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Artist:	MUM
Title:	Please Smile My Noise Bleed
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 020CD

Features two new songs by Múm and six remixes by Styrofoam, ISAN, Phonem, Christian
       Kleine, Arovane and B. Fleischmann. Not to be confused with the Múm Remixed album on Thule. In
       a way, it was only a matter of time before Múm would end up on Morr Music. Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening
       to the Icelandic quartet's celebrated debut album Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK, knows that Múm's "eye
       shutting-bicycle beats, sounds and melodies" would feel suitably at home with Morr. This record came to be raw for Múm,
       like a raw carrot. In a way, their machines wrote the music themselves, while Múm were playing around on a mountain,
       lying down, standing up, running around. When they came back they were surprised by their beauty. This is where things
       started looping and feedbacking and even the old mountain radio swam in with a few random words and murmurs. A very old
       distant friend joined in singing, but only for a split second. When the songs had recorded themselves on tape,
       Thomas sent them out to all his nice guys who made new pieces out of them, each one special. Christian
       Kleine's old mountain radio is playing a steady diet of old school electro pop. Eight-bit snare drums and a deep
       massaging sub-bass manage to put a headnoddingly near-perfect groove into Múm's delicacies. Styrofoam has the original
       Múm melodies spinning out of control while somewhere along the way, a vocoder and a steady kickdrum manage to sneak in.
       Bernhard Fleischmann makes a happy return with some splendid cut-up old school hip-hop action with the Múm girls humming
       along gently. Phonem turns Múm's clearcut melodies into shifting layers of grainy sound and deep textures, only to be
       interrupted by an ever-evolving broken beat. Arovane does what he does best: lush homemade synths and basement beats.
       ISAN contribute their dark and brooding "Cantena" mix -- all deep analog bass and persistently ringing bells with the
       original melody making only the vaguest of appearances.

Artist:	MUM
Title:	Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MORR 058CD

Classic debut Múm album, previously issued by Tugboat & Thule -- available again. Yesterday Was Dramatic -
       Today is OK was mostly recorded in a tiny, sweaty room in the summer of 1999 with carpenters banging nails around the
       band, but sometimes they put on headphones so they couldn't hear them. It was originally released on an Icelandic label
       called Thule, but early on a number of disputes came up, which ended up dragging on for many years. Part of the
       attraction of the album is its mixture of analog instruments such as harmonica, accordion and glockenspiel with digital
       clicks and cuts. But what makes it so beautiful is that at no point does this combination feel constructed or forced.
       While listening to Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK, you don't care how it was made, you're just enjoying that
       it exists.

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