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KLN 016EP
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In May 2020, Cocoon Recordings released the third album of Harald Björk. With the club scene on Covid-hold, tours canceled, and DJs locked up at home, it was not the optimal conditions to release an album on a number 1 worldwide club empire as Cocoon. However, Kranglan Broadcast have decided not to let a virus kill the beloved culture, as Mr. Sven Väth put it "I would like to share with you the album of Harald Björk... which has soothed me and I hope will also give you a soundtrack for these uneasy days." It felt right to release it. The release was shrinked from a thought of vinyl box to a digital release with future plans on vinyl. However, Covid decided to stay and time went. The queue at the vinyl factories didn't make the process easier... But at one point the dream factory of Kranglan Broadcast decided, enough! The world has to keep on dreaming. And what is a better way to embrace dreams then to release a vinyl full of dreamers, groundbreaking in their corners of the electronic umbrella. Dreamers doing their thing not even looking at the norm or what's the recent hype. Features remixes by Molø, Ada, Throwing Snow, and Skudge.
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"Since first hearing Harald's Sabor Latino in 2016, I've been a huge fan of his freeform psychedelic take on electronica. Roughly a year ago he sent me a shedload of music giving me free reins to pick and rework everything as I pleased. The result is this 'album' consisting of four handpicked tracks on vinyl and a full album download with ten more tracks (14 in total) covering more or less all bases from ambient Buchla experiments to banging techno." --Prins Thomas, October 2020
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KLN 009EP
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Kris & Konflikthantering III/III is the final ending of the Kris & Konflikthantering series with two, 14-minute plus tracks. One dedicated to the ancient rave grounds of Hellasgarden where it all began in terms of dancing in dirty fields lit by sonar sweeps from the broadcast masts and strobes visible all the way to the city. On the B side is the very live version of "Sabor Latino", birds from the garden, hypnotic basses from the MC-202 and shimmering arps from the sun, a sunrise anthem in its own. Edition of 300. Comes with printed sleeve.
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KLN 008EP
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Harald Björk presents tracks from his live repertoire, while Ada, the queen of Pampa, Areal, and Kompakt, delivers a remix of "Sabor Latino" from Björk's Studio Barnhus debut, the 2015 Fritids EP (BARN 036EP). This is the second of the three-part Kris & Konflikthantering release; Björk put this work together while taking a course called "Kris & Konflikthantering," which translates to "crisis and conflict management." He created Kris & Konflikthantering in semi-unconscious conditions and recorded it on the Studer B67 master tape recorder, the heart of the Kranglan Broadcast studio.
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KLN 007EP
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Vinyl only. Limited edition of 300. Printed sleeve with artwork by Malin Gabriella Nordin. Harald Björk put together this work while taking a course called "Kris & Konflikthantering," which translates to "crisis and conflict management." Björk created Kris & Konflikthantering in semi-unconscious conditions -- all recorded on the Studer B67 master tape recorder, the heart of the Kranglan Broadcast studio. This first EP of the three-part release contains three tracks with traces from Björk's 2015 Fritids EP on Studio Barnhus (BARN 036EP), as well as a remix by Petter Nordkvist under yet another moniker.
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BARN 036EP
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Studio Barnhus has been meaning to release some music by its friend Harald Björk ever since its inception in 2010. The Swedish DJ and producer brings his top game to the label with the Fritids EP; starry-eyed pop melodies, dusty machine riddims, and the maestro's sweet, trembling voice, all synched up (sort of) to tell stories of imperfect love, blossoming Nacka gardens, and bicycle rides on wet gravel. Also on this record: Suzanne Kraft jammin' harmonic on the remix and Malin Gabriella Nordin straight-up slaying it with the artwork. Released alongside Harald Björk's vinyl-only Strings of Harald 7" (BARN 037EP).
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BARN 037EP
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Studio Barnhus has been meaning to release some music by its friend Harald Björk ever since its inception in 2010. Here, solemn chord improvisations recorded in the secret gardens of Nacka, Sweden, pair up with a shameless yet humble cover of a techno evergreen on this perfect little vinyl-only release, beautifully designed by Malin Gabriella Nordin. Released alongside Harald Björk's Fritids 12" (BARN 036EP).
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KLN 003EP
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If you like the sound of "cheap" analog synthesizers from the mid-'80s, drum machines and strangely-pitched human voices, this might be the record for you. A small warning about the quite melodic and poppy arrangement -- it is not minimal, nor pure drones. Sorry. This EP has nothing to do with the Skoda Estelle car, even though some instruments used on the songs were produced during the same years. The Estelle EP is more or less a result of the new Kranglan.
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Harald Björk grew up in a Stockholm suburb surrounded by musicians and nature. His interest in recording sounds started when he, as a child, stumbled upon his father's old tape recorder, a machine that quickly became his favorite toy. Lots of mixtapes and a Nirvana-influenced punk band soon followed. As a teenager, Harald bought his first decks and started DJing hip-hop. Soon, he got in touch with the early Swedish techno scene. A creative year in Berlin resulted in releases on Deep Focus, Traum Schallplatten and Apparillo Music. After moving back to Stockholm, Harald started working on various music projects as well as touring live. At the end of 2009, his own record label KrangIan Broadcast was born, releasing the mesmerizing Kranglan EP as its first output. In 2010, Harald played at some of the biggest festivals and clubs in Sweden. The time has come for Bigfield, his debut album for Kranglan Broadcast. Harald Björk's music is a naive and emotional, melodic type of techno with a melancholy Scandinavian touch. His music can be described as a mixture between the playfulness of Aphex Twin and the poppy electronica of early Röyksopp spiced with techno beats à la Berlin and Cologne. Harald's tracks are often appreciated by followers of labels like Border Community, Kompakt and Cocoon. His records are played by DJs like James Holden, Sven Väth, Miss Kittin and Four Tet, amongst others. In his live performances, Harald uses a computer brimful of chopped-up, raw emotion and an army of machines and controllers used to build up atmospheres of innocent love and sweet frustration. Bittersweet melodic adventures escalate into explosive breakdowns, winding up into motorik beats. Listening through Bigfield, it's clear why many people consider Harald one of the finest producers of electronic music today. Every single sound is pure perfection, the colors are vivid, the arrangements to the point yet never less than enigmatic. What's more important is that he's got soul, oceans of it. Harald is a true romantic artist, constantly returning to the same themes of nostalgia, understated euphoria and sunshine over snowy landscapes. Bigfield is one of those rare albums that will make listeners dance, weep and smile in equal parts.
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KLN 001EP
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The Kranglan EP by Harald Björk is the first record to be released on Kranglan Broadcast. The record holds three productions of pure naïve emotions that together summarize memories of childhood surroundings and its environmental changes. The record is manufactured in a production of 500 and comes with a full-color LP-sleeve. The artwork is made by the German illustrator Kheira Linder. The artwork is based on an idea by Harald Björk and pictures of the Nacka nature reserve taken by photographer Jesper Tengwall.
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KLN 002EP
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Bigfield Remixed is the follow-up to Harald Björk's debut album Bigfield, which was released on Kranglan Broadcast in 2010. On this limited 300 copies 12", three original songs are reworked by Axel Boman, Fairmont and Kate Wax. As a bonus, there are two original album tracks on the B-side, "Din," and the 10-minute exploding title track.
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