Staalplaat
About
Staalplaat is a label for sound artists: an organization network with a music label, an e-zine, a radioprogram, a shop, and a mail order and distribution company, now based in Berlin, Germany. The label was founded by Geert-Jan Hobijn and is famous for its Mort Aux Vaches series, which is a collaboration between Staalplaat and the national Dutch radio VPRO, in which the station provides the recording sessions and Staalplaat releases them in a limited edition. Staalplaat has a long history of organizing events—in the 1980s it was the co-founder of a concert space called the NL Centre in Amsterdam. Here it organized concerts, partially released on tape in the NL-Documentatieserie series, which are denoted by the ST 00X catalog numbers. The letters ST come from Staaltape, as the label was called back then. After being based in Amsterdam for many years, Staalplaat relocated to Berlin in 2004. Staalplaat’s sister company was Soleilmoon Recordings, which is based in the USA. Each distributed the other in its home country. They parted ways in 2000 following the death of Bryn Jones (Muslimgauze).
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Sub-labels
Korm Plastics D
Tape reissue label.
Staalplaat USA
Container
A division of Staalplaat now defunct.
God Factory
Sidelabel of Staalplaat. Originally founded in collaboration with [l=Cold Meat Industry], but CMI was only involved with the first two releases (S.Core & Bad Sector).
Open Circuit
A sidelabel of Staalplaat. The label is an alternative way of distributing artist's work on a "disk on demand" way, using the Staalplaat infrastructure. Mainly experimental Electronics.
Hond In De Goot
Noise label run by Radboud Mens.
Mort Aux Vaches
[b]Mort Aux Vaches[/b] is a critically-acclaimed sublabel of [l=Staalplaat], launched circa 1994 as a joint venture with a Dutch national broadcasting corporation, [l=VPRO], and featuring a series ...
Brombron
Project curated by and [l=Extrapool] since 2000.
Staaltape
The cassette label of [l=Staalplaat]. Originally founded 1981 in Amsterdam by it was operating until 1995. Revived in 2010 by , who curates and produces t...
Kleptones
Netherlands
Muslimgauze Archive
Previously unreleased material (or re-issue) from the Staalplaat archives.
Muslimgauze Subscription
Note: The Muslimgauze subscription series is no longer available. A subscription service that was operated by Staalplaat. After paying a minimum of 50ƒ, one would first receive Minaret-Speaker (...
Irritainment In Sound
Staalplaat Material
Series of releases with a special packaging for each.
Nekrophile Records
Sublabel of [l=Staalplaat] for the european distribution of the re-issues of releases by [l=Nekrophile Rekords].
Nekrophile USA
Sublabel of [l=Staalplaat] for the US distribution of the re-issues of releases by [l=Nekrophile Rekords].