★Afvikling kassetter
Fragmenter 2020/23
Ghostly industrial from One of my favorite local projects. 60 minutes of warm and dreamlike tape music. This recording is for me a perfect example of how music for magnetic tape can feel as organic as the vibrations of a string or the humming of a voice, when utilizing the flaws and unpredictability of tapes and tape machines.
Drilling a hole without realizing its consequences
Beautiful bedroom noise from Malmø, Carrying the Swedish tape noise torch forward. Stripped down and restrained, but with a lot of depth to be found in the textures. Philip, who is behind the project also does the amazing label Sinkhole Editions.
Country dreng country hund
One hour of exquisite microcassette manipulation from a great friend of the label. A free flowing audio diary documenting daily routines and primitive audio experiments. Some of the best tape murk to be produced on danish soil for many years.
Dried plum music for the grim reaper / gathering tiny traces
I’m very happy to present a split cassette of two of my favorite tape music artists from Denmark. A half hour of strange magnetic signals, unidentifiable voices, and all round textural bless. Too quiet to be noise, too gnarly to be ambient, but absolutely perfect for this label.
Great gestures
Ultra homemade brilliance from my friend Johannes. Four years of bedroom recordings edited down to a half hour of DIY perfection. Best pop record on the label for sure. The only pop record maybe but crazy good nonetheless.
Smilets By
Re-issue of Danish cult classic from 2006 with new artwork by Martha Hviid and AK. 12" vinyl feat. oliver hoiness - andreas führer - anders lauge meldgaard yoyooyoy / lolita industri 2008 og 2006
lo-fi wizard oliver hoiness. the ever-cheerful kalle del what the hey. the evergreen supermelle aka. fresh fruit
Proportioning of open units
Besides being a visual artist, Christoffer Kjærskov has quietly been making experimental music for the last 20 years. His works, always recorded to 4 track cassette, seem to carry a certain warmth flowing through the patiently unfolding loops and shimmering melodies this release is an assemblage of synthesizer, urban field recordings and even some synthetic flute solos peeping through the tape mist. A lovely unpretentious recording, I am very happy to present through afvikling .
The sad house and the bad house
I’m happy to present a new recording on Afvikling from my friend Frederik Heidemann, this time working under his new Plain Bob Minor alias. Where his first tape for the label was a patiently unfolding piece of homemade chamber music, this recording is in every way very different. This tape consists of small compositions for midi controlled synthesizer. Quirky and often times humorous but still characterized by the same warmth that flows through all Frederiks Recordings. Frederik Is slowly but su…
It was so real
Josefine, The person behind Upshifter and I come from the same town, Odense, she’s a few years older than me. I remember being very young and going to a vegan community kitchen and hearing rumors about her amazing synthpop group Time Masters around 10 years ago. This spring she started to play concerts with her new project Upshifter, described as “New Age /manifestation” on the first poster which of course made me very curious about the music. It’s an honor to present this demo cassette of glimm…
1–16
When I started to be curious about producing cassette tapes around 2016, everyone I met said that I should talk to Wilfred Wagner. Not only did he have a lot of printing equipment and knowledge about cover design, he also have one of Copenhagen’s only functioning tape duplicators. I think it’s safe to say that Wilfred is a legend in the Copenhagen underground. He has helped everyone to make covers, underground books etc. He also ran an exhibition platform making art books and been involved in th…
Viser og countryrock på fynsk
*200 copies limited edition* Self-released private press style LP from Jonas Torstensen, distributed by Discreet Music. Grainy and broken singer/songwriter music, one of the major highlights so far in what is already a rather astonishing discography! "This record is an attempt on doing an album of songs. I recorded it in the first half of 2025. I played all the instruments with varying luck. It’s quite different from what I wanted it to be, mostly because of my lack of technical skills, but I’m…
KBh 2023 til 2025
In the summer of 2024 I was browsing through some unmarked tapes in my studio, Where I found a cassette with a mysterious recording which I couldn’t figure out who had made. In the following month I played it for a dozen different people to see if they had any knowledge about this magical treasure but no one knew anything about it. However after a lot of searching I figured out that the tape included recordings of my great friend Johannes’s new rock group Bending Backwards, we shared studio spac…
Femøren
A Friday evening last year I were hanging out as usual in the Afvikling headquarter probably reading about some stupid 80s action film. However that evening took an unexpected turn when this release suddenly landed in my inbox. Naja is a great friend of mine and she has already done a lot of amazing music but this tape made together with longtime collaborator Jonas Sommer is especially impressive I think. 25 minutes of very sweet and heartwarming Lofi pop songs from the top shelf of great songwr…
Møl
Such a beautiful release from my friend Frederik. Acoustic instruments and a lot of silence. I hope he is going to do many more releases for the label.
Slomomall
Unplugged post rock from this new guitar group. I don’t know if awkwardness is usually a good thing in music but these recordings feels restrained and yeah, slightly awkward in a really charming and beautiful way. i’ve listened to the tape countless times, and it’s still a bit of a mystery to me, maybe also to the musicians themselves. I like music I don’t really get and I think this tape is really goodA: bendy boo, low flo, waves B: kunstige satelitter, d mol, slomomall
Taknemmeligheden om morgenen og længslen om aftenen
Celebrating one year of Afvikling.“Your true colors are beautiful like a rainbow”
My room is an oyster
First cassette from my friend Jeff, hopefully many more to come.Side a is quite tense, side b is really sweetlovely tapeMy Room Is An Oyster
Side A
A series of dissociative solo guitar compositions inspired by overstimulation and political desperation.
Side B
A lil less of lonely conceptuality - the guitar as a blank canvas to be discovered with the people in the room.Feat. Casper Hejlesen and Malina Midera