Julius Steinhoff presents Flocking Behaviour

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  • The Smallville man's debut solo album will arrive in July.
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  • Smallville Records co-founder Julius Steinhoff will release his debut album, Flocking Behaviour, in July. Steinhoff helped launch the Smallville record shop in Hamburg in 2005. Since then he's overseen Smallville's evolution into a celebrated record label (they also opened a second shop, in Paris, in 2007). To date he's released solo EPs on his own label as well as Live At Robert Johnson, White and Geography Records, becoming synonymous with subtle, considered deep house along the way. He's also one half of Smallpeople alongside Just Von Ahlefeld—the pair released an album called Salty Days in 2012. A press release written by Gerd Janson says Flocking Behaviour is "rooted in the elegiac variety of the big three (New York, Chicago & Detroit) and a romantic concept of house music that is at times utopian." Janson adds that the album amounts to "one man's love letter to his musical passion." The record will see release on double-vinyl, CD and digital formats. The CD version comes with a 12-page booklet by Stefan Marx, the artist behind Smallville's iconic sleeves. You can listen to a 17-minute long sampler for Flocking Behaviour via the SoundCloud player below:
    Tracklist A1 Cheetah Nights A2 Under A Waterfall B1 Treehouse B2 All The Things You Are C1 Flocking Behaviour C2 Sun And Stars D1 Hey You D2 Where Days Begin Smallville will release Flocking Behaviour in July 2014.
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