We were looking for something special and were unhappy about the situation in our lives and also with the music, so we were all looking for extremes. There were some likeminded people in our small town we could exchange some music with, so we did.
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I think the first real experimental record I had was Psychic TV when they were really experimental (Berlin Atonal) – then I got to know some people like for example Helge Siehl and together we formed Maeror Tri later on (the former band of M.T., Screaming Corpses, was founded in 1986 – I’ll check the archives to find a photo). When I was about 15 I was into independent alternative music I’d already started when I was 13 or 14 and it went further and further into more extreme stuff. When did you find yourself being attracted to experimental, industrial and drone music? The local scenes were always too small for this kind of ‘difficult’ music. It all came through the cassette scene which at that time was very popular, and also through Maeror Tri in the late 80s. Oh no, at first perhaps I thought about doing this only for German bands, but it felt stupid because I had so many international contacts already. So you immediately turned towards the international scene? You didn’t wish to focus at first on the German market, or the people living around you in Leer? It was so nice that I decided to continue the label, not only using it for our own stuff but also for bands I liked from the international experimental scene. We started to think about releasing cassettes and vinyls and we wanted to do a 7″ vinyl for Maeror Tri first, and with this idea it all began, with this Maeror Tri 7″ and with blank covers which we spraypainted.
Last words should be kept to Thoreau "Walden" in this place, who said: "The gross feeder is a man in larva state and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them".Drone Records has been established in 1993 – at that time I was very active in the international cassette network exchange movement and we were also active there with Maeror Tri (releasing MCs on various labels around the world), so I grew up in this scene.
It remains a fact that Chefkirk keeps his best stuff for Retinascan. From harsh to alienated, the sound design delivers a wide variety of strangeness, all very tightly organised by the genius of the master of liberated noise. well, here it is: Toxic Milk is so far the most elaborated work of Chefkirk within his new no input mixer coordinates, and it's of course not at all minimal. Smith turned down his incredible output,which may on one hand have to do with his work in several projects like "Insects With tits", but at least Discogs shows no release so far for 2009.
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Last words should be kept to Thoreau "Walden" in this place, who said: "The gross feeder is a man in larva state and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them".Chefkirks third release on Retinascan after the "Tranquil Death Phenomenon" 3inch and the collaboration "The Plain People" with Carl Kruger is in fact the first solo full length for our outlet, and it is no random affair that it needed so long to find its place in the catalogue. Chefkirks third release on Retinascan after the "Tranquil Death Phenomenon" 3inch and the collaboration "The Plain People" with Carl Kruger is in fact the first solo full length for our outlet, and it is no random affair that it needed so long to find its place in the catalogue.