Ed Pinsent writes in The Sound Projector: “every moment is somehow charged with a strange glow of significance, <…> a charming and slightly dreamlike snapshot, or a series of snapshots, results.”
cassette release Berlin
Dai Coelacanth – Christmas is ruined
A melodrama and a classic tearjerker, follow Dai Coelacanth’s new tales of lost souls on a foreign planet.
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video and review of Angelo Bignamini’s Anna
bazedjunkiii in Hamburg showed and opened the packet I sent him in front of the camera. I added two passenger tapes that were produced by Geert-Jan Hobijn, the founding father of staalplaat. I offered the free ride because sending one or three tapes makes no difference to the shipping costs.
baze-djunkiii also wrote a review of the tape:
Incoming via mail from Berlin only recently is Angelo Bignamini’s “Anna”, the most recent musical outing put on the circuit via the legendary Staaltape-label which saw its very first release all the way back in 1982. Issued on re-used, and therefore sustainable, commercial cassette tapes with a hand-crafted collage cover the eight tracks on this album were composed over a course of six months from February to August 2k21 and are conceptually covering the changes in the life and the surroundings of the Italian composer. “Anna” starts out on a slightly wobbly, dreamy solo piano tip, drifts further into realms of wonky tape manipulation sequences, cut-up Field Recordings and Plunderphonics as well as various collage and layering techniques, droning, extended and surely melancholia-inducing string sequences alongside what seems to be a close up recording of swarming insects – bees, probably -, eerie Industrial soundscapes with a well score’esque quality at the beginning of the B-side whilst surprisingly even turning towards home-recorded singer-songwriter dabblings reminiscent of the legendary Augsburg-based label Dhyana Records for a mere few seconds before diving into crackly, kitsch-dripping outtakes from Classical recordings and recorded tape machine vocals of unknown origin, all accompanied well by the slightly worn out nature of the previously used tape material. One for avid collectors of FoundSounds, lo-fi recordings and the mediums that come with them.
you can still order the tape here
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New C30 out soon (2) – Make Incest Great Again
February update: how to kantoor 1, 2, 3
My last copies of kantoor 2 are in these packets. If you want to get hold of kantoor 1, go to staalplaat, the shop. Jeroen Diepenmaat who took care of the zine production might have copies of all kantoor editions. Alternatively ask the artists who were involved in one of the three issues.
packet with kantoor 2&3
packet with kantoor 2&3
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shipping out
Four copies of ‘Dear Concerned Employees, ‘two copies of ‘Let me help you get rid of this,‘ one copy of ‘kantoor‘, one copy of ‘Paris Tape Run -home version‘ and one copy of ‘Audiozine#3 – Valerie Kuehne‘ have been shipped to Kraków, Rockville, London and New York City.
This is how they were packed.
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towards a new release – 1
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Dear Concerned Employees, out now.
C46
dubbed from 4track master tape
with use of Yamaha MT 100 II and Marantz CP430
price €8.50 (ex shipping)
Full info at the staaltape shop
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