It was hard curating an order for this week's list, mostly because of City Park, which started near the beginning and ended up near the end. From jangly pop (Dead Famous People), through Congolese Rumba (Lumingu Puati), and EDM (Giant Swan, and Working Men's Club) to Ambient (A Winged Victory for the Sullen), it's all in there, as usual. Pick of the week is a very close run thing between Lumingu Puati's "Davidi Pitie" (which reminds me a bit of Congolses legend, Franco) and lovely electronic pop with harmony vocals of The Leaf Library's "Hissing Waves", with the latter just (and only just) getting the nod.

Oct 18 - Oct 24 2019

FLAU - 25/11/2022

Cuushe - Do You Feel Me

Kumisolo - Kung Fu Boy

Remix I did for Machinone's track, "Siksy" which also features Danny Norbury. More info about the album here:
http://www.flau.jp/releases/r17.html
https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/tokyo-remixes

Siksy (Origamibiro Remix)

Solid Steel (19th December) Coldcut return with a special 2 hour mix to end another great year on Solid Steel and a late contender for Mix of the Year. Matt Black steps up with a suitably broad selection starting with a laid back opening from Tokimonsta, Thundercat, Slugabed and The Free Design. Proceedings pick up with Cid Rim, Instra:mental and classic Smith & Mighty. Recent guests Distal and Peverelist both feature, alongside Untold, The Bug and Oneohtrix Point Never. Then we go deep with Miles Davis, David Axelrod and even Beethoven, before closing the show with Mr Fingers, Four Tet and Basic Channel. 


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TOKiMONSTA	_	Fallen Arches	_	Brainfeeder
Thundercat	_	We'll Die	_	Brainfeeder
Zo!	_	Playing Your Game, Baby feat Anthony David	_	unknown
Wayne Kounty	_	Saturn Rain	_	Third Ear Recordings
Beats Antique	_	The Lantern	_	Copeland International Arts
Emanative	_	Black Enchantment	_	unknown
Slugabed	_	New Worlds	_	Ninja Tune
theRobust	_	Atlantarctica	_	Saturate!Records
The Free Design	_	Listen	_	LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Bersarin Quartett 	_	Geschichten Von Interesse	_	Denovali Records
Elektriktus	_	Flying At Sunset	_	ICTUS Records
Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X	_	Zulu Guru I ft Trae Harris	_	Ninja Tune 
My Dry Wet Mess	_	Words I Didn't	_	Brainfeeder 
Cid Rim	_	Bear Hug Love	_	Affine
Instra:mental	_	delta zone	_	Nonplus Records
Taylor McFerrin	_	Degrees of Light	_	Brainfeeder 
Teebs	_	Bern Rhythm	_	Brainfeeder 
Smith & Mighty	_	unknown	_	unknown
John Lawrence	_	Bass is Maternal	_	Three Stripe
DISTAL	_	Got The Block Hot	_	Embassy Recordings
Untold	_	Stop What You're Doing	_	Hemlock
Peverelist	_	Infinity Is Now	_	Tectonic
The Bug	_	Void feat Liz Harris	_	Ninja Tune 
Offshore	_	Breeze	_	Big Dada
Underworld	_	Sola Sistim	_	unknown
Brock Van Wey	_	Too Little Too Late	_	unknown
Daniel Kobialka	_	Blue Spirals	_	LiSem Records 
Oneohtrix Point Never	_	Emil Cioran	_	Arbor
The Miles Davis Quintet 	_	Round Midnight	_	Columbia
David Axelrod	_	The Human Abstract	_	Capitol
Beethoven	_	Piano Concerto No 3	_	La Voix De Son Maître
Annette Peacock	_	Pony	_	RCA Victor
Tes La Rok	_	Intanationalz	_	Argon 
Mr Fingers	_	Slam Dance	_	Alleviated Records
L-Vis 1990	_	Lost In Love - Night Slugs Allstars Street Dub	_	PMR
Sabres of Paradise	_	Smoke Belch Beatless	_	Warp
Fredo Viola	_	The Sad Song	_	unknown
Four Tet	_	This Unfolds	_	Domino
Danny Norbury	_	All The Stars Are Out Tonight	_	flau
The Toids	_	Whisper Hungarian in My Ear	_	Odd Shaped Case
Basic Channel	_	Radiance I	_	Basic Channel
Anita Baker 	_	My Funny Valentine	_	Elektra

Solid Steel Radio Show 19/12/2014 - Coldcut

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2015/01/stefan-jos-specialism-uneasy/

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Stefan Jós - Specialism (Uneasy)

www.flau.jp/releases/r17.html
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ghost And Tape https://soundcloud.com/ghostandtape

windwijzer (ghost and tape remix)

My remix for the wonderful Noah, from my favourite label flau. Please check out her beautiful album Sivutie out June 22nd.

Single 'flaw' with my remix out now https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/flaw 

Album 'Sivutie' available for pre-order http://flau.jp/releases/48.html

Guardian feature http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/01/new-band-of-the-week-noah-no-52

Noah - doll (kidkanevil Remix)

Time to start Friday morning with a slice of abstract tranquility from Montreal based Stefan Jós who releases his debut album 'Primitives' on flau and raum shortly. Spacious, bugged-out electronics give way to sober crispiness. "The moody rhythms, wood and metal, weird noises in wet caves and other goodies for ground-dwellers and mole people alike."

Stefan Jós is Devon Hansen, a musician and video artist born and raised in Southern California.

Primitives is released next week on flau and raum. More info here

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PREMIERE: Stefan Jós - Spinners

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Noah - 像自己

Dead Famous People new single 'Looking At Girls' 
Released 24th October 2019

During their brief time together, New Zealand-to-UK transplants Dead Famous People released only nine songs spread over two 12” EPs. These sold next to nothing, the band split, disappeared from music.  Today, they’ve been largely forgotten.

It doesn’t seem like much of a story.

Yet front person Dons Savage is an unparalled talent, a savant of the perfect melody and lyrics which both touch and bite, a throwbook to the Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's of Brill Building pop, an instinctive penseuse besting the originators of the Riot Grrrl movement by responding to their conversations of rage and sexuality and finding a place in the world some years before the initial sparks of that particular revolution had even begun.

Dead Famous People originated in Auckland, New Zealand after Dons (then Donna) left an earlier combo upon finding she had no room in which to introduce her own songs. Gathering a few compatriots, Dead Famous People began playing out and were soon invited to make an EP for Flying Nun, label then in the early stages of subtle world takeover. Despite sharing a similarly breezy approach to pop arrangement (the light touches of organ, the wistful lyrical sensibility, the composition of each song a discrete story), they never entirely fitted in with their label mates (another all-female NZ group described Dead Famous People as “scary as hell and always looking for a fight”), the band decided to make the move to London to seek fame and fortune.

There they garnered favourable reviews and found themselves signed to Billy Bragg’s Utility label, by Bragg’s partner Peter Jenner, at one time or another the manager for Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and The Clash.

John Peel called the band “An important, exciting contribution to the often pallid world of contemporary pop” and granted them a session, Sounds described a song wherein “Donna Savage’s lovely, husky tones relate the tale of the girl who beats up boys in alleys and steals their leather jackets, while the band ride a pop merry-go-round reminiscent of their chums The Chills.”  David Cavanaugh wrote that “Dead Famous People are alive and unjustly obscure”, while other reviews mentioned Morrissey (“Donna . . . matches Morrissey for wit and exceeds him for melodic charm”), Pete Shelley (“A pop peer of The Buzzcock’s lead songwriter”), Elvis Presley (“Donna’s tougher than The King, without the sneer, but with the benefit of actually writing her own songs”) and other musical icons.

Despite this, homesick and unable to find a proper deal, the band fell apart. They recorded a series of final demos, posthumously released with faulty mastering.  Dons sang backup vocals on The Chills’ “Heavenly Pop Hit”, and eventually caught the attention of a pair of guys from Croydon starting a new act, Saint Etienne. Dons’ silky vocal delivery and knack for the perfect disaffected melody - not to mention her incongruous appearance – worked well with the pair’s lovingly deviant approach to pop music. Soon they asked her to become their vocalist. 

But soon after singing on the original version of their cover of the Field Mice’s “Kiss And Make Up” and a version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Winter In America”, Dons received news that her mother was ill.  She returned to New Zealand and ended her musical activities for over twenty years . . . until Fire Records managed to locate her in Auckland, just a few months after Dons had begun writing again.

Looking At Girls is the first single release from Dead Famous People’s first real album, Harry.  Recorded at home and remixed by noted LA producer Dave Trumfio (Handsome Family, Billy Bragg & Wilco, American Music Club, Built To Spill, The Jesus and Mary Chain) in LA, Looking At Girls is a pure pop ode to life’s simple joys.

Dead Famous People - Looking At Girls

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OTHERLiiNE - Hates Me

constant inconsistencies

Buy the album here, on Vinyl/CD/Digital: https://orcd.co/zorro

In 1979 the late Congolese musician Lumingu Zorro, protégé of Kinshasa’s legendary 60s band leader Dr Nico, recorded Mosese, his only pre-2000 solo album, for the Tabansi label- and this is it.

CHAMPETA STORM WARNING! The first-ever reissue of one of West Africa’s best-kept rumba-soukous secrets- as well as being one of the most in-demand titles on Colombia’s booming Champeta sound system scene, where a rare record is protected as fiercely as on the Northern Soul or Jamaican sound system scenes, the label scratched off, the record hidden from view when not on the turntable.
Possibly one of the strongest and most consistent Congo dancefloor albums ever recorded perfectly balanced between voices, horns, guitars and percussion.
Which is why original copies of this all-time rumba rarity almost never reach the open market, being traded between Colombia’s champeta picoteros (sound system selectors) instead.

In Kinshasa they say ‘Miziki ezelaki eleng ndeko’- ‘Sweet music, brother!’. Roger that.

Lumingu Puati (Zorro) - Dadavi Pitie

Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan.

general inquires: flau@flau.jp
press: press@flau.jp

Motohiro Nakashima/Kumi Takahara/Seigen Tokuzawa & Masaki Hayashi/Kazumichi Komatsu/FEM/Spring In A Small Town/The Future Eve feat. Robert Wyatt/Same Waves/Cicada/Madegg/Henning Schmiedt/CRYSTAL/Rayons/Nemui PJ (kidkanevil & noah)/Noah/Submerse/Radicalfashion/Stefan Jós/Cuushe/Rima Kato/Machinone/Ulises Conti/Danny Norbury/Sparrows/IKEBANA/Ensemble 0/Masayoshi Fujita/El Fog/Liz Christine/Twigs & Yarn/MayMay/Cokiyu/Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven/Kanazu Tomoyuki/The Boats/Kumisolo/Novisad/aus/Dale Berning/Part Timer/Colophon(Jefre-Cantu Ledesma)/Geskia/Orla Wren/Sylvain Chauveau

events:
julia holter / ólafur arnalds / julianna barwick / sharon van etten / grouper / james blackshaw / kira kira / deaf center / rachel grimes / masha qrella / pascal pinon / ryan francesconi & mirabai peart / otto a totland / erik k skodvin / rauelsson / dustin wong / safety scissors / tape (häpna) / serafina steer / florencia ruiz / grand salvo / aspidistrafly / caroline / federico durand / f.s.blumm / springintgut / the mistys / sophie hutchings / spartak / celer / en / rachael dadd / tomi lebrero / takuji aoyagi | 青柳拓次 (kama aina) / tenniscoats | テニスコーツ / tujiko noriko / 内橋和久 | kazuhisa uchihashi / トウヤマタケオ | takeo toyama / bun / fumitake tamura / saphhire slows / shuta hasunuma / gutevolk / squares on both sides / patten / ian hawgood / smile down upon us / pan am scan / the young group / mitä kuuluu / 大谷友介（オオヤユウスケ）/ 伊藤ゴロー |ito goro / mama!milk / 石橋英子 | eiko ishibashi / 阿部海太郎 | umitaro abe / organ-o-rounge / tatsuhiko asano / kyo ichinose / miki / predawn / mmm / 曽我大穂 (cinema dub monks) / 坂田学 / popoyans / 青葉市子 / 麓健一 / 扇谷一穂 / 王舟 / 青木隼人 | aoki hayato / sawako / trico! / miko / ikebana / rayons / minakumari / カラトユカリ | karato yukari / yok / rima kato / oh' yoko / 惑星のかぞえかた / voq / 小鳥美術館 | nagisa shima /

Noah - 像自己

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