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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. :-) 


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Monday
Oct122015

We're back!

 

 

Dear sleepy friends!

Wim, founding father of Slaapwel Records and long time friend, asked me last year if I wanted to take care of the label. Since I loved the label from the beginning, I accepted with no hesitation and started my search for sleepy tunes. 

I found out Heine Christensen aka Ghost and Tape was very interested in making a Slaapwel-album. Heine and I got in touch, and so it began! 

I received his pieces, checked them out the same evening, and yes, it worked! (I had to try several evenings before I finally made it to the end...)  

Slaapwel alumnus and friend Ralph Steinbrüchel (ORDNER) took care of the graphic design, and photographer Brian Young provided beautiful pictures. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It took some time, but here we are: very proud to present you Slaapwel xii: 'Shift', by Ghost and Tape. A wonderful album with warm and soothing music, performed on electric guitar, effect pedals, Op-1, field recorder and found objects.

A wonderful album with warm and soothing music, a perfect Slaapwel soundtrack, not only for reawakening of the label, but also a soundtrack that will guide you from awake to sleep. 

You can stream and/or buy the album here.

I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I do. 

Sleep well!

//stijn, slaapwel records



DateMonday, October 12, 2015 at 22:10
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