A true sampler, given away with an issue of The Wire. But it’s a record labels sampler — there are three labels represented: Häpna, Ideal Recordings and Kning Disk.
It starts off with a fun little ditty by Hans Appelqvist, and then gives us a brilliant Hammond organ epic from Eric Malmberg, and I’m sold.
Not just because of this sampler, but I finally ended up buying everything released by Häpna — there’s so much brilliant stuff there. Tape, Sheriff, Stephan Mathieu; the list goes on and on.
The Ideal section of the album is very nice, too — it’s mostly drone-based music, but with each track being quite different from the next. And then we round out with some pleasant weirdness from Kning Disk.
As a three label sampler, it works surprisingly well as an album.
03:35 Hans Appelqvist - Jag en gök 04:00 Eric Malmberg - Milda döden hämtar oss alla till slut 02:23 Anders Dahl - Hundloka - Percussion, Guitar, Bouzouki 05:10 Tape - Augustan Chateau 04:35 Anna Järvinen - Helsinki 05:22 A Taste of Ra - Morning of My Life (Excerpt) 04:48 Christine Ödlund - Lightning & Voices 03:25 Nash Kontroll - All Muzzles Look The Same 05:14 Mokira - Skaka Hund Skaka 05:02 Sewer Election - White Golgotha 04:02 Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Heaven Is The Notion That All This Will End 05:11 The Skull Defekts - Finding Your Way Through the Forest by Setting It on Fire 04:15 Erik Enocksson - The state the sea left me in 03:49 Dan Fröberg - We'll never be the same again (Song) 05:50 Jerry Johansson - Next Door Conversation Part II (Excerpt) 03:16 Folke Rabe - Swinee river 03:35 Library Tapes - Fragment VIII 03:57 Balroynigress - Shampo And Champagne
Unfortunately, most of these are so obscure that they don’t seem to be on Youtube, so here’s a very partial list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZ-iPJIhvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63j_H6bnVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brKMw3nTJxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXEv7IUQ5WA
This blog post is part of the Record Label Samplers series.