freiband “stainless steel • redux & finale” three inch compact disc-recordable

• stainless steel (19:54)

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frans de waard “floodlight” three inch compact disc-recordable

• floodlight (18:21)

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freiband / the idealist “time lag” three inch compact disc-recordable

• time lag (17:07)

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zebra “j05 50j” three inch compact disc-recordable

• j05 50j (19:20)

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040 zebra - j05 50j recently jos smolders turned 50 and invited some friends over a beer and cake. oh and some to play to music, orphax, staplerfahrer and zebra. since the other two will release their piece on a cdr, zebra made an edit to fit on a 3" cdr of their festitive piece. three shure fire hits from their catalogue of meltpop tunes, 'muesings are jest the start' , 'dusty riveval music' and an as yet untitled piece from what is called the 'classic' album (to be released some day), but packed up with sound samples from the vast musical career of jos smolders. rather a nice version, for the true fans of all things zebra.

ezdanitoff “we bring light” three inch compact disc-recordable

• a hand for the crippled (3:29)
  
• we bring light (4:10)
  
• our russia (4:38)
  
• playgrounds (6:29)

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039 ezdanitoff - we bring light wouter jaspers and frans de waard will be on tour again in november and in order to prepare this, they went into the studio, recorded some great music and then decided to something else on the road afterwards. the studio sessions consisted on playing on all the analogue synthesizers there (moog prodigy, korg ms20, roland sh 01, juno 60) and they common theme is love songs, ballads even if you want. they were mixed  afterwards adding some extra material (field recordings, electronics) and doesn't sound at all like the previous release 'komeet'. for the tour they choose four pre-mixes as a tour item and it will be for sale until 'we bring light' is fully mixed and released. spacious synth songs!

frans de waard “kubus” c46 cassette

• stemmingen
  
• slag werk
  
  
• terug gaan

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038 frans de waard - kubus cassette kubus kassettes, later to be called kubus kommunikaties, claimed to be the very first dutch cassette label. their first release was a pretty standard sort of rock release, but right then, after that, kubus started to release experimental music. they were 'different' to other labels, offering a more intellectual approach to what they were doing. rob smit, the label boss, had his own vision of the ambient music by brian eno: the four way musical universe, consisting of the musical matter, time, space and energy. in his own music, he delayed the playing of a glockenspiel and worked with the studio techniques, however minimal, to change the color of the sound. on this cassette i take his ideas, or perhaps i create covers of his pieces. 'stemmingen' uses a bow and a glockenspiel, which are layered extensively. 'slag werk' uses the same glockenspiel, but played rhythmically. the computer transposes it various ways, in order to create a more gamelan like feel and it uses extensive layers. 'terug gaan' started as a four track recording of glockenspiel, philicordia organ and sound effects, played in an improvised manner. the four track is then played at half the speed, and transferred to the computer, with channel three and four playing backwards. these four tracks are then played simultaneously and totally edited, but no other computer technique was applied. unfortunately the tape i pulled from the pile to record this one, did survive 'time' very well: the magnetics have come off, and i only noticed this after recording. so in good brian eno spirit - honor your mistakes - i decided to go ahead and use this tape, along with the imperfections of the tape. this piece resembles the closest approach to the original kubus sound. the first cassette release on my own little label - an edition of 50 copies.

ezdanitoff “komeet” three inch compact disc-recordable

• komeet (19:44)

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037 ezdanitoff - komeet in 2010 the old and the new meet up, at least. the old, represented by frans de waard (kapotte muziek, beequeen, goem, zebra, freiband and god knows what else) joins forces with the twenty years younger peer wouter jaspers (franz fjodor, 4daladiez and vatican analog headhoncho). armed with their skills and tricks of trade (magnetic wave fields, crackle box, sound effects, contact microphones and such like) they went out to play a concert in budapest and wasted no time while being there. a temporary, battery operated studio in the hotel ventura served to tape their works while being there and resulted in 'komeet', a highly psychedelic electronic sound piece of comets approaching earth. a collison course of cascading sound.

kapotte muziek “25 greatest hits” business card compact disc-recordable

• initi_a-l (from `year of random music') (0:14)
  
• kapotte goem muziek (0:14)
  
• live `s-hertogenbosch 26-09-1993 (0:14)
  
• live amsterdam 05-02-1997 (0:14)
  
• live antwerpen 12-03-1996 (0:14)
  
• live atlanta 12-05-1993 (0:14)
  
• live chicago 11-05-1993 (0:14)
  
• live dallas 13-05-1993 (0:14)
  
• live dortmund 24-05-1996 (0:14)
  
• live hamburg 28-12-1997 (0:14)
  
• live in seatle radio studio (0:14)
  
• live munster 29-12-1999 (0:14)
  
• live pittsburg 11-05-1993 (0:14)
  
• live trondheim 7-11-1997 (0:14)
  
• live utrecht 12-01-2006 (0:14)
  
• live xanthi 16-09-2006 (0:14)
  
• musik ohne ende (0:14)
  
• real time music (0:14)
  
• ruis phase (0:14)
  
• stringquartet for amplified toyguitar (0:14)
  
• terugkoppeling (unreleased) (0:14)
  
• unreleased recording from randy greif studio (0:14)
  
• ycal mix (0:14)
  
• 1khz (0:14)
  
• 4444 (0:14)

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036 kapotte muziek - 25 greatest hits originally a give away on the extrapool concert on february 26th as part of the large kapotte muziek event. twenty-five highlights from twenty-five years of kapotte muziek, compressed to five minutes and fifty seconds. shuffle/repeat recommended.

machinefabriek / freiband “kilauea” three inch compact disc-recordable

• kilauea (20:37)

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035 machinefabriek & freiband - kilauea on february 14th 2010 machinefabriek and frans de waard played each a solo concert at berlin's rote salon. afterwards they played a collaborative concert as machinefabriek and freiband. taking the material from their previous collaboration a bit further, adding new sounds to the whole.

“no moll lonely nights • my personal christmas album” three inch compact disc-recordable

• beequeen - adestes fideles (11:09)
  
• freiband - stph (3:01)
  
• kapotte muziek - bell phase (1:03)
  
• kapotte muziek - audio plagio (2:30)
  
• kapotte muziek - the normal x-mas records destruction (2:58)

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033 no moll lonely nights - my personal christmas album while transferring old kapotte muziek works to my computer i found three tracks from 1989, which i had sent to rrrecords for some christmas compilation, but which were never released. so i released my own little christmas album this year, with these three tracks, plus a beequeen piece from 1997 and a freiband piece from 2001. the cheesy title has been suggested by freek kinkelaar.

freiband “martin • one [live] aspect” three inch compact disc-recordable

• martin • one [live] aspect (17:27)

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032 freiband - martin - one [live] aspect and of course the recording of that brussels event which is something entirely different than moll 031.

freiband “martin • seven [new] aspects” three inch compact disc-recordable

• first (2:32)
  
• second (3:25)
  
• third (2:35)
  
• fourth (3:13)
  
• fifth (3:00)
  
• sixth (2:39)
  
• seventh (2:51)

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031 freiband - martin - seven [new] aspects not really new aspects anymore, but a re-issue of a 3"cdr originally on tib prod and now re-issued on the occasion of a freiband concert in brussels on december 11th 2009 that deals with the work with of martin hannett.

freiband / bass communion “headwind • tailwind” three inch compact disc

• freiband - headwind (10:33)
  
  
• bass communion - tailwind (10:27)

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030 freiband / bass communion - headwind/tailwind last year my own little label released 'haze shrapnel', a new piece by bass communion and a remix of that by freiband as a 3"cdr. already back then it was agreed that there should also be a release by freiband with a remix by bass communion. due to the immense success of that 3"cdr, the new one is now released as a factory pressed 3"cd. for 'headwind' freiband returns to the guitar playing by martin luiten (pick-up, uw hyoptheekadvies) and produces a spacious computerized remix of his elaborate playing. bass communion takes matters further up the line in a likewise sizzling remix.

frans de waard “heerlen hiss” three inch compact disc-recordable

• heerlen hiss (19:22)

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027 frans de waard - heerlen hiss (3"cdr) concert from february 2009 in heerlen. in 2008 i composed three pieces for compilations which all deal with the sound of hiss from old cassettes, and some 'field recordings' from faulty cassette mechanisms. two of those pieces have been released already, on 'lasting' and 'tabl for six', and the third will come later this year on a new uk label. all of the elements of those elements are reconfigured in 'heerlen hiss' and the recording is a mixture of a line recording i made myself and a live recording giving to me by edward ka-spel.

freiband “musik for no title” three inch compact disc-recordable

• musik for no title (17:50)

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026 freiband - musik for no title (3"cdr) a re-issue of 2003 freiband piece. it was back then released by poland's mik musik, and part of a series of five (if i am not mistaken) remixes of source material i totally forgot about. its a seventeen minute piece of laptop music processing.

beequeen “atem” three inch compact disc-recordable

• atem (21:21)

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025 beequeen - atem (3"cdr) the longest piece beequeen ever submitted to a compilation,'guru means slayer of darkness', back in 1996 on manifold. its been out of print for quite some time, but both me and freek think this is a great old, and lost beequeen piece, so we decided to re-issue it. it was made back when i lived in den haag, and uses multiple layers of a ventilator and a heating system. a fine lively drone piece.

frans de waard “verval” three inch compact disc-recordable

• verval (15:44)

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024 frans de waard - verval (3"cdr) a live recording from extrapool, january 10th 2009. live sound is being up by three microphones and three cassette players and then fed back into the mix. a slightly edited version.

frans de waard “profieldeel zeven” business card compact disc-recordable

• profieldeel zeven (5:17)

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023 frans de waard - profieldeel zeven (businesscard cdr) soundtrack to the film 'ijzig vuur' by jan kees helms, for which i return to the material from 'vijf profielen'.

bass communion / freiband “haze shrapnel” three inch compact disc-recordable

• bass communion - haze shrapnel (12:51)
  
• freiband - haze shrapnel (remix) (8:00)

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022 bass communion / freiband - haze shrapnel (3"cdr) i have been in contact with steven wilson off and on for quite a while. recently he wrote me, we traded some cds and he liked my little enterprise. he had a spare track of 12 minutes and 'if i want to release it'. 'sorry, and why not do a remix then', as freiband. next time roles will be reversed.

frans de waard “untitled (le poeme d'une vie bien remplie)” three inch compact disc-recordable

• untitled (20:10)

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021 frans de waard - untitled (le poeme d'une vie bien remplie) (3"cdr) rutger asked me to play on the same night as he did in leeuwarden and 'if i could incorporate some text'. i asked dmitry vasiljev of monochrome vision to speak a short mayakovsky text, in russian of course, and this 3" captures the slightly edited concert.

pick-up “from here to anywhere” three inch compact disc-recordable

• from here to anywhere (8:49)
  
• space outside time (13:09)

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020 pick-up - from here to anywhere (3"cdr) pick-up is a new duo of martin luiten (girlfriends, uw hypotheek advies) on guitar and frans de waard on laptop. two gorgeous pieces of digital blues? well, whatever. forthcoming is a lp on important records and one on plinkity plonk.

freiband “reflection” three inch compact disc-recordable

• reflection (16:36)

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019 freiband - reflection (3"cdr) piano sources recorded on boxing day, transformed in the days after with the final mix on new years eye 2007. moody textured music with a bite.

beequeen “long stones and circles” three inch compact disc-recordable

• long stones and circles (17:59)

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018 beequeen - long stones and circles (3"cdr) re-issue of a long out of print classic beequeen work, based around various text by land artist richard long.

freiband “capture” three inch compact disc-recordable

• capture

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017 freiband - capture (3"cdr) on march 14th 2008 the 2lp 'audioscoop' was released, with a.o. a track by kapotte muziek. at the presentation i did a remix in the style of 'captured music' (on selektion), using a lot of the sound material from the 2lp. this has become 'capture'.

peter duimelinks “revisie (heroverwogen)” three inch compact disc-recordable

• revisie (heroverwogen) (19:40)

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016 peter duimelinks - revisie (heroverwogen) (3"cdr) you obviously remember the split lp that me and roel meelkop did for stichting mixer (and if you don't: i have some left). originally it was supposed to be a cd called kapotte muziek by kapotte muziek, which each of the three members doing a piece of twenty minutes, but as it turned out mixer didn't like peter's contribution and it turned out to be a lp. oh well, too bad, since peter's piece is quite nice and the purpose of moll is to release interesting pieces, new and old. so this 2002 piece is finally released, and if i am not mistaken, this is peter's first ever release with just him.

howard stelzer / frans de waard “torn tongue • volume 2” business card compact disc-recordable

• torn tape (3:01)
  
• virtual scissors (2:44)

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015 howard stelzer & frans de waard - torn tongue volume 2 (businesscard cdr) howie and i have been working for years on various things, which found their origins in a spoken word tape. volume 0 was part of kapotte muziek's 4cdr boxset on audiobot and volume 1 was released by absurd, all ages ago. we planned to work on a volume 2 and i made some sketches for it, but we never got around doing anything with it. until now. howie and i returned to the four small sketches and made two new pieces out of that. probably the world's shortest collaboration. howie does a great dense tape piece whereas my piece is quite collage like and a bit louder than usual.

elise de waard “geluidjesmuziek” business card compact disc-recordable

• geluidjesmuziek (5:34)

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014 elise de waard - geluidjesmuziek (businesscard cdr) of course the temptation couldn't be resisted, and it had to be made: elise de waard is probably the world's youngest field recordist, and her first release is all about movement. recordings of train, machines, boats, belly, balls and voice make this into a lovely little item.

wander “wander” business card compact disc-recordable

• wander (4:56)

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013 wander (businesscard cdr) the shortest wander release, all computer based. one piece, called 'wander'. what else do you expect?

violet / freiband “fender bender” three inch compact disc-recordable

• fender bender (20:36)

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012 violet & freiband - fender bender (3" cdr) when i was in washington i stayed with jeff surak of zeromoon, sonic circuits and violet fame. and someone whom i know for over twenty years now. previous arrangements never worked out to record, but on september 11th we sat down and record some music, which in edited form is now released here. zeromoon will release an alternative mix/version/treatment of the material.

kapotte muziek “#103 • tilburg” three inch compact disc-recordable

• #103 (15:17)

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011 kapotte muziek: #103: tilburg (3" cdr) on sunday afternoon the 23rd of september 2007 kapotte muziek played their very first all acoustic concert on the streets of tilburg as part of acoustic noise which was again part of zxzw. highly curious 15 minute concert, and the recordings are likewise curious, with people talking, bikes passing and us playing.

frans de waard “profiedeel zes” three inch compact disc-recordable

• profiedeel zes (20:25)

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010 frans de waard - profieldeel zes (3" cdr) a remix of my own 'vijf profielen' is now part of my live set, whenever i am asked to play under my own name. this recording was made at the sonic circuits festival in september 2007.

radboud mens / frans de waard “garage sale” three inch compact disc-recordable

• sale 01
  
• sale 04
  
• sale 03

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009 radboud mens & frans de waard - garage sale (3" cdr) radboud and i played an improvised concert at the garage festival in 2002, which radboud later mixed, but perhaps we never shopped hard enough for a label. out of the five finished tracks, i choose three. it shows our interest in minimalist rhythm and a bit of noise.

freiband / colin tudor “pantones” three inch compact disc-recordable

• i (3:03)
  
• ii (4:05)
  
• iii (4:14)
  
• iv (4:32)
  
• v (4:45)

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008 freiband & colin tudor - pantones (3" cdr) colin was one of the founding members of zion train and a regular visit to the amsteram shop i was once at. he liked experimental music and one day mailed me a bunch of sound material from his solo project pantonal. i reworked them, but didn't mix it, which i left for colin to do. he did it, quite nicely, and it has been several years with some label, who didn't go about to release, for whatever reason i don't know. but here it is, missing one mixed track, but hey, i'm only doing 3"s and business cards. rhythm glitch music, or some such.

frans de waard “xi (for christian nijs)” three inch compact disc-recordable

• xi (for christian nijs) (17:51)

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007 frans de waard - xi (for christian nijs) (3" cdr) about a year ago i learned my first musical partner in kapotte muziek commited suicide in 2002, which came as quite a shock. this piece is built of electronic sounds recorded at ems in stockholm in december 2006 and various field recordings from my archive, not mixed but set back to back. a sort of 'in memoriam', keeping in mind some of the early day work of kapotte muziek.

beequeen “white bike” business card compact disc-recordable

• white bike (original demo, 6 august 2006) (0:56)
  
• white bike (session edit, 9 august 2006) (1:35)
  
• white bike (final version, 6 september 2006) (1:09)

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005 beequeen - white bike (businesscard cdr) recently beequeen completed their latest cd 'sanddancing', which is now being produced by erik drost and which will be released by important records somewhere towards the end of this year. 'white bike' was supposed to be on there, but both freek and me thought the somewhat joyeus and naive mood of the song would not entirely fit the cd, and we decided to release it here. actually there are three tracks on it, the original freek sung demo, an excerpt from the recording session (the moment when we think of the balloon) and the final version, sung by eva.

roel meelkop “business as usual” business card compact disc-recordable

• business as usual (3:33)

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004 roel meelkop - business as usual (businesscard cdr) let's forget what i said about not doing work by others... still no need to send in your demo, as i won't listen, but i made this exception for my closest musical compadres, and of course roel meelkop is the fastest of the lot. i know we got both thrilled when we first bought business card cdrs in japan in 2001 for the first time, and when i started this little enterprise, his immediate response was: i want it too. so here it is. the usual meelkopian take on silence.

freiband “untitled drone work” three inch compact disc-recordable

• untitled drone work (20:02)

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003 freiband - untitled drone work (3" cdr) that lovely twenty minute piece that was previously released by twenty hertz in their 'drone works' series, but since it's discontinued, i thought it would be a good idea to do a 'repress', this time on a 3" cdr, with a somewhat different cover (from the same series of photographs actually).

freiband “ice field” three inch compact disc-recordable

• ice field • part 1 (3:12)
  
• ice field • part 2 (3:55)
  
• ice field • part 3 (3:03)
  
• ice field • part 4 (3:09)
  
• ice field • part 5 (2:48)
  
• ice field • part 6 (3:14)

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002 freiband - ice field (3" cdr) originally the first four parts were to be released on a compilation by ideal records, but after having the piece for two years, they decided they wanted some drone music, which this is not. i added two more parts and now it becomes available again. it's a bit harsher than normally. it is said that the first freiband cd, 'microbes' was my first laptop album - but it was not; it was my last 'analogue' release. 'ice field' reworks the same material as on 'microbes' but now in an entirely digital environment.

freiband “spaarzaam” three inch compact disc-recordable

• spaarzaam (17:14)

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001 freiband - spaarzaam (3" cdr) the reason for starting this little enterprise. a studio version of a piece presented on june 3rd 2007. a short concert with this piece, being a remix of dagpauwoog, the local sad song trio which stopped their activities. while rehearsing this, i thought it would be a pity not to have some sort of documentation but with the length of seventeen minutes, it would be an oddity to fit on a full length.