Exart K7) are used on some of the releases.

(from dijima blog)

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GORGONZOLA LEGS-Salmon Squeezing In Weird Weirs-(Exart-Holland-c60-1986)

1984 was the year in which Gert Jan Prins (www.gjp.info/) visited Hessel and Nicole at their apartment on the 11th floor, overlooking a big industrial landscape. Recording-sessions were started at Gert Jan’s “Fish Warehouse” studio. Gert Jan Prins, Hessel Veldman, Herman te Loo and Jos van Duyne became GORGONZOLA LEGS. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of “live”-recording sessions took place. At some of these sessions, other musicians were present, such as Jos van Ommen, Ruud Junge, Martijn Swart and Masaki Oishi. At the end of 1984 “GORGONZOLA LEGS” was released. On this one hour cassette, the first mixed recordings could be heard. The group also wanted to do concerts and so GORGONZOLA LEGS more and more became a “live”-band.

In 1986 a second tape was released, entitled “SALMON SQUEEZING IN WEIRD WEIRS’, a new compilation of “Fish Warehouse”-recordings. “BUNKER” was recorded live at the Bunker in Rotterdam, October ’86. The complete concert could be heard on another EXART-issue. In 1987 the powerful voice of the Japanese singer Masaki Oishi gave a new dimension to the sound of GORGONZOLA LEGS. Hours and hours of recordings were made. At the end of the year, 6 hours of mixed material had to be remixed to L.P.-format. In April 1988 EXART decided to make it Holland’s first independent C.D.-release: “PISCATORIAL DEBRIS’. At the same time, with the great help of Henry van Kleeff, the “PISCATORIAL DEBRIS” video was made. A beautiful 20 minutes sound sculpture video was realized. The video and C.D. got a lot of international attention and was performed on several big music/video festivals. During the late 80s, GORGONZOLA LEGS-material was also released on labels in Portugal, Italy and the U.S.A.(from djima.blogspot.com)

PRIVATE DISCOGRAPHY: 1978 – 2000

“Unreleased Material: ITAL”

CDR 74min

GORGONZOLA LEGS

“Unreleased Material: SHORT STORIES”

CDR 74min

GORGONZOLA LEGS

"The Concert Sessions: STEDELIJK MUSEUM”

CDR 74min

GORGONZOLA LEG

  EXART (label, studio and archive) was founded by Hessel Veldman and Nick Nicole (2) in October 1982. In 1978 Hessel had started composing experimental music and before 1978 he was playing the guitar in several local blues- and rock bands. The label wanted to spread new experimental and improvised music. The studio was the place to improvise, compose, record and make radio-programmes, mixes and remixes. At the same time, Veldman started to preserve sounds in the Exart archive. The label ended its activities in 1995, although there are rumours that Veldman has plans to do digitalized reissues of some of the releases.
Variations on the label name (Exart Cassettes, Exart K7) are used on some of the releases.

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KLEG-Zing-(Barooni-Holland-1992)

Kleg (1984-1995) was an art-rock ensemble from Groningen, the Netherlands. Influenced by Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham.
Kleg recorded two albums: #15 'Eating and Sleeping' and Zing.
#15 was a 50-minute suite.
Zing had a more conventional rock-feel and was produced by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Both albums are out of print.
4 unreleased tracks from 1995 were made public in 2014 via their Bandcamp page.

 Recorded at Studio 20 (Tienen, Belgium) at August 19th & 20th and September 2nd till 4th 1991. Issued in a 4-panel Digipak with white tray, manufactured by Van de Steeg, Holland under license from AGI, USA.
Some copies with a sticker on front: "Produced by Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) / mixed by Luc Van Acker (Revolting Cocks)"

All the info is taken from Discogs.

To complete this post I am here attaching a great video with a track from this album, here the info from that Youtube Channel:

  "A video for the song Diamanda by KLEG. (Yes, this is the stereo version) Diamanda was a track from KLEG's second album ZING, which was recorded in aug./sept. 1992 in Studio 20 in Tienen (Belgium) by Luc van Acker (engineering) and Lee Ranaldo (production). The video was made in the winter of 1993 by VPRO TV for their show TV Nomaden, a weekly experimental show that was on Dutch national TV between 1992 and 1995. The video was filmed in KLEG's hometown Groningen, but I can not recall where that nomad`s land was. In fact, I only remember it was a fuckin' cold afternoon! Diamanda was named after Diamanda LaBerge Dramm who was born in the month we wrote that track. This Diamanda LaBerge Dramm: http://youtu.be/NcF7VwpKhEA More vintage music by KLEG at https://kleg.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/kleg"

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v.a.-NECROPHOBIA-(Interrupt Product-Holland-c90-1989)

Old compilation released on a c90 cassette including many obscure yet great artists playing industrial in its many forms and shapes...noise, deranged electronics, broken ambient, weird cranking metal junks, voice loops and more difficult music to absorb.

Interrupt Product was a small Dutch tape label active in the late 80s releasing industrial and noise music.

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tracklist

A1	–Stefano Biasin	Remember Lola Falana
A2	–Recycled Body Programm	Bachhausern
A3	–Solanaceae Tau	Amplitude Overload Desaster
A4	–Solanaceae Tau	Le Technicien Opaque
A5	–LSD*	Sea Of Noise 2
A6	–S·Core	Still Alarm
A7	–Context (3)	Product 45
A8	–Blackhumour	A Calculated Risk
A9	–DZ Lectric	Kaâli
A10	–The Grey Wolves	Untitled
B1	–Enema Och Gejonte*	Untitles 1,2,3
B2	–Not 1/2	....And Then, Too, At Lower Than Usual....
B3	–Pyrom (2)	Kocmoc
B4	–Vandal X	Soon To Come
B5	–If, Bwana	All Stars
B6	–factor X	Untitled
B7	–Costes Cassette*	No Strawberries!
B8	–DZ Lectric	Planéte
B9	–pronegatif	Sonorous