V/A - Escho 15 år: Burgers For My New Life

Escho

£25.18

Format: Colorue 2LP, transparent blue & orange vinyl 2xLP
Catalogue No.: ESC100
Barcode: 5060486621538
Release Date: 14 Jan 2022
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

VINYL COLOUR IS TRANSPARENT BLUE & TRANSPARENT ORANGE. Copenhagen based label Escho release “Escho 15 år: Burgers for my new life” - an extensive compilation of exclusive material for their 15th anniversary (2005-2020). The compilation gathers music by all the currently active artists of Escho - both Danish and international - 27 artists in total. Contributing artists for the compilation are (in alphabetical order): Anders P Jensen, August Rosenbaum, Astrid Sonne, Baby In Vain, BishBusch, The Bleeder Group, Bona Fide, Collider, Dane TS Hawk, Eric Copeland, Excepter, First Hate, Gullo Gullo, Homies, iB101, Iceage, Joanne Robertson, Kh Marie, Liss, Puyain Sanati, Small White Man, Smerz, Søren Kjærgaard, Thulebasen, Varnrable, Yangze and Ydegirl. About Escho and the compilation: The Escho sound was born 15 years ago in small apartments around Enghave Plads, a slightly run-down square at the west end of Vesterbro, Copenhagen, past the kebab shops and the porno shops and the drunks. A few years earlier, as teenagers, several members of the Escho crew had made extremely strange, crisp metal in a very popular band.

Escho was a promoter and booking agent as much as it was a label in the early days. They put on small shows to foster and hype the local scene and they brought important performers from all over the world to Copenhagen for the first time. Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, White Magic, Excepter, Hype Williams, Boredoms, Charles Hayward, they rippled through Copenhagen after they came. Eric Copeland stayed for months. Lorenzo Senni, now well known as a vanguard dance producer, brought his high-school hardcore band to Copenhagen. Escho found and asked these artists to play. And Escho played their humble part in giving sound back to the world.

Iceage, Posh Isolation and the Mayhem scene went global. Escho is a lot about being in Denmark, what that sounds like, and projecting it for anyone to hear. Across its releases, Escho’s aesthetic has allowed for the amateurish and the obsessive, the soft and the hard. Escho is about the power of shared experimental experience. Escho has been going for such a long time that the kids who started it are now twice as old as they were when they came up with the name, the idea, the desire to start something. Much younger people, generations younger, work at the label. The world has transformed since then. Escho was born in a period of time where alternative and underground music existed on a private, separate plane to mass culture, and it now finds itself in a time where mass culture and the underground are porous. Tribalism and niche knowledge has been blended by the internet, erasing the border between mainstream and underground modes. Alternative thinking takes many forms now, and new artists continue to expand and interpret the sound of Escho, carrying with them the same curiosity that lit the first Escho sparks 15 years ago. As a whole, this compilation — it is important to note — is jagged in form and tone. It is not even close to a conventional scene compilation, where the sound of a clan flows together. This record doesn’t flow like that. And this, fittingly, makes this anniversary album a ‘classic’ Escho release, because conventions about form and presentation are thrown out the window and new conventions proposed. It is a reminder that Escho quietly remains an ongoing art project as much as anything else. More than its form and tone, however, this compilation is jagged because it is a document of today. It is not final, or conclusive in any way, because the contours of contemporary music are boundless. It’s jagged because Escho has been to a million shows, and put on a million shows, and still loves going to shows. It is a picture of pluralism, discovery and openness. It makes a case for having ears, and making art, and propagating this so that successive generations of young people do it too. This is exactly as it was in the beginning.

Anders P. Jensen - Gamut (uddrag) 2: iB101 - Real (demo) 3: The Bleeder Group - Here Come The Dead 4: Small White Man - The World To You 5: Eric Copeland - Fool 6: Homies - Live tomorrow edit 7: Bona Fide - Slouching Towards Bethlehem B 8: Smerz - Før og etter 9: Yangze - Keep Me Cold 10: August Rosenbaum - Selfish 11: BishBusch - svn lvn 12: Liss - my lovin’ 13: Søren Kjærgaard - Hiatus 7 14: Baby In Vain - Unlikely 15: Puyain Sanati - The rest is silence C 16: Astrid Sonne - Tiden der gik 17: Joanne Robertson (with strings by Oliver Coates) - Doubt 18: Ydegirl - Yde In Me 19: Søren Kjærgaard - Hiatus 3 20: Varnrable - There are so many things without any meaning 21: Gullo Gullo - Love Boat 22: First Hate - Vampire Boy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [2020 demo] 23: Søren Kjærgaard - Hiatus 8 D 24: Iceage - Lord Knows Best 25: Collider - When will it end 26: Dane TS Hawk - congrats from hawk with some long lasting cockpit cuts 27: Søren Kjærgaard - Hiatus 6 28: Kh Marie - Hvor mange 29: Thulebasen - Detroit 30: Excepter - Abelene