
One of the things that I am finding more and more interesting about net labels is that they really seem to be a forum for people to release not only a huge variety of types of music, but also music that often would find a difficult time ending up on a commercial label. This is not because the music is not of quality, but rather it just may not fit nicely into any one market, etc.
I was pleasently suprised when I came upon
Haushaltsware upon the intertron. I sometimes get nervous when I begin to think that a label or artist's concept maybe more interesting that the actual music, so when I saw that Haushaltsware releases music that is all made from found objects and household appliances, I was skeptical. However, when I started to download and listen to these trax I was well into them. Very much in the spirit of
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, MATTHEW HERBERT and
MATMOS, these tracks combine conceptual experimental methods and sources with raw dancefloor thump and shake. No chin stroking here, the label puts the house back in housewares.
The other cool thing about this label is that they provide sample packs for all of the releases so other people can take the source material and make their own tracks. As a purveyor of samples, this makes me happy.
Haushaltsware label head Psycoded/Mary Huna took the time to get into some detail about the label via email, so here it is:
Name of Netlabel: haushaltsware
URL: www.haushaltsware.orgYour Name: psycoded / mary huna
Relation to Label: founder, admin, musician
Where is your label based from? I live in cologne. Most of the artists are from germany

What is the concept behind the label? Idea from this Netlabel is to offer Music
which is made only out of recorded Sounds from
the Instrument that is named in the Tracktitle.
Other Samples and FX are not allowed.
Electronic Music out of Dishes, Radiators
and Knifes. All Household Articles
can be used. Haushaltsware is dedicated
to those who like to make experiments.
Where did this concept come from?
It was a quite spontan and unplanned thing. I got a wire tracer and just wanted to record some sounds… after a short time the first track was ready, and after the really great feedback I decided to open a label with that stuff.
You guys must really be into the household appliance section at the mall. Sure. Always watching whats going on. There are good sounds nearly everywhere.
In your experience, which appliance offers the largest range of sounds?
I don`t know. The kitchen is very complex… but you can find good sounds everywhere. That’s also one of our points: just open your eyes and ears.. the rest will come to you
How many submissions do you usually get per month? At the beginning there were a lot, but now 1 per month I guess.. so more tracks are welcome
I bet you get some pretty strange things. Yeah, we do. But we are strange.. so it fits
What do you have planned for 2006? For 2006 I planned to start my design-study, and help haushaltsware to world domination. There are also music-videos planned to show the world how nice a coffeemaschine can look and sound.
Ok, this is where you give your shouts out to all your people and appliances….Ok. First thanks to all the artists that make haushaltsware to the unique thing it is. Thanks to all the remixers, soundcatchers and inspirators… without you HHW would not grow so fast… thanks a lot. Than I want to thank archive.org for hosting that stuff, my parents for feeding me and all the fans of that label that really made this thing worthy. Oke. That’s it. Lets rock it!!!