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'Jfm' Divorce Records 2013

by JFM

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Live performance at Handle Bar Toronto for Nite Comfort May 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIk0sXynulA)
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Bunt 02:16
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New Breath 03:07
Michael Rancic 60 top songs of 2013 playlist (http://michaelrancic.com/2014/01/03/bestof2013/)
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EZY2LUV 03:21
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Lava Love 02:07
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Nomad 03:35
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Felix 02:29
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Bye 02:36

about

"Killer album of fractured, lo-fi mutations, from submerged House to tape dub and beyond...JFM is the work of Toronto-based sound and visual artist Jesse Matthews aka JFM. Armed with a trusty sampler and spangled mind, JFM hole-punches chunks of reality into busted and surreal loop grooves recalling the work of everyone from Muslimgauze to Bugskull and Nate Young, rubbing frictional layers of location recordings from contrasting alien environments with a thick soup of FX creating charmingly awkward interzones of mutant disco, house and avant oddness where his mind and sampler run unimpeded. There's a lot of this kind of mongrel/hybrid/lo-fi stuff around at the moment, but this is a keeper..." - Boomkat UK 2013

"Captivated by grime and goop, ears are cleansed of filth only to be replaced with the sludgiest of all beats. High wizard JFM not only delivers the muck of sound sacrifice in his temple of fuck-drip, but also sweats this vibe through excreting samples and grainy textures of any kind, really. Casting down upon the unconverted, JFM becomes their mind’s eye and morphs into what their body needs to move. Gripping everything, including souls and mental health, JFM will stop at nothing to bring your feet to a maddening degradation of psyche. But lemme keep this brief: I was trolling a typical music source of mine today and stumbled upon JFM. Digitally stumbled upon. Like, I’m fucking trapped in this machine, and it’s at my full-time job. I NEED OUT. HELP. THIS IS REAL. JFM HAS ABSORBED ME INTO MY WORK COMPUTER. And my only way out is if you buy up his Self Titled LP album on Divorce Records!" - Tiny Mix Tapes USA 2013

"JFM’s s/t LP is a safari of sounds and styles...as if they were wafting from the windows of cars and clubs, bars and backyard parties, before you pedal past and the next one gets a hold of your head...a radio anthropologist as collage artist, collecting critical bits to make a mosaic in your mind that feels at once nostalgic and immediate, metropolitan and organic." - Weird Canada 2013

“Stylistic detours are part of the fun. Little snippets of samples weave themselves into an incoherent whole. If vaporwave ever decided to huff some ether it might sound a little something like this. ‘JFM’ is impressively weird.” Beach Sloth Review 2013

Silent Shout #26 Top 30 Albums of 2013 (silentshout.ca/2013/12/13/top-30-albums-of-2013-30-16/)

credits

released May 13, 2013

Performed, recorded & mixed live by JFM. Polished by Chuck Blazevic. Released via Divorce Records LP/digital Spring 2013.
open.spotify.com/album/57ciCmH0s3G9D1ot7JDBHz

license

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