The label exists to document the vital experimental music scene in Malmö, Sweden, by means of black seven-inch wax. The full series will comprise a total of twelve records of which the first six are currently available (three older releases, three new ones). The musical scope is diverse, but for the noise and industrial fans on this board, the Gaerra/Mirrors Are Black split 7" might – besides the Arkhe release – be especially worth checking out.
For ordering info and sound samples, see below.
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SOL05: Arkhe 7"
Listening to Arkhe's new seven inch, it is obvious that the sinister forces conjured by the recent Northeastern Malmö compilation (Elbogen Fonogram) have by no means been exorcised. Stripping down his already austere sound, the two side-length tracks draw upon a raw minimalist palette overblown to the point of suffocation. These are unrelentingly rectangular waveforms best served with a Rocheforte 12 and some paganly slaughtered goat on the side.
Edition of 150
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SOL04: HALStER 7"
Seasoned improvisers Anders Lindsjö, Matthias Nihlén and Adam Persson deliver two intense and scattery tracks, taking the power format defined by Di Meola/ de Lucía/McLaughlin only to inoculate it with a healthy amount of post London school avant-gardism. Somewhere in between, a liberating sense of dead pan humor effectively counterpoints the merciless guitar bruise ups – in more than one way evoking the shrewd concretist genius of Ilmar Laaban.
Edition of 150
SOL06: Super Jam / Ultra Jam split 7"
By means of a personality split, Martin Nilsson unleashes two facets of synthetic highway cruising, equally veiled in four-track hiss and the latest Kim Kardashian Instagrams. Not only is this a great warm-up to the upcoming Super Jam tape on Not Not Fun, it's also yet another convincing statement from the shadowy creative nexus known as the Upper Layer HQ (its earthly location at the time of recording being somewhere around Persborg in the southeast of Malmö). Do I hear a Roedelius reference, or is it just six seasons of Jersey Shore blasted through a 90's Yamaha workstation?
Edition of 150
SOL01: Gaerra / Mirrors Are Black split 7"
Glitter in the gutter! After the brilliant, harshly droning, "Snittet" tape on the obscure Växjö label Ingen Våg, Gaerra returns with an agonizingly bleak industrial exercise on the A-side. On the flip, Mirrors Are Black (Peter Henning from Amph/Sprachlos Verlag) brings you a dark stew of field recordings, layered synth-bliss and concrete noises.
Edition of 300
SOL02: Skeppet 7"
After a series of tape sides on the duo’s own Kosmisk Väg imprint, a thousand live shows and a killer split LP on Release the Bats, Sweden's undisputed kings of cosmic pop exploration delivers two new tracks of prime deutsch-schwedische Freundschaft. Currently working on a full-length album for Not Not Fun, this is the perfect appetizer – an aural Campari on ice for your jaded, kraut rock hating ears.
Edition of 300
SOL03: Pets Or Food 7"
First release from Pets or Food since the tape on Malmö based Rev/Vega records, providing two triturating tracks of catchy no wave screech suitably distanced from any of the post punk romanticism going on at the moment. In the inimitable Keith Fullerton Whitman’s words, “invalidating just so many williamsburg-by-way-of-idaho combo’s attempts at similar levels of bombast”. One can only agree.
Edition of 300
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