• Watch Carmen Villain’s Easy video

    April 19, 2013Comments Off

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    Carmen Villain Interview Magazine feature

    March 25, 2013Comments Off

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    Carmen Villain great Q Magazine review

    March 25, 2013Comments Off

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    Rocketnumbernine on Smalltown Supersound

    March 22, 2013Comments Off


    We´re happy to announce the signing of Rocketnumbernine to Smalltown Supersound!

    For RocketNumberNine, capturing the spirit of the music is paramount and with their debut album, MeYouWeYou, the London-based Page brothers — Tom (drums) and Ben (synths) — invite you into their tribal Chingford roots, taking music forwards to reach where it came from. This is hard hitting, modern dance music played live without a single click track in sight. With a name taken from a song by space jazz crusader Sun Ra and musical influences from Detroit to London to Africa and beyond, RocketNumberNine, have spent the last eight years shaping, breaking and squeezing their sound into what it is today.

    Before we get to today, let’s revisit the musical journey that got them here. While working with legendary drummer Steve Reid, Tom met Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) resulting in the band going on a short tour with Four Tet. By the end of this run, Kieran decided he must produce and release the bands 14 minute “Matthew & Toby” via his TEXT label. It was recorded and mixed in a day without so much as a sniff of a computer — a refreshing approach from the producer renowned for his electronic productions! This kick started a new era for RocketNumberNine as it saw them moving away from improvisation and condensing their electronic dance punk jazz mash up into bite sized chunks. Soon after, an early live collaboration with Four Tet and RocketNumberNine caught the attention of Thom Yorke who invited them to open for Radiohead at The Roseland Ballroom in New York in late 2011. At those shows, material started to take shape for what would later become the first collaborative release from RocketNumberNine and Four Tet, the “Roseland”/”Metropolis” 12″ (TEXT023).

    This brings us to the present. The TEXT release has just hit, rumors are floating of a new collaboration with the enigmatic Miss Neneh Cherry, and, a long time coming, on May 21, 2013, their debut full-length, MeYouWeYou, is finally going to be released by Smalltown Supersound. 2013 appears to be the year RocketNumberNine crosses out of the shadows surrounding the darkest of live dance music over into the light that is the infamy of wider adulation. Thom Yorke, Four Tet, Gilles Peterson and Caribou can’t all be wrong!

    LISTEN TO/SHARE ROCKETNUMBERNINE’S “ROTUNDA”

    “‘Rotunda,’ from their forthcoming debut album, is raw and organic, with tribal rhythms and modern electronics combining for a track that feels both timeless and futuristic.” – Pigeons and Planes

    MeYouWeYou Tracklisting:
    01. Lope
    02. Rotunda
    03. Slide
    04. Steel Drummer
    05. Symposium
    06. Deadly Buzz
    07. Black and Blue
    08. Lone Raver
    09. Matthew and Toby

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    Carmen Villain remixed by Optimo

    March 22, 2013Comments Off

    Hear JD Twitch of Optimo’s great remix of Carmen Villain “How Much”

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    Actions For Free Jazz t-shirts back in stock!

    March 1, 2013Comments Off

    Finally back in stock! “Actions For Free Jazz” Tees in 3 different colors. The design is printed on American Apparel unisex t-shirts. Girls may prefer to order one size smaller, or the Jersey model. Design: Kim Hiorthøy.

    You can order them from our Superstore mailorder here

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    Check out our new Superstore mailorder!

    January 13, 2013Comments Off

    Finally our new Superstore mailorder shop is up an running, thanks to our friends Robotstore in Bergen who handles the orders and maintains the shop. We have some new cool things in there, among others the coffee mugs designed by Kim Hiorthøy on the photo above. Anyway, check it all out here.

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    Listen to Carmen Villain’s Lifeissin on Pitchfork

    January 13, 2013Comments Off

    Check out Carmen Villain’s Lifeissin on Pitchfork here. You can also listen and share the track on the Soundcloud link below. Enjoy!

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    Introducing Carmen Villain

    January 10, 2013Comments Off

    Let’s get this out of the way right from the start. Carmen Villain used to be a very successful model. Her face has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Nylon, and high profile cosmetic ad campaigns. But as the shutter clicks and the palm trees sway, what’s a cover girl really thinking? Most models are expected to remain mutely anonymous, mere ciphers of a commercial brand. But it turns out, behind the scenes, Carmen Villain (aka Carmen Hillestad) was channeling her frustrations into a set of songs with a defiantly DIY underground free-rock sound. Now at last, she’s stepping off the glossy page and emerging as a new songwriting voice and multi-instrumentalist.

    Carmen Villain was born in the USA, lives in London, and is half-Norwegian, half-Mexican – a cocktail of ice and fire that can be heard throughout Sleeper’s tempestuous, dreamlike music. Throughout this debut album, lyrics are plastered over loose, abrasive instrumental tracks, on which Carmen plays guitars, bass, drum machines, keyboards and percussion. Sleeper’s distinctive production was halved between herself and Emil Nikolaisen (Serena-Maneesh), who also played drums and keyboards; and she also collaborated and co-produced one track with Prins Thomas, who sequenced the album. Most of the songs are about escaping an unsatisfying world, with references to sleeping, not being present, displacement, anxiety, feeling trapped, but longing for something more.

    Carmen draws on a lineage of sprawling, taboo-busting lo-fi rock: Sun City Girls, Sonic Youth, Royal Trux, Broadcast and Bikini Kill, but equally admires This Heat and the cut ‘n’ paste productions of J Dilla and Wu-Tang Clan.

    Carmen Villain’s Sleeper will be released March 11th on Smalltown Supersound. Prior to the album’s release, the label will release two 12″s with remixes by Prins Thomas and Optimo. The “Lifeissin” 12″, featuring the Prins Thomas remix, is out 5th of February. Carmen’s remix of Neneh Cherry & The Thing’s “What Reason Could I Give” was featured as part of The Cherry Remixes, out last fall on Smalltown Supersound.

    Sleeper tracklisting:
    01. Two Towns
    02. Easy
    03. Lifeissin
    04. Obedience
    05. Made A Shell
    06. How Much
    07. Light, See
    08. Dreamo
    09. It May Well Die
    10. Kingwoman
    11. Slowaway
    12. Demon Lover

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    Arp & Pearl Necklace’s New Years 2013 Mix

    December 30, 2012Comments Off

    SET THE TONE : TASTER’S CHOICE /// NEW YEARS 2013 MIX
    COMPILED by Alexis GEORGOPOULOS & Frank LYON

    You can download the mix here

    PT I /// SMALL TALK

    RALPH HALDENBY Wide World 1982
    MARIAH Shinzo No Tobira 1983
    ARMAND FRYDMAN Jungle 1981
    HAROLD FALTEMEYER The Discovery 1984
    RYUICHI SAKAMOTO & DAVID SYLVIAN Bamboo Houses 1982
    BILL NELSON Tender Is The Night 1982
    LENA PLATONOS Makros 1985
    COATI MUNDI Prisoner Of My Principles 1983
    ROBERT WYATT The Age of Self 1985

    PT II /// COMING UP

    PARACHUTE Kowloon Daily 1980
    HELEN Twoness Twoness (Deep Trouble Edit) 1985
    JOHN TALABOT Zanzibar (80s Tapemix) 2012
    ELITE GYMNASTICS Omamori 2012
    MIHARU KOSHI Scandal Night 1983
    GARY GLITTER Hooked On Hollywood 1978
    FLEETWOOD MAC Empire State 1982
    BAGARRE Lemonsweet (Vocal Version) 1982

    PT III /// BEEN CAUGHT PEAKIN’

    TATSURO YAMASHITA Love Talkin’ 1982
    GOODY GOODY It Look Like Love (Dim’s Compiled Edit) 1978
    CANDY FLIP Space (Funny Mix) 1990
    THE DANCE KINGS Climb The Walls (Extended Climb Mix) 1991
    DONNA SUMMER Working The Midnight Shift 1977
    52ND STREET Express 1982
    SESSION VICTIM Good Intentions 2011

    PT IV /// LATHERED

    MAXMILLION DUNBAR Polo (Lauer Remix) 2012
    MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS The Police 2011
    DAVID CASSIDY Romance (Let Your Heart Go) 1985
    YOKO ONO I Love All Of Me 1985
    CHRIS & COSEY October (Love Song) 1982
    VANITY Romantic Voyage 1986
    SAVAGE Don’t Cry Tonight (12″ Version) 1983
    BRIAN BRIGGS Aeo (Pt. 1 & 2) 1980
    INSTRUCTIONS Don’t Say Love 1980

    PT V /// EYES ROLLED BACK

    PHANTOM BAND Rolling 1980
    TODD RUNDGREN Healing Part I 1981
    FINIS AFRICAE Suite Amazónica 1990
    TEREKKE Pf Pf Pass 2012
    LAID BACK Cozyland 1982
    JEREMIH Fuck U All The Time Ft. Natasha Mosley 2012
    DIFFERENT SLEEP Want U 2 Know 2012
    PLUNKY & ONENESS The African Sunset 2002
    GIUSTO PIO Ostinato 1982

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