oh my gawd. this is beautiful. from the vocals to the insane percussion to the atmosphere

Oct 2013

Múm
Smilewound
Morr Music - MORR124
You don't need to be Freud to regard teeth as a delicate issue. They can make joy look joyous and pain look painful, and on the cover of the new múm album they do both at the same time. As "Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Okay" (2001), "Finally We Are No One" (2002) and "Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know" (2009) "Smilewound" is another example of the band's art of juxtaposing two conflicting meanings and taking advantage of the energy created through the tension between both.
Sparser in sound than many of its predecessors, "Smilewound" is an airy, relaxed record. The múm-core-duo of Örvar and Gunni doesn't make you laugh out loud (except maybe for the quirky vintage Arcade-sound-start of "When Girls Collide"), but it will make you smile often - despite the heavenly voices singing about violence in one form or another in most songs. Musically, múm's capability to build playful electronic sound-ornaments around simple melodies is in full bloom. And these days they know that trimming the ornamentation can strengthen the melody. Take "The Colorful Stabwound": an aguish drum'n'bass piece and"Smilewound" gets close to a straight pop-song. Even that isn't very close, but it combines its rhythmic strength with a simple yet effective piano-line and the soothing lushness of a female voice to something compelling that follows you like the smell of a delicate eau de toilette. Or "Candlestick" which started out as a little ditty strummed on an acoustic guitar many years ago and has grown into this bouncy piece of synth-pop that changes its musical colours every couple of beats until you feel comfortably dizzy. Perfect pop in very fancy clothes. No wonder that antipodean pop-princess Kylie Minogue wanted to collaborate with múm on the "Whistle", the main song in 2012-movie "Jack & Diane".
Recorded in, among other places, the band's practice-space, an old baltic farmhouse and on the kitchen-table after dinner, the album was produced by múm themselves. And being the revolving collective they are, it comes as no surprise that we see the return of former member Gyda. Defining satellites as part of the core fits nicely with the band's penchant for ambivalence - in fact that's part of the album's charm.

Cat.no.: MORR124
Format: CD/LP

Tracklisting
1. Toothwheels 
2. Underwater Snow 
3. When Girls Collide 
4. Slow Down 
5. Candlestick 
6. One Smile 
7. Eternity Is The Wait Between Breaths 
8. The Colorful Stabwound 
9. Sweet Impressions 
10. Time To Scream And Shout 
11. Whistle (With Kylie) 1. Toothwheels 
2. Underwater Snow 
3. When Girls Collide 
4. Slow Down 
5. Candlestick 
6. One Smile 
7. Eternity Is The Wait Between Breaths 
8. The Colorful Stabwound 
9. Sweet Impressions 
10. Time To Scream And Shout 
11. Whistle (With Kylie)

Release Dates:
Sep 06, 2013 (Worldwide) 
Sep 17, 2013 (US)

múm - When Girls Collide

Cokiyu - Pulsation (with Geskia!)

Fly Race

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. 


Coldcut   https://twitter.com/Coldcut

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/

https://soundcloud.com/stefan_jos
https://soundcloud.com/flaurecords

Download

Stefan Jós - Specialism (Uneasy)

www.flau.jp/releases/r17.html
flau.bandcamp.com/album/tokyo-remixes
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

MORE INFO

PREMIERE: Stefan Jós - Spinners

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan.

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

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