artist: ROEL MEELKOP
title: Oude Koeien
label: Herbal International
country: Malaysia
format: CD
title: Oude Koeien
label: Herbal International
country: Malaysia
format: CD
1. ERSTES STÜCK IM ALTEN STIL, 10", [Korm Plastics) 1998
2. ECHT DOOD, track on CD (Herbal) 2010
3. 2 (JOS SMOLDERS) lathe cut 5" 2002
4. 1 (RIKTIGT DÖD), 7" 1999
5. 1 (VERAMENTE MORTO), 7" 1998
6. ZWEITES STÜCK IM ALTEN STIL, 10", (Korm Platsics) 1998
7. 2 (BEEQUEENS), 7" (limited edition with Beequeens LP Ownliness on MOLOKO+) 2002
8. DRITTES STÜCK IM ALTEN STIL, 10", (Korm Platsics) 1998
"Almost all tracks on this disc have been released on vinyl by Korm Plastics, except
where noted in brackets. My gratitude goes out to Frans de Waard for his continuing
support for my work and his unwavering commitment to the music that we all love so
much." (Roel Meelkop)
"No doubt it is sheer coincidence that the release of this CD coincides with the 25th year
of Korm Plastics existence. When I started the label, I had no clear idea of what its aim
should be. No doubt if you would have asked me back then, I would have said: to release
good music. Maybe if you would ask me today I would give the same answer. What
motivation should one need to run a record label? Change the world, save the
environment, fight for your rights? I never comprehensively studied the various social
and political backgrounds of everybody whose music I released and I never will either,
but no doubt the vast majority of them does not have a strong political idea or social
motivation behind whatever they do in music. Sit back and listen. Roel Meelkop's
installation at the first sound art exhibition he organised in 1998, 'just about now',
summed this up perfectly: two speakers, a couch, a vase with flowers and an ashtray. Sit
back and listen. And maybe most of all: enjoy!
I think I first met Roel in 1986, when we were preparing a concert of his band THU20, my
band Kapotte Muziek and the odd loner Odal. Bumping into each other after that, at
concerts usually, grew steadily into a friendship. When Mailcop became Meelkop,
following a hiatus of some years of non-recording (mainly out of lack of good equipment),
Roel returned with a great CD for Trente Oiseaux, to be followed by more great works. I
invited him to do a 10" in the Korm Plastics series of music solely made with Korg
machines. It was the third and final episode in the series, and the most 'composed' one.
Later on he asked me whether he could release a series of 7"s, in which each new 7"
was a rework (recycle remix) of the previous one, but for whatever reason now forgotten,
it became only a series of two. The final record on Korm Plastics displayed his interest in
concepts: taking Jos Smolders' 'Music For CD Player' as the starting point, he recorded
two pieces of 99 seconds each (analog to the 99 tracks on the CD) which was pressed on
a 5" lathe cut (the size of a CD) with silver foil in the middle (again like a CD, but made as
a picture disc). A small work of art. Four great records and because of the fragile
character of the music, it deserves to be released on CD. Another fine mark of quality and
a great 25th anniversary item." (Frans de Waard)
2. ECHT DOOD, track on CD (Herbal) 2010
3. 2 (JOS SMOLDERS) lathe cut 5" 2002
4. 1 (RIKTIGT DÖD), 7" 1999
5. 1 (VERAMENTE MORTO), 7" 1998
6. ZWEITES STÜCK IM ALTEN STIL, 10", (Korm Platsics) 1998
7. 2 (BEEQUEENS), 7" (limited edition with Beequeens LP Ownliness on MOLOKO+) 2002
8. DRITTES STÜCK IM ALTEN STIL, 10", (Korm Platsics) 1998
"Almost all tracks on this disc have been released on vinyl by Korm Plastics, except
where noted in brackets. My gratitude goes out to Frans de Waard for his continuing
support for my work and his unwavering commitment to the music that we all love so
much." (Roel Meelkop)
"No doubt it is sheer coincidence that the release of this CD coincides with the 25th year
of Korm Plastics existence. When I started the label, I had no clear idea of what its aim
should be. No doubt if you would have asked me back then, I would have said: to release
good music. Maybe if you would ask me today I would give the same answer. What
motivation should one need to run a record label? Change the world, save the
environment, fight for your rights? I never comprehensively studied the various social
and political backgrounds of everybody whose music I released and I never will either,
but no doubt the vast majority of them does not have a strong political idea or social
motivation behind whatever they do in music. Sit back and listen. Roel Meelkop's
installation at the first sound art exhibition he organised in 1998, 'just about now',
summed this up perfectly: two speakers, a couch, a vase with flowers and an ashtray. Sit
back and listen. And maybe most of all: enjoy!
I think I first met Roel in 1986, when we were preparing a concert of his band THU20, my
band Kapotte Muziek and the odd loner Odal. Bumping into each other after that, at
concerts usually, grew steadily into a friendship. When Mailcop became Meelkop,
following a hiatus of some years of non-recording (mainly out of lack of good equipment),
Roel returned with a great CD for Trente Oiseaux, to be followed by more great works. I
invited him to do a 10" in the Korm Plastics series of music solely made with Korg
machines. It was the third and final episode in the series, and the most 'composed' one.
Later on he asked me whether he could release a series of 7"s, in which each new 7"
was a rework (recycle remix) of the previous one, but for whatever reason now forgotten,
it became only a series of two. The final record on Korm Plastics displayed his interest in
concepts: taking Jos Smolders' 'Music For CD Player' as the starting point, he recorded
two pieces of 99 seconds each (analog to the 99 tracks on the CD) which was pressed on
a 5" lathe cut (the size of a CD) with silver foil in the middle (again like a CD, but made as
a picture disc). A small work of art. Four great records and because of the fragile
character of the music, it deserves to be released on CD. Another fine mark of quality and
a great 25th anniversary item." (Frans de Waard)