Category Archives: Klappstuhl Records

Glove Of Bones – Original Soundtrack Revisited & A Lot Of Things That Fell Out Of The Box

Also eagerly published in July already (SP 021, digital only with full artwork pdf) this one does fit way better to the sound of Autumn leaves falling, change of the seasons and a natural decease in order to start new beginnings than to the long never ending sweaty summer nights we had unexpected the luck to explore this year in full.

“The tooth root and aching backbone of the Glove of Bones creative project was an idea for a road movie without a road, a biography without a chronology or subject and an imaginary soundtrack for a film, based around a real movie.”

After the demise of the Digital Dizzy Netlabel GLOVE OF BONES needed a new home for various releases, the brilliant Ornithology found it’s way to the Ambient Label We Are All Ghosts where collaborateur Cousin Silas already was present with a batch of his guitar orientaded menderings as well as the follow up Album aptly titled ‘New Dub Manifesto’ issued in late 2017.

The ‘Things That Fell Out Of The Box’ collection got a new home at Petroglyph Music and Glove Of Bones own bandcamp (‘Glove Of Dub’) in 2017.

This one, first published as OST remained unavailable for some time – it’s a lengthy one piece track originally the soundtrack to the self-produced film which can be found here.
This new version got remastered and expanded by G.O.B. with 7 further new tracks expanding the original issue and themes.

Also out since April this year is the latest new work now on Argali Records Netlabel thematically circling around Alchemy featuring strange sound and voice recordings from the UBU Web Archive “Occult Voices – Paranormal Music, Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905 – 2007”.
Not a lighthearted theme therefore stepping more into dark ambient terretories than his other releases which mainly keep an balance between experiments, dada, ambient craftmanship.

On the latest excellent pay-what-you want compilation from Argali – ‘Music For Dystopias’ – issued in August is another new track featured besides plenty of interesting artists somewhere between dark ambient, ambient, darkwave, drones and experimental. As the total lenght exceeds every double CD album this is a great listen when you’re in the mood for just this ..

On the other Hand there is t.r. hand now. Fluffy experimental ambient drones ?


What does that mean ? Try to find out here for a start before you head over to Submarine Broadcasting Co. to find a brand new collaborative album ..

Magic Moments In Twilight Time – Creavolution Remastered, Reborn, Reissued > 23 Years After

Ok, hold on tight. Finally here comes the up to now final Magic Moments Album back in print. The remastered CD version will be published on August 24th (Congrats) on Marc Bell’s (not the guy from LFO but the original Engineer back in time) TMR Records, in true independent spirit it is also available as free download already but hey what is a dl when you can get hold of some unfashionable physical relict to support the talented and the brave ?

Some in depth info’s and small talk from M.M.A.T.T. can be found directly over at MickMagicNet and besides there is a special fb group & event for this…

If this is not enough yet there is also the Klappstuhl ‘Best Of Tapes’ remastered Compilation which is kept in print / in digital all the time.

UPDATE September :

The new CD Edition is available per e-mail order now for only 5 £ – full details and contact here:

“The album is totally free for download in HD Audio & MP3. CD version only £5 inc: P&P (with free CD for initial copies!). Payable in Sterling (£). Full details & to order: mail me @ marcbell386@btinternet.com”

Klappstuhl in early Summer frenzy – Kallabris, m. nomized & news on DsorDNE

>Yes, it’s that time of the year again where somehow things start working out………

SP 019

To good to be lost here is a release by a legend of the tape-scene, the multi productive

M. Nomized

from France who seems never to rest on his laurels if you take a look at his bandcamp page(s). ‘Sample 4’ was originally issued via Cold Spring in the late 80’s as Cassette in an edition of only 35 copies. The new cover shot is b.t.w. by Mr. Andy Falconer, a talented musician in his own right, nowadays living in Germany and splitting his time between photography and electronic sounds.

SP 020

Basically a collection of two earlier (limited and now deleted) releases by one of my very favourite sonic freestyle artists. Hard to categorize as most of my cherished publications but fully worthwile exploring on repeated listenings. Some more details here.

Besides looking back

Kallabris

is never short of looking forward and Inselkind Schallträger issued a new beautiful 180g LP ‘Red Square‘ in May where the diversity of his talents really shine – instrumentals, songs (!), freestyle, structures – you can find all there in one flow showing that Kallabris leaves nearly every musical boarder behind on his way. I’ve got no info which quantitiy was pressed but to avoid disappointment act fast.
In case it’s hard to find ask your friendly drone hq.

On a related note: It’s great to see

DsorDNE

(whose ‘Carceri‘ is still available @ Klappstuhl) furthermore active with a new release continuing the mere ambient Grafio Series on the Italien Asbestos Digit label from Rome;

Asbestos Digital 25

Besides his own releases and his work at O.F.F. Studio, Torino Marco even found time for a mix for NOODS Radio which can be listened online here:

Live, Last & Lost – DD Gallhammer’s Jaywalker Remembered

Last November I had to learn that Dietmar Gallhammer, whom I first knew as driving force behind the swiss anarcho-hc-experimental band Jaywalker had died in Autumn 2012. We’ve been in touch briefly during the late 80’s and early 90’s resulting in an interview and an concert in my then home-town. On Klappstuhl I issued one of their tapes – live recordings from 1988 – on which I stumbled last Autumn again.
I needed a break from the heady electronic & experimental stuff I’ve been listening for some time continously and started to assemble the various bits and pieces, including the final tape he sent me as Jaywalker Recordings with permission to use it as it fits.
Over time parts of it appeared on various Compilations but never completely. So instead of simply reissuing the live tape for the digital age I’ve decided to remaster all the material and compile an Archive Release in the spirit of anarchistic DIY attitude as Free Download release with artwork based on DD’s original prints and dedicate this release to him.

When Jaywalker fell apart Dominique Mollet appeared as member of Dwarfish while DD founded another hc trio; Religious Overdose shortly after with Ivo Pärt & Thomas Peter, resulting in the album ‘Flatus Flow Rate’ in 1996. His more experimental leanings where sat on the back seat with this but not for long. In fact he got simultanously involved in Destroy After Use with Frankie Buchholz and Martin S. Past with whom he kept performing over the years on guitar and videoprojection. See some excerpts here on his utube channel.

Besides his musical musings he kept an interest in graphics and invested his time besides parenthood in a multi-media workshop for mentally handicaped people and founded a time-trade (trade of abilities and time instead of payment) platform in his home area Aargau.
Some of his graphical experiments with HDR photography can currently be viewed via his Flickr account.

A final glimpse showing the direction his musical path was going in 2012 is this otherwise unreleased solo track:

RIP & Thanks for all.

Klappstuhl Proudly Presents : MIK@ & RASALASAD [SP 016 & SP 017]

Two new releases, one from the ever so busy Thisco mainstay Rasalasad, in his style published as free / pay what you want release full of concentrated drone ambience or perhaps “Hypnotic Escapism Music” as in the description of the Thisphoria album on Grain Of Sound which seems fitting for most of his recent releases.

And from Cologne / Berlin finally the debut album from Mik@, also known as part of DL, or The M.M.V.P. projects, a release with the central theme of urban living & travelling, transition phases and unfullfiled desires.

The Black Box EP – Gerstein

After pestering Maurizio Pustianaz for a while he finally sent me a batch of early (1986) session tracks to choose from for an exclusive Klappstuhl Records release and here it is; minimal, raw and remiscent of the cold 80’s mood, still influenced by the earlier industrial experimental scene – think of Robert Rental, Konstruktivists or The Elephant Table Album for some slight touchpoints.

More info on recent releases /activites can be found @ noisebrigade.org

Trism 14 > Delta-Sleep Inducing Peptide‘ Cataplectic Episodes > Reissued

Nearly lost in time and never properly reissued until now Klappstuhl proudly presents a freshly transferred and fully approved digital reissue of this 1991 Cassette Only EP @ bandcamp.

As for more current releases and other available reissues please see D.S.I.P.’s site.

Mr. Concept returns with a Twang!

Klappstuhl Records just proudly published the 5th Album by the meanwhile legendary and believed to be lost on music Mr. Concept from Leicester, UK. An early fiend of the use of Synth with Pop Music Structures as well as influences from the Shadows, the 60’s the New Wave and Comedy made his Cassette releases near unique in the 80’s Cassette Scene. Such that even his ‘November‘ LP on Cordelia Records issued in 1985 could not really do justice to his talents as without the jingles, radio spots or other interludes it appeared more like a Compilation of some of his finest moments then an Album. But anyway, while everyone expected Mr. Concept to jump straight into the Entertainment Brunch of popular Culture but after a final MC release he made himself ultra-rare for the connosoirs of his tunes, only slight glimpses of life appeared since then, most remarkable the “While My Sitar Gently Beeps” digital EP in 2007 – now deleted but all tracks included here), a website about ringtones and an exclusive unpublished track on “The Constant Rise Of Expectations“ Compilation (Klappstuhl, 2012).

Here is what Concept City ‘s Managment reported to us about the historical events………

“After the creation of his last ever cassette tape ‘CONCEPTVM UMBILICVS‘, way back in 1986, Mr Concept! continued to make recordings of the finest quality on a four track cassette based Portastudio for several more years. Meanwhile The City of Concept was growing and developing into the massive metropolis that we live in today. As part of that development a new levitated tramway was needed to connect the workers luxurious living areas with their city based ‘Centers of Creativity’ and/or the pub. Unfortunately the planned route was right through CONCEPT CITY Studio 2 and so in 1990 the contents of Studio 2 were rehoused into Studio 3 which was located in an affluent suburb area of CONCEPT CITY. Unfortunately the engineers had trouble remembering how to connect everything up again and the Portastudio never really regained its importance as a creative tool for the genius mind of Mr Concept!

Portastudio?

Mr Concept! struggles with the inner turmoil of stifled creativity and unfinished work
The world was advancing rapidly – technologically and computers were becoming more powerful year by year. The engineers at CONCEPT CITY realised that if they could distract Mr Concept! for long enough then maybe they could create a completely new methedology of recording and forget all about connecting the old studio up again forever ny-a-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa! Soon they had a strategy – to connect a computer to a musical keyboard and let the computer control the keyboard. All Mr Concept! would need to do would be type in a few numbers in boxes and new tunes would roll off the production line and his stiflement would be no more and they would be off the hook. They worked incessantly both night and day trying to develop this wonderful dream but got nowhere. Meanwhile Mr Concept! bought an Atari ST and a cheap Yamaha keyboard with MIDI and was soon creating wonderful new music.

Mr Concept! was fired with enthusiasm and decided that all of the remaining music created on the Portastudio would be released on a cassette and he would call it ’37’. A master tape was labelled and the first track ‘Open Up The Network (Reprise)’ was written and recorded and placed on the master tape. And that’s as far as it got. For Mr Concept! became pregnant with wife and children and his creative stiflement was no more for he had created the best thing ever – a family!

Some Years Later….

New PC is delivered
The world had changed. Especially the world of the computer. The PC was King, and the King had a sound card, and hard drive, and a CD-Burner, and Windows, and a door and a drive… And Mr Concept!’s creative stiflement had come back, only this time on the left side. He had heard, from a far off land, that there were computer programs that could be used to create music like in the old days with the Portastudio. He would be able to play his guitar and record it on the PC. And the PC could play samples like the old UK101 computer he had used all those years ago, and it could do MIDI, and everything that Mr Concept! had ever dreamed of!
Mr Concept! plucked up the courage to visit a downtown CONCEPT CITY music store. It was empty and two bored assistants listened to Mr Concept!’s description of the software ‘Holy Grail’ he was searching for. They nodded as each feature was listed and said ‘yep’ to let him know that they understood. Mr Concept! expected the worst but was thrilled when they both looked at him, then looked at each other, and shouted ‘ACID ROCK!’ in unison. An initial order of twenty copies was placed and within days the engineers were installing it at the CONCEPT CITY Test Plant for approval. The Portastudio was moved to one side to make more room, and then later put back in its box for a few days, and then even later forgotten.

Mr. Concept testing new technology..

This was indeed the dream application that Mr Concept! had hoped for… within hours he was creating new tunes with this wonderful software. It was sooo easy using all the supplied loops. Unfortunately every other user of Acid Rock was doing the same and you would hear the same drums and riffs in other people’s songs. So Mr Concept! started going through his record collection and making his own samples by recording small snippets of sound onto the computer.
And so, over the next three years, new recordings were gradually created. Time was limited, what with the breast feeding and everything, but Mr Concept! gradually learned how to make music in this new way. The early tunes contain quite a lot of ready made samples and Mr Concept! wanted to put more of his own stamp on any future recordings and so decided to create a CD with the material so far and draw a line in the sand. The CD ‘Electric Gates of Distinction’ was made with this early computer created music but remained unreleased as there might have been copyright issues with the samples used.
At around the same time Mr Concept! rounded up all the remaining tracks from the Portastudio years and finished off the ’37’ project but instead of a cassette he created it as a CD. Sadly it too remained unreleased…

And so – lines drawn in sand and everything wrapped up Mr Concept! sat at the dawning of a new era in his life. He looked back at the past and then turned his gaze forward. ‘Will there be a future’ I hear you sigh…

Obviously there is always a future – but sometimes it doesn’t turn out quite the way you had hoped. But on the up-side Mr Concept! has survived and slowly he has produced a pile of new audio miscellany for a future release but in the meantime…

Archeologists recently unearthed the Portastudio from a store room deep in CONCEPT CITY. At first it all looked well but after further investigation it was found that all the rubber drive belts had rotted away and it was now nothing more than an oversized four channel mixer – it is now on permanent exhibition in the CONCEPT CITY Museum of Technology. To celebrate this amazing discovery CONCEPT CITY and Klappstuhl Records have joined forces to release the last output from this ancient machine ‘XXXVII’ which is latin for ’37’. Now dear listeners you too can relive those ferromagnetic days by getting your very own copy of XXXVII………..

51 Shades Of Grey – [multer] live in Köln 2006

SP 014

Digital Version available immediately here,
limited and numbered heavy weight physical and hand-stamped copy can be ordered at drone records.

Frans de Waard wrote in Vital Weekly 1057, November 2016;

[MULTER] – KÖLN 4/11/2006 (CDR by Klappstuhl)

Normally I don’t mention the package of a product because basically I think that music should speak for itself, and when I mention covers, it is to say that the cover has not a lot of information, is printed too darkly, too small or such like; but hardly the standard of design. Klappstuhl Records have some fine releases on their label so far, but their design needs some improvement, so there’s your exception. But then I got this new release by [Multer] in which the CD box contains a plate of metal, and thus the whole thing is quite a heavy weight release. On a transparent sheet we see the rest of the info on the back; now that’s what we like, even when the whole idea of metal sheets inside jewel cases isn’t exactly new (Radboud Mens’ ‘Sine’ comes to mind).
[Multer] is a trio of Neidhart on guitar, whom we otherwise know as N (with a number attached to that to indicate which release he’s now at), Thomas Geiter on keyboards and live mix and Mal Hoeschen on field recordings and live mix. They have been around for close to
twenty years but didn’t release that much over that long period, about a dozen or so releases, mainly on their own Gesungswerk label. Between 2003 and 2011 there have been no releases (also after that nothing, until this one), but the group did perform live, such as on the night of November 4th 2006 at the lovely Kulturbunker in Cologne, organized by Auf Abwegen’s mastermind Till Kniola. I am not sure if they played more concerts in those years or if there is otherwise a reason to release this now, but the fifty-four minute concert sounds like something that should/could have been released much earlier. Why wait all these years, I thought. The music of [Multer] is that of post-rock influenced drones, mainly through the use of the guitar and effects, but that is, I think, only a part of the story. The other two members have also quite some input in the overall sound, with their chirping of insects or recordings of voices talking, the latter adding more atmosphere to the music than something of a lyrical content, it seems.
The whole piece is the sum of various parts, and [Multer] play their music while staying on the same volume level for a while and then go up in crescendo I think, in order to reach a not so loud climax and then continues with a single sound for the next segment. None of this music is very loud even when there are a few climaxes to be noted. This is simply a wonderful live recording and it’s great to have from a band like this; they have a sparse output, so anything is welcome, I should think.
(FdW)

Achtung Messarbeiten !

Finally Autumn has hit again and the first fruits of sitting back indoors @ Klappstuhl Entertainment show now;

Institute Of Noise
A long gone Netlabel from Unterfranconia published the electro pop works of the duo Schuster / Richter back in 2008 in parts but the original MuPo 027 release on Schuster’s DIY Multi-Pop framework somehow got lost. Klappstuhl now proudly presents this semi-lost album now as a whole and fully uncompressed :

Watch the Video here – see all details there…….. Enjoy!