ZNS TAPES 1987 - 1993:
“ZNS TAPES started in early 1987 as a cooperation between Andreas Scholz & Andreaz Vogel.
A.Scholz was mainly responsible for the technical backround and equipment, meanwhile A.Vogel had several contacts to the 80s experimental underground tape scene and lots of ideas to create an own tape-label-project.
The musical roots of both guys were fairly wide spread. A.Scholz preferred nearly all kinds of temporary electronic music, including pop and electronic body music, but also the tasty wave and gothic stuff.
A.Vogel had his roots in early punk and industrial music, even in harsher electronic stuff. From this point they started their work on the first compilation tape, called cortisol. It should become a large and extremely contemplative work, because of the 90 minutes running time with 20 tracks of a dozen different styles. Looking back from nowadays, this compilation and the months of creating it were the product of a highly enthusiastic and creative period with a nearly religious open-mind-behaviour of both guys.
The cover-artwork for this tape did their art-teacher R.Heigl.
In the following months several projects took place: the first fulltime tapes of SUICIDE COMMANDO, SECRET DISCOVERY and MØHR, also the second compilation tape up 'n' down. During this time A.Scholz more and more stepped out of the labelwork, and ZNS TAPES became the solo-project of A.Vogel. This was late 1988.
In the following 5 years ZNS TAPES published 8 more compilation tapes, 15 so-called split tapes [each side of the cassette with another artist], 12 fulltime tapes, 2 special tape boxes with each 3 cassettes in it and one split LP of IGNORE ALIEN ORDERS and MØHR.
The main conception behind ZNS TAPES was the non-profit-idea. The cassettes had been sold for a very small price, so that people often bought tapes of unknown bands to get some new and interesting stuff without spending lots of money.
In 1993 A.Vogel stopped all the labelwork. Lack of time and more and more own musical avtivities were only few of the reasons.
And now, more than 10 years later, we should pay attention to history. All cassettes were mastered again and converted to .mp3-files [often in very poor quality because of the poor quality of the basic-material], and I'm going to publish them here again, but now for free.”
Het is misschien niet new meer maar interesting is het nog steeds. En nu snel alles downloaden, want dit soort geweldige sites wil nog wel eens spoorloos verdwijnen.
