Saturday, September 26

Mort Aux Vaches

Sublabel created by Staalplaat to release the ongoing series of recordings commissioned by VPRO (Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep), a Dutch broadcasting corporation. Most of these recordings were broadcast on one of the Dutch national radio stations (Radio 5) in a show called "De Avonden", more recently also in "Zeldzaam.Dwars".

All releases are limited to at most 1000 copies and come in a typical trifold packaging, with the CD held in place by a copper split-nail. Over the years some special materials were used like foam, plastic, vinyl, copper-foil, tracing paper, sandpaper, etc.



AU
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Mort Aux Vaches 2004

Limited edition of 600 copies. Recorded live at the Vpro Studio on 29/05/2003. Produced for Vpro "De Avonden".




Aube
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Mort Aux Vaches: Still Contemplation (1998)

"Recorded live at VPRO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 23 June 1997, using only the metal as source material." Hand numbered limited edition of 600.


Alva Noto / Signal / Byetone / Komet
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Mort Aux Vaches 2002

1-01 Alva Noto - Prototypes 38:11
1-02 Signal - Tgl 10-5 5:33
1-03 Signal - Light Pipe 10:01
1-04 Signal - Index Area 15:40

2-01 Byetone - 21:34 8:19
2-02 Byetone - 2:3 3:00
2-03 Byetone - 3:5 5:58
2-04 Byetone - 1:2 7:00
2-05 Byetone - 1:² 2 9:38
2-06 Komet - Glas 6:50
2-07 Komet - Würm 2:54
2-08 Komet - Mond 6:09
2-09 Komet - Cob 3:28
2-10 Komet - Center 6:00
2-11 Komet - Square 7:40

Alva Noto recorded live at Buro 30: Electroaccident. Experimental express 2000. Tokyo
Signal and Byetone recorded live at VPRO studio, October 31st 1999. Broacasted on VPRO radio 5 "De Avonden".
Komet recorded live at Reset! during the Atlantico Festival, Lisboa. October 1999.

Limited edition of 1000 copies.



Andrey Kiritchenko
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Mort Aux Vaches 2007

1 Untitled 42:04

Produced and recorded for VPRO 'Dwars' by Berry Kamer. Amsterdam 05/04/2006.
Limited edition of 500 copies.



CoH
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Mort Aux Vaches (2002)

Recorded live at VPRO studio on 15/07/2000. Broadcasted by VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden". Limited edition of 1000 handnumbered copies.



Colleen
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Mort Aux Vaches 2006

1 A Little Mechanical Waltz 2:35
2 The Zither Song 5:13
3 The Bowing Song 3:44
4 The Melodica Song 8:02
5 The Thumb Piano Song 5:33
6 The Ukulele Song 3:39
7 The Cello Song 3:34
8 Petite Fleur 6:23

Packaged in a heavy cardboard fold-out sleeve with embroidered semi-transparent paper. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.

Recorded and produced for VPRO 747AM "Dwars", Amsterdam, 03.09.2004.



Dan Burke / Kevin Drumm
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Mort Aux Vaches 2003

1 Untitled 56:57

Improvised on 09.06.2002 using G3 laptop, guitar, objects & synthesizer.
Recorded live at the VPRO studio. Broadcasted on VPRO radio 5 "De Avonden".
Limited Edition of 1000 copies




David Shea
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Mort Aux Vaches (1998)

1
Hsi-Yu Chi Solo Sampler Version (6:20)
2
Satyricon Solo Excerpts / Alpha II New Version (45:26)

Limited and numbered edition of 1000 copies. First session recorded on 25/02/1996. Second session recorded on 05/02/1997



Étant Donnés
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Mort Aux Vaches: Le Sang Est Le Mur De L'Étoile (1998)

Hand numbered limited edition of 1000. Recording commissioned by VPRO / Radio 5 "De Avonden".



In Slaughter Natives / Deutsch Nepal
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Mort Aux Vaches 1994

Mort Aux Vaches (43:38)
1a In Slaughter Natives - Awakening Clean Cathedral
1b In Slaughter Natives - Pure Sacred Worms
1c In Slaughter Natives - To Mega Therion
1d In Slaughter Natives - Death Just Only Death
1e In Slaughter Natives - Skin Sore Eyes

Mort Aux Vaches (30:44)
2a Deutsch Nepal - Father
2b Deutsch Nepal - 29 Needles
2c Deutsch Nepal - Horses Give Birth To Flies
2d Deutsch Nepal - October Lund-Home

Radio concert commisioned by VPRO's Nachtleven "Grand Disco Classique".

Limited edition 1000 numbered copies.



John Duncan
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Mort Aux Vaches: Seek (1997)

1
Hymn (10:55)
2
Untitled (16:11)
3
L'Attesa (7:11)

Composed By - Ciro Iamarco
4
Untitled (6:45)
5
Scramble (4:58)

Solo broadcast over VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden", The Netherlands. Recorded and mixed by John Duncan. The CD is packaged in a specially designed card wallet with a metal pin. Limited edition of 1000 handnumbered copies.



Flying Saucer Attack / Main / White Winged Moth
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Mort Aux Vaches 2003

1 Flying Saucer Attack - September 25, 1997 #1 4:00

2 Main - Counterglow 15:13

3 Flying Saucer Attack - September 25, 1997 #2 2:48

4 White Winged Moth - Scratch(ed) Music 15:04

5 Flying Saucer Attack - September 25, 1997 #3 5:31

6 Flying Saucer Attack - September 25, 1997 #4 6:03

Hand-numbered limited edition Of 1000 Copies.

Commissioned by VPRO Radio 5 'De Avonden'



Goem
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Mort Aux Vaches 1999

1 Lokatie: VPRO 1 8:30
2 Lokatie: VPRO 2 7:14
3 Lokatie: VPRO 3 4:34
4 Lokatie: VPRO 4 7:27
5 Lokatie: VPRO 5 7:30
6 Lokatie: VPRO 6 7:01
Music By [Original Music] - Wolfgang Voigt

"Track 6: Original music reworked with permission". Recorded November 28,1999 at VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden".

Sleeve:
Komposition In Zehn Farben 000-999 (1), 1979/81. Acrylic paint on canvas. 120,5 x 400,5 cm.

Limited edition of 600 handnumbered copies.



Machinefabriek
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Mort Aux Vaches 2008

1 Bathyale #1 10:02
2 Bathyale #2 9:10
3 Bathyale #3 15:50

Produced and recorded for VPRO 'Dwars' Amsterdam 2006

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.

Packaged in 3-panel brown card sleeve with rubber stamped text.



Maeror Tri
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Mort Aux Vaches (1997)

1
(Mind) - Initiation (21:40)
2
(Mind) - Alternation (19:59)
3
(Mind) - Expansion (13:39)

HYPNOS/TRANSE
Recording commissioned by VPRO's 'De Avonden' Berry Kamer and Jan Hiddink. Hand numbered limited edition of 600.


Mahmoud Refat
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Mort Aux Vaches 2008

1 Untitled 8:30
2 Untitled 5:19
3 Untitled 4:14
4 Untitled 1:44
5 Untitled 8:04
6 Untitled 4:29
7 Untitled 5:37

Recorded for Dwars @ VPRO Amsterdam 15 July 2006

Limited edition of 500 copies



Massimo
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Mort Aux Vaches 2001

Free Shower At Esther (37:48)
1 000000001 2:31
2 000000002 3:28
3 000000003 2:11
4 000000004 3:50
5 000000005 1:09
6 000000006 4:16
7 000000007 4:19
8 000000008 1:42
9 000000009 3:08
10 000000010 8:25
11 000000011 2:44

Limited edition in die-cut & embossed trifold sleeve.



Muslimgauze
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Mort Aux Vaches (1998)

1 - Jaagheed Zarb (52:37)

Recording commissioned by VPRO 'De Avonden' Berry Kamer & Jan Hiddink Handnumbered limited edition of 1000. CD comes in a multi fold out paper sleeve, held together with a fastener.



My Cat Is An Alien
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Mort Aux Vaches 2009

1 Call Of The Aliens 8:04
2 Blue Abstractions 28:03
3 Lost Beings In The Noosphere 9:00


Limited edition of 500 copies.
Artwork & concept by Staalplaat.
Packaged in a 3-panel lenticular sleeve.
The titles of the tracks which do not appear on the cover or the CD can be found with a CD-text player.



Origami vs. Manipura by:b9 / Nocturnal Emissions
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Mort Aux Vaches (2000)

Untitled (37:42)
1a
Origami vs. Manipura by:b9
Til Dovre Faller
1b
Origami vs. Manipura by:b9
Bells And Chants Recording: Amplitude
1c
Origami vs. Manipura by:b9
Deathprod
1d
Origami vs. Manipura by:b9
Head
1e
Origami vs. Manipura by:b9
Fast Growing Widow / TG3
1f
Origami vs. Manipura by:b9
Recycle II

Untitled (36:18)
2a
Nocturnal Emissions
Ophiucchus Rises!
2b
Nocturnal Emissions
Retrovirus
2c
Nocturnal Emissions
The A.I. Man
2d
Nocturnal Emissions
Blue Pollution
2e
Nocturnal Emissions
Transgression
2f
Nocturnal Emissions
Bring Power To It's Knees
2g
Nocturnal Emissions
No Separation

Edition Of 600 Copies. Recorded 8/4/1998.
Commissioned by VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden".


Oren Ambarchi
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Mort Aux Vaches (2002)

1
Song Of Separation Part 1 (13:24)
2
Song Of Separation Part 2 (3:00)
3
Song Of Separation Part 3 (6:48)
4
Song Of Separation Part 4 (3:34)
5
Song Of Separation Part 5 (1:26)
6
Song Of Separation Part 6 (8:49)

Limited edition of 1000 handnumbered copies. Solo guitar recorded live at the VPRO studio, June 10th 2001 and broadcasted on VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden". "The music is continuous, time codes have been inserted to aid retrieval."



Pan Sonic & Charlemagne Palestine
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Mort Aux Vaches (2000)

Recorded 10-01-99. Commissioned by VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden"
Limited editon of 1000 numbered copies. Printed on the inside cover is the following:
what about PANPALESTINESONIC and since it's your fault that I worked around them and you advised even the ijsbreaker why don't you write a little something about our 2 generations together and how they use their machines and I use mine and the rest is what you hear is what you get ok? // allthebest CP



Roger Rotor
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Mort Aux Vaches 2001

1 Start 11:27
2 Middle 21:48
3 End 12:22

Synthesizer, Drum Programming [Rhythm], Tape, Effects - Roger Rotor
Synthesizer, Tape - Rolf Brunner

Recorded live at VPRO studio 23/03/1999.
Limited edition of 600 handnumbered copies.



Ryoji Ikeda
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Mort Aux Vaches 1999

1 Headphonics [VPRO Version] :: +/- [VPRO Version] 19:53
2 LSDS 15:47

Recorded on April 15, 1998.
Commissioned by VPRO Radio 5 "De Avonden".
Thanks Berrie Kamer and Jan Hiddink.
Limited handnumbered edition of 1000.



Scanner
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Mort Aux Vaches: Accretions (1996)

1
Clustal (4:01)
2
Cotton Steel (4:53)
3
Scent (9:40)
4
Jat Scheelan (9:18)
5
Preterite (8:39)

Commissioned by Vpro's 'de avonden' Berry Kamer and Jan Hiddink. This is a limited hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies. Track 5 actually lasts 6 minutes 51 seconds: the rest of track is silence.



Senssurround Orchestra
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Mort Aux Vaches: Meltdown Of Control 2000

1 Meltdown Of Control 54:03

Limited edition to 1000 hand-numbered copies. The Material used in this Mort Aux Vaches Release was recorded during 3 live performances:
5.12.97 at Japan Foundation Hall in Toky, Japan
1.07.98 at Podewil in Berlin, Germany
2.07.98 at Royal Festival Hall - Queen Elisabeth Hall, London, UK (this performance was a part of John Peel's 'meltdown 98' festival).

Sound design and engineering by: Michinao Onishi (Japan), Rolf Biemelt (Berlin), and Edwin Van Der Heide (London). This cd contains live recorded material re-edited and structured by Zbigniew Karkowski and Edwin Van Der Heide in Tokyo and Utrecht in 1999 and then mastered by Edwin Van Der Heide.




Stilluppsteypa
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Mort Aux Vaches (1998)

1
One By Two (15:06)
2
Do Not Know Well (9:41)
3
On The Right There (7:25)

Recorded live at VPRO radio Amsterdam for De Avonden on the 17th of november 1997. Limited edition of 600 handnumbered copies.



Tarek Atoui
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Mort Aux Vaches (2008)

1 Untitled 3:06
2 Untitled 3:20
3 Untitled 8:00
4 Untitled 9:13
5 Untitled 6:59
6 Untitled 5:16

Recorded for VPRO 'Dwars' Amsterdam 19 June 2006.
Limited edition of 500 copies.

cubicle, Jul 29, 2008
Tarek Atoui is a Middle Eastern composer. He was born in Lebanon in 1980, moved to France in 1988 and studied at the Conservatory of Paris. Although his work is based in the field of the electro-acoustics, its all computer based, using Max/Msp. Much of his work is made for theatre. There has not been many recordings available, but surely this may change after his first released on the "Mort Aux Vaches" series of the label Staalplaat where many beats rolling over each other, hardly in a way that would induce any form of dance music and from the rhythms more abstractions are made in the computer. High pitched, quickly moving. Some of these beats could pass on a extreme breakcore music, hardcore gabber beats, but in a non sequential way, as to avoid any resemblance to dance music. In the pieces were the beats are down, either in tempo or in presence, Atoui plays music that I think is much more interesting. For instance in the final track he plays an interesting piece of music based on what could be middle eastern field recordings and remote electronics. I think its the most interesting piece of the CD. In other pieces, such as the third, the nerve and hectic is nice too. One could argue that Atoui plays some nice form of plunderphonics in a true original form, but it could not always interest me throughout. Not bad, but not great either.



Tin Foil Star
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Mort Aux Vaches 1999

1 Ruins 9:32
2 Ruins Dub 8:11
3 World Of Sand / Know 7:44
4 Our Favourite Flight 6:38
5 The King Of Silence 5:03
6 Cold Morning Effect 6:34

Recorded December 5, 1998 at Amstel studio for VPRO radio 5 "De Avonden".

Limited to 1000 copies.



Troum
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Mort Aux Vaches: Sen 2000

1 Sen 62:45

Recorded live at the VPRO-studios, Amsterdam, 12/12/1999.
Sen was performed by Troum from August to December 1999
at various places in Poland, Germany and the Netherlands.
Comes in a thick crumbly cardboard cover.
Limited to 600 copies.



TV Pow
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Mort Aux Vaches: Being Nice Is Funny 2000

1 All Previous Systems Included 5:29
2 Thinking + Learning 4:20
3 Analysis + Synthesis 1:52
4 The New Quarter, North Carolina, Just Came Out 2:02
5 Ostriches Never Learn 0:27
6 The Pause That Refreshes 1:16
7 I Know, Right 2:24
8 Just 10 Years Ahead Of You 3:43
9 Take The Literature Ma'am 2:20
10 Moving Mainly On Milleniums 1:49
11 Xing Out The Days 0:20
12 Got Any Jokes About Sandwiches? 3:18
13 They Televised My Face 1:06
14 Sounds Pretty Good For That Type Of Thing 2:10
15 There's No Such Thing As A DJ, Everyone's An MC (House Mix) 0:54
16 American Temporary 4:08

Limited edition of 600 handnumbered copies.



Yellow Swans
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Mort Aux Vaches 2009

1 Untitled 4:28
2 Untitled 15:11
3 Untitled 8:37
4 Untitled 19:38

Limited edition of 500 copies.
Artwork & concept by Staalplaat.
Packaged in a 3-panel cardboard relief sleeve.



:zoviet*france:*
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Mort Aux Vaches: Feedback (1998)

1
Exform (7:37)
2
Irsta (12:17)
3
Ammor (13:19)
4
Rydia (15:28)
5
Degen (2:49)
6
Ularhan (3:25)
7
Kofca (7:19)
8
Latst (10:21)
9
Farasin (4:37)

Live studio recording by VPRO radio in Amsterdam august 1996. Numbered limited edition of 1000.

2 comments:

Rich said...

Don Joyce's MaV entry We'll Be Right Back here.More info here.

Exeter said...

WoW!
Thanks for these very rare items!