We Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story
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We Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story is a compact Korm Plastics book by Frans de Waard documenting the history of the harsh noise cassette label Opus Dei Society through label notes, interviews, reprinted texts, and underground scene material. The label released twenty-three cassettes; this book traces that catalogue and the wider network of people and practices around it.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 88
- Size: 17 × 24 cm
- Publisher: Korm Plastics
We Know How To Hate — Opus Dei Society, harsh noise, and cassette underground history
We Know How To Hate – the Opus Dei Society Story is a compact book by Frans de Waard, published by Korm Plastics, 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.
The 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.
What 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.
Readers with an interest in Music Books & Sound Culture, DIY music press history, or industrial and noise documentation will find the scope here well matched to the subject: local, embedded, and precise.
23 cassettes, interviews, reprints, and scene memory
- Documents all 23 Opus Dei Society cassette releases
- Centres on harsh noise, power electronics, and small-edition underground music
- Includes interviews with key participants: Vidna Obmana, Don van Dijk, David Padbury, Peter Zincken, and others
- Reprints earlier texts, including interviews with Con-Dom and THU20, and material on Disbuse Transmissions and Odal
- Relevant for readers of cassette culture, industrial history, and DIY music press
About Frans de Waard
Frans de Waard has been active in experimental sound culture since 1984 and is best known through projects such as Kapotte Muziek, along with a long parallel involvement in labels, publishing, reviewing, and underground documentation. His work moves between sound practice and print culture, which positions him well to write this kind of focused scene history.
Opus Dei Society formed part of that wider activity. Although its catalogue was small, the label gathered a harsh and highly specific group of artists and remains a meaningful point of reference within cassette culture, power electronics, and noise history. This book captures that scale precisely: specific, local, and embedded in its moment.
Format: Softcover
Pages: 88
Dimensions: 17 × 24 cm
Weight: 0.2 kg
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Korm Plastics
Country of origin:
Netherlands
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https://www.kormplastics.nl
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Korm Plastics / Frans de Waard
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