Smalltown Supersound 25: The Movement Of The Free Spirit, by Smalltown Supersound

Smalltown Supersound 25: The Movement Of The Free Spirit

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Baarsgaard1967 An extraordinary fine collection of sounds and grooves. Best album in years.

Michael Feihstel 25 years. A label that serves the niche leftfield disco category just as competently as Pitchfork's Best New Music section. Congratulations!

Needless to say that Prins Thomas is the obvious choice to deliver a mix worthy of celebrating this event. Well done! Favorite track: Put Your Arms Around Me (Stereolab vs. High Llamas Remix).

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Limited edition collection of the entire mix by Prins Thomas, spanning Smalltown Supersound's 25-year discography.

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1.	Echo Troopers, Deathprod, Yoshimi, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Mats Gustafsson - Fred Astaire Session (Intro) / Orgone Donor / Soundless Cries With Their Arms in the Air / Little Sun 07:07	buy track
2.	Bend Giske, Supersilent, Biosphere, Elektro Nova, Bruce Russell - Hole / 13.1 / Aura in the Kitchen / T03 / The Movement of the Free Spirit (The 1st Movement) 12:47	buy track
3.	Carmen Villain, Alexander Rishaug - Safe / Time and Place 02:58	buy track
4.	Monopot - Scena Napoletana 02:27	buy track
5.	Continental Heart - Deart Heart 03:23	buy track
6.	Biosphere, Deathprod, Arp, Monopot, Oneohtrix Point Never - Wyll and Purpose / Call Me Anytime (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix) / Orgone Donor / V2 Slight Return / Dronningen 07:32	buy track
7.	Monopot, Jaga Jazzist, Todd Rundgren - Dronningen / Plym / Anything (Vocal Outtake) 04:20	buy track
8.	Todd Rundgren - Anything (Vocal Outtake) 03:34	buy track
9.	Stereo lab, The High Llamas - Put Your Arms Around Me (Stereolab vs. High Llamas Remix) 04:15	buy track
10.	120 Days - Sleepless Nights 00:22	buy track
11.	Carmen Villain, Continental Fruit, Mats Gustafson, Sonic Youth - The Moon Will Always Be There / The Moon Was My Only Witness / art 3 (Contrabass Sax) 06:16	buy track
12.	Erik Wøllo, Alexander Rishaug, Sun Araw, Saddle Soap - Ody At Sea / Satellites / B (Sun Araw Saddle Soap Remix) 03:18	buy track
13.	Bjørn Torske, Serena Maneesh, Mats Gustafsson and Sonic Youth, Sun Araw Saddle Soap - B (Sun Araw Saddle Soap Remix) / Arthur's Return (Extended Version) / Introspection / Leipziger Love Life (Ancient Mix) / Part 4 (Voice) 09:36	buy track
14.	Off The Lip 06:21	buy track
15.	Christabelle, Lindstrøm, Four Tet - Lovesick (Four Tet Remix) 04:40	buy track
16.	Dungen - Franks Kaktus 02:09	buy track
17.	Idjut Boys, Bjørn Torske - One for Kenny (Bjørn Torske Remix) / One for Kenny (Idjut Version) 07:28	buy track
18.	Dungen - Alberto Balsam 04:13	buy track
19.	Bjørn Torske, Kjetil D. Brandsdal, The Orb, Owen Pallett - H (The Orb Remix) / Arthur / Komboloi / No Release (Owen Pallett Remix) 08:56	buy track
20.	Diskjokke, Yoshinori Hayashi, Owen Pallett - No release (Owen Pallett Remix) / Cold Out / Bit of Garden 06:04	buy track
21.	Yoshinori Hayashi, Diskjokke, Meanderthals, Arp - Bit of Garden / Cold Out / Andromeda (Idjut Version) / The Past (Studio Version) / Andromeda 07:44	buy track
22.	I:Cube - C (I:Cube Remix) 04:44	buy track
23.	Lindstrøm - Another Station 07:11	buy track
24.	Bjørn Torske, Dan Lissvik, Gammal Mungolian - Fuglekongen (Gammal Mungolian Mix) / Airwalk / G 11:28	buy track
25.	Neneh Cherry, Bjørn Torske - Slow Release / K16 02:39	buy track
26.	Bjørn Torske - Totem Expose 00:26	buy track
27.	Kim Hiorthøy - Door Opens Both Ways 02:04	buy track
28.	Toy - Don't Be 02:44	buy track
29.	Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Raakost 05:46	buy track
30.	Bjørn Torske - The Contemporary Fix (Bjørn Torske Remix) 09:38	buy track
31.	Matt Karmil, Biosphere, André Bratten, Gigi Masin - Morals / With Their Paddles in a Puddle / Minor Misconception / Planetarium (Gigi Masin Remix) 04:56	buy track
32.	André Bratten, Brian Reitzell, Gigi Masin - Minor Misconception / Planetarium (Gigi Masin Remix) / Ozu Choral 05:30	buy track
33.	Bjørn Torske, Carmen Villain, Mungolian Jetset - Planetarium (Gigi Masin Remix) / Mush in the Bush / Langt fra Afrika 05:53	buy track
34.	Kelly Lee Owens, Elektro Nova, Brian Reitele, Bjørn Torske - CBM / Obedience (Bjørn Torske Remix) / Phase One / Phase Two Part 3 / Honeycomb 11:53	buy track
35.	Bendik Giske, Elektro Nova, Mungolian Jetset, Ricardo Villalobos - C (Ricardo Villalobos King Crab Remix) / Adjust / T03 / C (Ricardo Villalobos Knödel Prince Dub) / Shelton's on a Bender 08:36	buy track
36.	Ricardo Villalobos, Max Loderbrauer - Everything Is Everything (Villalobos & Loderbauer: Vilod High Blood Pressure Mix) 03:18	buy track
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38.	André Bratten - Pax Americana 05:34	buy track
39.	Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscope 00:34	buy track
40.	Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - II 03:42	buy track

about

Smalltown Supersound, the Norwegian label run by Oslo-based Joakim Haugland, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the label is releasing The Movement Of The Free Spirit, an epic new mix album of the Smalltown Supersound catalogue by Prins Thomas, out November 30th. As Thomas’s follow up to Paradise Goulash, The Movement Of The Free Spirit is a 3-disc mix comprised of 80 tracks and 3 hours and 40 minutes of music featuring artists including Sonic Youth, DJ Harvey, Studio, Yoshimi
(Boredoms), Kim Gordon, Oneohtrix Point Never, Todd Rundgren, Stereolab, High Llamas, Neneh Cherry, Ricardo Villalobos, Four Tet, The Orb, Kelly Lee Owens, Lindstrøm, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Biosphere, Peter Brötzmann, and many more (full track list is below). The mix will be released as a CD box set, digitally (mix and unmixed) and disc 1 will be available as a double LP.

The title, The Movement Of The Free Spirit, was borrowed from a Bruce Russell (of The Dead C) 10” Smalltown Supersound released in 2000. Russell had borrowed it from the book by legendary Situationist activist and author Raoul Vaneigem.

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Liner Notes:

Trying To Be Like SST. Since 1993.

"I started Smalltown Supersound in 1993 while in high school in Flekkefjord, a small town of 4,000 inhabitants in the south of Norway. There was obviously no supersound in our small town. It was just an ironic name I came up with to release some tapes with lo-fi/noise/bedroom recordings by my brother and his friends. The name was inspired by my hometown and the catalogue number STS was a homage to SST, a label I deeply admired at the time (and still do). Little did I know that I would have to live with that name for the rest of my life.

I started the label before I knew what a record label was. So I gradually learned it by doing. And it was part of me growing up. It might sound like a cliché, but in many ways the label is the soundtrack of my life. Thomas has now made it into a mixtape.

We all hate to see photos of ourselves when we were younger, the bad haircuts and the strange clothes. It is the same thing when you run a label. You constantly look back on things you regret. This mix makes me see the label from the outside in a way I don’t think I have before. And to my surprise the haircuts and the clothes weren't as bad and strange as I remembered.

I have to admit that I when I listened to it the first time, I was moved. First of all, because of the deep and true love Thomas has put into this mix. Second, because some of these tracks I haven't heard in 20-25 years. It really felt like revisiting the past. And in a very good way.
Thomas has followed the label since the early beginnings. Back in the days I was always thinking: “He’s a house/disco DJ – why does he want my noise records?”. I realize now I wasn't smart enough to understand his scope. I didn't understand it until his mix album Cosmic Galactic Prism, which is one of my favorite mix albums of all time. So for me it was very obvious that Thomas should make the Smalltown Supersound mix. I just couldn't imagine that he would go this beautifully far with it.
Since day one I have tried to have a red thread run through the releases and the label's DNA. Most of the time I am probably the only one who sees it. And many times I don't even see it myself. Now Thomas has found the spiritual unity.

While I have always struggled to describe what the label is, only now – with this mix – I can finally say: this is what it is."

–– Joakim Haugland, Oslo, August 2018

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Prins Thomas is a Norwegian electronic dance music producer and DJ whose space disco style is a melange of disco, house, minimal techno, electro, Krautrock, jazz fusion, space rock and more. Born Thomas Moen Hermansen and based in Oslo, Norway, he initially made a name for himself as Prins Thomas in the mid-2000s in collaboration with Lindstrøm. ... more

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