The Demonstration Collection

This is an episode of WORM Sound Studio’s Klangendum Radio series, 2024

Ever since I was a teenager I made zines about music: it was within my reach – photocopiers – printers – glue and scissors.
 There were a couple of zines that used to come with ’45 records, Larsen and Multiball for example, I remember sending an email to the Larsen guy, asking how to do that; add a record to a zine. 
He replied politely but clearly: forget about it – my sixteen year old pockets were definitely not deep enough.

 Now some 17 years later, I have developed a reply to my teenage ambition, a distributable record made in the same pricing ballpark as my first zines – about €50.

These records are made out of wood glue, a process that works surprisingly well for making cheap, dirty and skippy records.
 It has only one real downside: the wood glue takes a day or two to dry so producing large runs of these records would be rather tedious.
 I have found a way around this problem by distributing the mould in which records can be poured.
 In that way it becomes a DIY-challenge for whoever wants to hear the music. 

Of course it is far from perfect, but zines are supposed to be far from perfect if you ask me!
 I present my findings with equal pride and nostalgia.

Made by Teun De Graaf/Kugelblitz.
Produced by Klangendum for WORM/Concertzender.
Samenstelling Lukas Simonis

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