STEINKLANG RECORDS was founded in 1992 as a
presentation platform for different
activities in the Industrial-Noise music genre.
the first activity was the organisation of a live concert in 1992 with
JIM O'ROURKE, the head of the famous experimental band ILLUSION OF SAFETY and following noise disco.
the first official appearance was the
SCHMERZTHERAPIE
festival in Salzburg (Austria) in november 1993 with a
performance by GENOCIDE ORGAN and RASTHOF DACHAU.
1994 we began with label work. The first Steinklang release was
a videotape
from the Schmerztherapie festival.
in october 1994 the
second STEINKLANG festival
took place in Salzburg,
feat. IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES, DEUTSCH NEPAL, SÖLDNERGEIST
and ANENZEPHALIA.
some days before, on october 1st 1994, Steinklang opened
the doors for the first Industrial / Independent / Wave / Techno
Recordstore
in Austria.
at the end of 1994 the first vinyl releases came.
1995 several concerts and parties were organised (amongst them LEGENDARY
PINK DOTS and MERZBOW) and a second store was opened in
Wels.
unfortunately we opened a third recordstore in Vienna end of
1995 and this was the beginning of a big misery. I do not want to bore anybody with details about this bad time and
the bastards we "worked" with in Vienna, so let us skip that theme.
middle of 1996 we had to close all 3 stores and give up
our label-activities because of financial reasons. my friend Pedro from
HOERSTURZ
was my only crossing point to the Industrial scene for
years, until Alex opened TOTEM-RECORDS
in Vienna.
these two
great friends financed the first 5 releases after our "comeback"
in 2002 (SK16-20), for which I will be thankful with them forever!
A big thank you also to my fellow Daniel from
DOWNLOAD
ENTERTAINMENT, who helped me a lot from
the beginning on and who designed our first homepage.
in 2003 we moved to our new headquaters in the holy central- european
Alps, from where we now supply the Industrial- and Folkmusic scene with
many powerful releases. at the same time we began to split our
releases into several different product-groups, to give You
a better orientation about the different music-styles we support.
so far for now...
finally we want to say goodbye to a friend:
