Moomin - A Minor Thought
Label: Smallville Records – SMALLVILLE LP 11
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Jan 2016 / July 2026 Repress
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House, House
Five years after his debut The Story About You — one of Smallville's most definitive and enduring releases — Sebastian Genz returned as Moomin in 2016 with his sophomore long-player, arriving with the same unhurried grace that characterises everything he puts his name to. Now back on wax for 2026, this repress restores one of Hamburg deep house's most quietly essential albums to circulation, and it sounds as warm and timeless as ever.
The core dialogue between organic, flowing melodies and surgical drum loops that made Genz's music so immediately compelling remains entirely intact — opener 123 balancing jittery percussion against a jaunty seaside melody with characteristic precision, Woman To Woman conjuring ancient ballrooms through rising strings and keys while a dense drum pattern hammers alongside. The nocturnal second half shifts texture, Alone introducing more synthetic and introspective moods before Chemistry arrives with lively bounce and queasy strings and Unshaped closes the record with a loose, curious openness. Superlative deep house from a producer who operates, quietly and entirely, in a universe of his own.
