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Floating Di Morel is a band from Berlin (Germany). The band was founded in 1994 by Sabine Blödorn (ex-Young Scamps) and Kai Drewitz (ex-P.L.O.). Other temporary band members have been Martin Osti, Thorsten Neu, and Ulf Goretzki. Summer Has Become Cold is the eighth release (six albums and two 7-inches) by Floating Di Morel, the fourth LP on the Berlin label Play Loud! Productions.
"Reckon this might be my favourite album of the year so far -- 'Omu' is certainly my favourite track. Summer Has Become Cold is the new one from Floating Di Morel, the long-running northern German band centered around Sabine Blodorn and Kai Drewitz. It picks up where their 2018 split with Ulf/FDM left off, with terse drum-machine loops and dubwise walking basslines providing the backdrop for the duo's icily laconic vocal interplay and minimal, plasmic guitar. Can't quite put my finger on it, there's something really unusual and beguiling about the way the tracks are arranged and mixed: ultra-criss, stripped-back, machinic, but at the same time diffuse, smeared, on the cusp of dissolve... All I can really say is that fans of Bobby Would, Nico + The Faktion, The Phantom Payn, Jac Berrocal etc need it and need it bad." --Low Company
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Play Loud present the new album from Floating Di Morel and ULF. The band members in their own words: "The new (fifth) Floatin' LP is divided in two parts. On one side you hear the last works together with Thorsten Neu, which you know from the records Said My Said (PL 006LP, 2009) and Goal Less Play (PL 034LP, 2013). The other side is a new more electronic experience with ULF."
39 Clocks member Jürgen Gleue about Floating di Morel: " (...) sound like Sky Saxon & The Seeds did float, effortless, it's just there as it pops into your head like a thumb into your mouth."
Jake Austen of Roctober Magazine writes: "Like a classy Suicide (the band, not the act of desperation) these cats present minimal, chilling music, but wear ties and sweep the warehouse before inviting you over for a bizarre ultra-underground concert."
German critic Robert Miessner states: "If Velvet Underground had not disintegrated in 1973 and instead had met with Neu! or Mute's Daniel Miller, they would have sounded like Floating di Morel."
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2013 release. The Berlin-based band Floating di Morel follows Said My Say (PL 006LP, 2009) and their entry in the Play Loud! (Live) Music Series, A Summer Evening with Floating di Morel (2011), with their fourth studio album, Goal Less Play. Cover art by Lara Esther Goldman. "Alas a new album by my favorite band. No idea what planet or what era these songs are from. Beautiful free poetry over disintegrating protest songs. Imagine the best sunglasses you've ever seen started a band." --Wesley Eisold (Cold Cave)
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2009 release. Floating di Morel is probably the best rock 'n' roll band to come out of Germany since 39 Clocks. This might sound like overblown hype, but it's not; the few critics who attended the band's rare live performances were all flabbergasted. Here are a few reference-points: Suicide, free jazz, Throbbing Gristle, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Star, White-Light-hysteria -- stuff Floating di Morel likes but doesn't copy at all. Get ready for one of the strangest and most exciting acts from Berlin.
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