{"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","url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/products\/even-when-it-makes-no-sense-the-broken-flag-story","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}