sunday morning music: Lau Nau

"Sleeps"

This weeks edition of Sunday Morning Music comes to us from an especially magical artist from Finland, Lau Nau. Lau Nau has been getting alot of press lately, so much so that Google Reader informs me there have been 6 posts via various blogs and sites in the past week (and one from 2005 by WFMU, proving once again that the NJ free-form radio masterminds are wayyyy ahead of the curve). Since being bombarded with Lau Nau tracks all week, I knew Sunday Morning Music would be the perfect place to show off her floating dreamscapes. Highly rec'd for fans of Animal Collective's softer side, White Rainbow, Eno, etc.

Lau Nau- Lue Kartalta
Lau Nau- Painovoima, Valoa

Lau Nau "Painovoima, Valoa"

nu musik: Track n Field

Connoisieurs of SOUND

Considering how much we love Swedish music, it was only a matter of time before we started border-hopping to the neighboring Scandinavian countries in search of the freshest new sounds. Well, we didn't have to travel very far.

Track n Field are from Helsinki and they claim to have created "the most diverse sound establishment coming out of Finland." The duo is comprised of Roberto Rodriguez and Jukka Kaartinen, both industry veterans with experience in production and DJing. Track n Field's sound is the natural amalgamation of their influences and experiences, infusing downtempo, house, electro, and breakbeat in the hopes of creating music that works just as well in the club as it does on a pair of headphones. I think their music sounds like Simian Mobile Disco on a whole bunch of valium.

Head over to the group's MySpace to hear some tunes (my favorite at the moment is "Iso Maha"). You can purchase their debut album Marathon from Beatport or the iTunes store.

Track n Field MySpace