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scene, centred around the festival Fjellparkfestivalen and the local rock club. "There was no vision and no plan, it was just one of many things I started when I was in my teens. I ran a club, a festival, a cinema club, a management and a record label. I guess the record label was what stuck" says
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to release "jazz with a punk attitude". The sub-label was cancelled in 2012, but reactivated in 2019 as the label series Actions for Free Jazz (AFJ-Series). In 2020, Smalltown Supersound also founded the label series Le Jazz Non (LJN-Series).
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bands, with the name being a combination of "smalltown" (referring to Flekkefjord) and "supersound", inspired by the fictional radio station K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70s in
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Over the ensuing years, the label's profile also grew increasingly international, releasing albums by artists such as
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Smalltown Supersound celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018 with its own stage at the large Norwegian
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festival, the first label to do so. The anniversary was commemorated by the compilation album
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Joakim about the origins of the label. Haugland founded the label to put out music by local
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In the mid-90s, Haugland relocated to the Norwegian capital Oslo and began working at
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Smalltown Supersound was founded in 1993 by Joakim Haugland in the small town of
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in 2002. The latter was named the best jazz album of 2002 by
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Secretly Distribution
electronic
experimental
jazz
indie
rock
Oslo
Flekkefjord
www.smalltownsupersound.com
independent record label
Flekkefjord
Oslo
Norway
jazz
rock
electronic music
Kelly Lee Owens
Deathprod
Neneh Cherry
Annie
Jaga Jazzist
120 Days
Mental Overdrive
Bjørn Torske
Mats Gustafsson
Sonic Youth
Flekkefjord
Norway
DIY

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