Stuckism is a radical art movement founded in London in 1999 to advance new figurative painting with ideas as the most vital artistic means of addressing contemporary issues.
More vintage KUNSTBLOCK work is getting some long overdue exposure on a MySpace music account under www.myspace.com/kunstblock.
KUNSTBLOCKs approach was very independent and motivated by the Do It Yourself (DIY)attitude best known from the punk and hardcore scene which also led the band to name their musical style DEHC - Digital Electronic Hardcore.
Even though musical recording technology has evolved somewhat during the past 15 years this material, recorded in the early 1990s on analog equipment, stands on its own and is a good way to document where I was at during that period of time.
From June 1994 to February 1996 I recorded some music that did not really fit in with the Kunstblock work.
The common thread was that all songs were instrumentals consisting of sampled classical instruments and an urban type dance beat alongside the usual generic electronic sounds. The tracks ranged from 95 to 141 bpm.
The project was called Zeitgeist: Disint 6.
A collection of six songs made it onto the demo tape The Six Stages Of Disintegration which was recorded in 1996 and sent out to various record companies and magazines. After the demo the project was discontinued.
Once again, these songs would most likely have been lost forever but thanks to the socalled Web 2.0 publishing previously unreleased music is now possible. The original demo is now available in its entirety for download and or direct listening media under http://www.myspace.com/zeitgeistdisint6.
All tracks are unedited and left just the way they were originally recorded.
During the early 90s I was involved in a few music projects and the EBM / digital electronic hardcore band KUNSTBLOCK was one of them. After roughly three years the project was disbanded leaving a stack of unreleased demo songs that never saw the light of day. The way things were then this would have been the end of it. However, through the emergence of both MP3 and Youtube these songs get a late and previously unexpected chance for release at last.
Frank Christopher Schroeder, born 1967, is an independent remodernist painter, draftsman and collage artist. His creative philosophy roots deeply in the punk, heavy metal and hardcore counterculture of the 1970s and 1980s, where a 'do it yourself' (DIY) attitude was the motor behind everything. In his work he mixes early 20th century cubism, expressionism and dadaism with more contemporary phenomena such as punk art and graffiti. In 2002 he joined the Stuckists.
More vintage KUNSTBLOCK work is getting some long overdue exposure on a MySpace music account under www.myspace.com/kunstblock.
