2006年末に設立された東京のレコード・レーベル。
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Booking: booking@flau.jp
Press: press@flau.jp
Event: event@flau.jp
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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CAT No. FLAU42
Release Date: Japan - July 16th / Europe & USA - July 25th 2014
Format: CD (LP/Digital from Project Mooncircle)
これまで国内外複数のレーベルから多数のシングル/EPをリリースし、ヒップホップ、エレクトロニカ、あらゆるビートミュージックを吸収した個性溢れるアンビエント・ベースで評価を高めてきたイギリスの若手プロデューサーsubmerseが待望のファーストアルバムを発表します。『Slow Waves』は、クローゼットの中やベッドの下の古い箱に入った、ぼやけたポラロイドのように積み重ねられた多層の記憶のコレクション。クリスマスツリー、初めて学校に通った日。ヨーロッパや日本での旅、たくさんの風景を通り過ぎながら、飛行機や電車から見える瞬間のイメージ。submerseが過ごしてきた様々な経験はとてもユニークかもしれませんが、誰しもが思春期の色褪せた思い出を同じように持っていることでしょう。J Dillaを彷彿とさせる絶妙のタイムラグ感溢れるビートプロダクション、レコードのチリチリとしたノイズに、エレピとパッドのスィートなレイヤーが緩やかに溶け込み、来るべき夏の温度を気持ちよく沈めてくれる極上の美麗ダウンビート作品に仕上がっています。尚、こちらのアルバムはベルリンのレコードレーベルProject Mooncircleとの共同リリースとなっています。
‘Slow Waves’ is a collection of multi-layered memories, stacked like grainy polaroids in an old box in the closet or under the bed while the colours are fading. A young Rob under the christmas tree or holding a school cone on his first day of grammar school. Images of travels across Europe and Japan, moments slipping in trains or planes while landscapes passing by. Memories so unique to his life, yet so similar to the fading memories of youth and adolescence we all have…
After a series of well acclaimed EP’s, each of them created at very specific moments in the artists life, submerse took the time and sat down to reflect and convert all this into his first full length album on Project: Mooncircle and flau.
01 Let’s Never Come Back Here Again
02 math.
03 Snorlax04 VHS.chords
05 Shoreline
06 Cut From The Team
07 Approaching Ends
08 Fumes
09 Buildingbloks.insert
10 Tapes
11 Struck Out 12 Sayz U (CD bonus edit)Beautiful collection of soundscapes – LTJ Bukem
Lovely chilled, broken ambient beats – BBC Radio 6
A soporific, blunted journey through instrumental hip hop – Inverted Audio
Awesome as ever! – Om Unit
Orme appears to be particularly fond of lilting, off-kilter rhythms and a slightly dusty sound palette – XLR8R
When it comes to downtempo dreaminess and beats smothered with strokes of lushness, Submerse is up there with the very best – Mixmag
CAT No. FLAU42
Release Date: Japan - July 16th / Europe & USA - July 25th 2014
Format: CD (LP/Digital from Project Mooncircle)
01 Let’s Never Come Back Here Again
02 math.
03 Snorlax04 VHS.chords
05 Shoreline
06 Cut From The Team
07 Approaching Ends
08 Fumes
09 Buildingbloks.insert
10 Tapes
11 Struck Out 12 Sayz U (CD bonus edit)これまで国内外複数のレーベルから多数のシングル/EPをリリースし、ヒップホップ、エレクトロニカ、あらゆるビートミュージックを吸収した個性溢れるアンビエント・ベースで評価を高めてきたイギリスの若手プロデューサーsubmerseが待望のファーストアルバムを発表します。『Slow Waves』は、クローゼットの中やベッドの下の古い箱に入った、ぼやけたポラロイドのように積み重ねられた多層の記憶のコレクション。クリスマスツリー、初めて学校に通った日。ヨーロッパや日本での旅、たくさんの風景を通り過ぎながら、飛行機や電車から見える瞬間のイメージ。submerseが過ごしてきた様々な経験はとてもユニークかもしれませんが、誰しもが思春期の色褪せた思い出を同じように持っていることでしょう。J Dillaを彷彿とさせる絶妙のタイムラグ感溢れるビートプロダクション、レコードのチリチリとしたノイズに、エレピとパッドのスィートなレイヤーが緩やかに溶け込み、来るべき夏の温度を気持ちよく沈めてくれる極上の美麗ダウンビート作品に仕上がっています。尚、こちらのアルバムはベルリンのレコードレーベルProject Mooncircleとの共同リリースとなっています。
‘Slow Waves’ is a collection of multi-layered memories, stacked like grainy polaroids in an old box in the closet or under the bed while the colours are fading. A young Rob under the christmas tree or holding a school cone on his first day of grammar school. Images of travels across Europe and Japan, moments slipping in trains or planes while landscapes passing by. Memories so unique to his life, yet so similar to the fading memories of youth and adolescence we all have…
After a series of well acclaimed EP’s, each of them created at very specific moments in the artists life, submerse took the time and sat down to reflect and convert all this into his first full length album on Project: Mooncircle and flau.