- When did you begin releasing music?
Started making Tapes with a Yamaha cassette tape machine, on which I could mix “Line input” and “Micro input”, this had an inbuilt “limiter”. I combined it with a small 6 channel mixer and recorded using 8 Microphones in the practice rooms of some local bands from my surrounding area. Most bands were playing in 2nd world war bunkers with suffered from insufficient ventilation. Anyway, from those recordings I made tapes which were sent out by mail to “Fanzines”, music mags and some cassette compilers, that was 1982 till 1984.
- What has been your favorite project so far?
I started in my hometown Frankfurt am Main with some addresses from Walter Alpdruck, he had already released some Punk addicted tapes in early 80’s and was running a cassette label, as I remember also an “Der Neger” Fanzine from local Walter Baumann. He was organizing obscure Festival at Frankfurt’s University and the editor of “Der Neger”. 35km to Mainz to visit visiting “P16.D.4” a harsh music and performance artists. Next and important stop was Cologne at “235” Germany’s cassette distribution leader in that time. After buying Fanzine and a lot of cassettes I drove to Quakenbrück, a city I had never heard of before and metthe leader of the band “Surplus Stock”. With more addresses I reached Netherland, S’Hertogenbosch “V2” an centrum for extreme industrial orientated music, I met “Die Tödliche Doris” on an strange performance and “Julius” a performer who was sitting inside electric parts like electric door checks, magnets, inductors, motors connected in a chaos of cables, blank loudspeakers and an 12V blockbattery, some noises were produced by changing various distances between magnetic fields and so on, just impossible to discribe, it was like a game The volume of this presentation was about 57 db or sub, anyway, coughes by an listener and an pigeons on the roof, the audience also influenced the performance. Next stops was with “Fraans de Waard” Korm Plastics at Nijmegen, “Richard Van Dellen” De Fabriek, Zwolle. Famous “Staalplaat” shop in Amsterdam, where I bought a lot of cassettes, Fanzines and mags, i.e. “CLEM” list, “Unsound”, “Onslaught” from “Mark Lane” etc. Also in Amsterdam I was able to met “Willem de Ridder” and “Cora” independent Radio makers, DJ’s and label owner, I spoke with “Oscar Smith” cassette news writer from famous dutch mag “Vinyl”, spread more money around for indie records and cassettes at “Boudisque”. Also met”Edward Kaspel” and the “The Legendary Pink Dots”on Cassette Daag in Heiloo. After the Netherlands I drove my car to Belgium to Antwerp, I visited the Cassette Museum form “Club Moral” got “Force Mental” Fanzines and had the chance to met “Erik Havere” from EE Tapes. After hours of searching I found “Mad In Belgium” “3Rio Tapes” “Sandy V. Nys” great dude, an he also was finder in early times with “The Klink” aka “Absolute Clinical maniacs” Dozen of tapes I heard at Sandy’s home, never heard before, lucky to have my Cassette duplicator with me ;-), Sandy also gave me an chance to be first time in an independent Radio station called “Radio Centraal”. I spinned electronics like “Two Of China”, “Talla2XLC” and “Collectionism” also punk “Glamour Ghouls” and more from my earlier recorded Sound Of Frankfurt. In an earlier letter from the Munich mag “59 to 1” they called our sound “Techno” but at this times in 1984 I don’t know what they meant by Techno. Next step to “MAM Bruxelles” famous “Guy Stuckens” leave me in his home when he goes for work, yeah, time to copy all his tapes. 2nd possibilities for me to spin my music in an radio station.
After weeks I reach Trazegnies, “Insane Music Contact” “Alain Neffe”, “Nadine Bal”, listen to Human Flesh, Bene Gesserit, Code Public etc. Got Insane “Tapes from Insane People” Vol. 1 – 13. Wow, nice dudes and also still active. Next was France, Paris times to met “Pacific 231” Pierre Jolivet and “Vox Populi” Axel Kyrou, Mithra Kyrou and Francis Man, a lot of Vinyl and cassettes also rough recordings. After coming home I take an flight to Berlin also to met “Graf Haufen”,”Berlin Cassettes”, and some friends also from the “Mail Art” also remember ringing the doorbell of “Klaus Schulze” and introduce myself through the door, but he wouldn’t have any visitors.
So, from that journey into the Underground, with lots of music and from my smiling postman’s parcels I produced the three cassette “Intrendent Fansette Trilogie” compilation, and a booklet with 132 pages, self produced, printed in an 300 pcs. edition, 150 was distributed from 235 Cologne and 150 for the bands and for promotion from “MAM-Aufnahme, Ffm”. All songs from nearly 100 participators. The free download in MP3 format is still available here: http://www.esnips.com/user/Intrendent
- You not only produce excellent compilation projects you also release solo albums by bands and do radio shows,what gives you the most satisfaction?
- What releases do you have planned for the near future?
Next release will be an full album called “Brutpop” from the Hungarian band “First Aid 4 Souls” and a full album “Welt Im Glas” from “Microwelt” from Rostock, Germany.
For an next compilation in the “Net.Ware” series I already stock 7 songs, which shall be released this year.
- Do you think, with the dominating influence of the Internet, that music is getting better or worse?
fresh and good music even every day, would should goes worse ? Internet makes the world closer and quicker, so we are able to listen music from everywhere. Major music agencies in an capitalists world are buying up growing social nets, which means a lot of independent artists got chance to be listened to, and after they got thousands of clicks, they get contracts from the major distributors and the music is nearly dead for the mainstream listeners and is being played every hour in the Capital Radio stations. When we have to pay for the air, for freedom, we pay, but like an enthusiast I believe freedom will also find other islands to be listened and being lifed.