"A Telegram For Rose-Marie" by Blood Music

Dammit I'm Mad is Anton Toorell (Invader Ace) and Christian Augustin (Soldier One).
This is a selection of tunes I've had a long and happy history with, recorded between 2009 and 2012. They are amongst the list of my favorite Swedish bands ever and have been described as if a Deerhoof side project did a bunch of Lightning Bolt covers. 

Artwork by Peter Larsson. White body printing on red coral cassettes. 
Edition of 133. Split release with Chicagojazzen called "Golden Oldies" 
Teaser video by Kevin Luna 
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"Brylkräm" by Dammit I'm Mad from "Golden Oldies" on Oma333

Chicagojazzen is multi-instrumentalist Erik Karlsson. He makes music in his parents basement in Skellefteå which is a small northern Swedish town.
This collection of tracks were made in 2010/11 and planned for an EP that never saw the light of day. 
They are typically hard to pin down or describe. Equal parts inspired by afrobeat or free jazz as he is by metal, kraut or no wave, his music somehow sounds often like all of that and none at the same time. 

This is a split tape release called Golden Oldies and Stockholm duo of Dammit I'm Mad grace the other side.
Artwork by Peter Larsson. White body printing on red coral cassettes. 
Edition of 133.
Teaser video by Kevin Luna 
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"Jag Trivs Sämst I Öppna Landskap" by Chicagojazzen from "Golden Oldies" on Oma333

Jason Urick is Portland based and he has released his last 3 albums on Thrill Jockey.
Oma333 is honored to play host to his latest release "The Day" recorded just after his last album "I Love You" came out in 2012. 
It's a stunning collection of dark electronics.  
Artwork by Peter Larsson. Black body printing on military grey cassettes. 
Edition of 133. Teaser videos by Kevin Luna 
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Released on the same day; "Golden Oldies" a split tape by Chicagojazzen 
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"Whoever You Are" by Jason Urick from "The Day" on Oma333

A split tape with Medicine Bow 
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Violet Sand by Morbida on Oma333

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Medicine Bow by Kali Malone on Oma333

Kraus "Golden Treasury" Oma333 Nr.22

A medieval stomp comes through your left speaker, a drunk robot soundtrack wanders out of your right. A laser pulse rips out of a homemade synth, a fuzzy guitar line dances the off beat. Kraus sounds like the best circus ever!

I was blessed to come across his music via his Supreme Commander tape found at Audio Foundation in Auckland (thanks for the tip Chris!). It was a great comfort for my long trip home. The awesome KRAAK crew brought him over last year for their festival and I warmly welcomed him over to play at Fylkingen with Marijn on drums (Sweat Tongue). Superb gig! 

Anyways Ultra Eczema recently put out his decade old album "I Could Destroy You with a Single Thought" on vinyl and all 200 sold mightly swiftly. This got me thinking about what else was lurking in his closet and here we are! Golden Treasury is full of gems including my old favourite "Dog on the Loose". Grab one of these beauties while you can!  
150 grey tapes with black body printing will be available hopefully from Dec 12th. Designed by Peter Larsson with a Kraus supplied image. Risograph print by Jan Matthé

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"Dog On The Loose" by Kraus for Oma333

Myttys "Sloggilukio" Oma333 No.024 

Seeing Myttys perform at H2Ö festival in Turku last summer was a jaw dropping experience. Certainly my favourite set amongst a damn fine line up and I demanded to release something of theirs before they'd even packed away their stuff.

I'd known Heta for years via Olimpia Splendid/Toblerones and Samuli from when he came to play with Clouds. The idea of them as a duo had gold stars written all over it but the results are far beyond my already high expectations. This is one of the best tapes I'll ever put out.

Delving in to the music and attempting to describe what I hear was quite a daunting task and my notes got kinda fun in the process. 
For example Lenak and Street Person made me think of Drunken Fist Kung Fu. Heta's effortlessly cool vocals (and the occasionally perfectly placed scream) echoed by either an imaginary twin sister or the weirdo boy next door. 
Ekkä Ota comes across like an off kilter hip hop soundtrack for a Sci-Fi film. 
Kallupää, Pamsypak and some of the interlude tracks sound, to my ears, beautifully close to the Broadcast and The Focus Group experiments of the "Witch Cults of the Radio Age" album and I hear traces of early Múm stuff in Paksotal. 
Another favourite Foliojakku holds its own unique beauty, quite different from the other tracks. Its machine music with heart and grace which builds and builds until waves of submarine echo's and rapid morse code sequences wash over you. 
Oh and the title track Sloggilukio is the bees knees! 

Certain parts of some of these tunes veer into territory only Finns seem to get away with. I find this hard to explain but there is a certain kind of relaxedness I often hear amongst my favourite Finnish bands which oozes either tons of self confidence or a massive indifference to not fitting into any kind of musical category. Or both. This unpindownable quality is what makes me instinctively trust most of the music which comes my way from there, in whatever form, yet I'm also aware of how blessed I am to have got to know the Fonal/Avarus etc crew so early on. 
The experiments they all create help make that country shine to me and I'm dead proud to finally be able to play a small part in that great history

133 jelly green tapes with white body printing will be made available from Feb 27th. Cover beautifully designed by the band themselves and risograph printed by Jan Matthé at Het Bos in Antwerp. 

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"Lenak" by Myttys from "Sloggilukio" on Oma333

Ela Orleans "Circles of Upper Hell" Oma333 No.23

Ela Orleans' music has always held a special place for me and now I find my lucky self with Circles of Upper Hell in my very own hands and I must somehow put this into some kind of words for you all to understand. 

It begins with the film score of an astronaut on second earth breathing for the first time, to my ears, before the twin high and low interplay of The Pastels's voices breezing in to dance together. We only hear Ela's distinctive voice half way through and it almost feels like she was holding court up until that point, and throwing down all this beauty from a cloud somewhere, before revealing herself. 

Sensation is a serious highlight for me, Ghost and Whispers a solid gold hit, the Thorn Tree interlude that follows it is painfully perfect (in a dark Disney kind of way) oh and Dionysus honestly knocked me sideways with its genius.
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Over repeated listens hidden gems keep revealing themselves from the shadows, a wonky piano line echoes in, hushed tones overlap, a deep wooden bass line throbs underneath, bells ring out from off centre, a driving beat pulses through, subtle sounds of the sea or warm digital fuzzes, low down in the mix. So many beautiful layers yet it never sounds complicated or crowded.

Forcing myself to consider musical reference points, influences such as Broadcast, Coil and Charles Ives, Egisto Macchi and his "I Futuribili" can be heard at points.  

As things draw to a close its almost hard to deal with where she's taken us over these 72 or so minutes. I can't help but picture her floating back up skywards, dropping ethereal words as she goes, with a knowing grin and a happy satisfied sigh. 

Inspired and titled after Dante's 'Inferno' this album is a masterpiece, more accomplished then anything I've heard from her before.

250 white tapes with black body printing will be available from Feb 27th. Cover beautifully designed by Ela herself and risograph printed by Jan Matthé at Het Bos in Antwerp. 

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"Ghosts And Whispers" by Ela Orleans from "Circles of Upper Hell" on Oma333

Oma333 No.30 Trouble Vs Glue "This Age"


Italy's Trouble Vs Glue have long been one of the most devastating live acts on the circuit but they only came my way somewhere around 2012 thanks to Oskar Carls who had seen them play a gig at Germany which blew his mind. The quickest of glances at a live clip and I was right there with him. I booked them to come to play Hemliga Trädgården (The Secret Garden, infamous former DIY venue in Stockholm) and they ripped it apart! That lucky crowd became a jumble of ecstatic limbs and I was in love. They've since been back twice and were awesome every time.

This killer duo makes fuzzy punky pop, which is often infectiously danceable with drums, guitars, synths, microphones and a bunch of other machines tamed into slavery. No pre-recorded stuff with these two and they somehow manage to sound like a mini no wave orchestra by playing a pile of instruments in a seemingly impossible frenzy. 

The two glorious freaks behind this racket are Lady Maru of Dada Swing, Cascao & Lady Maru, Le Truc Und Die Maschine and Toni Cutrone of Hiroshima Rocks Around, Mai Mai Mai and also the guy behind the legendary NO=FI Recordings label as well as being the heart of Rome's booking scene mostly through the great Dal Verme venue.

I've always been fond of the way the mighty music blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats described them; "Trouble Vs. Glue have the shake, rattle and stomp, the boy-girl shout and response, the Pynchonian collision between rockets and bongos, the synthesiser workouts arrived from an alternative universe where Bell Labs decided to invest in disinformation theory, found a way of communicating more information than existed in the original message, violated the First Law of Thermodynamics and made Faster Than Light travel possible, if not smooth..." oh yeah!

Its been thrilling to hear them evolve from album to album and I was very happy to be asked to be in charge of the cassette release of their newest masterpiece "This Age".
Musical references? DNA, The Residents, Devo, Gary Numan, Deerhoof, Mutant Disco stuff I guess but be aware that a lot of what they play doesn't fit anywhere!

100 yellow and black "bee" tapes are available from September 26th, with black body printing, and all of it was designed by the legendary mister Peter Larsson. ORDER YOUR COPY HERE http://oma333.com/product/no30-trouble-vs-glue-this-age

"Backwards" by Trouble Vs Glue from "This Age" Oma333 No.30

Incidental Music for Invasion (i m i)
Oma333 No.31

Every now and then in my life I come across someone who's creative output I instinctively trust, to the point in which I can be pretty sure of being a fan of any music or art they feel like creating. Lotti Sollevi is one of those people and I've been crazy happy and proud to have never felt misguided with this presumption. 
From the vocal and rhythm cold-wave experiments she shared with Nini Maakestad as 29:90, to her and Julian Murray's genius Dadaist post-punk avant-pop project; Tv Dinner Education, she has been an inspiring force on the scene for everyone. 
Therefore a great deal of excitement has been built up over when we would finally get to hear recordings of her solo work under the name of Incidental Music for Invasion or i m i.

The lucky few of us have had the pleasure of enjoying glimpses of this music, via the few solo shows she's had as i m i , but they haven't happened for a while now and it seems she had turned her attentions towards getting some recordings down.

In early spring I received two 19 minute ish sides of i m i "collages/mixes of pieces and tracks" and they utterly floored me. "WOW THIS IS AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL MUSIC LOTTI!" was my first response sent as a text, which I followed swiftly with "It's perfect. Everything I've ever wanted music to sound like. A whole world of wonderful all wrapped up together! Shit! My jaw keeps gaping open in happy surprise" haha! 
Sounds dramatic I know but I meant every word and I think you'll hear why.

So how to describe it? This music doesn't automatically call up an obvious list of comparisons so thats a very difficult task. It makes me think of the best music genre there is; "future music from the past" and by that I mean the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra work of Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire etc and also the lineage they helped create via bands like Broadcast, and especially the album they did with The Focus Group. I also feel an influence, if only with inspiration and similar working methods of Finnish musicians like Islaja, Jan Anderzen and the Fonal Records crew, and of the vital production work of the The Flying Lizards genius, David Cunningham in his solo album Grey Scale and his work with the debut of This Heat. Belgian electronic minimal wave is also worth mentioning here, especially Bene Gesserit, as well as influences from the Japanese music and arts scene.

Oh and I just realised that this tape means that she'll be the first person to have a trio of releases on Oma333. As well as the Tvde 10" record she also made an amazing mix tape under the name of DJ Thi-Lot called "*blip* soundtrack [on]" way back. Seems so suitable that she's been released thrice!

100 black and white "piano" tapes are available from today, with black body printing designed by i m i, as well as all the cover art design. This tape will also be the first to include a unique download code slipped in with the tapes.

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"It's not a joke I'm lyin" by i m i from her self titled debut on Oma333

3 mix tapes and 3 albums streaming for 5 days to celebrate 5 years of Oma333! Third up for the albums is another fond fav; Incidental Music for Invasion (i m i) "s/t" Oma333 No.31 released on Sept 26th 2016. This will be up This will be up a little longer from until the 7th.. More info on it here; http://oma333.com/product/no31-incidental-music-for-invasion-i-m-i-st ENJOY!

Incidental Music for Invasion (i m i) "s/t" Side A Oma333 - No31

Cheap Imitation - "No More Weekend" Oma333 No.36

Fun story ahead! Anders Olofson was someone who I only vaguely knew as being into the good stuff but we'd met just a few brief times over the years at shows etc. I borrowed his flat in Göteborg this spring when I went to DJ for Koloni's 14th birthday party and messaged him about his wifi or something and realised he'd sent me tracks from his duo Cheap Imitation, together with Ann-Charlotte Rugfelt Ferm, that I had promised to check out ages ago :/ So there I am, on his very bed, beneath his Shimizu tote bag hanging from the wall and surrounded by so many great tapes and finally listening in to this wonderful music! It didn't take me long to agree to put this beauty out and thankfully I still could. Perhaps you'll also hear the ascending diamonds I heard or the lovely throbbing dubby echoes panning from left to right? maybe even get the same thrill I got from the way the ghostly, subtle drum machine beats sneak underneath the vocals or also see the homes for robots being built and then destroyed as if the workers got all the measurements wrong? Either way you'll hear the quality, for sure! Threads to be heard include, to my ears; Throbbing Gristle, Germain Hubert Ales, The Flying Lizards (!), U.S Girls early stuff, Inca Ore and it was nice to hear that Myttys also served as an inspiration, one of the greatest albums I ever put out! 100 clear prison tapes are now available with silver body printing and designed by the legendary artist Mogu Takahashi (JAP) who was nice enough to allow us to use her wonderful artwork! Here is a sneak peek inside with “I Just Want More”...
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"I Just Want More" by Cheap Imitation for Oma333

Kral "Ascending Ascensions" Side A of Oma333 No.37

Karl Sjölund and I go way back and he's amongst a small band of people who I just trust in whatever they do. Back in the days Mother booked Silverarken, Unheimliches Manoeuvre, Fas 3, Cold Heart Investment AB, Cosmic Letters and likely some others he was involved in. Actually seeing that list written down makes this feel even more fitting that his first Kral release will be under the Oma333 umbrella. Included within are bits and pieces over the last few years which have a lovely flow to them, conjuring up images of a blue submarine resurfacing in the jungle, a lonely Japanese billionaire in his mansion filled with electronic toys making sounds for his cats or music concrete on a building site as theatre. One track sounded to me like a laser game of death and I swear I heard a Blade Runner spinner taking off somewhere. If I'm forced to make a comparison I'll include Peter Westheimer, Patrick Cowley's weirder stuff and sometimes Ryuichi Sakamoto. 100 clear prison tapes are now available with silver body printing and designed by a new star of the Stockholm art scene Mary Furniss (UK). Here is a sneak peek inside with the appropriately named "Mary's Welcoming Party" and a video he made for Värmedöd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4RWcvTEuw&t=43s
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"Mary's Welcoming Party" by Kral for Oma333

Max Park "Collages II" Side B of Oma333 No.37

Max Park and I also have a long history together and I recall his old tape label På Månen, run together with Filip Mesko, as being both a happy surprise and inspiration in my early Stockholm years. Laboratorium Svart was one constellation who performed at a Mother event and Famnen were another gem he was a member of in that fruitful era. Max's presence was certainly missed when he disappeared to Malmö for years but his return was marked by a series of solo concerts which just got better and better, making it increasingly impossible to ignore. This tape, also his solo debut, is full of the glorious crackle and fuzz of dust, with broken pianos dissected and forcing the listener to wonder if he dragged the strings out it and played them as they burned? I found myself immersed in an M.C Esher drawing often with drowned Joe Meek samples coming through as if peeks of dawn through windows. I know you'll need some similar artists to rest your pretty heads on so I hear Broadcast in the Witch Cult times, ZNR - Barricade 3 vibes can be found for sure and even the high honours of Delia Derbyshire, a compliment I wouldn't give lightly. 100 clear prison tapes are now available with silver body printing and designed by a new star of the Stockholm art scene Mary Furniss (UK). Here is a sneak peek excerpt for your lucky ears. Grab yourself a copy here; http://oma333.com/product/no37-kralmax-park-ascending-ascensionscollages-ii

"Collages II [excerpt]" by Max Park for Oma333

Man Rei "An Awkward Guest" Oma333 No.38

Kristin Reiman sent me an email two months ago asking if Oma333 was still active and if I could give her some feedback on her music saying it was "worth a shot". An hour and a half later I mailed her back to say that she makes beautiful music and that I'd be very happy to put out whatever she wants to. At that stage I was only planning on releasing just the two tapes to mark the five years but I'm proud and humbled to say that she was inspired to create 10 new tracks for this tape in a super short period of time, with only Trikdyti being slightly older. 
She is Estonian but Frankfurt based and I hear shades of Ela Orleans or Death and Vanilla in her music, despite it all being very much of her own. 
Hummed melodies either encourage in or chase away other synth lines, often overlapping in a way that feels very natural. Sections pulse with insomnia but the type thats somehow welcomed, like the soundtrack to a very late night which provides some creative use. Sometimes it’s nice to get lost in a maze and hey maybe the whispering walls are there to comfort instead of unnerve? Your call. 
100 clear prison tapes are now available with silver body printing and designed by the genius which is none other than Leif Ellgren (SE/KREV). I saw a recent poster he made and thought it was worth a shot myself :) So glad he agreed and shared some of his magic with us! Here is a sneak peek inside with Smalltalker and you can order your copy here; http://oma333.com/product/no038-man-rei-an-awkward-guest

"Smalltalker" by Man Rei for Oma333

Nr.001; Gabo and the Wartels "In A Very Small Boat" 100 copies. Release day Nov 29th 2013.
Nr.002; R Stevie Moore "In The History Of Ever" 333 copies. Release day Nov 29th 2013.
No.003; Blood Music "Bits And Pieces for Aunts 'n Nieces" 100 copies. Release day Nov 29th 2013.
Nr.004; Ufofbi "Dreamtrash Dreamtrash" a co release with Hockey Rawk. 120 copies. Release date Jan 1st 2014
Nr.005; DJ Bongo Man "Legon Flutes" mixtape. 100 copies. Release day June 9th 2013.
Nr.006 DJ Thi-Lot *blip* soundtrack [on]" mixtape. 50 copies. Release day June 9th 2013
Nr.007; DJ Singasongfighter "Two Minutes (is all your need... sometimes)" 50 copies. Release day June 9th 2013
Nr.008; Jason Urick "The Day" 133 copies. Release day Sept 20th 2014.
Nr.009; Chicagojazzen/Dammit I'm Mad "Golden Oldies" split tape 133 copies, Release day Sept 20th 2014. 
Nr.010; Morbida/Medicine Bow split tape 133 copies. Release day Oct 30th. 
Nr.011; 1914-1918 Anja Enerud mixtape. 50 copies. Release day Oct 30th 2014
Nr.012; Coco/Pura Marlena Lampinen mixtape. 50 copies. Release day Oct 30th 2014
Nr.013; Oho My Eyes Gavtape Vol.1 50 copies. Release date May 6th 2015. 
Nr.014; Where's Waldo? Galaxy My Dear mixtape. 50 copies. Release date May 6th 2015. 
Nr.015 Tv Dinner Education S/T 333 copies 10" vinyl. Release date May 28th 2015. 
Nr.016 with Canary Records; The Lighthouse, the Rooster, the Tears: mid-20th century Brazilian folk recordings. 100 copies, release date June 10th 2015. 
Nr.017 with Canary Records; Funeral Dance in the Mountains: Rural Percussion (& Vocal) Ethnographic Recordings from Southeast Asia. 100 copies, release date June 10th 2015. 
Nr.018 Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s. 100 copies release date June 10th 2015. 
Nr.019 Day for Night / Night for Day - A mixtape by Ela Orleans. 100 copies release date Sept 18th 2015. 
Nr.020 The Orgy of Caring - A mixtape by Janus Mono (Jan Anderzen). 100 copies release date Sept 18th 2015. 
Nr.021 Optic Nest "Wheat, Heat and Eat" 100 copies release date Dec 18th 2015. 
Nr.022 Kraus "Golden Treasury" 100 copies release date Dec 18th 2015. 
Nr.023 Ela Orleans "Circles of Upper Hell". 250 white tapes with black body printing, released Feb 27th 2016.
Nr.024 Myttys "Sloggilukio" 133 jelly green tapes with white body printing will be available from Feb 27th 2016. 
Nr.025 "No One Cares" International 78rpm discs, ca. 1912-55. 120 burnt orange tapes, release date Mar 31st 2016. 
Nr.026 "When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time" African-American Gospel from 1939-51. 120 blue/yellow tapes, release date Mar 31st 2016.
Nr.027 "Love is a One-Way Traffic" Groovy East Asian Chicks of the 1960s-70s
120 pink tapes, release date Mar 31st 2016. 
Nr.028 Miaux Pop mix "Svedski Sto" 100 fluorescent orange and black tapes, release date June 22nd 2016.  
Nr.029 Tsembla mixtape "Jester's Journey" 100 hi viz pink tapes, release date June 22nd 2016. 
Nr.030 Trouble Vs Glue "This Age" 100 yellow and black "bee" released Sept 26th 2016 
No.31 Incidental Music for Invasion (i m i) "s/t" 100 black and white "piano" tapes released Sept 26th 2016 
No.032 "Mixi Tapetaan?" a mixtape by Jaakko Eino Kalevi 100 mushroom grey tapes Released October 12th.
No,33 "Amos and Sara Sing The Private World of Amos" by Amos and Sara. Reissue together with Singasongfighter. 500 copies released April 21st 2017.
No.034 "The Human Sound" a mixtape by Julian Murray. 50 metallic green tapes released on October 12th 2017
No.035 "Collecting Net" a mixtape by Marlena Lampinen 50 clear green tapes released October 12th 2017
No.036 Cheap Imitation "No More Weekend" 100 clear prison tapes. Released Nov 29th 2018
No.037 Kral "Ascending Ascensions" Side A / Max Park "Collages II" Side B. 100 clear prison tapes. Released Nov 29th 2018
No.038 Man Rei "An Awkward Guest" 100 clear prison tapes. Released Nov 29th 2018

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