DE WAARD, FRANS - This Is Supposed to Be a Record Label

Second, expanded softcover edition. "In 1984 Frans de Waard started his own band, Kapotte Muziek, and his own cassette label, Korm Plastics. A few years later, in 1992, he was asked to work for Staalplaat, then one of the biggest independent labels for experimental and electronic music. Staalplaat was the home for bands like Muslimgauze, :zoviet*france:, Rapoon, O Yuki Conjugate as well as Jaap Blonk, Normally Invisible and Kingdom Scum. With an average of three new releases every month, Staalplaat remained a major player for the next eleven years. Frans was hired to set-up a database and to sell and buy new music, but over the years also assumed a role as (unofficial) business director and A&R man, and came to be regarded as the head honcho. In 2003 he’d had enough and decided to quit. This book tells about those eleven years from his own perspective, the many highs and as many lows of working for a small independent record label, which also functioned as a shop, mail order, rad