{"title":"Korm Plastics","description":"\u003ch2\u003eKorm Plastics books and underground music publishing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKorm Plastics books\u003c\/em\u003e sit at the intersection of music, print culture, and archival obsession. The list brings together publications on experimental music, cassette culture, industrial history, underground scenes, artist records, and independent publishing. Rather than operating like a general music press, Korm Plastics keeps a clear focus on marginal, obsessive, and often historically neglected material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat focus grows directly out of the label's history. Korm Plastics started in 1984 under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/frans-de-waard\" title=\"Browse all titles by Frans de Waard at Lokator100\"\u003eFrans de Waard\u003c\/a\u003e and first became known through cassettes, limited vinyl, and later CDs in the field of experimental music. After a period of hibernation, it returned in 2019 as a book publisher. The current list makes that transition feel continuous rather than nostalgic: the same curiosity remains, but the format has changed from sound object to printed document.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe strongest Korm Plastics titles often deal with music not as entertainment but as culture, infrastructure, and lived subcultural history. Reprints of fanzines, books on labels, underground correspondence, scene documentation, and highly specific artist-focused studies give the catalogue a distinct identity. For readers interested in experimental music, noise, industrial culture, and DIY print history, Korm Plastics has become a particularly coherent publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom experimental music label to book publisher\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFounded in 1984 by Frans de Waard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginally active as an experimental music label\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelaunched in 2019 as a publisher of books about music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFocuses on fanzines, underground print culture, and music history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrong fit for readers of DIY, industrial, and experimental sound culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"giftnalen-no-1-kristian-olsson","title":"GIFTNÅLEN no 1 – Kristian Olsson","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGIFTNÅLEN no 1 — underground arts journal of apocalyptic and occult culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGIFTNÅLEN no 1\u003c\/em\u003e is a 480-page black-and-white hardcover assembled and edited by Kristian Olsson. Issued as Issue No. 1 (Fall 2023) and reissued in its second edition by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Korm Plastics at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2024, it operates at the scale of a book while retaining the accumulative, non-hierarchical logic of a journal. The format is deliberate: at 20 × 29 cm and nearly five hundred pages, the object demands physical engagement before the reader has opened it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eScope and content\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication draws together apocalyptic culture, outlaw occultism, archaic sorcery, damned poetry, forbidden knowledge, perversion, and sinister visual matter. None of these registers is treated as subordinate to the others. Text and image accumulate without a governing editorial distance — the effect is density rather than argument, atmosphere rather than thesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe material is printed entirely in black and white, which flattens hierarchies of medium and source. Collage, photography, text, and illustration occupy the same tonal space throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLineage and precedents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication situates itself within a specific tradition of late-1980s and early-1990s underground print culture. Publications such as \u003cem\u003eAmok\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsoterra\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRapid Eye Movement\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSvarta Fanor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePandemonium\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eForce Mental\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eExit\u003c\/em\u003e form the visible lineage. \u003cem\u003eGIFTNÅLEN no 1\u003c\/em\u003e does not reproduce that tradition or treat it as nostalgia. The material is heavier, more illustrated, and pushed further into excess than most of those precedents allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe content is described as exclusive and rarely seen. The editorial orientation throughout is outsider — not positioned toward mainstream art publishing or academic discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEdition history\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was assembled between 2018 and 2023. It was first published by Styggelse Förlag and the Ajna Offensive. The second edition was published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Korm Plastics at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2024. The Korm Plastics imprint, long associated with figures such as \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/frans-de-waard\" title=\"Titles by Frans de Waard, associated with Korm Plastics\"\u003eFrans de Waard\u003c\/a\u003e and the broader industrial and noise milieu, provides a natural home for a publication of this character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eContext within the catalogue\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders approaching \u003cem\u003eGIFTNÅLEN no 1\u003c\/em\u003e from an interest in esoteric artist publications may find relevant adjacent material in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/artbooks-artist-publications\" title=\"Explore artist publications and artbooks at Lokator100\"\u003eArtbooks\u003c\/a\u003e section of the catalogue. Those drawn to the publication's ties to industrial and power electronics print culture may also find useful context in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books-sound-culture\" title=\"Books on music, noise, and sound culture at Lokator100\"\u003eMusic Books \u0026amp; Sound Culture\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korm Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53816531059034,"sku":"KO-GIFTNALEN1-KP","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/giftnalen-no-1-kristian-olsson-cover.jpg?v=1778327777"},{"product_id":"the-abrahadabra-letters-john-balance-anthony-blokdijk","title":"The Abrahadabra Letters – John Balance \u0026 Anthony Blokdijk","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Abrahadabra Letters\u003c\/em\u003e — Coil Correspondence, 1984–1988\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Abrahadabra Letters\u003c\/em\u003e collects the correspondence between \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/john-balance\" title=\"Browse all John Balance publications in the catalogue\"\u003eJohn Balance\u003c\/a\u003e and Anthony Blokdijk across the years 1984 to 1988. Published by \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Explore the full Korm Plastics catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e on \u003cstrong\u003e8 November 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e, the book is a \u003cstrong\u003ehardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong\u003e136 pages\u003c\/strong\u003e, designed by Alfred Boland and prefaced by Nick Soulsby. Images shown reflect the actual copy offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Correspondence\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letters address practical matters — live appearances, releases, the mechanics of underground exchange — but they also carry the atmosphere of Coil's early formation: personal, unstable, and charged with the same intensity that ran through the music. Balance's voice in the letters is direct and idiosyncratic, moving between logistical notes and the kind of charged personal register that defined his work with Threshold House and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSupplementary Material\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume extends beyond the letters themselves. Two Coil-related articles from Blokdijk's own \u003cem\u003eAbrahadabra\u003c\/em\u003e magazine are included, along with an interview he conducted with Coil for the Dutch magazine \u003cem\u003eOpscene\u003c\/em\u003e. This supplementary layer places the private exchange within a wider map of underground music print culture in the mid-1980s — zines, correspondence networks, and small-press publication as the connective tissue of a scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Object\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book reproduces scans of the original correspondence, preserving Balance's handwriting, decorative marks, and visual habits as they appeared on the page. The publication functions simultaneously as archival document and physical object. Balance's language and rhythms remain directly visible rather than filtered through later reconstruction or editorial summary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho This Is For\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication is suited to researchers and readers with a serious existing interest in Coil, experimental and post-industrial music history, mail art, and underground print culture of the 1980s. It sits within the broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books-sound-culture\" title=\"Browse music books and sound culture titles in the catalogue\"\u003eMusic Books \u0026amp; Sound Culture\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a precise, intimate document rather than a retrospective overview. The reader is assumed to bring their own context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eRelated Titles\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/bright-lights-and-cats-with-no-mouths-john-balance\" title=\"Another primary-material John Balance publication\"\u003eBright Lights and Cats with No Mouths\u003c\/a\u003e offers additional primary material from the same figure and is available in the catalogue. \u003cem\u003eThe Abrahadabra Letters\u003c\/em\u003e is published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Explore the full Korm Plastics catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e, the imprint founded by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/frans-de-waard\" title=\"Explore publications connected to Frans de Waard\"\u003eFrans de Waard\u003c\/a\u003e, whose catalogue concentrates on sound culture, experimental music, and related documentary publications. Further titles connected to \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/john-balance\" title=\"Browse all John Balance publications in the catalogue\"\u003eJohn Balance\u003c\/a\u003e are listed in the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korm Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53816739955034,"sku":"JB-ABRAHADABRA-KP","price":36.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/the-abrahadabra-letters-john-balance-front-cover.jpg?v=1778505883"},{"product_id":"electronic-cottage","title":"Electronic Cottage – Hal McGee","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA complete run of \u003cem\u003eElectronic Cottage International Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in one hardcover volume\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElectronic Cottage\u003c\/em\u003e is a 468-page hardcover compilation of all six issues of \u003cem\u003eElectronic Cottage International Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published between 1989 and 1991. Edited by Hal McGee and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Korm Plastics\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e, the book collects the full run of one of the more substantial print documents to emerge from the cassette culture and DIY home recording scene of that period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the magazine documented\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six issues covered a broad range of material: practical articles on home recording, profiles of artists and independent labels, scene discussion, and the ongoing debates that shaped the hometaper community. That range is part of what gives the volume its value as a primary source. \u003cem\u003eElectronic Cottage International Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e was not an observer of the underground music press from outside — it was produced from within the networks it described, and that proximity is legible throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pages show how participants in pre-internet music communities communicated, circulated work, and maintained contact across distances through mail-based exchange and tape trading. As a collected document, the material holds together as a record of how a decentralised culture organised and represented itself in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eEdition and context\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume carries a foreword by Jerry Kranitz and design by Studio Bertin. It sits within the broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books-sound-culture\" title=\"Explore our music books and sound culture catalogue\"\u003eMusic Books \u0026amp; Sound Culture\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100 — alongside other publications concerned with experimental music, independent publishing, and sound culture history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korm Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53820984164698,"sku":"HM-ELECTRONICCOTTAGE-KP","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/electronic-cottage-cover.jpg?v=1773671895"},{"product_id":"vital-the-complete-collection-1987-1995","title":"Vital – The Complete Collection 1987-1995","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eVital – The Complete Collection 1987-1995\u003c\/em\u003e: All 44 Issues of Frans de Waard's Fanzine in One Hardcover Volume\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVital – The Complete Collection 1987-1995\u003c\/em\u003e is a 580-page hardcover published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Korm Plastics\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e reprinting all 44 issues of Frans de Waard's fanzine on electronic, electroacoustic, industrial, and cassette culture. Produced between 1987 and 1995 in a low-budget Xerox format, \u003cem\u003eVital\u003c\/em\u003e documented an active underground music scene from within. The collection gathers that run in its entirety, with design by Alfred Boland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Fanzine and Its Context\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVital\u003c\/em\u003e began in 1987 as a self-produced publication covering electronic and electroacoustic music at a moment when cassette culture was the primary distribution infrastructure for experimental sound. Operating without institutional backing, it functioned as both a critical organ and a communication network — carrying reviews of tapes, LPs, CDs, and books alongside interviews, essays, and ongoing debates about the nature and ethics of the music it covered. Topics across the run include cassette culture, industrial music, ambient music, noise, plunderphonics, house music, and copyright. The volume sits naturally within the broader catalogue of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books-sound-culture\" title=\"Browse our music books and sound culture catalogue\"\u003eMusic Books \u0026amp; Sound Culture\u003c\/a\u003e at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eContributors and Interviewees\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe range of figures who appear across the 44 issues reflects the breadth of the scenes \u003cem\u003eVital\u003c\/em\u003e addressed. Interviews include Asmus Tietchens, Merzbow, O Yuki Conjugate, P16.D4, Pierre Henry, Jim O'Rourke, Brume, and Döc Wor Mirran. Contributions and discussions also involve Leigh Landy, Godfried Willem Raes, John Duncan, and GX Jupitter-Larsen. Taken together, these names map a specific cross-section of experimental music in the late cassette era — artists and thinkers who were active participants in the scene the fanzine was recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrom Vital to Vital Weekly\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the fanzine moved online in 1995, it continued as \u003cem\u003eVital Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, a publication that remains active. That continuity is relevant to how the printed collection should be read: it is not an archive of something that ended, but a record of the pre-internet phase of a longer critical project. For researchers working on DIY press history, industrial music, or the infrastructure of pre-internet underground culture, the volume provides primary source material that is otherwise dispersed across individual issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho This Volume Is For\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is addressed to readers with a working knowledge of the field: collectors of experimental music publications, researchers in sound studies and music history, and anyone with a sustained interest in how underground scenes produced and circulated their own documentation. Further titles by or related to the originator are listed in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/frans-de-waard\" title=\"Explore all books by or related to Frans de Waard\"\u003eFrans de Waard Books\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korm Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53827888218458,"sku":"9789059398634","price":41.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/vital-complete-collection-1987-1995-cover.jpg?v=1778507788"},{"product_id":"even-when-it-makes-no-sense-the-broken-flag-story","title":"Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBroken Flag, noise, and underground print culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEven When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story\u003c\/em\u003e by Steve Underwood traces the history of one of the defining labels in the English noise and power electronics underground. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all Korm Plastics titles at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e in November 2024, the book expands a text that first appeared in 2010 in \u003cem\u003eAs Loud As Possible\u003c\/em\u003e into a fuller document of sound, print, and cassette culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroken Flag was founded in 1982 and remained closely associated with Gary Mundy and his project Ramleh throughout its active years. The label's catalogue extended to figures including Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, and Giancarlo Toniutti — a cast that placed Broken Flag at the harder edges of industrial and post-industrial music, where noise, power electronics, and small-edition releases formed a coherent underground world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderwood's approach treats the label not as a discography but as a scene document. The book reads Broken Flag through the structures around it: fanzine culture, cassette design, underground debate, and the visual identity that carried through its releases and printed matter. That framing gives the material a density that a straightforward chronology would not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe expanded edition adds new interviews and updates to the original text, reprints two issues of the Broken Flag fanzine, and includes reproductions of many of the label's cassette covers. The result functions simultaneously as narrative history and printed archive — a record of how the label sounded and how it looked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the publisher\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all Korm Plastics titles at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e is a Dutch imprint with a long engagement with noise, experimental, and underground music culture. Founded by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/frans-de-waard\" title=\"Browse publications by and related to Frans de Waard\"\u003eFrans de Waard\u003c\/a\u003e — himself a key figure in the noise and experimental underground that \u003cem\u003eEven When It Makes No Sense\u003c\/em\u003e documents — the imprint has consistently produced publications that treat this music with archival seriousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is listed under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books-sound-culture\" title=\"Explore music history and sound culture books at Lokator100\"\u003eMusic Books \u0026amp; Sound Culture\u003c\/a\u003e at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korm Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53844920598874,"sku":"SU-BROKENFLAG-KP","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/even-when-it-makes-no-sense-broken-flag-story-cover.jpg?v=1778577573"},{"product_id":"we-know-how-to-hate-the-opus-dei-society-story","title":"We Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWe Know How To Hate — Opus Dei Society, harsh noise, and cassette underground history\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story\u003c\/em\u003e is a compact book by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/frans-de-waard\" title=\"Browse all titles by Frans de Waard at Lokator100\"\u003eFrans de Waard\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Explore the full Korm Plastics catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e, documenting the history of the harsh noise cassette label Opus Dei Society through label notes, interviews, reprinted texts, and underground scene material. The label was started by Frans de Waard approximately a year after he founded Korm Plastics and Kapotte Muziek in 1984, and released twenty-three cassettes before closing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book operates as a scene document rather than a simple discography. Moving through each release, it builds a wider picture of the people, labels, and relationships that surrounded the project. Interviews with Vidna Obmana, Don van Dijk, David Padbury, Eriek van Havere, Stef Windelinx, and Ameury Perez are included, while Peter Zincken contributes autobiographical notes. The catalogue was small, but the network it opens onto is dense — radical sound, small-edition production, and the specific logic of underground circulation in that period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes the publication is the range of material gathered in a compact format. Reprinted pieces include interviews with Con-Dom and THU20, as well as texts on Christian Nijs and his label Disbuse Transmissions, and on the early work of Peter Zincken as Odal. The book is useful not only as label history but as a concentrated archive of power electronics and cassette-era underground culture — the kind of record that rarely gets written at this level of specificity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders with an interest in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books-sound-culture\" title=\"Browse music history and sound culture books at Lokator100\"\u003eMusic Books \u0026amp; Sound Culture\u003c\/a\u003e, DIY music press history, or industrial and noise documentation will find the scope here well matched to the subject: local, embedded, and precise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e23 cassettes, interviews, reprints, and scene memory\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocuments all 23 Opus Dei Society cassette releases\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCentres on harsh noise, power electronics, and small-edition underground music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes interviews with key participants: Vidna Obmana, Don van Dijk, David Padbury, Peter Zincken, and others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReprints earlier texts, including interviews with Con-Dom and THU20, and material on Disbuse Transmissions and Odal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelevant for readers of cassette culture, industrial history, and DIY music press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Korm Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53850943127898,"sku":"FDW-WEKNOWHOWTOHATE-KP","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/we-know-how-to-hate-opus-dei-society-story-front-cover.jpg?v=1778529972"},{"product_id":"americas-greatest-noise","title":"America's Greatest Noise — Frans de Waard","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAmerica's Greatest Noise\u003c\/em\u003e — Ron Lessard, RRRecords, and Underground Noise History\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/korm-plastics\" title=\"Browse all Korm Plastics publications at Lokator100\"\u003eKorm Plastics\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerica's Greatest Noise\u003c\/em\u003e is a book by Frans de Waard on Ron Lessard, his record store in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the label RRRecords, which operated from 1986 to 2009. It is a noise music book concerned less with cataloguing releases than with the actual shape of running a label: unfinished projects, distribution decisions, scene-building through persistence and contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRRRecords released work by Blackhouse, F\/i, and PGR, and issued the first Merzbow LP outside Japan. But the label's practice extended well beyond its catalogue. Regional compilations, lock groove records, anti-records — objects with no music and a conceptual or visual edge — and the RRRecycled Music series all figure in the account. These formats were not peripheral; they were central to how RRRecords operated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRon Lessard's own activity runs through the book in parallel. His Emil Beaulieau persona, the Minutoli turntable, performances that folded the comic businessman into noise practice — all of this is treated as part of the same structure rather than as biographical colour. Sound, object, performance, and distribution were not separate concerns at RRRecords, and the book does not separate them. An introduction by Dominick Fernow opens the text. Appendix material and black-and-white images drawn from flyers, invitations, and fanzines extend it into archival territory. Design is by Alfred Boland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the second edition, issued without flexi disc. 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