Longstocking Records

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Langstrumpf Records is a German independent label that was founded in Bielefeld in 1992 . Mainly German bands of different styles are published.

history

T-shirts: My friend is from the Sauerland

Longstocking Records was initially a typical student company that was founded in 1992 by the musician Michael Klaucke and the journalist Peter Lohmann in the cafeteria of Bielefeld University . Together with the entrepreneur Andreas Böddicker, they realized their first release just a few months later: the second album by Michael's band Sturmschäden .

The label became known nationwide with the album Klaus is dead by the Swoons . The British radio DJ John Peel played several songs on the soldier broadcaster BFBS and read a letter from the label founders almost completely. There it says among other things:

"Everybody was searching for the new Nirvana , we just found the Swoons."

"Everyone was looking for the new nirvana, we just found the Swoons."

The campaign Mein Freund ist Sauerländer made the label known beyond the music scene in 1994. A T-shirt that was originally intended as a publicity stunt for a compilation of the same name quickly became independent and was soon circulated in numerous copies. In 2006 the campaign was reissued.

philosophy

A uniform musical direction can not be recognized in the publications of Langstrumpf Records. It is exclusively about guitar music of different styles and almost exclusively about young German bands. The only exception: the French avant-garde band Forguette Mi Note , whose album Cruciforme Langstrumpf Records released in Germany in 1994. The label was named after the fictional character Pippi Longstocking .

Trivia

  • British radio DJ John Peel wears the shirt Mein Freund ist Sauerländer on the cover of a biography published shortly after his death
  • The longstocking band Great Tuna was the opening act for the British band Oasis on their first tour of Germany in November 1994

Discography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Longstocking Records  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tracklist BFBS, January 31, 1993 (accessed March 27, 2012)
  2. Mick Wall. John Peel. London 2005, paperback edition.
  3. Die Alm calls FC45.de (accessed on February 17, 2012)

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 10.6 ″  E