Pissing In The Wind

October 19, 2010 Leave a comment

Sindre Bjerga runs since ten years or so his Gold Soundz label. I remember when I first got in contact with him: he was planning a LP with covers of Pink Floyd (ok, that’s wrong – it was somebody else, sorry Sindre – when did we first contact then?). I did a Freiband track for him, but the LP never arrived, so it was released on a 7″ by Plinkity Plonk. Later on I met him, in 2007, when I played in Stavanger and last year in Extrapool. He celebrates his ten years with a CDR compilation of short pieces, 99 in total. ‘With Friends Like These: 10 Years Of Pissing In The Wind’. I have three tracks on there, one with The Tobacconists, one with Ezdanitoff and a solo track (recorded with two laptops connected with Skype!). Lots of short noise pieces by lots of people. Great one!

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The New Blockaders

October 14, 2010 2 Comments

A long time ago I was asked by Richard Rupenus of The New Blockaders to do a remix, which was, much later, released on a 5LP set by Vinyl On Demand. Today I received a 2CD which has all the European remixes of The New Blockaders together. Its released by Auf Abwegen. I wondered why exactly this had to be re-issued, but its a fine compilation. The USA artists are on Important Records and the UK artists compiled by At War With False Noise (for completists). I doubt wether it will bring fame to the New Blockaders outside the extended family of noise. Oh, actually I did two remixes. The other one is still in my archive and was supposed to be released by Beta-Lactam Ring on a CD of various of those forgotten tracks (along with some other unreleased Freiband pieces), but that never happened. Anyone interested in releasing any of that, contact me for a full list of unreleased Freiband works.

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Working With Wouter

October 1, 2010 Leave a comment

This early afternoon Wouter Jaspers left for Berlin after two days of quite intense being together. We worked on new material which should be the first Ezdanitoff CD, mainly recording on the various synths and effects in my studio. We looked a bit at mixing, but there is a lot of work to be done on that – my task for now to sprinkle some of the Ezdanitoff magic on these recordings. But first there is work to be done for a new piece by The Tobacconists for a new year cassette and to think about Jos Smolders’ birthday where Zebra will play.

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Stats

September 28, 2010 Leave a comment

Yesterday I added the final entry to the blog about 25 years of Kapotte Muziek. From now on no more history, just what ever comes around in the future. Greg, a devoted follower of this blog, send me an e-mail this morning that in Itunes the music sums up to 460 items, 3.6 days/3:16:22:59 total time, 12.03 GB. That is quite impressive, if I may say so, and then lots of it wasn’t even available as a download. Oh well.
Wouter Jaspers is coming over from tomorrow till friday and we’ll be recording an Ezdanitoff CD, or hell: maybe 2!

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Last weekend

September 22, 2010 Leave a comment

The travel to Slovenia was not without problems. Easy ones, like missing flights on the way there and delays going back, heavy rainfall in Slovenia for the entire time, but the concert went pretty well. It will be edited a bit and get fresh songs for a b-side and then its going to be released on Limbabwe. Upon return I went straight into a car to Duisburg to play an afternoon concert. Danielle Lemaire drove me and shot this video, which I present unedited. Its a really low quality looking here on Vimeo, so I must see about redoing it, or perhaps even edit it. But the surroundings of this open air thing were nice, as can be seen…

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New Releases & Concerts

September 15, 2010 Leave a comment

Right now I’m preparing to leave for tomorrow’s flight to Slovenia to play at the Shina festival with Roel. We will play our Martin Hannett thingy and add a little surprise – we hope – for the organiser, being Mat. He used to live in Venlo, just as Roel did in the same time, and he was running the excellent Limbabwe label. So you can figure out what the surprise will be.
Right after I get back – no rest for the slaves – I will be going to Duisburg on Sunday to play a small concert as part of the Brachen Siedlung – an exchange between Arnhem, Nijmegen, Essen & Duisburg. Things will start at 14:00 – my cue point. It will be short. I’ll be taking my latest purchase:
Also two new CDs have been released on Korm Plastics, Flim’s brilliant ‘Orange’ CDEP and ’25 Years Of Kapotte Muziek’, a compilation from the small festival earlier this year. Order both and get a small discount.

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A Fine Day

September 5, 2010 4 Comments

Today the weather  is really lovely – really my kind of weather. About twenty degrees, very sunny, some clouds, hardly any wind, so I went out on my battered old bike, going outside into the woods around Nijmegen and did a long ride. A lovely ride indeed. I left the house uploading the video from yesterday and now’s it ready. So anyone who missed that can watch it now on Vimeo. Not the greatest quality, but there you go. And no there is no translation or subtitles available:

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Stream

September 4, 2010 Leave a comment

follow this link and until tonight you can watch the show, albeit the whole hour thing. the interview with starts around minute 27 and lasts 26 minutes. when its proper online I’ll post another link

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More TV

August 25, 2010 Leave a comment

Today we taped the interview part of the TV programm, and I made a mistake in my previous post: the programm starts at 20:00 with the part of ‘De Muzen’, of which this is a summer special will start at 20:20, all on september 3rd and repeated for little over 24 hours, so total about 28 repeats. When it comes online I’ll post the link here.

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TV

August 20, 2010 Leave a comment


Today we shot the first part of a small local TV documentary about me and my work. Since it will focuss on many different aspects of what I do, and not the scare away those who never saw anything out of the ordinary, we taped a small concert by Beequeen, performing three songs: ‘Breathe’, ‘Fine Day’ and ‘The Honeythief’. We did them about three times, with the second full version being the best, and the third for extra close ups and such. On my Beequeen archives blog there will be, tomorrow perhaps, that version. The next taping will be on wednesday when Bas will do an interview with me. All of which is scheduled for local broadcast on Nijmegen1 on September 3rd. Somewhere between 19:00-20:00 and will last about 25 minutes. It will be online somewhere too, I’ll post about it when time comes. The programm will be repeated 28 times, until september 5th, 0:00 CET.

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