*250 copies limited edition* "Whenever I perform a concert, which is usually a one-off, I like to try something new that I have prepared and rehearsed. It's very rare to return to the music afterwards and record a studio version. On 25 November 2023, I played a concert in Münster, Germany, and I was very pleased with how it turned out. However, because I was given 30 minutes, I felt it was a bit rushed, and I recorded a new version at home shortly afterwards.

The inclusion of shortwave radio sounds fascinated me at the time. The main work before 'Muster' was the LP 'Blackout', which featured this quite extensively. That LP was dedicated to the war terror in Ukraine and imagining being cut off from the outside world, searching for snippets of information on the radio. 'Disabuse Transmissions' was an additional piece, recorded at the same time, also using sounds from the communication world. The title refers to a short-lived cassette by Kapotte Muziek's first member, Christian Nijs, who died in 2002.

Now that I am older, I tend to think more about people and events from the past and how I use equipment from those days (reel-to-reel recorders, cassettes, Dictaphones) that I didn't have at the time, or not to the extent I have them now. Finally, I am able to work easily with this old apparatus until the day they break down. Whatever comes after that is probably silence." - Frans de Waard