About
Not really a label but a re-distribution network of labels, tape labels to be exact. The idea was to make international tape/DIY releases locally available.
The basic principle of the network was the following:
Tape labels all over the world set up so-called "KFR-Stations". Artists or other tape-labels send "master-copies" of their tape-releases to the stations, usually a quality cassette and cover art for being photocopied, occasionally finished prints. The stations include these releases in their local catalog. No judgments about content, quality or style of the releases are being made. Everything is taken over without exception.
K.F.R. stands for "Kentucky Fried Royalty". The network started as a kind of US-UK-bridge, initiated by Jennifer from and from in 1987. "Kentucky Fried" represented the US-side of the bridge and "Royalty" the UK-side.
Early KFR-stations beside KFR-USA and KFR-UK were KFR-Germany (), KFR-Argentina (), KFR-Japan () and KFR-Noway (). in Berlin provided information services. Relatively soon certain stations stopped operating. KFR-USA was taken over by , KFR-Germany by . Some years later KFR-UK was passed into care of . (The large catalog of the originally was derived from the old KFR-UK catalog.)
It is not clear how much effect KFR had as a distribution network and how long it existed. Anyhow 's pr-work helped the DIY-world being perceived by parts of the mainstream media.
The basic principle of the network was the following:
Tape labels all over the world set up so-called "KFR-Stations". Artists or other tape-labels send "master-copies" of their tape-releases to the stations, usually a quality cassette and cover art for being photocopied, occasionally finished prints. The stations include these releases in their local catalog. No judgments about content, quality or style of the releases are being made. Everything is taken over without exception.
K.F.R. stands for "Kentucky Fried Royalty". The network started as a kind of US-UK-bridge, initiated by Jennifer from and from in 1987. "Kentucky Fried" represented the US-side of the bridge and "Royalty" the UK-side.
Early KFR-stations beside KFR-USA and KFR-UK were KFR-Germany (), KFR-Argentina (), KFR-Japan () and KFR-Noway (). in Berlin provided information services. Relatively soon certain stations stopped operating. KFR-USA was taken over by , KFR-Germany by . Some years later KFR-UK was passed into care of . (The large catalog of the originally was derived from the old KFR-UK catalog.)
It is not clear how much effect KFR had as a distribution network and how long it existed. Anyhow 's pr-work helped the DIY-world being perceived by parts of the mainstream media.
Catalog
16 releases"A Bad Case Of True Love"
Lord Litter · 1992
Your Silence Will Not Protect You (Volume 1)
Various · 1989
Tales Of The Outré
Canwll Corfe · 1992
When Vera Was Here... U.A.
Die Broken Hearts · 1989
Living Hard Young & Getting Old
Victimized Karkass* · 1991
Set / Interview
Charles Rick Kelly - Set (30) / Electro Hippies · 1988
Mutant Disco
Various · 1990
The Hallucinogenic Disintegration Of Psychedelic Pop Orchestras
Lawrence Salvatore · 1988
Refrigeration Wurst
Hirn Mit Ei · 1991
Ir Visa Tai Kas Yra Grazu Yra Grazu
Ir Visa Tai Kas Yra Grazu Yra Grazu* · 1992
Moon Of Passion
Mental Anguish
Lord Litter's Tapedepartement Radioshow No 2
Various · 1992
Apple
Robin O'Brien · 1988
Liberty
Herd Of The Ether Space · 1989
Noises Of War
Herd Of The Ether Space · 1991
Return To Loneliness
Rudolf Heimann · 1988