New C60, compiled by Wassily Bosch

Wassily Bosch is the man behind nazlo records, involved in setting up numerous noise concerts at industrial wastelands in Moscow and Petersburg.  On the tape are found recordings and moments with friends or music from friends put together in an enchanting mix.

I had asked Wassily to think of the tape as a document, a moment in time, a kind of audio letter to the unknown listener. And a document it became, because gatherings like this are no longer possible.

C60, reused tape, handmade cover and cassette decoration.

The complete albums in digital form of previous, not all staaltape releases are also available on Bandcamp.

Review of Angelo Bignamini’s C40 – Anna

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.”

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Rinus van Alebeek -Autoritratto con melagrana

Sounds from a collection of tapes, found or with own recordings, put together in an audiocollage with the use of multiple cassette players.

Dai Coelacanth – Christmas is ruined

A melodrama and a classic tearjerker, follow Dai Coelacanth’s new tales of lost souls on a foreign planet.

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

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.

Available and sold out Releases

Here’s an overview of staaltape releases that are sold out and new ones. The collection of new releases will grow this year. Visit @staalplaat when you’re in Berlin, or visit the website and see if there’s something you like.

Paris Tape Run 2, tape exchange between two runners

 

Berlin Tape Run, Limited DeLuxe and Pocket Edition

In the last days of June 2018 I was a guest at the Cassette Culture Node Linz exhibition, organised by Wolfgang Dorninger. Instead of setting up a workshop and risk zero participants, I made perfect use of the work table in the exhibition space and produced 2×10 copies of the Berlin Tape Run. Berlin Tape Run was the first release by staaltape after a 15 years break. It was also my first production for staaltape.

Both versions are completely handmade and limited to ten numbered copies. I used flyers, magazines, glue, scissors, paint brushes and acryl paint in the process. The tapes were dubbed from a chrome BTR copy on a ferric transparent 40 minutes tape, played back by a Sony pro Walkman and recorded by a Marantz CP430.

BTR DeLuxe Germany, shipping included 19,00 €
BTR DeLuxe world, shipping included 20,00 €
BTR pocket Germany, shipping included 11.50 €
BTR DeLuxe world, shipping included 12,50 €
If you can meet me in Berlin, or catch me on tour, the copies will be 16,00 € or 8,50 €

DeLuxe and Pocket version are displayed and indicated in the pictures. Both versions have the same content.

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group picture of BTR DeLuxe version, down left is the back side.

Tracklist + info, copy from the original artwork of the first BTR edition

BTR pocket version

BTR pocket version, inside with tape inserted

BTR pocket version, inside

BTR – DeLuxe

BTR – DeLuxe detail

BTR DeLuxe – Red picture with white tape and the tracklist are copies from the original artwork of the first edition of BTR

BTR DeLuxe front of package

BTR DeLuxe – detail

you don’t get this exceptionally high degree of uncut humanity and honesty captured on tape every day

Audiozine #3 – Valerie Kuehne is reviewed by Ed Pinsent in The Sound Projector. He hears “evidence of a wild, peculiar talent.” Read the complete review here.

The second edition is now available at Staalplaat in Berlin (postal orders too), directly from the artist, or from yours sincerely (contact form at bottom of this post).

Earlier reviewers-

“I never had heard any other music of Valerie Kuehne, but she has a new follower!” says Johan Nederpel in Yeah, I know it sucks.

“She performs with great style,” says Frans De Waard in Vital Weekly #1032

“Sehr hoher Unterhaltungswert,” says DJ TDK aka Thomas Neumann in Hörerlebnis, Ausgabe 97 (physical copy)

 

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Second Edition of Patrizia Oliva – Numen, Coming Soon

Side A, sprayed on the banks of the River Vistula in Warsaw, with the help of Anna Wóstovich.

Side B