I wrote quite long piece about We know how to hate -book. Quick half automated translation:
WE KNOW HOW TO HATE book. It's probably a good example of how a somewhat weird book idea can work! It was a cassette label that operated between 1985-1986, whose idea was to release 23 different half-hour cassettes. Although the label released bands that later became legendary (e.g. Con-Dom, various Grey Wolves-related projects, Kapotte Muziek and related projects, THU-20 and various collections containing industrial-noise-PE scene bands of the time), the label's man mentions that the best-selling cassette sold 12 copies. Many of those were also traded with other scene guys, haha!!!
So we could almost as well take the perspective that instead of a record company, it was the work of a teenager who, for a few months, distributed some copies of his own and contacts recordings. Copying enthusiastically the aesthetics of Broken Flag, etc. However, the catalogue contains so many historically significant names in their genre, and beneath the ironic reporting brought by the decades-long distance, there is a great deal of emotion and enthusiasm to be seen. So why not make a book about it!
It is at the same time a completely unintelligent idea that thigs that operated for a year 40 years ago and distributed a few dozen copies would be worth a book, except that craziness of it can only be a positive adjective!
The book's format is simple: The original hand-glued cassette cover "master" has been scanned. Under it, the publisher writes his own feelings and information about what's going on, why, what he thinks then and/or now. Texts of varying length, depending on whether there is much to say or not. In addition, the relevant parties have been contacted. Quite a few of the artists are still alive and can be found. A few old interviews have also been dug up from other magazines, if nothing has come out of the artist. It's fun to read compact recollections of teenage participation in noise culture, from guys who moved on to more experimental music in their early twenties or dropped out of creative work altogether - but are still reachable, for example, via social media.
In addition, there are some previously unseen photos from the archive and a B5-sized, glue-bound book of about 90 pages! Damn good! The book got its start when someone had the idea that what if the entire discography were uploaded to Bandcamp for people to listen to, as a "celebration" of the band's 40th anniversary. With the same effort as having to look for masters and covers, etc., the idea of making a book came up.
For fanatics: great. If you don't know about the genre or the bands, then book barely makes sense.
