★Korm Plastics
The Annual 2025 (Book)
Softcover, 244 pages, 21x21 cm What connects 1950s open-reel tape trading to Quebec's pioneering all-female punk band? How does Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac lead to Amon Düül and the Rote Armee Fraktion? Why should you know about Korla Pandit? And what exactly happened at Nijmegen's legendary Diogenes Club? The Third Annual - Korm Plastics' biggest and boldest yearbook yet - doesn't answer the questions you thought you had. It answers the ones you didn't know you were asking.
This third edition…
We Know How To Hate - The Opus De Society story (Book)
Before the internet collapsed distances and democratized distribution, the international noise underground operated through an intricate web of mail-order catalogs, hand-dubbed cassettes, and photocopied fanzines. Labels emerged from bedrooms and basements, their catalogs circulating through postal networks that connected isolated outposts of extreme sound across continents. Few figures navigated this world as actively as Frans de Waard, and few labels embodied its uncompromising spirit as purel…
25 Years Of Kapotte Muziek
2010 release ** Cardboard sleeve. “2009-2010 sees the celebration of twenty years of Kapotte Muziek, the first musical project of Frans de Waard. Expanded in 1993 with members Peter Duimelinks and in 1995 Roel Meelkop, this trio explores the world of micro electro-acoustic music, playing on waste found on the streets and with a fine addition of field recordings. Before 1993 Kapotte Muziek was largely known as a player in the field of industrial music and musique concrete. To celebrate their 25th…
America's Greatest Noise (Book)
The next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, not on glossy paper and is not expensive. It’s… ‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, th…
Radiostilte
2012 release ** Comes in three-panel silver foil Digipak with magnetic strip for locking the panels.
Just Glittering/Idwal Fisher (Book)
Just Glittering and Idwal Fisher were two collaborative noise zines produced by Mark Wharton, featuring work by the genre’s finest exponents and fans. The first issues of Just Glittering appeared in the late 1990s, and the two zines went on to document a fertile decade of creative noise-making. Back then, you couldn’t walk past a pub in Leeds without hearing windows rattled by a passing Japanese noise artist or effects pedals looped into submission, whilst meat thermometers regularly disappeared…
The Annual / Giftnalen / The Broken Flag Story (3 Book in bundle)
Since their relaunch in 2019 as, primarily, a publisher of books, the legendary Dutch imprint, Korm Plastics - founded in 1984 by Frans de Waard - has been blowing our minds with incredible volumes, roughly attending the music scenes to which they belong. Their three latest - Steve Underwood’s incredible immersion into the story of Broken Flag, “Even When It Makes No Sense”; the Kristian Olsson edited and assembled encyclopaedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts, “Giftnalen”, and the 20…
The Annual 2024 (Book)
Softcover, 228 pages, 21x21 cm Korm Plastics founder Frans de Waard teamed up with designer Alfred Boland for the (second) one and only Korm Plastics magazine cum yearbook. Lots of new authors, including Audrey Golden (about Una Baines), Elodie A. Roy (about Shimmy Disc), Michel Faber (about Extreme Death Metal), Huili Raffo (about Hotline), Robin Rimbaud (about Peter Tscherkssky), Erik Quint (on Radio Tonka), Fred de Vries (the Kalahari Surfers), Lukas Simonis (about Dull Schicksal) and Richard…
Giftnalen (Book)
Hardcover, 20×29,6 cm, 480 pages. Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed br…
Even When It Makes No Sense - The Broken Flag Story (Book)
Bomb! Softcover, 17×24 cm, 144 pages. English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy’s project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.
Steve Underwood’s text appeared in a 2010 magazi…
America's Greatest Noise (Book + Anti flexi)
The next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, not on glossy paper and is not expensive. It’s… ‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, th…
The Annual 2023 (Book)
Softcover, 196 pages, 21x21 cm Korm Plastics founder Frans de Waard teamed up with designer Alfred Boland for this, their latest publication, The Annual. For a long time both had wanted to publish a magazine, which eventually became what they hope will be a regular yearbook with ‘everything you never knew you were interested in’. They invited their authors (present and future) to contribute an article, which led to a wildly diverse selection. From the history of turntablism, a 1985 interview wit…
Pastoral
*200 copies, limited edition* While Korm Plastics publishes books these days, this is a surprise CD only release. We sent him this demo in 2011 & we all forgot about it. Pastoral is a welcome edition to the catalog showcasing a less aggressive stance from the project, a more organic subdued presentation, sounds to make a clearing, & open space. The recordings history is a bit blurred now but it is very likely tracks 1, 2, 3, & 5 are Kurt Griesch and Daniel Burke, post 1995 tour work. Track four …
Nul Nul - The Complete Edition
In October 1984, Frans de Waard started his Korm Plastics label and his music project Kapotte Muziek. Shortly after, a fellow student, Christian Nijs, joined him as a musical partner. They quickly released a few cassettes and contributed to international compilations, and Nijs started a short-lived label, Disabuse Transmissions. In the summer of 1985, they published the first issue of Nul Nul, a fanzine, to promote their projects and to support the industrial music scene in The Netherlands and B…
Neumusik - The Complete Edition by David Elliott (Book)
425 pages, softcover, 17x24 cm All six editions of this UK fanzine, 1979-1982 Book containing all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979-82 while at university. The 'zine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had come out of krautrock, French progressive rock and the more esoteric side of British post-punk. David travelled extensively meeting musicians in Germany and France, and for a year was based in Strasbourg. Interviews and articl…
Losing It
Adam Morris spent more than twenty years at the coal face of the music industry. In 1979, he co-founded the DIY label Malicious Damage Records, releasing post-punk classics by Killing Joke as well as the highly rated John Peel favourite, "Agent Orange" by Ski Patrol. He worked for two years as an unpaid tour manager for Killing Joke, an experience that later led him to tour manage the reggae legend Lee "Scratch" Perry, who paid him. He moved from the label into distribution, working in imports a…
I'm Sure We're Gonna Make It - Punk In The Netherlands 1976-1982 (Book)
'I'm sure we're gonna make it' is the first time English edition of the 1996 book 'Het gejuich was massaal', detailing punk in the Netherlands from 1976 to 1982 from Jeroen Vedder and Jerry Goossens. It is also the first time, as far as I know, that there is an English language book on the subject. There is a foreword by Richard Forster, and Hubert van Hoof updated his 1996 intro to a 2021 version. This book is 184 pages, with full-colour photos, record covers, a fanzine section, and all of this…
X (Book + CD)
Edition of 100 copies In 2012 Frans de Waard started yet another new music project, Modelbau. It took another two years before he really started, but he has since then released a long string of releases, many of which are on very limited cassettes. Over the intervening ten years, he played various European concerts and collaborated with musicians such as Orphax, MvK, and Scanner. Meeuw designed the original logo, which graced almost all of the releases, giving it a distinct look. Meeuw also crea…
Boh Sampler
*200 copies cd-only limited edition* ‘BOH’ was a short-lived fanzine from Den Haag. ‘BOH' - short for Binnenlandse Ontwikkelings Hulp. The editors were active in various bands, and the fanzine published one compilation, 'Boh Sampler'. The fanzine is all in Dutch, and 'BOH - de Komplete Uitgaven van de Binnenlandse Ontwikkelingshulp’ reprints all of these, without a translation. Foreword by BOH boss Jos van Vliet and an introduction by Wally van Middendorp, of the Minny Pops. Book design by Studi…