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SMALL 034EP
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Between the floors on any Shinkansen Express, TGV, or intercontinental flight, Lawrence draws music sketches -- still highly-influenced by nights out from Nagasaki to New York. Smallville 34 proves once more how far you can go with some wonderful inspiration. Simplicity meets beyond-ness, confusion meets love. Be in a rush to just arrive back, dancing your life away.
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MUSIQ 154EP
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Lawrence is back on Mule Musiq after his excellent 12" Above the Sky from 2011. The Christopher Rau remix makes it something special.
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DIAL 063EP
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Lawrence is back with another tribute to the sun. Coming home to his own imprint proves once more how modern house music should sound: deep, moving and always surprising.
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PAMPA 009EP
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Dial owner Lawrence shows up on his beloved Pampa imprint for the first time. This EP presents two deep, enchanting anthems, a timeless vision of love. This release is dedicated to two of the most famous experiences in Japan: The Kurama Mountain in Kyoto, one of the most amazing places on earth, and Oolong High, one of the most amazing drinks on earth -- cold oolong tea on the rocks with a zip of Japanese Shochu liquor.
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LAID 014EP
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Second part in the Real House Music series by Lawrence, Never As Always. Early autumn tunes bringing back magical emotions to the deeper dancefloors.
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LAID 013EP
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Lawrence is back on his co-owned Laid imprint with a real house music series -- Never As Always. As a favorite in Carsten Jost's CD-R box, "Rise" seemed to be one of those magic deep house tunes, whether it was at the Dial Allnighter residency at Panorama Bar, the Laid Nights at Cookies Berlin or some fancy hangout at the label-chief's apartment. Now, for the first time only on vinyl, Never As Always (Pt. 1) comes with two dub versions by Sten.
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CORMIX 035CD
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Being Germany's Gateway to the World, the port city of Hamburg always had a special affinity for America. So, it's not surprising that Peter M. Kersten aka Lawrence has had a deep musical and spiritual relationship with the Detroit techno aesthetics for more than ten years now. His label Dial Rec, which he runs together with Carsten Jost, stands more than almost any other European address for the value-conscious cultivation of high-quality, melancholy techno. After seven albums under his producer aliases Lawrence and Sten, Kersten now continues the perfection of his sound vision also as a DJ in a congenial way. Timeless is far away from the dictate of the dogmatic obligation to the currentness that DJs have to face nowadays, but celebrates electronic dance music as a timeless sensual component. With instinctive certainty, Kersten covers 16 years of living club history without ever losing sight of the acoustic "here and now," or even becoming the slightest bit anachronistically nostalgic. Instead, under his sensitive hands, milestones of minimalized deep house like "Forever Monna" by Chez Damier, Ron Trent and Stacey Pullen (1995) or the 1999 club hit "Overcome" by Thomas Melchior/Baby Ford come together with contemporary and intensive homages to Detroit techno like Smallpeople & Rau's "Life Aquatic," Delano Smith's "My Life" or Pigon's fantastic dub tech romance "Beatmatching" in a wonderful way. Besides that, the mix features such well-known names such as Aril Brikha, Isolée, The Ifach Collective and Robert Hood, before Roman Flügel sets a wistful final chord with "Brian Le Bon," a track based on Duran Duran's masterpiece "Save A Prayer," and Plaid finishes the mix with the crystalline "OI." Lawrence's mix literally breathes the serenity of a light-flooded Sunday morning somewhere between a modernist city and a forest glade, and thus gives his global artistic approach a suitable dimension. Other artists include: Soul Capsule, Schatrax, RVDS, Morphosis, Mike Dehnert and Plaid.
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MULE 077EP
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Lawrence is back on Mule Electronic with four brand new songs. "Teenage Barb" is a hypnotic deep house tune with melancholic piano chords and monotone synth sounds. "Organ Track" is a percussive deep house tune with a modern approach for all deep house lovers. "Above The Sky" is a dance version of "Enjoy The Silence," included on Mule's ambient compilation. This is a very nice ambient house sound with an illusory melody à la Steve Reich.
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SMALL 022EP
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With his first release on his co-owned Smallville label, Lawrence aka Peter M. Kersten celebrates another tribute to more than 20 years of house music. Beyond his club influences, Kersten was mainly driven by slow Detroit jazz from the early '70s and classical minimal music which colors the palette of this EP. With "Sorry Sun" Lawrence invites us on another adventure into the miracle of a cozy dancefloor, letting only the music shine and the people close their eyes and smile.
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LAID 009EP
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Two arid pearls from Lawrence. "Dwelling On The Dunes" is a swinging piece of echoey groove. Also featuring a dub version of "Precious Hall."
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