About
Swedish independent record label formed in December 2001 by together with in Gothenburg.
Service released records with, among others, Studio, The Embassy, Franke, Erik de Vahl, Jens Lekman, The Tough Alliance and Ikons. The record label has often been called Sweden's most important and has, despite its underground character, been a trendsetter for new Swedish music during the 2000s.
In January 2013, the label announced that it had shut down with a somewhat cryptic statement: "Service lived forever". There is no "cause" for this. Except, possibly, the effect: desire already spreading along new lines, multiplying endlessly
Service was a free zone, pop lab, gang turf and permanent vacation. Never an object, always a territory (the uncertainty principle). That's the main lesson I've been trying to teach. In that sense I gave to you my life, my ambition, my hope. And some haine of course.
And, as promised, Service is deterritorialising. Both are carbon, remember, the diamond can turn into a pencil. It's traces will always be there. And I hope they will live on as ever new paths, merging with their users, the nomads. That the music become weapons in the hands of new partisans."
Although considered shut down, Service website listed a new product in October 2018, a Pop Against Itself T-shirt, announcing Pop Against Itself as a new label.
Service released records with, among others, Studio, The Embassy, Franke, Erik de Vahl, Jens Lekman, The Tough Alliance and Ikons. The record label has often been called Sweden's most important and has, despite its underground character, been a trendsetter for new Swedish music during the 2000s.
In January 2013, the label announced that it had shut down with a somewhat cryptic statement: "Service lived forever". There is no "cause" for this. Except, possibly, the effect: desire already spreading along new lines, multiplying endlessly
Service was a free zone, pop lab, gang turf and permanent vacation. Never an object, always a territory (the uncertainty principle). That's the main lesson I've been trying to teach. In that sense I gave to you my life, my ambition, my hope. And some haine of course.
And, as promised, Service is deterritorialising. Both are carbon, remember, the diamond can turn into a pencil. It's traces will always be there. And I hope they will live on as ever new paths, merging with their users, the nomads. That the music become weapons in the hands of new partisans."
Although considered shut down, Service website listed a new product in October 2018, a Pop Against Itself T-shirt, announcing Pop Against Itself as a new label.
Sub-labels
Catalog
103 releasesThe New School
The Tough Alliance · 2005
Oh You're So Silent Jens
Jens Lekman · 2005
The Pointer
The Embassy · 2002
SC100
Various · 2007
Ställs Mot Dig
Franke · 2003
Sipping On The Sweet Nectar - The Epic Remixes By Ultracity & Bogdan Irkük a.k.a. Bulgari
Jens Lekman · 2008
Risky Dazzle (A Service Party Shuffle)
Various · 2005
Tacking
The Embassy · 2007
Loved-Up
Korallreven · 2009
Diskoism
Frisvold & Lindbæk · 2010
Dreams
The Whitest Boy Alive · 2006
Sipping On The Sweet Nectar - The Epic Remixes By Ultracity & Bogdan Irkük a.k.a. Bulgari
Jens Lekman
Sipping On The Sweet Nectar - The Epic Remixes By Ultracity & Bogdan Irkük a.k.a. Bulgari
Jens Lekman · 2008
The New School
The Tough Alliance · 2015
Erica America
Jens Lekman · 2012
Between Dreams
Lake Heartbeat · 2009
Blue Planet
Lake Heartbeat · 2009
Service Decennium. A Service Label Compilation
Various · 2012
You Are The Light
Jens Lekman · 2004
Maple Leaves
Rocky Dennis · 2003
Friendly Fire
Erik de Vahl · 2005
It Pays To Belong
The Embassy · 2005
Walk / Take Some Care
Erik de Vahl · 2003
The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Jens Lekman · 2007
Jag Älskar Dig
Franke · 2003
Got It All
Erik de Vahl
Flipside Of A Memory
The Embassy · 2004
I Know What Love Isn't
Jens Lekman · 2012
An Argument With Myself
Jens Lekman
Lurking With A Tensnake
The Embassy · 2008
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