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│ Mum - The Breezeblock Mix │
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│ Station....... BBC Radio 1 ││
│ Year.......... 2004 ││
│ Genre......... Various ││
│ Air/Set Date.. 27/04/2004 ││
│ Release Date.. 27/04/2004 ││
│ Size.......... 46,7 MB ││
│ Tracks........ 01 ││
│ Length........ 34:01 min ││
│ Source........ DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) ││
│ Encoder....... Lame ││
│ Quality....... 192KBps / 44.1Khz / Full Stereo ││
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│ Mum, formed in 1997, are two guys and two twin sisters ││
│ hailing from Iceland. "Finally We Are No One" is their ││
│ second album, the follow-up to "Yesterday Was Dramatic -- ││
│ Today Is Okay" released in 2000. On this release Mum return ││
│ with the same intricate, laptop-based glitch beat ││
│ programming featured on their first record, but they shift ││
│ their focus to a warmer sound, sprinkled with soft vocals ││
│ and richly textured acoustic elements such as guitars, bass, ││
│ accordion and cello. ││
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│ Iceland, of course, is also the home of pop chanteuse Bjork ││
│ and indie band Sigur Ros. Like both of those acts, Mum ││
│ create beautiful soundscapes and subtle, fragile ││
│ arrangements. But instead of the vocal acrobatics of Bjork ││
│ or the wind-swept, static noise epics of Sigur Ros, Mum make ││
│ electronic music with a strong affinity for liquid sounds. ││
│ Throughout the album, water seems to be trickling and ││
│ seeping in through the cracks of drum patterns, washing over ││
│ bleeps and bass lines. ││
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│ Mum have performed concerts in unusual places, including ││
│ shows in Iceland's public pools. (The band used U.S. ││
│ military underwater speakers while listeners floated on ││
│ water with their ears submerged; you had to be in the water ││
│ to hear anything at all.) "Faraway Swimmingpool" feels like ││
│ an attempt to simulate that experience, and many other ││
│ tracks on "Finally" have an equally bubbly, yet muffled ││
│ quality. ││
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│ Mum's most recent project involves accompanying Sergei ││
│ Eisenstein's 1925 silent film "Battleship Potemkin," a show ││
│ that will be shipped stateside this summer. ││
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│ [01] Mum - The Breezeblock Mix (BBC Radio 1) 34:01 ││
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│ Total Playtime : 34:01 min ││
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