F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - 2X1=4 Artist_Elizabeth Fraser

F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - 2X1=4 Artist_Elizabeth FraserF. S. Blumm and Nils Frahm return with their fourth collaborative album: 2X1=4 finds the duo unexpectedly exploring a dub influenced universe, though in truth its one already familiar to both. F. S. Blumm, for instance, is co founder of Quasi Dub Development, whose 2014 album, Little Twister vs Stiff Neck, featured Lady Ann and Lee Scratch Perry, while Frahms music not least 2018s All Melody has occasionally betrayed a fondness for the forms

both original 45 RPM singles are pretty hard to find these days

“The album unfolds over four Acts with personal musical statements about love and loss

but expectations of how he should be as both an artist and a man

Akira Okazawa (B)

Like the Golden Record adrift in space

In this radically ambitious independent era HONNE want to remove the gloss

Although this shift in direction could remain a complete one-off in Hazel’s back catalogue (“I just want it to feel like a standalone song

and producing (including an EP for Hyperdub in 2019)

The collection really allows all the classics to resonate strongly

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initially with the likes of Bugz In The Attic and The Herbaliser

9FM show highlighting “forward-thinking music from the Detroit Diaspora