Editora do Dia #1

Já há uns tempos tinha pensado nesta iniciativa. Porque näo criar um blog e escrever um pouco sobre as editoras, das quais sou consumidor da sua musica?

Para comecar, fica aqui um excerto da história da primeira contemplada:

(K-RAA-K)3




Before (K-RAA-K)3

You can’t really explain the history of (K-RAA-K)3 without digging deeper into what happened a few years before the foundation of (k)3 in 1997.
Before (k)3 came across there was Toothpick. It all started when a couple of friends decided to start a tape-label similar to contemporary illustrous labels such as X-pressway, Shrimper, K-records etc...
These three friends were: Johan Loones (later on (k)3), Hendrik Dacquin (now doing visuals for Köhn and Studio Muscle) and Ben Depoorter (currently living in New York and making a living as a lawyer and seducing Australian women)
There wasn’t really a concept except for maybe kicking the ass of the for centuries asleep town of Bruges (and for that matter Belgium). Most artists came from within the inner circle of friends. Most music was linked directly to that infamous lo-fi movement from the mid-nineties. And lo-fi it was, although very shortly after the birth of Toothpick Dave Driesmans (later also (k)3) joined the ranks for the Toothache sublabel which focussed a bit more on electronics. Toothpick organised concerts in living-rooms, a press conference with waffle-baking in record stores, released vinyl and tapes, and started their own fanzine called Toothpick 2000. In fact there were also two Toothpick-festivals. The first one wasn’t really a Toothpick-festival but we just nicked the name from a night organised in Kontich where heroes such as Mountain Goats and Graeme Jefferies played alongside Toothpick-bands Napkin vs Soda (later half of this band became Orange Black), Wio (who blew everybody away that night) and slowcore rockers deluxe Mote.
It was a thrilling time with a Dutch label (Rotten Windmill) signing Wio and Mote to release their first ep’s and Toothpick becoming a kind of familiar “name” within Belgian underground circles.
The second Toothpick-festival was a legendary affair with no less then 6 hours of delay and most Toothpick-members too drunk to realize whatever what was happening. A + 300 crowd showed up at Utopia in the tiny village of Jabbeke. Nobody expected this, and it turned out to be the end of the road for Toothpick. Some small discussions started and we all decided to let Toothpick go … into history (...)


Os albums favoritos cá por casa, säo:

Lali Puna - Safe Side, 7".1998
Pan American - Quarry, 10".1999
Köhn - Koen, 2cd.2002
Es - Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys, cd.2004