FLAU

ABOUT

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded in December 2006. curated by Yasuhiko Fukuzono aka aus.

2006年末に設立された東京のレコード・レーベル。

 

CONTACT

General Information: flau at flau.jp
Press: press at flau.jp
Booking (for FLAU artists only): booking at flau.jp
Music Promos (for Radio): promos at flau.jp

 

NEWSLETTER

ENGLISH
JAPANESE (日本語)

 

DEMO POLICY

We are only accepting demos in digital form. Please email demos at flau.jp with links to audio files (but NO email attachments), SoundCloud, and Dropbox etc.
We are not releasing Japan only edition or CD only edition. Please do not send us demos that already have a record contract.

 

PRESS

the nation’s premier label for hushed music – Pitchfork

Flau releases are sonically quite diverse, from acoustic folk to dream pop and complex drum experiments. And though eclectic, never before has a label’s oeuvre come together to so closely sound the way a cherry blossom looks – The FADER

one of the biggest names in the world of really small sounds…the perfect soundtrack to a Sunday evening – Timeout Tokyo

consistently impressive – XLR8R

Flau has associated itself with a signature sound…association with Flau suggests a superior level of pop craftsmanship…What’s remarkable about Fukuzono’s project, which launched at the end of 2006, is that he’s achieved quality control without uniformity – exclaim!

Flau has shown that sometimes silence beats flashiness – METROPOLIS Magazine

flau seem to have a magic touch; everything they put out..has a celestial, positively glowing aura about it that has us longing for more..sonically the label is incredibly diverse, but what its releases share in common are a playful curiosity, an unmatchable quality and a genre-bending commitment to evoking time and space within their sounds – DUMMY

Flau label casts its net across a worldwide community of artists with a particular affection for fragile arrangements and microscopic songwriting…A reliable resource for all the finest, quirkiest exploratory electronic pop music – Boomkat

it combines genuine emotion with a sense of playfulness – Fluid Radio

everyone’s favourite Japanese label and, of course, we make no exception – Going Solo

constantly surprising, consistently stunning – Dummy

un monde de l’infiniment fragile et doux – Ondefixe

one of our favourite labels – Textura

Flau are one of those unassuming labels, which since 2007 have been quietly making their way in the world releasing a diverse range of high quality albums…their roster of international artists blend field recordings, acoustic instruments, microsounds, and voice, in a sound that has become truly synonymous with the label – Furthernoise

worth finding – Foxy Digitalis

grow, pushing boundaries and releasing gems – Drifting, Almost Falling

An inner experience and pure fascination to little things concept and microscopic sounds. FLAU is the latest Label Of The Moment – Otsechka

the Tokyo label’s dreamy and cinematic aesthetic seems tailor-made for two favourite hobbies: idleness and letting the imagination run wild – Solar Flares

This label collects very particular artists from all over the world all under one roof that eclectically holds them together. Each artist is so unique, that you would like to read a whole book about them – PonyDanceClyde

 

FLAU NIGHT

2008-09 London, Cafe OTO
2009-09 Melbourne, Toff In Town
2010-08 Berlin, Altes Finanzamt
2012-05 Malaysia, Black Box Map
2012-05 Macau, LMA
2012-05 China Tour Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou
2012-06 Tokyo, Fujimigaoka Church & VACANT
2012-06 Kyoto, Metro
2013-04 London, Cafe OTO
2013-04 Berlin, Antje Øklesund
2013-12 Tokyo, VACANT
2016-03 Tokyo, VACANT

SCHEDULE

marucoporoporo

7/13（土）東京・Rittor Base w/八木皓平
8/3（土）岐阜・Slow Room w/ CazU-23
8/18（日）東京・Half Moon Hall w/ Wataru Sato, Haruhisa Tanaka, Chihei Hatakeyama
8/28（水）名古屋・K.D Japon w/ marucoporoporo, CazU-23

aus

8/24（土）東京 大森・成田山圓能寺 w/ li yilei, iu takahashi
8/30（金）東京・TBA w/ li yilei
10/20（日）東京・Wall & Wall w/Efterklang

Li Yilei

8/21（水）京都・外 w/ Kazumichi Komatsu, reisen/Itsuhiro Osawa
8/24（土）東京 大森・成田山圓能寺 w/ aus, iu takahashi
8/25（日）和歌山・あしべ屋妹背別荘 w/ meitei
8/28（水）名古屋・K.D Japon w/ marucoporoporo, CazU-23
8/30（金）東京・TBA w/ aus

ARTISTS

SEE FULL LIST

©FLAU

Geskia

Geskia is undoubtedly the master of Japanese underground hip-hop and breakbeats. He started off his journey of sound making in 2001, and became a part of the down-beat unit “coma5”. Although Geskia’s music style is heavily influenced by industrial music (especially by Industrial icons like Coil and Einstruzende Neubauten), trip-hop movement and techno music, but by listening to the unique music that he has been creating, one can indubitably tell that Geskia has already established his very own distinctive music style and philosophy, and it has begun to mesmerize many people, including his fellow artists.

Geskia’s music concept is to reproduce the life around him, to reflect the connections of him with others, and to manifest his perspective about the world. Many established artists spoke highly of Geskia’s wonderful talent, including Dose-One (anticon, subtle, 13 & God), who described Geskia’s music as “very pretty, very well-made”.
It is Geskia’s aims to produce his music by using his sixth sense and subconscious connection with deliberate feelings. “To express those tiny magical moments in life with music”.

自身を取り囲む生活や他人との関わり、 またはその世界観の再現をコンセプトに2001年に活動を開始。初期はCoilやEinsturzende Neubautenに代表されるインダストリアル・ミュージックやテクノ、トリップホップ・ムーブメントに影響を受けていたが、徐々にオリジナルなスタイルを確立。coma5など数々のグループに所属し、トラック提供を果たしながら、Geskia名義で都内を中心に積極的なライブ・パフォーマンスを展開する。2008年flauと契約。日本人離れしたビート感覚とドラマティックなトラックメイキングが見事に結実したデビュー・アルバム『Silent 77』を発表し、世界中のメディアから喝采を浴びた。2008年、flauからデビュー・アルバム『Silent 77』を発表し、英WIRE紙など世界中のメディアから喝采を浴びる。
その後flauよりLukid、Caural、Brackenのリミックスを収録したEP『Eclipse323』をリリース後、術ノ穴より『President IDM』『Alien』、2012年には2枚のアルバムをDynamophone(US)よ り『Muon』、Home Normal(UK)より『323 sayonara memories』をそれぞれ発表。そして2013年2月、通算6枚目となるアルバム『Silent of Light』をPROGRESSIVE FOrMリリースした。

DISCOGRAPHY

ALBUM / EP

Silent 77 (flau,2008)
President IDM (subenoana,2009)
Eclipse 323 (flau.2009)
Represent DIY (subenoana,2009)
Resonant DIM (subenoana,2009)
Alien (subenoana,2011)
Muon (dynamophone,2012)
Silent Of Light (progressive form,2013)

COMPILATION / REMIX

aus – Antwarps (preco,2008)
The Silence Was Warm 2 (symbolic interaction,2008)
Pawn – Kitchen EP (symolic interaction,2008)
Electro 5 Finger – Zion System (low high who?. 2008)
Paranel – Recollections For Fifteen (low high who?,2009)
Eloq – Lost 70G (low high who?,2009)
Ian Hawgood – Low Films In Low Light (home normal,2010)
V.A. – Hello!!! vol.1 (subenoana,2010)
V.A. – Hello!!! vol.2 (subenoana,2010)
V.A. – Forma.3.10 (progressive form,2010)
Bugfics – Defrag (subenoana,2011)
Hopeless Local Marching Band – The Old Man Chokes Up~ (symbolic interaction,2011)
Bosa2 – Ristrante B (subenoana,2011)
V.A. – Play for Japan vol.3 (ototoy,2011)
V.A. – ICASEA Benefit Compilation (ICASEA,2011)
Cokiyu – Mirror Flake (flau,2011)
V.A. – YMO Rewake (electric sheep,2011)
Pawn – Glimmer of Sunlight (dynamophone,2011)

AS VONGAKU

Crow That Spells Word In Globe (ctrl alt del,2008)

AS ALL APOLOGIES

Nine Stories (symbolic interaction,2009)

PRESS QUOTES

Calm and mellow, while solid and rhythmic, Geskia makes music easy and complex at the same time and is highly recommended to all.- No Ripcode

 

advanced underground hip hop and post-IDM electronica…powerfully constructed elegance – Boomkat


Geskia’s palette consists of soaring melodies and ambience, brought down to Earth by glitchy, twittering jitters of rhythm and bass…Geskia had all the means necessary to translate his vision into an aural odyssey, a strolling tour inside a colorful, expressive mind. – FiveEight

 

What Geskia has managed to do is create an incredibly accomplished offering. – The Silent Ballet

 

Geskia leapfrogs from techno, to bleary ambient passages and hip-hop inspired breakbeats in an exciting and perfectly judged performance. – Cyclic Defrost

 

Le temps de mettre tout cela en forme étant arrivé, on croise les doigts afin que Geskia n’accouche pas d’un monstre hideux, d’une aberration polymorphe dont les membres ne sauraient tenir ensemble par un trop plein d’associations, à première vue, incongrues. – Liability

PRESS QUOTES

Calm and mellow, while solid and rhythmic, Geskia makes music easy and complex at the same time and is highly recommended to all.- No Ripcode

 

advanced underground hip hop and post-IDM electronica…powerfully constructed elegance – Boomkat


Geskia’s palette consists of soaring melodies and ambience, brought down to Earth by glitchy, twittering jitters of rhythm and bass…Geskia had all the means necessary to translate his vision into an aural odyssey, a strolling tour inside a colorful, expressive mind. – FiveEight

 

What Geskia has managed to do is create an incredibly accomplished offering. – The Silent Ballet

 

Geskia leapfrogs from techno, to bleary ambient passages and hip-hop inspired breakbeats in an exciting and perfectly judged performance. – Cyclic Defrost

 

Le temps de mettre tout cela en forme étant arrivé, on croise les doigts afin que Geskia n’accouche pas d’un monstre hideux, d’une aberration polymorphe dont les membres ne sauraient tenir ensemble par un trop plein d’associations, à première vue, incongrues. – Liability

Geskia

JAPAN

Geskia is undoubtedly the master of Japanese underground hip-hop and breakbeats. He started off his journey of sound making in 2001, and became a part of the down-beat unit “coma5”. Although Geskia’s music style is heavily influenced by industrial music (especially by Industrial icons like Coil and Einstruzende Neubauten), trip-hop movement and techno music, but by listening to the unique music that he has been creating, one can indubitably tell that Geskia has already established his very own distinctive music style and philosophy, and it has begun to mesmerize many people, including his fellow artists.

Geskia’s music concept is to reproduce the life around him, to reflect the connections of him with others, and to manifest his perspective about the world. Many established artists spoke highly of Geskia’s wonderful talent, including Dose-One (anticon, subtle, 13 & God), who described Geskia’s music as “very pretty, very well-made”.
It is Geskia’s aims to produce his music by using his sixth sense and subconscious connection with deliberate feelings. “To express those tiny magical moments in life with music”.

自身を取り囲む生活や他人との関わり、 またはその世界観の再現をコンセプトに2001年に活動を開始。初期はCoilやEinsturzende Neubautenに代表されるインダストリアル・ミュージックやテクノ、トリップホップ・ムーブメントに影響を受けていたが、徐々にオリジナルなスタイルを確立。coma5など数々のグループに所属し、トラック提供を果たしながら、Geskia名義で都内を中心に積極的なライブ・パフォーマンスを展開する。2008年flauと契約。日本人離れしたビート感覚とドラマティックなトラックメイキングが見事に結実したデビュー・アルバム『Silent 77』を発表し、世界中のメディアから喝采を浴びた。2008年、flauからデビュー・アルバム『Silent 77』を発表し、英WIRE紙など世界中のメディアから喝采を浴びる。
その後flauよりLukid、Caural、Brackenのリミックスを収録したEP『Eclipse323』をリリース後、術ノ穴より『President IDM』『Alien』、2012年には2枚のアルバムをDynamophone(US)よ り『Muon』、Home Normal(UK)より『323 sayonara memories』をそれぞれ発表。そして2013年2月、通算6枚目となるアルバム『Silent of Light』をPROGRESSIVE FOrMリリースした。

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