Christopher Rau - Asper Clouds
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Christopher Rau - Asper Clouds
Holdrons Arcade
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Label: Smallville Records – SMALLVILLE LP 03
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", Album
Country: Germany
Released: Oct 25, 2010 / 2025 Repress
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House
Fifteen years on from its original release, Christopher Rau's Asper Clouds returns as part of Smallville's 20th anniversary celebrations — and it arrives back sounding as quietly essential as the day it first appeared. Produced in Hamburg during the early and formative years of Smallville Records, the album captures a particular creative moment — a young label and a debut artist finding their footing together, the results betraying none of that uncertainty. Only warmth, elegance and a deep, unhurried sense of purpose.
Nine tracks unfold across two sides of vinyl with the quiet confidence of music that knows exactly what it is. Rau's loop-driven grooves carry a meditative quality that rewards close listening without demanding it — subtle textures and emotive depth emerging gradually, each element given space to breathe within the album's characteristically minimalist framework. With additional production from Tilman Tausendfreund and Jacques Bon and artwork from Stefan Marx, Asper Clouds remains a complete and cohesive statement from a label and an artist operating in perfect alignment. A timeless record, back where it belongs.
