2006年末に設立された東京のレコード・レーベル。
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
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
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©FLAU
Kristian Peters was born in 1980 and is living in Rostock, Germany. He is producing electronic music since winter 1993/94. Starting out with very unconventional and hard techno tracks, becoming more and more experimental he finally found his place in ambient music. Kristian does not see his music as ambient but as a state that could be anything. It primarily describes a kind of state, that could be anything. The titles can give clues, but are only a superficial circumscription, the very meaning should be coming from the music itself.
The way to success goes back to an e-mail that he send in May 1998 to Jörg Follert from Karaoke Kalk in reponse to the visor release. Jörg was puzzled and played the different tracks (a full demo CD followed) to Tom Steinle. It was Tom who decided to publish the CD in January 1999.
Novisad was produced with my good old 386 computer that only had a soundblaster 1.0 card built in and therefore produced a very poor soundquality. To optimize for speed I restricted myself to 11khz in 8bit mono, otherwise I wouldn’t have finished these tracks even today. Nevertheless, there was enough time to have a cup of coffee or to do something else besides while the old 386 was computing. The last two tracks on the novisad album ( demut, abschied) were done with my new computer that finally could work with 44.1khz and stereo. I also used that machine to convert all the previous tracks to CD format. Basically I used for all CD tracks the WinDAT program, a simple cut&paste program together with CoolEdit 1.5. This may sound simple but until I found the according sounds, entire days could pass by easily.
NovisadことKristian Petersは1980年ドイツのRostock生まれ。13歳の頃からトラック製作を開始し、徐々に現在のギター・プロセッシングによるアンビエント・ トラックを作るようになる。1998年Karaoke Kalkから名盤WunderをリリースしたJorg Follert(aka: wunder, wechsel garland)にメールをしたことがきっかけとなり、19歳という若さでtomlabよりレーベル初期の名作1stアルバム『Novisad』を発表、 その繊細なアンビエント・サウンドはovalらにも並び称された。さらに2001年には名盤の誉れ高い2ndアルバム『Seleya』をリリース。翌年に はkompaktの人気アンビエント・シリーズ『Pop Ambient』に参加、他audio dregs,k-raa-kなどのコンピレーションにも音源を提供した。今回flauより約７年ぶりとなるアルバム『funkel』をリリース。
ALBUM
Novisad (tomlab,1998)
Seleya (tomlab,2001)
Funkel (flau,2009)
COMPILATIOIN / REMIX
V.A. – Smallrooms (inbox,1998)
V.A. – Chipyard ’99 (wycombe, 1999)
V.A. – Pop Ambient 2002 (kompakt,2002)
V.A. – Many Things Worth Living For (Autoplate, 2004)
AS KRISTIAN PETERS
V.A. – For Friends (tomlab, 2000)
V.A. – Harmony with Ambience) (Windfarm, 2003)
AS ADLIB
Adlib – Adlib (tomlab,1998 /k-raa-k,1999)
V.A. – K-Raa-K Festival (k-raa-k, 2001)
V.A. – K-Raa-K Festivalsampler (k-raa-k, 2001)
V.A. – For Friends (audio dregs, 2002)
GERMANY
Kristian Peters was born in 1980 and is living in Rostock, Germany. He is producing electronic music since winter 1993/94. Starting out with very unconventional and hard techno tracks, becoming more and more experimental he finally found his place in ambient music. Kristian does not see his music as ambient but as a state that could be anything. It primarily describes a kind of state, that could be anything. The titles can give clues, but are only a superficial circumscription, the very meaning should be coming from the music itself.
The way to success goes back to an e-mail that he send in May 1998 to Jörg Follert from Karaoke Kalk in reponse to the visor release. Jörg was puzzled and played the different tracks (a full demo CD followed) to Tom Steinle. It was Tom who decided to publish the CD in January 1999.
Novisad was produced with my good old 386 computer that only had a soundblaster 1.0 card built in and therefore produced a very poor soundquality. To optimize for speed I restricted myself to 11khz in 8bit mono, otherwise I wouldn’t have finished these tracks even today. Nevertheless, there was enough time to have a cup of coffee or to do something else besides while the old 386 was computing. The last two tracks on the novisad album ( demut, abschied) were done with my new computer that finally could work with 44.1khz and stereo. I also used that machine to convert all the previous tracks to CD format. Basically I used for all CD tracks the WinDAT program, a simple cut&paste program together with CoolEdit 1.5. This may sound simple but until I found the according sounds, entire days could pass by easily.
NovisadことKristian Petersは1980年ドイツのRostock生まれ。13歳の頃からトラック製作を開始し、徐々に現在のギター・プロセッシングによるアンビエント・ トラックを作るようになる。1998年Karaoke Kalkから名盤WunderをリリースしたJorg Follert(aka: wunder, wechsel garland)にメールをしたことがきっかけとなり、19歳という若さでtomlabよりレーベル初期の名作1stアルバム『Novisad』を発表、 その繊細なアンビエント・サウンドはovalらにも並び称された。さらに2001年には名盤の誉れ高い2ndアルバム『Seleya』をリリース。翌年に はkompaktの人気アンビエント・シリーズ『Pop Ambient』に参加、他audio dregs,k-raa-kなどのコンピレーションにも音源を提供した。今回flauより約７年ぶりとなるアルバム『funkel』をリリース。
Novisad’s latest brings us pleasant music for nostalgia and reflection, a circular disc which ends pretty much in the same place it started, which means you can create a larger, collective loop by setting your disc player to repeat mode. – Incrusion Magazine
he makes the guitar sound like the most beautiful instrument in the world.– Norman Records
simple and stringent in form and yet expressive of great complexity…It is rare that this sort of music results in such melodiousness and human warmth – Motion
an arrestingly lovely thing, full of intricate lo-fi textures and mysterious loop-based constructions – Boomkat
you realize it’s in constant churn rather than repose… Incredibly mature for one so young – Other Music
I do know that his murky rather-lo-fi take on sound construction entrances me…strangely beautiful – Spiderbytes
Novisad: a.k.a Kristian Peters creates conceptual soundscapes as opposed to traditionally structured music. – Norman Records
Krakende lodown dirty wavetables spuwen wezenloos vervaagde loops, uit een aftandse geluidskaart lekken pastorale stretched chords. – Plastiks
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