condition (record/cover): EX / VG+ (light foxing)

Multi-axial 7" anti-record in a 12" paste-one sleeve. Edition of 200 numbered copies.

One of the inaugural items in RRRecords' legendary anti-record series. Frans de Waard's Kapotte Muziek contributed this 7" in 1989 as a direct tribute to NON's famous 1977 Pagan Muzak 7" (itself a multi-axis, multi-holed anti-record whose grooves could be played from multiple starting points).

Heathen Muzak upped the ante: hand-scratched grooves across the disc, multiple extra holes including ones drilled through the inside of the record, and the whole pressed in an edition of 200 copies packaged inside an oversized 12" sleeve. The physical object is itself the composition; different listeners, dropping the needle at different holes, will hear different records. As with the NON original, the point is to collapse the distinction between manufactured record and artwork, between performance and object.

Kapotte Muziek had begun in 1984 as de Waard's solo noise-and-tape project (more than fifty cassettes and several LPs under the name) and had by 1989 started its long transformation into the trio with Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop that would, across the subsequent decades, become one of the most touring-heavy improvisation units out of the Netherlands. Heathen Muzak catches the project at its most conceptually playful moment, inside one of the most conceptually rigorous run of releases any noise imprint has ever put out.