During the first years of Staalplaat, Geert Jan Hobijn used the name Staaltape to make a clear distinction between the shop and the label. Many of the artists whose music got released on mc by Staaltape are still around.
On the weblog nostalgie de la boue the titles (and download links) are listed.
Boys and girls became men and women; staalplaat went on to become an established name within a non established genre.
In the last century Staaltape disappeared together with the music cassette.
They are both back again.
Staaltape is Staalplaat’s cassette label.
Electronic beats listed staaltape as one of the ten cassette labels, that keep the tape alive in Germany. Staaltape didn’t only help to keep the tape alive in Germany. Hundreds and hundreds of small labels around the globe helped the cassette tape to a renaissance.
Staaltape releases evolve around a theme, or a concept. Very often I propose a release together with a set of instructions, a score or a general idea of what I would like to get back. This does not mean that I interfere in the artistic process. I act merely as a curator.
And this, I hope, helps to continue the work that started in Amsterdam in 1982.
This website will show releases that are available as cassette.
Please check out the BC-page for previous releases.
Berlin, December 2022
Rinus van Alebeek