Sergio
1. The Cure – Jumping Someone Else’s Train
This has been the track which connected my soul to the brain. The sparks flew, similar to a vocation that made me start making music. From that moment on i started to play the bass guitar.
2. Ricardo Villalobos – Dexter
It was 2003. I was in Berlin. I’d been dazzled by its musicality. A piece of art. I bought the vinyl and i still own it. Timeless.
3. Archigram – Padre
I remember i was in Florence when a friend coming back from London, during a private afters, put this on the turntables. That was memorable. I had the melody in my head for days.
4. Autechre – VLetrmx21
This is one of the tracks that i find unique in the contemporary electronic music field. Infinite. Maybe it has even affected My Flower music.
5. Vatican Shadow – Waco Postmortem
Another great artist which accompanies my trips. Huge artistic personality and the face of an underground scene that will remain so (luckily).
Andrea
6. Wraetlic – Rats
I’ve been listening to the Wraetlic album literally every day for months. Rats is a masterpiece and probably my favorite record. I love every single second of it.
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7. Ennio Morricone – Volti e Fantasmi
This leaves me wordless every single time i listen to it, Perfect, ethereal, piece of art.
8. Zomby – Witch Hunted
I remember Sergio, years ago, way before My Flower started, introducing me to this amazing producer. This was the first track i’d ever heard by Zomby, and that, potentially, was a turning point for me.
9. Tim Buckley – Hallucinations
It was three years ago when a friend brought my attention to Tim Buckley and this album. He used to say that you can hear a kind of distress in Tim’s music. I feel it and that’s why this is an all time favourite for me.
10. Autechre – 444
Sergio already mentioned Autechre and how we feel influenced by their sound. This track has been with me for years and still is. Masters.
My Flower – Waiting For A Black Sun (Circlens)
Italian label Circlens kicks off with an eight track mini album by My Flower, an act made up of Andrea Mangione—who is also behind the label—and Sergio Faktor—who was formerly involved with Lula Circus. The new label will be an outlet for “exploring all techno and experimental paths,and will give a platform to artists who want to express themselves.” Both artists in My Flower hail from Milan, and despite being an emerging duo who release on Stem Records, they have a fully formed sound that is already turning heads. The album has been produced throughout the last two years and it’s a collection of some of the most dark and significant tracks the duo made in that period as they moved through a number of cities. The result is a magnificently patient, expansive and almost hymnal album of techno that sounds like little else.
Setting a fantastic mood and tone from the off, opener ‘2711’ is wholly absorbing with its widescreen sonic landscape and harmonic chords all underpinned with shuffling beats. ‘Ayurveda’ has more direct and driving drums, but the airwaves are still serene with rich layers of smooth synths that add up to a heavenly groove. ‘Crows’ then effortlessly flips things with its quick and slick techno drums but once again the synths are soothing and calm.
The frictionless grooves and patient sense of hypnosis continue through the uncluttered techno roller that is ‘Dediaevil,’ the excellent ‘Murders’ comes up with the first broken drum pattern as it punches from left to right and the impressive collaboration with Møhr, ‘Iamaliel’, then strips things back to another celestial and wide open place where heady grooves and suspenseful synths are the order of the day. ‘Anemone’ shows off this duo’s impressive skills for melody as keys rain down over heavy kicks, and then ‘Lost’ closes things out in majestic fashion, with golden drones and ever-rising chords draped over a hurried but supple rhythmic bed.
This is a confident and compelling debut from a promising label and equally auspicious production team.
