MONOTONSTUDIO RECORDS' RELEASES CAN BE BOUGHT EVERYWHERE - BELGIUM, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN, MALAYSIA, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, RUSSIA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, UK, USA. HOW HAVE YOU DEVELOPED SUCH A WIDE NETWORK?
My first idea was to trade a lot of the old records to people around the whole world. I overspammed all the continents with my shit and it was very hard in the (second) beginning but I had a lot of good feedback and got my first own release in the making in 2009. I remember my Asian connections started with TRISTAN TZARA, my 2nd short-lived band (2000-2002), cause there was/is something like a fanbase out there and I cultivated contacts. After a while I traded so much stuff that I could start my own little Mailorder and that’s how it worked.
WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR FAVORITE RELEASES THAT YOU'VE PUT OUT SO FAR?
New ones: Hexis 7", This Gift Is A Curse LP, Medusa CD & Tristan Tzara 12". Old ones: The 1985 7", Hot Hot Heat 7", The Party of Helicopters 12" & Racebannon/The Disease 7". TOP FIVE OF ALL TIME?
Oh, boy! Thats a hard question. Impossible for me to list only 5, sorry - John Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Cap'n Jazz, Honeywell, Charles Bronson, Uranus, Portraits of Past, Pulp, GG Allin, Sarlo Akrobata, Harriet the Spy,
Unbroken, Schleimkeim & a lot of TABLE will release their 4 track EP Tennessee & Texas Rap. on cassette via Monotonstudio very soon and I got 4 or 5 other WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON DIGITAL ideas regarding releases in 2013 VERSUS PHYSICAL FORMATS LIKE but I can’t say more right now. VINYL AND CD? DOES I will make a 3rd edition of MONOTOSTUDIO RECORDS HAVE A TRISTAN TZARA shirts and maybe PREFERRED FORMAT? some MONOTONSTUDIO shirts, Since the Hexis & This Gift Is A too. There hopefully will be a Curse releases in 2012 I decided to discography LP by TRISTAN put out only vinyl’s and tapes. I TZARA but I don’t know if that will don’t like CDs, never liked them. ever happen. The good thing about producing a CD is money and that’s it, vinyl is WHAT DO YOU THINK THE FUTURE way more expensive. That was the HOLDS FOR RECORD LABELS? only reason why I released CDs, Future? That shit edible? money. Seems like my last name is "gettin my hustle on", but fuck it, a broke aging boy is shining, tho. In LINKS: the end, holding a CD in your MONOTONSTUDIO RECORDS hands aint got shit on the good ol' monotonstudiorecords.bandcamp. 7inch. Must be completely out com your fucken mind to doubt that. Right Right? MAILORDER www.monotonstudio-records.de My first tape will be released very soon, BLACK TABLE, an FACEFUCK experimental metal band from www.facebook.com/MONOTONST NY/NJ with female vocals and a UDIORECORDS superb 5 string bass that hits your brain like a train. A masterpiece.. TRISTAN TZARA tristantzara.bandcamp.com DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS MODEL www.facebook.com/TRISTANTZAR OR PLAN FOR THE FUTURE? ABAND Absolutely NO. My experience told me not to plan too much. Or, like Agent Olivia says: Ima be a scumbag until im a hundred and four. Sure is: There will be definitively a repress by THIS GIFT IS A CURSE in April/May 2013 with some different wax effects. As I said, BLACK