Orgelvärk

Various

Orgelvärk

 

2011

  • 1.
    Unknown Artist - Orgelns Fodelse
  • 2.
    Glenn Winter - Herrens Svar
  • 3.
    Santiago de Gil - Pa Min Resa
  • 4.
    Ferdinand Rhtym - Narcotics
  • 5.
    Artificial Control - Silent Face
  • 6.
    Artifical Control - Signal Out
  • 7.
    The Heart Of Darkness - Fixerad
  • 8.
    The Heart Of Darkness - Gadji Beri Bimba
  • 9.
    Caique - With Or Without You
  • 10.
    Corteche - Wind And Forest
  • 11.
    SSpilluffe - Killed By Death
  • 12.
    18:e Oktober - Hector Lokfrisk
  • 13.
    Moulin Rouge - Silence
  • 14.
    Peter Tengvall - Utdrag Nr 1-3
  • 15.
    Engürdetz - Let The Concrete Fall
  • 16.
    Art Division - X-Squad
  • 17.
    Art Division - New Art
  • 18.
    Patchwork - Shadows
  • 19.
    Patchwork - A Minute
  • 20.
    Ausgang Verboten - Consumer
  • 21.
    Overlords - Sea City
  • 22.
    Overlords - Secrets Of The Universe
  • 23.
    Unknown Artist - Varksam Begravning
  • MW033

Minim­al Wave pro­ud­ly pre­sents a newly re­mas­tered vinyl edi­tion of the cult Swedish cas­sette com­pila­tion Or­gelvärk, sub­tit­led “en stadig saml­ing svensk syn­thmusik” – “a solid col­lec­tion of Swedish synth music”. Or­gelvärk is a com­pila­tion of Swedish syn­thpop, ex­periment­al and in­dustri­al music re­presen­tative of the un­derground tape scene that thrived there in the 1980s. Many of the bands didn’t quite fit into one par­ticular genre, and most re­mained un­known. They lived in small vil­lages and were mak­ing what can be de­scribed as electronic folk music.
Or­gelvärk was original­ly com­piled and re­leased on cas­sette in 1986 by Tor Sig­vardson, also known for his own musi- cal pro­ject 18:e Ok­tob­er and cas­sette label Neuköln. The vinyl edi­tion in­cludes five pre­vious­ly un­released tracks which were sub­mit­ted to Tor for the origin­al 1986 cas­sette re­lease but due to space li­mita­tions, never made it on there. All the audio has been re­mas­tered from the origin­al tapes es­pecial­ly for vinyl by Tor him­self. Li­mited edi­tion of 999 hand-num- bered co­p­ies, pre­ssed on 160 gram vinyl and pre­sen­ted in a matte gatefold jac­ket with a lett­er from Tor ac­companied by furth­er in­for­ma­tion on the bands.

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* Denotes bonus track(s) available only on a CD / Digital version of this release, if a CD / Digital version of this release is available

 

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Reviews

    From minimal-wave to quir­ky art-sound to house party synth grooves, if it was made today I would com­ple­ment the sound zoom re­cord­ing qual­ity and the rhy­thm taps. This evokes got­hic cel­lars and vam­pires through melody, re­verb, and the foreign lan­guage (swedish). The sound is bet­ween Glass Candy (side 4/ track 4), Suicide (2/1), the Rocky Soundtrack (3/6), De­pec­he Mode (2/4), the Ghostbust­ers Soundtrack, and the sounds found of the Ab­solute Body Con­trol box set. This com­pila­tion was first re­leased on cas­sette the year I was born (’86), only now rea­ch­ing a wider audi­ence with this li­mited re­lease on Minim­al Wave Re­cords (our’s is #274). This is en­joy­able stuff, and I lear­ned a lit­tle bit about sweden’s geog­ra­phy from the very cool grap­hic on the in­side flap show­ing where each band hail from. Some tracks with female vocal­ist (not en­ough to out-number the males), some in­strument­al, some love and dance pop, some mere­ly rhy­thm and beat, some a combo art and dance at­tack, and if the title is in en­glish then the song is also in en­glish (ot­herw­ise it’s swedish), and the tit­les often ap­pear in the song as a chorus or some part of the song-text. Maybe I like dis­trac­tions but my favorite part as re­view­er here is learn­ing that a caique (the name of one of the bands) is also a very be­auti­ful and friend­ly look­ing bird.

    - 2011

 
 

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