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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
Friday
Feb052021

Slaapwel xvi, The Night Hag by Kreng + Svarte Greiner: sleep music, but not as you know it

What if two exceptional artists team up for a unique collaboration to give you their own, personal interpretation of sleep music?

Slaapwel is very honoured to present you The Night Hag, a 33 minute piece composed and performed by Kreng and Svarte Greiner.

Pepijn Caudron aka Kreng is a composer for movies, video games, dance and theater productions. He has been the in-house composer of the Belgian surrealist horror-theater company Abattoir Fermé for more than 10 years.

Svarte Greiner is the solo guise of Berlin based Norwegian Erik K Skodvin. Working mostly with darkly painted soundscapes through bowed guitar, effect-pedals and a varied sound making tools, his music and live performance can be seen as something of a time stopping cinematic experience. He also runs his own label, Miasmah.

Be warned: The Night Hag is an album about sleeping and of course you can use it to fall asleep with. Yet Kreng and Svarte Greiner are not your typical lullaby makers or Slaapwel artists.

Inspired by the phenomenon of sleep paralysis the duo created a fascinating and, eh... paralyzing piece using sustained piano (Kreng) and miasmachine (Svarte Greiner).

But don’t be afraid. Just lie down, take a look at Chris Hefner’s beautiful artwork and close your eyes. It’s sleeping music, but not as you know it.

Get your copy here

Stay safe, take care and let us know what you think of the album!
And, as always, thank you for your support.

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Slaapwel xvi

The Night Hag

Kreng: sustained piano
Svarte Greiner: miasmachine

Artwork: Christopher Michael Hefner

Liner notes: Guy Peters
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Design: ORDNER

DateFriday, February 5, 2021 at 16:02
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