Minimal Wave Records

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 mus­ical 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 twenty-four songs have been re­mas­tered from their origin­al tapes es­pecial­ly for vinyl by Tor him­self. Li­mited edi­tion of 999 hand-numbered co­p­ies, doub­le LP pre­ssed on 160 gram vinyl and pre­sen­ted in a matte gatefold jac­ket with a lett­er from Tor ac­companied by furth­er in­for­ma­tion on the bands.

Re­lease date: Oc­tob­er 6th. Purchase here http://minimal­wave.­com/releases/release/or­gelvaerk/