The Music Liberation Front Sweden


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The Music Liberation Front Sweden is less a band and more a collection of musical misfits starting from a seed set in the early 80s.

Releasing material under different names on their own Electronic Watusi Boogaloo imprint, the late great American based label Kindercore in Athens Georgia and Japans Bloody Dolphins. Including Gustav Kjellvander (Fine Arts Showcase), Matias Nihlen (VED), Richard Olson (The Hanging Stars), Patrik Skoog (We Are Records), Lasse Lungberg (The Ark)

Originally hailing from Portsmouth England, with many of the songs being crafted from looped jams/field recording and at times taking up to 20 years to form shape.
Often re-using their previously released movements and then re-sampling, re-imagining, vocalising them into new parts.

The Music Liberation Front was the brainchild of a British born avant-guard-krautpop-multimedia-anti-musician gaining the Swedish moniker whilst living in Malmö Sweden in the late 90s.

The collective soon relocated to Berlin Germany at the start of the 20th Century, where the influential Frankfurt multi media label Saasfee released their first LP under theMLFs moniker “Though I Wasn’t Doing Much I Felt More Satisfied With My General Situation Than I Should Have Been”.

Whilst in Berlin a string of feedback riddled minimalist electronic anti-pop EPs with singer Carina Portin (Easy Green, Come Buzz With Me & Brown Shoes), a free interactive design/verse fanzine called .immigrant along with a set of audience interactive gigs in an old cinema in Mitte all sponsored by the under rated and now defunct Berlin punk-pop label Dirty Patches.

In the late 2010’s: Damo Suzuki from Can, Joe Foster from Television Personalities/ Slaughter Joe (who had previously played and recorded with) and Steve Duffield from The Beta Band/ Mild Mannered Janitors, joining for live gigs.

Thanks to Portsmouths Channel Noir Collective/Mouthy Records, theMLFs have been playing live. Featuring Matt Loten, Adrain Blake, Jay Shaw, Andy Tiley, Lisa Tiley-Evill, Dan Tiley playing in legendary punk venues only.

In 2020: Steve Duffield and Simon Holiday (Milton Underground Experience) then joined along with Queenie Hornet (Paul Groovy and the Pop Art Experience) joined

After the death of Simon, the MLFs went back to being a mainly solo project as the other members became The Wonky Folk.

The whole project went on hold as The Shambotic Label took over but after the closing and deleting of all 500 Shambotic releases TheMLFs started recording/re-imaging again.

2024 Luddite Tape (Woodford Halse) released material recorded on equipment only purchased before 1984 (ltd cassette)
2025 Static Discs (Japan) released Le Beat Route and Electronic Watusi Boogaloo cassettes and Astra Solaria (France) Cassette.

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