we are very happy to announce the debut release of our lovely friend in paris on mule musiq! jac is half of bon&rau and running smallville records,paris. after his beautiful first solo release on smallville records,jac delivered four deep&atmospheric house stuff. we are very happy to start 2015 with him!

after seven years and 11 releases on labels like slices of life and daniel bells elevate outpost, berlin producer baaz is ready to reveal his first full-length effort. his 10-track lp, red souvenirs, is set to drop on 24th of november via the beatmakers own office recordings, which makes it the fourth release from the imprint after a record from christopher rau and two eps from baaz himself.

deep dubby tech remixes from christopher rau & gasometric.

teng returns with the *grand statement* ep by veteran techno producer, paul mac, backed with a rework from paul under his jorge zamacona, guise. teng records takes the step from fledgling imprint to fully-fledged label here, after marking a milestone with a full length for its tenth release. since launching the label has found affirmation in its intentions by picking up support from some key underground artists in the industry, such as christopher rau, tazz, azuni and deep space orchestra.

20x 12 inch vinyl cover ohne loch
31.5 x 31 cm high quality cover inside out black für 12inch vinyl. die platte kann mit papier innenhülle in dieses cover gesteckt werden. (oberfläche : matt rau) 300g pappe

31.5 x 31 cm high quality cover inside out black für 12inch vinyl. die platte kann mit papier innenhülle in dieses cover gesteckt werden. (oberfläche : matt rau) 300g pappe

seb zito steps up to the plate for the next release on fuse london with his never ep. title track never delves deep with a moody atmospheric groove whilst sub dubs 111 toughens things up with a stripped back flavour. on the flipside, remixes of never see enzo siragusa and rich nxt inject a d&b style b-line whilst ben rau brings a melodic vision to his version.

support by: karotte, nick curly, laurent garnier, chustopher rau

ltd 2013 repress !!
big with: john daly, dj hell, marcus worgull, nick curly, wighnomy brothers, jazzanova, julius steinhoff, jimpster, till von sein, dionne, p.toile, trickski, carsten klemann, dave dk, sevensol, anthony collins, michael reinboth, christopher rau ...
ok, first of all i want to reveal a myth: these infotexts are mostly writtenby the labelowners themselves, not by hard-working editors. so what happens, when the guy behind a label releases his own music? well, either he is a well-organised deadline-machine and he asks somebody capable of doing this stupid job, or he realizes:
>oh fuck the distribution whats to do their work and they needed thissheet weeks ago...< so in the end, hes gotta do it himself: of course,now i could tell you how great this record is (what it is!) and what ahell of a motherfucker i am (also true!)... but i prefer telling yousentimental other bullshit instead... :)
this ep marks a newbeginning in my career. since some time now, >the fog burns off< and we get more and more stable in the buisness. last year we were on the road quite a bit and we found many new friends. people from other cities, who believe in the same things, who do similar stuff and who are of the same kidney as we are. so that makes me very happy, which reflects in the music. for the first time i feel like coming home, although we are at the beginning of our journey into the industry yet.

wonderful, lovely, gorgeous, sweet, fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, happy, rattling, terrific, tremendous, unique, fabulous, pleasing, incredible, massive, extreme, great, extraterrestrial, mindblowing, wicked, weird, amazing, far-out, neat, peachy, spicy, awesome, yummy, stunning, breathtaking, delightful, lovely, miraculous, beautiful, inspiring house music!

fuselab introduces a new 12 inch ep single of our long-time bros and comrades kott & wellbeck. >can you< ep - a deep house set with a certain classic touch in its best from the south bounds. four tracks bringing a real ear and soul pleasure both on the dancefloor and at home, pool or any place you might color with smooth and touchy vibe.
supported by: laurent garnier, christopher rau, someone else, ramon tapia, kink, anton kubikov (scsi-9), nudisco, slam, ascii disko, andrew grant, oliver schories, owen jay, tsugi mag ...

you & me is an album, which is here to extend the listeners summer. the concept of collaboration is even expanded on the cover artwork. a team of seven graphic artists led by johannes timbernagel interpreted the same template of jacobs face in their specific style. to bring them all together johannes texturized a 3d-model of jacobs head with a collage of all the drawings.

after ushering in a raft of releases from top talent over the last year that turned quite a few heads, we over here at thema thought it was time to assert our own opinions a bit more forcefully. we certainly appreciate all the support we garnered from the detroit drops courtesy of norm and terrence, and sliding over to the smallville end of the spectrum with rau and suburb certainly didnt lose the thread either. sometimes its easy to build a vibe on the backs of others rather than on simple merit though… with that in mind we have taken our own path since then, and the recent successes from beaner and laurine frost stand alone as the accolades keep rolling in. continuing on our outbound trajectory, we present the solo vinyl debut of gathaspar, the mysterious polish producer who has been making noise mostly in berlin and to the east.

brilliant 4 track remix vinyl sampler with hot remixes from oskar offermann, moomin, christopher rau, lowtec...

manchester based dj/producer richard fletcher launches a brand new label in the shape of tact recordings and kicks off proceedings with the double down ep featuring a remix from deep house veteran rick wade.
support from baaz, raresh, brothers vibe, anton zap, gerd, dorian paic and christopher rau.

as said in the info for dérive vol. 2 in 2010, haste makes waste. that in mind it does not surprise it took even more than a year for dérive to come up with vol. 3, but finally its there.a 1 björnski & a different jimi_9 to 5derive co-owner björnski opens up with his first release >9 to 5<, a collaboration with his partner-in-crime a different jimi. sharing a passion for deep house and jazz music, they produced this hypnotic eight minute track built around a jazzy piano loop that melts together with the bass line, surprising the listener with jimis saxophone solo. b1 achim maerz_haters gonna hate >haters gonna hate< comes from derives resident producer achim maerz who just released his first mini album >this is the end< on fine art recordings this summer. obviously it was just the beginning, as he comes up with a warm, deep and dubby yet still pushing track that lets you wanting the night to last forever. b2 tilman tausendfreund_with you the last track on this record is delivered by hamburgs latest talent, tilman tausendfreund. after releasing great solo tracks and coops with christopher rau (e.g. on contentismissing or hypercolour), on >with you< he chills it down to a funky 95 bpm, soulful sweet little something that works great both in your club and bedroom.

*** vinyl only !!***
support already in from steve bug, jef k, agnes, christopher rau and many more

as its getting cold outside, this music makes me warm inside! the nights are getting longer, stars are shining bright-it is time for the season of real deepness again. smallpeople come along with another joint in splendid house music to welcome wintertime. dionne and julius steinhoff had an enormous success with their meadows ep together with christopher rau on smallville in last years autumn. that smallpeople issue has been celebrated by all the deep house buddies such as fred p, jus ed, dj koze and lawrence, mcde, xdb, rndm, etc- and it was included on some great compilations, like the timeless mix by lawrence on cocoon or gilles smith 10 years of secret sundaze cd

we are proud to announce the double vinyl compilation aim 005. it closes the circle of the first year of aim records. featuring all previous artists and also some new, we look back to an amazing time and give a little forecast to the future releases on aim

supported by: steve bug, chris duckenfield, roberto rodriquez, trickski, cottam, tazz, craig smith, christopher rau, baaz, ekkohaus, ethyl, james johnston, ...

fof kick off 2011 with a nod to the past in the form of justin drake (peace division) and kevin griffiths- (tsuba) -the devil-s eyes-, a deliciously grimy jackin- groove, coming on like a low slung mid 90s house production a la schatrax. we enlisted the talents of christopher rau for the first remix. as many of you know christopher has had an impressive 2010 culminating in his critically acclaimed lp -asper clouds- for the always excellent smallville label. chris cleverly uses elements of the original, intertwined them into an altogether quirkier, more optimistic deep house groove with a definite injection of -fun-: to round off the package, new talent bleak takes the reigns, providing a peak time techno stomper. bleak-s debut single will be released on hamburg imprint -sudden drop- sometime in early 2011 and promises to mark bleak out as a name to look out for.

nice deephouse tracks on 10 inch.... 499 copies - white vinyl - hand stamped & numbered

we are delighted to announce laid 006 a three tracks compilation featuring one of our core artists mr. john roberts, one of our all time favourite producers mr. fred p. as black jazz consortium and hysteric newcomer the sea

from the great success of smallvilles first label compilation >and suddenly its morning< a new deephouse collective evolved: the smallpeople aka dionne, steinhoff & hammouda, jaques le bon and christopher rau. hanging at their record store, djing together and exchanging beats and samples made the lovely hamburg house gang around smallville owners julius steinhoff and just von ahlefeld (aka dionne) an new source of deepest club culture. due to their large output jus ed from bridgeport ny signed another 12inch of the smallpeople for his underground quality imprint to come out right after their amazing debut on laid recordings.

smallvilles compilation series and suddenly its morning glittery ends up with the fourth 12inch split-release. on the a-side, stl brings back the magical moment to the dancefloor- contemporary sounddesign meets funkyness at its best. smallville owner julius steinhoff presents his first solo track something like wonderful, deeply-driving real house music. watch out for the full longplay cd compilation feat move d & benjamin brunn, lowtec, christopher rau, sven tasnadi, lawrence and many more! and suddenly its morning…

smallville records are set to release their first cd compilation featuring tracks by stl, steinhoff & hammouda with dionne, christopher rau, lowtec and many more to be cut on a limited 12inches series. with the second ep, the label from rainy city hamburg shows their preference for fresh excursions into deephouse and beyond. the dream team of contemporary soundscaping, move d and benjamin brunn, come up with a slightly moving earwig, tracky and reduced to give the dancefloor a colorful kick. smallville co-owner lawrence makes himself a classic with the bassy and chordish tune >dont forget<. he sets a tribute to deephouse music still holding his dreamy detroitish lawrence twist

the new hamburg and munich based label dérive schallplatten comes up with a diversivied three-tracker of benjamin brunn, achim maerz and christopher rau from hamburg.

zwei schwere funk geschütze mit dicken beats, rau & funky - sowie ein zurückgelehnter moody dub mix & ein verrückter house track, der auch von smith n hack hätte kommen können, bringt karat zurück in die innovationscharts

ultraphat deep bassheavy detroit tinged techno (e-dancer kms style !!) rau und ehrlich und vor allem zeitlos!!!

bicep (matt mcbriar und andy ferguson), das aus belfast stammende und in london lebende duo, freut sich, sein selbstbenanntes debŸtalbum ankŸndigen zu dŸrfen! eine platte, die wahrhaftig ihre geschichte sowie ihre liebe zu musik und clubkultur seit ihrem ersten release im jahr 2010 einfŠngt. am 1. september 2017 erscheint -bicep- via ninja tune. seit beginn ihrer mittlerweile zehn jahre wŠhrenden karriere haben sie der musik, die sie inspirierte, auf ihrem blog feelmybicep gehuldigt. der 2008 gegrŸndete blog, der anfangs blo§ ein ventil fŸr ihre intensiven plattensammelgewohnheiten war, erfuhr in folge einen rasanten erfolg und lie§ das gleichnamige label sowie eine regelmŠ§ige clubnacht entstehen. durch den blog wurden auch die musik-produzierenden macher dahinter weltweit immer bekannter und verlie§en bald die insel, um rund um den globus hei§begehrte dj-sets zu spielen. die aufgabe war, die vielfalt zu reprŠsentieren, fŸr den ihr blog immer gestanden hatte: eine tadellos ausgewŠhlte mischung sehr direkter tracks und exklusiver edits, gemixt mit rarem house und disco cuts, die sie wiederentdeckten, entstaubten und neues leben einhauchten. heutzutage sind sie angesehene und zuverlŠssige kuratoren in sachen elektronischer musik. ihr album -bicep- ist die perfekte zusammenfassung der bisherigen karriere des duos - es ist eine klangliche reise durch ihre geschichte, die deutlich eckpunkte der untergrund-clubkultur referenziert. matt und andy haben eine einmalige elektronische platte produziert, die einerseits auf klassischem house, techno, elektro und italo-disco fu§t, andererseits aber den typischen bicep-sound in sich trŠgt. entstanden ist ein prŠgnantes album: frei, rau und dynamisch genug fŸr den dancefloor, gleichwohl raffiniert, kunstvoll komponiert und besinnlich genug, um es auch zuhause zu hšren.

deluxe 2 cd digipack , inside out paper and embossed typo finish within electronic music sven vŠth represents more than a single style. sven embodies the music as a whole, he cherishes every facet of techno and house. vŠth has experienced the music as it emerged in the mid-eighties. from this moment on, he has helped to shape it year after year. vŠth produced seminal music, his labels created and create its very own unmistakable brand of music, he ran a club and several booking agencies. cocoon is a global identification mark for high quality parties and festivals. those are major achievements, but they are overshadowed by vŠth djing abilities. like no one else, vŠth manages to capture the current figuration of our beloved electronic dance music in its entirety and melds it into a single, stirring story

stunning project shocasing hamburgs finest.2 cd for special 1 cd price! includes downloadcode to the full, unmixed tracks from cd2! - 2cds in a digipac for a special price include in total 29 tracks (dj koze, remute, smallpeople, extrawelt, isolŽe, andre winter/h.o.s.h., lawrence, vincenzo, boris dlugosch. a.m.m), no less than 15 of these are new and exclusively produced by wareika, erobique, oliver huntemann, rvds and many more - theres a vinyl ep too. hfndisk30 !!

when the smallville record store was founded in 2005, people were surprised and regarded it as an experiment. everybody discussed the downfall of vinyl sales and the upcoming market of downloads these days. just a bunch of people regarded record shops, vinyl labels and wonderful warm sounding clubs as the places of true magic. smallvilles finest stefan marx, who is responsible for all artwork-related things and therefore the visual impact that smallville always had, got a call once at night from another one of those dreamers and activists, ata macias. he came up with the fabulous idea to create a standard 12inch cover saying: vinyl kills mp3.

endlich! move d auf fabric, war schon viel frŸher fŠllig

you & me is an album, which is here to extend the listeners summer. the concept of collaboration is even expanded on the cover artwork. a team of seven graphic artists led by johannes timbernagel interpreted the same template of jacobs face in their specific style. to bring them all together johannes texturized a 3d-model of jacobs head with a collage of all the drawings.

hed kandi pres. winter chill - a selection of laidback electronic grooves for cosy winter listening! feat.mark ronson, may jane cole, dbridge..

mit traumwandlerischer sicherheit schlŠgt lawrence einen bogen Ÿber 16 jahre gelebter clubgeschichte, ohne dabei das akustische hier und jetzt aus dem auge zu verlieren oder auch nur eine spur in anachronistischer nostalgieseligkeit zu verfallen. stattdessen gehen unter seinen sensiblen hŠnden meilensteine des minimierten deep house wie >forever monna< von chez damier, ron trent und stacey pullen (1995) oder der 99er clubhit >overcome< von thomas melchior/baby ford mit kontemporŠren intensiven detroit-techno-hommagen wie smallpeople & raus >life aquatic<, delano smiths >my life< oder pigons traumhafter >koto<-dubtech-romanze von der 10 jahre dial-compilation auf wunderbare weise zusammen. au§erdem mit dabei sind so bekannte namen wie aril brikha, isolŽe, das ifach collective und robert hood, bevor roman flŸgels auf duran durans >save a prayer< basierendes meisterwerk >brian le bon< und das kristalline >oi< von plaids klassikeralbum >not for threes< (warp) den wehmŸtigen schlussakkord setzen. lawrences mix atmet hier jedenfalls die gelassenheit eines lichtdurchfluteten sonntagmorgens zwischen modernistischer gro§stadt und waldlichtung und gibt so seinem globalen kŸnstlerischen ansatz die passende dimension

the smallville collective has injected a real breath of fresh air into the house music scene. after launching their record shop in hamburg city in 2005 they invited the most sophisticated artists of the european and american underground scene- such as jus- ed, keith worthy, shinedoe, sleeparchive, omar s, baby ford & thomas melchior and many more to play at hamburgs love-spreading allnighters.