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MAX 006CD
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M=Maximal presents a remix album of tracks off of o F F Love's debut, Probably Love (MAX 001LP). o F F Love explores the theme of love (or non-love) in a different way. Uniqueness, suspense, attachment and intensity arises from his music. The sentiments are simple, direct, not hiding behind words, but sharing the feelings just as they are, just as they come. o F F Love pushes repetition to its extreme in his open diary, just like an obsessive lover would, adding variations of the same song until the repetition feels like hypnosis. You start to engage with its slowness and minimalism and with ghostly abruptness, it all of a sudden, it becomes real emotion. With their remixes, oOoOO, Sail A Whale, Craxxxsoft, E+E, Iced Out and Boyof18+ exploring Probably Love and turn it into something else. Fragile songs become stronger. Feelings are kept the same.
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MAX 001LP
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This is the debut album from o F F Love. Autotune, echo and reverb -- slow heart beats and minor chords -- o F F Love's music is fragile. Hidden behind a Ying Yang-print scarf and transforming his voice, o F F Love is talking from a distance. However, he couldn't be more direct than in his manner of sharing his feelings with his minimal productions and repetitions: not looking for perfection, but emotions. Feelings are shared, almost forgetting about privacy or discretion. o F F Love performances might often make some audience members feel like a voyeur. Mixing his obsessions for boy bands of the '90s, the vulnerability and extreme emotion in Arthur Russell's and Panda Bear's vocals, and the excessive use of autotune by current RnB artists, o F F Love creates a heart-rending minimal RnB in disguise, floating between a kaleidoscope of ambient sounds and a more noisy cataclysm of emotions. Probably Love is an open diary about what can be mistaken for love, presenting o F F as a broken dreamer, a wounded lover, missing the One. o F F Love released 2 EPs in 2011 (Disenchanted Fairytale and Secret), and played/performed in Europe supporting CocoRosie, How To Dress Well, Creep, Butterclock, oOoOO and Sin Fang, but also in some less conventional venues such a boxing ring, a bed and on top of a construction site for the opening of an art show in Berlin.
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