Hans Edler
Hans Edler is a multi-talented Swedish singer, guitarist, and composer who is best known in his homeland as a pop singer, while internationally he's primarily known for his pioneering computer music album Elektron Kukéso (1971). Born on March 23, 1945, in the Björkhagen district of Stockholm, Sweden, he began his musical career in the late '60s as the singer of the Ghostriders, a pop band influenced by the Shadows. In 1969, however, his career took an odd twist when he began a three-year musical project at EMS (i.e., Elektroakustisk Musik i Sverige), a state-of-the-art studio in Stockholm with a room-size computer. Between 1969 and 1971, Edler painstakingly composed computerized pop music and released an album's worth of it, Elektron Kukéso (1971), on his own label, Marilla. Though far ahead of its time, the album proved unsuccessful from a commercial standpoint. Its rarity, not to mention its oddity, later made Elektron Kukéso a collector's item. The album was eventually reissued in 2004 on Boy Wonder Records with bonus material and deluxe packaging. After the release of Elektron Kukéso in 1971, Edler continued to release music on Marilla, beginning with another collectable album, Spökhistorier (1972), on which actor Stig Järrel reads a few horror stories (e.g., "Det Skvallrande Hjärtat," a Swedish adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart) over creepy electronic music composed by Edler. Other notable releases by Edler on Marilla during the 1970s include Space Vision (1979), a space disco album; Disco-Time (1979), a collection of disco covers; and Jukebox Graffiti, a multi-volume series of hit parade cover albums. In later years, Edler carved out a niche for himself as a 1960s revivalist. One of his most successful latter-day album releases was the Top Ten hit Remember the Sixties (2009), featuring him with a string orchestra.
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The Remember Concert
Rock - Released by Hans Edler Music on 16 May 2007
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Elektron Kukéso
Experimental - Released by Hans Edler on 12 May 1971
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Det är dej jag vill ha
Disco - Released by Hans Edler Music on 26 May 1978
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40-Års Jubileum
Pop - Released by Hans Edler Music on 12 May 2004
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Remember The Sixties
Rock - Released by Hans Edler Music on 12 May 2009
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Jukebox Graffiti Vol. 3
Rock - Released by Hans Edler Music on 25 Mar 1979
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Hans Edler Meets Ricky Nelson
Rock - Released by Hans Edler Music on 12 May 2008
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Remember the Sixties, Vol. 3
Pop - Released by Hans Edler Music AB on 20 Nov 2016
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Jukebox Graffiti Vol. 1
Rock - Released by Hans Edler Music on 14 May 2009
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Jag ger dig min morgon
Pop - Released by Hans Edler Music AB on 27 Sep 2019
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Jukebox Graffiti Vol. 1
Rock - Released by Hans Edler Music on 12 May 1978
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Remember the Sixties, Vol. 2
Pop - Released by Hans Edler Music AB on 11 Mar 2015
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Berättelsen om Skattkammarön
Kent Finell, Hans Edler, Tommy Hillborg
Children - Released by Hans Edler Musik AB on 4 Apr 1980
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Do the Hustle Again
Disco - Released by Hans Edler Music on 16 May 1975
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Country & Truck Songs
Country - Released by Hans Edler Music on 2 May 1981
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Tro På En Bättre Värld
Pop - Released by Hans Edler Music on 1 Jan 1973
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White Christmas
Folk - Released by Hans Edler Music AB on 31 Aug 2014
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