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Audiopile Review: Six years after his debut release, Barker finally follows up Utility, his splashy debut of pointillist IDM euphoria that brought to life his now infamous DJ sets at Berghain. Arriving via Smalltown Supersound, who are on an incredible streak of releases right now, Stochastic Drift drills ever further...
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Perila is very special to me, she is an artist I have followed almost since day one when I heard her first couple of tracks on Soundcloud, I immediately understood that here we have music coming out of someone who is very special. She has a very strong vision and...
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We are proud to collaborate with Oslo's Munch Museum for this compilation of music inspired by and featured in the Munch exhibition Trembling Earth! 18 of the label’s artists have created new tracks directly inspired by Edvard Munch’s atmospheric landscapes, organic processes and cosmic visions displayed in Trembling Earth. Ranging...
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Audiopile Review: The second of two must-hear albums from Norwegian imprint Smalltown Supersound this week is a new collab between the famed trumpeter and ECM heavyweight Arve Henriksen, who teams up with Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal. A constant point of reference here at Audiopile HQ is Jon Hassell, his groundbreaking...
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Audiopile Review: Does Actress still use that logo, based on the badge of the Wolverhampton Wanderers soccer team? Is it true that he was once a junior player for Wolves before an injury led him to concentrate on music? Is Vic Godard from Subway Sect really a postman? Is he...
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Absolute K.O. bout of free jazz poetry by a spry, 85 year old Joe McPhee, adapting his renowned improvised practice to words - juxtaposed with Mats Gustafson’s sparing brass and electric gestures. It’s an utterly timeless and transfixing salvo, another shiny notch for Smalltown Supersound’s brilliant Le Jazz Non Series....
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Audiopile Review: When it comes to navigating a sustainable career in music, Darren ‘Actress’ Cunningham seems incapable of steering a straight path. Cunningham gained massive critical acclaim for his unique mixture of techno, dubstep, and glitch on albums like ‘Splashz’ (2010) and R.I.P. (2012). Becoming a prominent voice in the...
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Carmen's new 3 track EP gives a sense of where she might be heading next on her musical journey. On Nutrition, the submerged influence of dub seen in a lot of her earlier work has risen more prominently to the surface. Carmen describes the tracks as "some dub studies born...
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Lasse Marhaug has for 35 years been one of Norway’s most prolific and active sound and visual artists. As a producer, studio engineer, curator, photographer, designer, filmmaker, composer, improviser, self-publisher and writer Marhaug has worked across a wide range of formats. Collaborators include artists like Joe McPhee, Merzbow, Jenny Hval,...
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DJ Plead and rRoxymore with a sick debut collab of rhythmelodically restless productions, infusing limber, freewheeling styles with subtly psychedelic balearic melodics - a big one for followers of CCL, Batu, Nick León, Olof Dreijer, Joe, Nídia & Valentina Magaletti. After meeting for the first time in 2019, Hermione Frank...
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Audiopile Review: Darren Cunningham aka Actress long ago ascended to needs-no-introduction status. And yet, you never know what you’re going to get with Actress. While building a career on moody beats and lo-fi grooves, he’s taken detours into celestial minimalism and neo-classicist concept albums. So, maybe it should be no...
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"Eivind Lønning has been sharing ideas with O'Rourke for several years: the duo collaborated on music for the Whitney's 'Calder: Hypermobility' exhibition, and Lønning played trumpet on O'Rourke's brilliant 2020 album 'Shutting Down Here'. For this new work, Lønning headed to O'Rourke and EIko Ishibashi's home studio in the Japanese...
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Norwegian techno producer André Bratten returns with surprise album "Slay Tracks" - an oblique reference to Pavement's lo-fi debut EP but also a lo-fi and fun collection of unpretentious jams....
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Selvutsletter marks the first new Lost Girls album since their acclaimed debut 2021 album, Menneskekollektivet, which was named one of the year’s best releases by Pitchfork, The FADER, Brooklyn Vegan, Paste, FLOOD, and more. Where Menneskekollektivet was about exploring club beats and expanding and trying out structures, Selvutsletter is about...
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Recorded (mostly) remotely between 2020-2022, but mired in a mutual interiority, their sublimely smoky venture bridges strains of spoken word, strung-out country folk, jazz and etheric kosmische with a timeless control of mood and atmosphere that amounts to one of the finest episodes in either’s oeuvre. In a properly enchanted...
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Lindstrøm returns with his sixth studio album Everyone Else is a Stranger, and the first since 2019’s On a Clear Day I Can See You Forever. The title of the album was inspired by John Cassavetes’ original title for his 1984 film Love Streams, and contains four tracks of his...
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Neneh Cherry releases her first solo album in 16 years - a collaboration with RocketNumberNine, produced by Four Tet, and featuring a guest appearance by Robyn. The 10-track album, recorded and mixed over a five-day period is, out on Smalltown Supersound. It follows 2012’s 'The Cherry Thing', a collaborative record...
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Selected by Jim O’Rourke for his Tone Glow list of 25 albums that “never got their due”, Org was founded in the early 90’s by Espen Jensen and Kjetil D Brandsdal who would later go on to variously record as Elektrodiesel, Noxagt and Ultralyd in the swirl of the highly...
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Oslo’s Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) announces Compositions, his new album out January 27th on Smalltown Supersound, and presents its lead single/video, “Composition 1.” The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s OCCULTING DISK—“a mesmerizing, terrifying, and emotionally nuanced ‘anti-fascist ritual’ of an album” (Pitchfork)—Compositions is the result of an intense...
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“rRoxymore is a house and techno rule-breaker. The producer makes music that feels at home in the club at 4 a.m., but her productions and DJ mixes pull in a diverse set of influences, whether it's far-flung jazz or woozy psychedelia.” - FADER Armed with a disdain for pastiche and...
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Born out of a series of studio sessions, LP.8 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...
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Even 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 beguiling 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 Norwegian trumpet player and...
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Pulse 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 Smalltown...
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When 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...
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Kelly Lee Owens' masterful second album Inner Song finds the convention-blurring techno producer and singer/songwriter diving deep into her own psyche—excoriating the struggles she's faced over the last several years and exploring personal pain while embracing the beauty of the natural world....
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Made primarily while on the road, the nine-track LP spans techno, electro, deep house and ambient. It’s Karmil’s second full-length on Smalltown Supersound, following 2018’s Will. Describing his production process, the UK artist says, “I tended to record a little here and there when I could grab some...
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