Frans De Waard + Roel Meelkop + Peter Duimelinks
[Goem]



1993 Punik - Staalplaat
1996 Ems een/ems twee - Audio NL
1997 Stud Stim - Raster-Noton
1998 Twaalf Inch - Audio NL
1998 Motormix - Audio NL
1999 Reduktie - Oblique Soundscape
1999 Lokatie - Microwave
1999 Dertig CM - Mego
2000 Ems - Audio NL
2000 Extensie - Noise Museum
2000 Mort aux Vaches - Staalplaat
2000 Patient Rhythm - Ash
2001 Abri - 12K
2001 Disco - Fourth Dimension
2001 Switch - Fallt
2002 Gast - Mutek
2004 Untitled - Atak
2007 KGM - Hushush
2007 Live DVD Atak Night 3 - Atak
2007 Robbed - SmallVoices


Goem is a russian word which stands for the shops where only the communist party members could buy. Now abolished. Frans de Waard, probably most known from his ongoing work with Kapotte Muziek (since 1984), a group that fully concentrates on recycling through musique concrete. Besides he is a member of ambient group Beequeen, Quest, Shifts and does 'silly' (in his own words), preferable unsolicited remixes as Captain Black. His day-job occupationis with Dutch record company Staalplaat. Roel Meelkop - visual artist with a strong interest in music. He is a member of the Dutch electro-acoustic band THU20, and composes solo under his own name. Last year Trente Oiseaux released his firstsolo CD (9 Holes In The Head), which was internationally well-received. Together with Frans de Waard, he is also a member of the live version of Kapotte Muziek. Dertig CM and Stud Stim are entirely made with a device called 'Student Stimulator', a measuring device used in hospitals. It gives a steady pulse, in slow or fast mode. Anything but a musical instrument. It's on old machine in which the pulse can be changed, the intensity and velocity, but is at the same time full of buzzes and hummes of electricity. These pulses and buzzes are taped extensively and treated accordingly with relatively low tech equipment, borrowing ideas from Steve Reich's Phase Shifting. This was found in a thrift store, and it's use is to give rhythmical pulses, to coordinate a steady response. The machine is used by Goem to create a wide tapestry of beats, which are triggered by synths and efx. The result is listening music with steady beats.