Scapa Flow was a Swedish EBM band, formed in 1988, and was one of the icons of the new EBM and synth scene that emerged in Sweden in the late 80's. The band was named after Scapa Flow, a body of water in the Orkney Islands.
History
Scapa Flow formed in May 1988 as a quartet of Andreas Carlsson, Johan Lavsund, Johan Nygren and Carl Sjöström. The band was one of several electronic music groups to emerge from Uppsala in the 1980s including Cultivated Bimbo, Inside Treatment, and Systema. Their first demo tape, The Core, was recorded that year. The band made contact with Swedish label Front Music Production, who selected the track "Servant" for their compilation release Trans Europa (A Swiss - Swedish Techno-Compilation). The band recorded a second demo cassette entitled Crucial Impact towards the end of the same year.
The band produced a third demo tape, Overflow, in 1989 and began to play live shows in Uppsala and Stockholm. After the entire pressing of Overflow sold out, Front Music Production approached the band about producing an LP. In November that year, The Guide was released. In 2018, Swedish label Progress Productions remastered and re-released the band's first demo, The Core, as a limited edition CD.
Discography
- The Core - Demo 0788 (Cass demo) 1988 • (CD album) 2018 – Progress Productions
- Crucial Impact (Cass demo) 1989
- Overflow (Cass demo) 1989
- The Guide (LP album) 1989 – Front Music Production • (LP/CD album) 1991 – Parade Amoureuse
- Chased By Sunset (LP/CD album) 1991 – Energy Rekords
- Heads Off To Freedom (CD album) 1994 – Energy Rekords
- Pax Vobiscum 1988-2001 (CD compilation) 2002 – Energy Rekords