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Lasse Marhaug is one of those characters that operates at the nexus of so much stuff that’s important to us here - working as a producer (over the last couple of years alone he’s helped shape albums by Jenny Hval, Kelly Lee Owens, Okkyung Lee, Hillary Woods etc etc), a mastering engineer (far too many releases to mention), a...
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Like a rediscovered Viking burial ship, Electro Nova compiles near-mythical drone recordings produced in 1998 and described by Helge Sten aka Deathprod as some of the most important music to ever come out of Norway It's the work of Kåre Dehlie Thorstad and compiles two of the earliest releases on Smalltown Supersound, back when...
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Born out of a series of studio sessions, LP8 was created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious After releasing her sophomore album Inner Song in the midst of the pandemic, Kelly Lee Owens was faced with the sudden realisation that her world tour could no longer go ahead...
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Out of stockThe Contra Songs have been between Mats and me since the early 2000s A couple of these tracks were recorded for a release on Table of the Elements, but Mats understood during the recording that the best material would be saved for an album release I got these recordings from Mats probably around 2004/2005 For reasons unknown to...
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Out of stockGorgeous, frazzled jazz flex from Norway’s rising piano star Anja Lauvdal and skilled sticksman Joakim Heibø in swingeing style on the Actions for Jazz series Norwegian freeform pianist Anja Lauvdal - who compiled the genius "Frijazz mot rasisme" set - mints a new series of albums with "All My Clothes", a collaboration with...
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Recorded back in 1999, 'Half a Dove in New York, Half a Dove in Buenos Aires' is the recorded debut of a NetCast improv between deep listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros and Argentinian free music trio Reynols >> a fascinating early example of the internet’s capacity to foster remote creativity in-the-moment that deploys...
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Out of stockEven in the increasingly crowded field of electronic music, Kelly Lee Owens’ debut album arrives as a wonderful surprise An album that bridges the gaps between cavernous techno, spectral pop, and krautrock’s mechanical pulse, 'Kelly Lee Owens' brims with exploratory wonder, establishing a personal aesthetic that is as...
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Carmen Villain turns out a career best with her fourth album, a confidently conspicuous co-mingling of dub, fourth world jazz, ambient and kosmische modes Brilliantly eroded, soft-focus music that's wide-ranging thematically, but completely coherent, landing somewhere between Jon Hassell and Rhythm and Sound It's fitting that...
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Out of stock'Frijazz mot rasisme' or ‘Free Jazz Against Racism’, as you may have guessed, is a compilation of Norwegian contemporary and outsider music There’s plenty to get your teeth stuck into here Highlights include Sanskriti Shrestha & Andreas Wildhagen cut a percussive groove, there’s the strange processed sounds of Propan...
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Out of stockLimited edition 12inch with remixes for the critically acclaimed album Inner Song by Kelly Lee Owens Part 1 features remixes from Loraine James, Breaka and Coby...
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Out of stockLimited edition 12inch with remixes for the critically acclaimed album Inner Song by Kelly Lee Owens Part 2 features remixes from Haider, Elkka, Yazzus and Roza...
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“Perila is making some of the most head-spinning ambient music out there right now” — Pitchfork Perila, the moniker of Berlin-based electronic musician Aleksandra Zakharenko, announces her debut album, How Much Time it is Between You and Me, out June 25th on Smalltown Supersound, and today presents its lead single,...
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Norwegian duo Lost Girls, artist and writer Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden, release their first album after collaborating for more than ten years Volden has been playing regularly in Hval's live band for more than a decade, and their duo project goes back to an acoustic collaborative album from 2012, using the...
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Out of stockPulse of Defiance is the latest and most fascinating step in Hayashi's still-blooming career—a half-decade of fantastically quixotic output that's established him as one of electronic music's most fascinating aural conjurers After a string of releases on esteemed labels like Lovers Rock, Going Good, and JINN, Hayashi made his...
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Out of stockWhen Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas get together, expect the unexpected "The Norwegian production duo's third album III is also their first outing together in eleven years, since II from 2009—and as ever, Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas have crafted their own unique sonic world between the two of them This is expansive,...
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