Started in 1984 as a cassette only label. The first release was a tape by Merzbow, one of the first merzbow titles to appear outside of Japan. The releases that followed in the early years were mainly recordings of concerts that were organised by V2_Organisatie, such as Laibach or Test Dept. Later, V2_Archief started to release CD's and LP's, that were recorded in studios. In more recent years V2_Archief has followed the developments in experimental, electronic music closely and have released music by such artists as Bernhard Günter, RLW, Francisco López, Kozo Inada, Roel Meelkop...