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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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SMALL 033EP
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$12.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
The man who brought saltyness into house music -- Julius Steinhoff -- comes up with his second solo 12" on Smallville -- So Glad. Steinhoff's solo works strikes even more voluptuary with slightly rapturous pleasure. Being founder of Hamburg's finest record store and label, smashing the world's deepest parties with guests such as Omar S, Jus-Ed, Mike Huckaby, XDB, Steven Tang, and tons of other favorites, Julius Steinhoff's knowledge has been compressed to this state-of-the-mind 12".
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Double LP version. Christopher Rau is on a big mission against club depression. He knows how to turn a simple beat, a reduced bass line and only a few sound elements into pure heaven. His choice of labels are those who want to keep the world of house music a special place: Pampa, Giegling/Staub, Laid, Mule Musiq, Aim, Ethereal Sounds and Hamburg's Smallville who now present Rau's second album, Two. The cover by Stefan Marx is even more colorful than on the debut, and so is the music ? well-known for his minimalistic choice of ingredients, Rau somehow frees himself of any straight format. These are songs full of sweetness: a glimpse of soul here, a Detroit electro influence there, broken beats, breaks that are no breaks, sexiness and funk and fun. The city of Christopher Rau's music turns into a universe, a world that believes in that particular moment when a minute turns into life. Where you will dive through the surface of beat, bass and sample to find something barely reachable underneath. Even though the essentials of house music were invented some 25 years ago, Christopher Rau proves again how far we can still go. Two is the soundtrack to the sweetest war, a lovely, silent strike against convention, boredom and emptiness.
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Christopher Rau is on a big mission against club depression. He knows how to turn a simple beat, a reduced bass line and only a few sound elements into pure heaven. His choice of labels are those who want to keep the world of house music a special place: Pampa, Giegling/Staub, Laid, Mule Musiq, Aim, Ethereal Sounds and Hamburg's Smallville who now present Rau's second album, Two. The cover by Stefan Marx is even more colorful than on the debut, and so is the music ? well-known for his minimalistic choice of ingredients, Rau somehow frees himself of any straight format. These are songs full of sweetness: a glimpse of soul here, a Detroit electro influence there, broken beats, breaks that are no breaks, sexiness and funk and fun. The city of Christopher Rau's music turns into a universe, a world that believes in that particular moment when a minute turns into life. Where you will dive through the surface of beat, bass and sample to find something barely reachable underneath. Even though the essentials of house music were invented some 25 years ago, Christopher Rau proves again how far we can still go. Two is the soundtrack to the sweetest war, a lovely, silent strike against convention, boredom and emptiness.
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SMALL 032EP
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After the Silent State 12" and "Neurotransmitting Clouds On a Secret Freeway," a contribution to Smallville's And Suddenly It's Morning label compilation, STL is back with a full EP. Three outstanding tracks.
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SMALL 031EP
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$12.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
Christopher Rau and Moomin are Roaming. There's not much else to say, except Smallpeople contribute a remix to make this release even more awesome.
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SMALL 030EP
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$12.00
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It is not a secret anymore that Manchester has been a deep house capital city for quite a while. The Meandyou. party series is the main spot here with resident DJs Juniper & Arnaldo, amongst others, spinning alongside their favorite acts. Juniper & Arnaldo deliver four classy house tracks that fit perfectly into the Smallville vein. The global village of sweet house music is rising.
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Gatefold 2LP version. "It would be a waltz to call Salty Days just a treaty of deep house. But it is much more than just that. The co-owners of Hamburg's most gentle record store and label Smallville -- Just von Ahlefeld and Julius Steinhoff aka Smallpeople -- wouldn't be the romanticists they are, if it were that simple. The debut album from Smallpeople not only honors and delves into a sound that already peaked some 15 years ago, it also hones and elevates it, without ever falling into the Reynoldsmania trap or being old gold retold. And this is all oh-so-clear from the very start: the fine flutes of 'When It's There' go straight to your heart and they do so without any self-mockery or hipster smiles as much as the gasping 303-sounds, chirping birds and healing DX-like bass sounds a few tracks later do. 'Salty Days' -- an allusion not to grim times, but to a certain member's adoration for the crystalline mineral -- is blessed with a coherence and tradition that isn't leaden and a feeling that is pure. Like a distillate of U.S. innovations and the European backfire on it, Smallpeople tell their personal love story and jump to their own conclusions. 'Move With Your Vision' and 'Black Ice' both concentrate the form and content of this album: house music that knows its roots, past and classicism, but is made with the minds and means of today. In the '90s there was the saying that it's impossible to create an album consisting of house music and house music only (those dreary downbeat experiments still haunt us to this day). Salty Days is an ideal that belies that statement." --Gerd Janson
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"It would be a waltz to call Salty Days just a treaty of deep house. But it is much more than just that. The co-owners of Hamburg's most gentle record store and label Smallville -- Just von Ahlefeld and Julius Steinhoff aka Smallpeople -- wouldn't be the romanticists they are, if it were that simple. The debut album from Smallpeople not only honors and delves into a sound that already peaked some 15 years ago, it also hones and elevates it, without ever falling into the Reynoldsmania trap or being old gold retold. And this is all oh-so-clear from the very start: the fine flutes of 'When It's There' go straight to your heart and they do so without any self-mockery or hipster smiles as much as the gasping 303-sounds, chirping birds and healing DX-like bass sounds a few tracks later do. 'Salty Days' -- an allusion not to grim times, but to a certain member's adoration for the crystalline mineral -- is blessed with a coherence and tradition that isn't leaden and a feeling that is pure. Like a distillate of U.S. innovations and the European backfire on it, Smallpeople tell their personal love story and jump to their own conclusions. 'Move With Your Vision' and 'Black Ice' both concentrate the form and content of this album: house music that knows its roots, past and classicism, but is made with the minds and means of today. In the '90s there was the saying that it's impossible to create an album consisting of house music and house music only (those dreary downbeat experiments still haunt us to this day). Salty Days is an ideal that belies that statement." --Gerd Janson
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SMALL 029EP
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Smallville buddies Jacques Bon and Christopher Rau are finally back as a team to present two jams of rough-but-sweet house music. Jacques has recently released on Berlin-based label Aim. Christopher Rau is well-known in the world of house after records on Pampa, Ethereal Sounds, Dérive and of course, Smallville -- just to name a few. Together as Bon & Rau, they travel along the blurry side of the moon.
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