Label: Smalltown Supersound

Reissued 2018, Originally released 1980

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.

Track listing:

1. Echo Troopers–    Fred Astaire - The Funny Face Session (Intro)
2. Deathprod–    Orgone Donor
   
3. Mats Gustafsson And Yoshimi–    Soundless Cries With Their Arms In The Air
   
4. Yuichiro Fujimoto–    小さい夕日 (Little Sunset)
   
5. Bendik Giske–    Hole
6. Supersilent–    13.1
   
7. Biosphere–    Aura In The Kitchen With The Candlesticks
   
8. Elektro Nova / Electro Nova–    T03 EOOOO192114H
   
9. Bruce Russell–    The Movement Of The Free Spirit (The 1st Movement)
   
10. Carmen Villain–    Safe    
11. Alexander Rishaug–    Time And Place
    
12. Monopot–    Scena Napoletana
13. Continental Fruit–    Dear Heart  
14. Biosphere–    Wyll And Purpose  
15. Lindstrøm–    Call Me Any Time (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix)
    
16. Deathprod–    Orgone Donor
    
17. Arp–    V2 Slight Return
    
18. Monopot–    Dronningen
    
19. Monopot–    Dronningen  
20. Jaga Jazzist–    Plym
    
21. Todd Rundgren–    Anything (Vocal Outtake)
    
22. Todd Rundgren–    Anything (Vocal Outtake)
23. Todd Rundgren, Emil Nikolaisen, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm–    Put Your Arms Around Me (Stereolab / The High Llamas Remix)
    
24. 120 Days–    Sleepless Nights # 3  
25. Carmen Villain–    The Moon Will Always Be There  
26. Continental Fruit–    The Moon Was My Only Witness
    
27. Mats Gustafsson / Sonic Youth With Friends–    Part 3 - Contrabass Sax
    
28. Erik Wøllo–    Ody At Sea  
29. Alexander Rishaug–    Satellites
    
30. Prins Thomas–    B (Sun Araw Saddle Soap Remix)
    
31. Prins Thomas–    B (Sun Araw Saddle Soap Remix)
    
32. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas–    Arthur's Return (Extended Version)
    
33. Serena-Maneesh–    Introspection
    
34. Serena-Maneesh–    Leipziger Love Life (Ancient Mix)
    
35. Mats Gustafsson / Sonic Youth With Friends–    Part 4 - Voice
    
36. Wildest Dreams–    Off The Lip