Label: Tribe Tapes

オリジナルは1988年にインダストリアルバンドP.C.R.が設立したPrion Tapesからカセット出版、Vital weeklyでお馴染みのFrans de Waardを核に、Christian Nijs、Peter Duimelinks、Roel Meelkopが参加するオランダの超ベテラン集団Kapotte Muziekの初期作[Musik Ohne Ende]が初のCD再発。このグループの作品の軸である長いオープンリール・テープを用いた作品であり、金属、フィードバック、紙、共鳴というテーマで作り上げた4トラックを収録。それぞれの素材と手法が不安定なノイズとして奇怪に放射される玄人向けな一枚。同じ手法で録音された同時期の3つの未発表ボーナスが追加されています。







Professionally-manufactured CD in full-color, 4-panel digipak.
Includes bonus tracks from compilations (Tracks 5 - 7)

Originally released 1988 via Prion Tapes
Mastered by Nÿland at 4 & Rising
Cover by Adrian Gormley

"In the 1970s, serious music lovers had a reel-to-reel tape deck. My father certainly loved music and had one to tape classical music off the radio. I recorded my first musical experiments with this machine, fascinated as I was by slowing down the speed so my pieces last longer. Later on, I had some more experience, and my father turned to playing CDs, so the reel-to-reel machine has used a lot less, and I was allowed to drag it upstairs, and I borrowed one from the likewise serious Phillips employee next door. Now having two machines, I was able to create longer loops, which became an overall ingredient in the music of Kapotte Muziek. 'Music Ohne Ende' means 'music without an end', which is what tape-loops are all about, isn't it? The four pieces on this cassette from 1988 are recorded with sound sources mentioned in the titles; metal, feedback, paper and surfaces, and resonances. I remember very little about the recording process, to be honest, but somehow this tape I enjoyed for its instability in sound and the noise of it all. I also used a loop housed in a normal cassette at that time, but those results never captured the same power.
For this CD re-issue, there are also three bonus tracks from the same period, using the same tape machines, but more cut-up/collage, cutting tapes and sticking these together in random order."
Frans de Waard, September 2022