Componist: Teun De Graaf
#512. The Demonstration Collection of Woodstone Kugelblitz .
Ever since I was a teenager I made zines about music: it was within my reach – photocopiers – printers – glue and scissors. There were a couple of zines that used to come with ’45 records, Larsen and Multiball for example, I remember sending an email to the Larsen guy, asking how to do that; add a record to a zine. He replied politely but clearly: forget about it – my sixteen year old pockets were definitely not deep enough. Now some 17 years later I have developed a reply to my teenage ambition, a distributable-record made in the same ballpark pricing as my first zines (about €50).
These records are made out of woodglue, a process that works suprisingly well for making cheap, dirty and skippy records. It has only one real downside: the woodglue takes a day or two to dry so producing large runs of these records would be rather tedious. I have undercut this problematic by distributing the mould in which records can be poured. In that way it becomes a DIY-challenge for whoever wants to hear the music. Offcourse it is far from perfect, but zines are supposed to be far from perfect if you ask me! I present my findings with equal pride and nostalgia.
Link:
https://woodstonekugelblitz.org/dcwk.html
Made by Teun De Graaf/Kugelblltz.
Produced by Klangendum for Worm/Concertzender.