The Use of Recycling
Kapotte Muziek
$12.99
2012 reissue, limited edition of 125 copies!
Six slabs of raw and aggressive tape music made from the legendary Dutch noise pioneer Frans de Waard. The title is quite literal, as de Waard believes that no piece of music is ever truly finished. He takes several previously published albums as starting points, recycling them through intense processing until jagged new forms emerge. As opposed to the emotional catharsis of his contemporaries Merzbow, Incapacitants, MB, and other first-generation noise artists, Kapotte Muziek maintains an atmosphere of devastatingly cold distance. The feedback swirls and menacing distortion are applied with casual brutality that belies the matter-of-fact nature of the process. The Use of Recycling features a malevolent, shrieking treatment of loops provided by the mysterious Seattle collective Yeast Culture, a child’s toy guitar warped and prodded into uneasy concrete warble, tapes of room tone amplified to create alien ambience, and more.
The Use of Recycling was published in 1998 and has been long sold out. To celebrate Intransitive’s 15th anniversary, this classic is available again in limited edition of 125 copies, with a six-panel sleeve with new xerox art by Frans de Waard!
Kapotte Muziek “The Use of Recycling” by Intransitive Recordings
