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Slaapwel Records is a small record label specialized in music to fall asleep to.

Wim Maesschalck aka Wixel, who started the label, often found himself lying awake in bed, not sleepy enough to fall asleep, not lively enough to keep doing stuff. He figured it would be good if there was more music that soundtracks the thin border between being asleep and lying awake, deliberately choosing the sleepy side of things. So he set out, looking for people that would be good at making mind-soothing songs.

He asked them to write a sleep-inducing record, he listened to it, and when he failed to reach the end because he fell asleep, he released it as a musical record. All artists are various people he met through the years, different yet all connected with their unique talent, yet all very good at making "boring" music. This is not an insult.

"I love their music to death and I think they are all very capable of making wonderful sleep-inducing songs. In any case, don't make too much of it. It is all just good fun. Sleepy fun."

And that is still the philosophy of Slaapwel Records today. 

 

Demo Policy

We're really humbled by all the requests for releasing a record.

It's very flattering you think Slaapwel could be a good home, but, in all honesty: if you made an album and you're looking for a label to release it: Slaapwel can't do that for you.

Slaapwel only releases albums specifically made for people to fall asleep to. Much like scientists, we do a test with each submission before releasing it.

If you want to make something special, feel free to send it over. We promise we'll try it out, if it works, we'll get back to you, if it doesn't, we prefer staying quiet because it is no fun to say it didn't work. :-) 


Elsewhere
Wednesday
Jan062010

Peter Broderick release sold out

Wow, that went fast... Our latest release - Music for a Sleeping Sculpture of Peter Broderick - is completely sold out! At the end of this week the last remaining copies will be sent.

If you're too late to buy it, don't worry. You can download it, and all other releases for a few bucks and hibernate throughout the cold snowy winter.

Of course, eager as we are, we've already begun preparations for a new, fresh release. But that's all still very TOP SECRET so you'll just have to wait and see!

All the best,

the Slaapwel Team

 

DateWednesday, January 6, 2010 at 13:48

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Reader Comments (4)

Hello,

I own a copy of "Music For A Sleeping Sculpture..." and I love it to pieces.
I was wondering if the other Slaapwel releases have been pressed on a physical format, I only see "download" options on the bandcamp page.

Thanks,
Bryan

May 7, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterBryan
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