Many independent labels set out with high hopes only to end in dismal failure, whereas Crammed Discs began with modest aims and is still going strong 45 years later. Like Mute Records, the Belgian label was started first and foremost as an outlet to release the music of the artist who inaugurated it.
Aksak Maboul, Marc Hollander’s band/collective/art project became the catalyst and, for a while at least, the proverbial footnote, that gave rise to an unlikely independent success story.
Crammed has released somewhere in the region of 400 albums so far with a roster that’s both eclectic and global, including Yasmine Hamdan, Bebel Gilberto, Juana Molina, Konono N°1 and Minimal Compact, to name but a few;…

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