smallfunk music is a publishing and label created by keyboardist magnus johansson, based in stockholm with a satellite around cape town. the bulk of the music is composed by alex van heerden, well known trumpet player and singer on the jazz and ethnic music circuit of south africa. he has during the last few years melted these influences together with the sounds of european/scandinavian minimal electronic styles of house and techno, resulting in some exciting and truly original blends of rural/urban club music.
.: the sad news is, there will be no more blending from alex' side. he died tragically in a car crash in january of this year, deeply missed by family and friends. a unique voice is silenced, a rare personality is gone. but if you listen carefully you'll catch his vibrations gazing the stars :.
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smallfunk projects are; nefertiti - insect jazz, bushtech - minimal rural techno, afrodisiac - music of secret plants, hemisfär(hemisphere) - electronic karoo anthems in afrikaans, pink field$ - dark erotic and fragile; alex with kate ehrhardt(see myspace.com/smallevilpop), dandyesque - alex van heerden in the psychedelic dub-room, tales of droëland - more wasteland beauty; AvH with paul miller.
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"The line between the hemispheres, an infinitely unmeasurable area fluctuating constantly, disappearing and reappearing with new values and new mysteries.
A line which simultaneously points to the past and the future without acknowledging any paradox.///
As civilizations, cultures, thoughts and truths rise and fall, the line curves, slopes and dances.
Smallfunk rides this wave, a brain-wave, a sound-wave, a frequency which is the sum-total of our lives, extending in all directions."
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