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• 12 “When you’re making dough, you must must you dough, making you’re “When Toni Way Kostian, commercial yeast. With sourdough, yeast. Withcommercial sourdough, bread. our in yeast baker’s any use don’t dough must rest somewhere cool until until cool somewhere rest must dough and morning following the continue created with a push of a button.” of abutton.” apush with created with made bread than better much so starter. Just the sourdough shape it into a loaf. After that, the the that, After aloaf. it into shape evening, the in dough the making start We might process. of the part any skip should taste handmade, not like it was like not handmade, taste should and contain bran. contain and you have to let it rest. And you can’t can’t you And have ityou let to rest. crust. acrispy, caramelised get you for five days. for five understand the entire process. We process. entire the understand perfect bread is baked properly. It has baked is bread perfect too clean, it must have enough flavour flavour have it enough must clean, too made is and of salt amount right the three days making the dough. The bread bread The dough. the days making three or day. two use next Youthe easily can with the right flour. The flour can’t be be can’t flour The flour. right the with we sell, for instance, can be proofed proofed be can for instance, sell, we have to do it enough but not too much. A much. too not but have it do to enough bread for years because it just tastes it tastes just because for years bread be hurried. If the dough needs to rest, rest, to needs dough the If hurried. be salad and "russian dressing". "russian and salad Way's bread cabbage with sourdough pastrami, The process of making dough can’t can’t dough of making process The I practiced making sourdough sourdough making I practiced When the loaf of bread is ready, it ready, is of bread loaf the When Kneading is also important. You important. also is Kneading Dough My Dough Goodness! REVEAL THESECRETSTO DOUGH. MAKINGTHEPERFECT THREE FLOW RESTAURANTS, WAY, BACCO ANDANDREA, starters. dough mother rye wheat and bakery uses Andrea's

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13 ANNUAL FLOW FESTIVAL MAGAZINE FESTIVAL FLOW ANNUAL Isn’t it strange that when we want to fly some place So from now on, our products will be w a r m f o r a w e e k o f v a c a t i o n , w e c a n f i n d o u t e x a c t l y l a b e l l e d w it h a n u m b e r t h a t d e f i n e s t h e h o w m a n y t o n s o f c a r b o n d i o x i d e i t w i l l t a k e t o g e t ua s m o u n t o f C O2e t h e y g e n e r a t e , f r o m f a r m t o a n d o u r l u g g a g e i n t o t h a t s u n c h a i r , y e t i t ’s a l m o s t s t o r e , s o t h a t y o u k n o w h o w t h e y i m p a c t t h e i m p o s s i b l e t o f i n d o u t w h a t t h e i m p a c t o f d r i n k i n g p l a n e t b e f o r e y o u d e c i d e t o b u y t h e m . T h a t w a y y o u a glass of milk vs. a glass of oat drink has on the can easily compare them to other food products as planet? It’s double strange considering that the food soon as the entire food industry follows our lead, industry generates nearly twice as many greenhouse w h i c h t h e y h a v e t o d o n o w t h a t w e’v e o f f i c i a l ly a n d gas emissions as all transportation combined — c a r s , i n d i s c r e e t ly s u g g e s t e d it o n t h e s i d e o f a l l o f o u r buses, planes, trains, even personal jetpacks.* European packages.

*The food industry is responsible for 25% of global CO2e (WWF), while the transportation sector accounts for 14% (IPCC 2014). WANT TO REST IN PEACE? HELSINKI IS FULL OF PLACES FOR NAPS AND SNORES. LO-FI POP SISTERS, MAUSTETYTÖT, SEMI-PROFESSIONAL SLEEPERS THEMSELVES, TESTED THE 16 LIBRARY, CINEMA AND A LUXURY SUITE FOR CATCHING UP SOME ZZZ’S. 2019 FLOWMAG SleepSleep tight,tight, tigerstigers

Open dream: Oodi, Töölönlahdenkatu 4 The recently opened Helsinki Central Library Oodi lures masses of visitors, some with screaming children, but on MAGAZINE FESTIVAL FLOW ANNUAL the third floor, there is a perfect place for napping during the quiet afternoon hours. Large pillows and soft seats have been placed near the enormous windows. The etiquette is so informal no one would notice if you happened to • Future dreams: snore a bit. TEXT When other Nordic countries built im- 78-metre Clarion hotel opened in Suvilahti is also changing. In Sörnäi- signed a shining new hotel on the water­ Maustetytöt: “We have a natural Tero Kartastenpää pressive hotels, Helsinki was not in the Jätkäsaari three years ago and the nen, the old insurance headquarters is front. In Kallio, HYY Yhtymä’s hub for talent for sleeping. We sleep all the Ilkka Saastamoinen forefront. But don’t lose your sleep over elegant boutique hotel, St. George, in being turned into a 197-room hotel. In scientists, offices, restaurants and time. If the sun is shining, you can IMAGES it, the city has since been piled up with the city centre two years after. Hakaniemi, the acclaimed Norwegian tourists is rising in 2022. choose a warm spot for a nap in Oodi.” • beds. Flow Festival’s neighbourhood in architecture office Snøhettan has de- Dreaming is bigger than ever. 17

ANNUAL FLOW FESTIVAL MAGAZINE 19 W LO AT F CheapSleep, Sturenkatu 27 - - - - Maustetytöt: ”Top-class. They provide slippers and all. can see You the pine trees from the window.” While hanging around in the brightly painted communal lounge the of hostel, it almost feels like you’re and 18 travelling in Barcelona Londonor with no money all.at The atmosphere isinternational and very affordable. Beds cost around 25 euros a night less or – if you want to get a full experience in a 26-bed dorm. One of the female dorms, room number 206, offers a picturesque view the of surrounding Vallila neighbourhood. Budget dream: Marski,

. The. most grandi Maustetytöt: “It’s hard to rate the experience as we aren’t used to this kind luxury.of The bed is excel lent. The bath robes are soft and fluffy.” Mannerheimintie 10 Aftermonths 18 reno- of vation, hotel Marski is reopening summer. this The hotel was built in 1961 during a boom Finnish of design. and modernism has beenIt the spot for power suit people and big ger-than-Finnish-every day-life stars like Jayne Mansfield ose suite is on three top of new floors and has a view to Esplanade Park. Splendor dream: Splendor

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• IMAGES PUNK ROCKER HENRIK! AND DJ SANSIBAR ARE FRESHLY ACQUAINTED BUT READY Bryan Saragosa TO SHARE THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF RHUBARB AND LIFE. Ines Kalliala/Ama Essel STYLE/MUAH • Celebration FLOWMAG 2019 ANNUAL FLOW FESTIVAL MAGAZINE

Sansibar inspiring and funny guy. We share the same taste in music. 6/5 points!” of Henrik!: “Henrik! seems to be an

Rhubarb tastes bitter and the ice was hand-cut by Nordic Ice Company.

: “When I first met Sansibar I was so of Sansibar Henrik! high on poppers I didn’t realise what was happening. It was backstage at Tavastia club like ten seconds before my gig was about to start. We didn’t have time to talk too much. During this photoshoot we did talk though, and I was impressed!”

Shirt: Marianne El-Khoury. Knitware: Aamu Salo. Trousers: Ellen Rajala. Socks: Maria Korkeila. Long sleeve shirt: Ensaemble. Socks: Maria Korkeila. T-shirt: Vyner Articles. FLOWMAG 2019 ANNUAL FLOW FESTIVAL MAGAZINE FLOWMAG 2019 ANNUAL FLOW FESTIVAL MAGAZINE FLOWMAG 2019 ANNUAL FLOW FESTIVAL MAGAZINE

SANSIBAR CURRICULUM VITAE

Dj maestro with an eclectic and mind-bending sound. Released tracks on notable labels like Natural Sciences and Darknet. Eats futuristic techno and Detroit electro for breakfast. Two new ep’s coming out: Targeted Inviduals and Emo-002 .

”We want to create a rock ’n roll orgy!”

HENRIK! CURRICULUM VITAE

. Got banned after two million plays due later to sexuallythis year explicit with a live Ecstatic rapper slash hardcore punk rocker. Formerly known on Soundcloud Henrik as Versace Uusi Testamentti banner image. Specialist in chaos. Will be recording a new album band. It will contain a lot of “euphoria and messing around”.

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Henrik! at Flow Sat 10th Aug

Dj Sansibar at Flow Sat 10th Aug

Location: Sweet Suite of Klaus K & Valio. Jäntti & Venna Ballantine Scale cirko.fi

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34 2019 FLOWMAG PIECE AUTOBIOGRAPHY EDITS “Dancing is a form of physical thinking”, Wayne McGregor VENUE has said. He combines art and science – genetics, math and dance – to reveal the most intimate facts about himself. OPERA HOUSE For Autobiography Edits his genome was sequenced The giant of Töölönlahti, the Finnish by scientists and converted to an algorithm that National Opera and Ballet, opened for is the backbone of the dance sections. Ten danc- arias 26 years ago. Architects Hyvämä- ers perform a different selection of McGregor’s DNA. ki-Karhunen-Parkkinen designed a con- troversial building, Oopperatalo. The postmodern house is now even more contemporary than when it was built. For two nights, Flow will spread to the Almi Hall, specialised in experi- mental productions. The hall is named after the opera’s longtime director Al- fons Almi who struggled to get the first real Opera House to be build in Finland. FLOW X OPERA Company Wayne McGregor & Jlin: Autobiography Edits Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones Live A/V At Finnish National Opera •WED 7TH •AND •THU 8TH AUG•

ONE DNA, TWO NIGHTS IN OPERA HOUSE. THE • OO pera!FESTIVAL STARTS WITH A DANCE PIECE BASED ON OTEXT O TeroWE LOOKED INTO HOW SOCIAL AND CHOREOGRAPHER WAYNE MCGREGOR’S HERITAGE. Kartastenpää ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ARE • OPENING MANIFESTED THROUGHOUT THE FLOW FESTIVAL. EVERYBODY CAN COME AS THEY ARE. MUSICIAN ACT JLIN SINJIN HAWKE & ZORA JONES CHOREOGRAPHER The experimental electronic musician Jlin will Once a bright future of cyborgs, next perform live music for the DNA choreography. The a digital dystopia. The opening act WAYNE MCGREGOR American producer was associated with footwork, & are known

Sinjin Hawke Zora Jones MAGAZINE FESTIVAL FLOW ANNUAL The Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Wayne McGregor has worked with the hyperactive post-house but has later escaped for their work with other pioneers prestigious ballet companies around the world. His touring company of dancers, categories. In 2017, Company Wayne McGregor of electronic expression. Hawke Company Wayne McGregor will conquer Helsinki with it’s hit piece Autobiography commissioned her to compose the score to Auto- produced Kanye West and Zora Jones Edits. biography. According to Pitchfork it is “an accom- have worked with the main act Jlin. The Commander of the Order of the British Empire has used his knowledge of plished album full of puckish invention, singular The duo’s audiovisual project Fractal movement when working in film, theatre, opera, fashion, technology and TV – from production twists, and ambient murk”. Fantasy combines sound, image and mo- Harry Potter films to Radiohead’s music videos. After the Opera shows Jlin brings her brand- tion capture technology. Their huge, McGregor has created musical collaborations with The White Stripes, Jamie xx, new collaboration with the visual artist Theresa shapeshifting avatars are projected Steve Reich and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho to name a few. Baumgartner to Flow's The Other Sound on Friday on the screen, mimicking their every 9th of August. move and gesture.

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•Why don’t you people come to my Swan and Koistinen want to redefine gigs, when I could die at any minute! the concept of an ill woman. Instead of That’s what Stina Koistinen thought at a sad, pathetic character waiting for 2019 the age of 24. She was studying music death, they want to present a strong in Helsinki and had just started a band. woman, who enjoys being alive.

FLOWMAG Only a little earlier, a rare cancerous “Everyone’s life is fragile. A lot tumour had been found in her brain. of people live a limited life in some Still, she wanted to make the music sense, disabled or wounded, but life is without limitations, while she had the valuable nonetheless. You can enjoy it, time. This was nine years ago. but also take responsibility for being “They’ll be sorry, when I’m gone, and alive and do something meaningful.” they didn’t come to my gigs, I thought,” When you talk publicly about can- Koistinen, now 33, says and laughs. cer, the illness easily defines you. Standing next to her, Astrid Swan, However, music by Swan and Koistinen 37, is smiling. She also has incurable was created as a result of cancer. cancer. Time Heals “Cancer brought us together.” In the winter of 2013, everything • Their recent co-produced EP is changed. called Swan/Koistinen, and the duo will Swan found a lump in her breast. She be performing at Flow together with didn’t go to the doctor straight away the Canadian musician Owen Pallett. but waited for four months. The nurse calmed her down, saying there’s no way •Two years ago, the violinist Pekka it’s cancer – after all, Swan was only 31. Kuusisto invited Swan and Koistinen to A few weeks later, a doctor examined perform at Our Festival. the lump and again reassured Swan that The singers had known about each it couldn’t be cancer. Just to be sure, other’s illnesses for years but weren’t Swan was sent for further examinations. friends until they met earlier that After the mammography and biopsies, summer in the queue to the bathroom the doctor had to admit to being wrong. at Sideways Festival. They went out for The cancer was aggressive. Only a • coffee, and Swan invited Koistinen to month later, Swan had her right breast TEXT her 35th birthday party. removed and suffered hair loss from Marko Ylitalo In their first collaborative concert chemotherapy. The rest of her album Hayley Lee at Our Festival, they talked about be- release tour had to be cancelled. IMAGES ing artists in hospital corridors, per- Stina Koistinen had been there at ⠅ formed their solo songs and gave their the first gig of the tour. It was a cele- first performance of Swan/Koistinen bration of a comeback album, Astrid 4. material. It was an album in which the artist was The songs came together in a short saying goodbye to her youthful dreams period of time. The compositions and of becoming an international popstar. lyrics were written by the two artists “I remember seeing Stina in the together. There was enough material front row of the gig”. for an album, but Swan and Koistin- “I knew already then that you were en wanted to release only four of the ill”, Koistinen tells Swan. songs. Only the most important songs “I told your spouse that if Astrid ever were included, which emphasises their needs someone to talk to, you can al- uniqueness. ways contact me. I never got a message In addition to piano and electron- from you, but maybe it was too soon.” ic sounds, the EP, which has been de- After that gig, the next time Swan scribed as a pop symphony, includes performed was six months later, at sounds from an MRI machine. Flow Festival in August 2014. The themes of the songs deal with Performing was different than be- bodily experience, fragility of life fore; people were crying. and marginalised voices. Illness can Since then, Swan’s concerts have be heard in the names of the songs: been a place, where people can be “tru- MAGAZINE FESTIVAL FLOW ANNUAL Diagnosis, Hospital, Symptoms. ly weak”.

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Koistinen’s illness had begun earlier. the treatment would work. “It was all The Finns haven’t met Pallett yet, Owen Pallett still smokes sometimes. Today, in the She had such bad headaches, that very uncertain”, Swan says. the collaboration has been done re- beginning of May, is a four-cigarette day in his hometown Toronto. Pallett picks up the phone on the pain killers and the stretching Despite the illness, both women motely. They will meet for the first his way to grab some eggs. routine she received from the health have always been hopeful. Koistinen’s time when Pallett arrives in Helsinki “My boyfriend said we don’t have enough care centre weren’t enough anymore. brain tumour cannot be operated on, a few days before Flow Festival. Swan eggs. So when I wake up in the morning I go down Once her face began to go numb, she but there’s always hope that it doesn’t and Koistinen would like to take their to the corner store where they sell cigarettes one by one. I buy maybe two or three depending went to see a neurologist. The cause spread further. At the moment, Koisti- guest to sauna and the archipelago but how many I think I want to smoke.” of Koistinen’s headache turned out to nen only goes to check-ups, while Swan fear they won’t have time to leave their Pallett has recently shot a new video for his be a tumour in her pineal gland, which has treatment every three weeks to practice studio. upcoming album which will be released later caused a disruption in the cerebrospi- keep the cancer cells asleep. At the Flow concert, Pallett will this year. It will be his third Owen Pallett re- cord – previously he released two albums under nal fluid circulation. ”You have a free ride”, Swan says to play the violin, and Swan and Koistinen the name Final Fantasy. At the moment he is also After an MRI scan, she went straight Koistinen. will play the piano. In addition to the doing orchestral arrangements for a band of his to brain surgery. EP songs, they will perform “some sort friends. “They gave me 45 minutes of music that I It was spring 2010, a Monday. Koisti- Sometimes, the fear of dying gets of a set of everyone’s material”. For • have to score for a full orchestra. That’s really nen thought cancelling her gig on the hold of Koistinen. now, this will be their first and last like two or three weeks of work but I try to do it following Friday would be unnecessary. If you start thinking about death, performance together. in three days.” ”I was determined to perform, even it’s simply horrifying. It’s strange and The gig is not meant to be a sad Pallett gets a lot of requests to do arrange- ments for other musicians The reason he agreed with 16 stiches in my head”, Koistinen unknown. event. Swan and Koistinen hope that the to work with Swan and Koistinen wasn’t because recalls. “I’ve also had a few moments when audience won’t be there to see cancer he had too much spare time on his hands. He is ”Well, it turned out we had to cancel the reality that I’m dying has really patients but ambitious artists instead. known for working with bands like Arcade Fire, The Last Shadow Puppets and Grizzly Bear, but the gig.” sunk in”, Swan says. “Or when I received Seriously ill people are often seen as rarely says no to anyone. Only when he is way too After the surgery, the tumour was the information that this might lead victims, but the compassion they re- busy or doesn’t like the music. biopsied, and it was a very rare kind to death, it really felt agonizing and ceive easily turns into pity. “Swan’s and Koistinen’s music is very mov- of cancer. The diagnosis was a terri- unbearable.” “I doubt my audience would come ing, very harrowing, very emotional and tense. I like that. I don’t think there’s a lot of music out ble shock. Luckily, the tumour disap- Without new targeted treatment, to see anyone just because they’re ill. there that really succeeds in creating that sort peared with radiation. Swan’s time is reaching its end. The av- Maybe Astrid’s audience might be dif- of a tension.” Three years later, in 2013, Kois- erage life expectancy for women with ferent because she’s made an album Pallett joins Swan and Koistinen on stage at tinen's alternative pop band Color Do- advanced breast cancer is about three about her illness”, Koistinen says. Flow. He has performed in Suvilahti three times, with his band in 2009 and 2010 plus in 2017 with lor released their debut album. That years. “How should I put it nicely”, Swan Frank Ocean. same year, the cancer came back, and “I am constantly living in a grey says. “Come without pity – because pity “I really like the festival so it was my plea- so did the radiation therapy. area, where I’m more conscious about is awful.” sure to say yes.” At times, it looked like the treat- my death than most people are. But ment had worked and the tumour had most of the time, I’m not thinking about shrunk, but then the next scan would it. If I would, I couldn’t do anything.” reveal an enlarged pineal gland. The “Yeah, it really takes away your abil- treatment was so tough, that some- ity to function and the joy out of life”, times it had to be paused. Still, Koisti- Koistinen agrees. nen continued making music. “Then again, to some extent, being “I have actually been quite defiant, aware of death is like a favourable just like Astrid. I haven’t really given gether even though I was exhausted goodbye although the writer had meant wind”, Swan says. my illness any space. Though it wasn’t both before and after the gigs. I got an- to say something very different. Swan Joking, she says she wants to think of always very wise, I have toured during noyed when people would fuss over me.” said that she had already begun plan- death as a sort of a wonderful holiday. my radiation. It was strange; I was su- ning her 40th birthday party. However, “I can’t stand how stupid people can per tired, but in a way it held my life •The real fussing about began in a lot of people assumed her next per- be! It feels comforting that someday together.” the summer of 2017, after Swan had formance at Flow Festival would be her I won’t have to follow the discussion Swan understands what Koistinen written a long blog post: last. about the Finnish elections.” means all too well. She thought she At 35 and a half, I am a chronic can- “According to the headlines, I was was cured, until in the summer of 2017, cer patient with Stage IV breast cancer. waiting to be buried. It really wasn’t •The EP still needed someone to when she found out that the cancer had Instead of a summer of cooling in the like that.” do the arrangement. Swan and Koisti- spread to her liver, bones and lymph breeze with my long hair blowing, and Swan herself remembers very lit- nen had asked violinist Pekka Kuusis- nodes. It was a death sentence. my spaghetti-shoulder dresses flowing, tle about her performance at Flow. Be- to about whom they should ask if they Swan started chemotherapy again. I have been a bold woman struggling fore the festival she’d been on tour for wanted “an Owen Pallett style”. Pallett She couldn’t be in large crowds but with chemo side-effects and the mental six months, performing her new album. is a Canadian violinist-singer who has continued to perform at festivals. She adjustments that one makes with this Right from the start, the gigs had been done string arrangements for artists needed a private bathroom because re-diagnosis. a cathartic experience for the audience, like Frank Ocean and Charlotte Gainsbourg. even a common cold could kill her. That spring, she had released her even before Swan knew the cancer had He used to perform under the name Fi- “Afterwards, I remember thinking sixth album, From the Bed and Beyond, spread. It was the music that made peo- nal Fantasy. if it was really necessary to perform in which dealt with the fear of dying and ple cry, not the illness, Swan believes. Kuusisto could probably have taken AT FLOW that condition. But back then, it seemed the wonder of staying alive. At the Flow gig, many people close the job for himself but decided to ask extremely important. It held me to- The blog post was interpreted as a to Swan knew there was no guarantee Pallett.

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FLOWMAG ner like waves, as if Britney Spears was singing in the Flaming Lips. In his third album, Currents, Parker successful in creating a kaleidoscop- took an even bigger leap into the world ic album, which was difficult to de- of electronic pop music. Its sound was fine. Listening to its music, at home or closer to the likes of Daft Punk – if Daft live, causes almost physical pleasure. Punk channelled Fleetwood Mac and the The album, created in a perfectionist Bee Gees. Parker said that he wanted frenzy in Parker’s home studio in three his music to be played at clubs because years, came to life on stage, where he liked the communal setting. When Tame Impala performs as a band of five previously Parker sought acceptance musicians. in Perth’s psych-rock scene, he was Tame Impala’s fourth album is to be now looking to move into much bigger released in 2019, and Parker has high circles. expectations for it. Lately, Parker has “For me, it’s always been a spectrum been working with stars like Lady Gaga, of how much and in order to take the Tame Impala of my pop love shows to a whole new level, Parker is I allow to go collaborating with Willo Perron, the per- into my music”, son behind the concert visuals of vari- Parker told The ous superstars. At the age of 33, Park- Unexpected success stories make rock Guardian in 2015. “Early on, when I was er doesn’t want to dim his limelight music interesting. The Australian mu- KEVIN PARKER’S making the first album [Innerspeak- anymore. sician Kevin Parker and Tame Impala er], I had my guard up. It has to be ‘this’ “I was in LA a few years ago and for prove that succeeding beyond expec- TAME IMPALA AIMS FOR amount of alternative. I thought: it isn’t some reason we’d taken mushrooms”, tations is still possible in the 2010’s, allowed to have these qualities that Parker told The Guardian in 2015. “I was also known as the age of streaming. PSYCHEDELIC PERFECTION. people will attribute to mainstream coked up as well, and a friend was dri- When Tame Impala released its first culture. I was shutting that out because ving us around LA in this old sedan. He single, Sundown Syndrome, in the spring Parker has explained about how he left I wanted the music to have a particular was playing the Bee Gees and it had the of 2009, few thought that a decade his poor mother and moved in with his identity. But over the years, I’ve rea- most profound emotional effect. I was • later, Parker’s one-man band project rich father to enjoy his record collec- lised that it’s not about the genre or listening to Staying Alive, a song I’ve TEXT would be the headliner in major music tion and live next to the beach. Parker’s the demographic. It’s not the scene that heard all my life. At that moment it had Samuli Knuuti festivals. Even back then, psychedelia father also paid for his education at makes music naff. If it’s naff, it’s naff. this really emotive, melancholy feel to Pauliina Holma was the thing, a desire to express con- an expensive Catholic school, where he I saw things for their real value.” it. The beat felt overwhelmingly strong IMAGE sciousness in an altered state but also chose to study astronomy, but ditched The smooth pop melodies and an- and, at that moment, it sounded pretty • to expand it through music. On his de- class whenever possible. drogynous vocals of Currents made psychedelic. It moved me, and that’s but album, Innerspeaker, 2010, Parker With the success of Innerspeaker, Kevin Parker a chart-topping artist what I always want out of psych music. I felt that fuzzy guitars and 1960’s rock Parker found a hard-­working popstar and inspired Rihanna to cover New Per- want it to transport me.” influences were the best way to achieve within himself. Tame Impala’s second son, Same Old Mistakes for her 2016 al- That is also what they are going to his goal. album, Lonerism, introduced synthe- bum Anti. Reviews compared Currents do at Flow Festival. For a brief mo- Parker’s personal history sup- sisers and pop melodies, which Parker to My Bloody Valentine, Wilco and the ment, the audience will be transported ported the narrative of a stoner had shunned before. In Spin magazine, electronic rebirth of Radiohead, which somewhere else. boy from a wealthy family. Parker explained he wanted to write only showed that Parker had been AT FLOW SAT 10th AUG In various interviews,

PAGE 45 Nitzer Ebb: Control I’m Here, 1989. At Flow Fri 9th Aug. Amnesia Scanner: AS Too Wrong, 2018. Rough tune from the late 80’s British EBM thugs At Flow Sat 10th Aug is filled with tight basslines. Experimental club tune from a Berlin-based Finnish duo shakes listeners with its bass drop.

Ringa Manner: A perfect festival tune for when you just want Manner: Quite dramatic! to jump up and down, close your eyes and feel the strobe Markin: I think this was pretty good. Especially the part with lights on your eyelids. I have no clue who they are but I the small drop that shifted the song into a noisier gear. It hope they are scheduled to play late at Flow, ha ha! began to feel like my cup of tea. Jesse Markin: I’m not a big fan of strobe lights...The things Manner: Yes! It had a good twist. I’m always into that sort of that matter to me in music were not really present here. It effect-laden vocals that create confusion. might have worked better as an instrumental dance tune, Markin: A bit weird, a bit quirky. although it didn’t make me want to bust a move. I didn’t get Manner: Yes. a clear picture in my head...a flash of Berlin maybe. Markin: The soundscape brought to mind a few references. Manner: I agree. Jamie xx’s Gosh for example, so this song was not exactly Markin: It would be a good soundtrack tune. What is that Al filled with surprises. Except for the for the drop! It would Pacino film where he is solving a murder case at an un- probably sound even tighter if we could blast it out on a JESSE MARKIN derground club? Cruising? People are dressed in leather, proper soundsystem. AT FLOW there’s red lights and tension. This would work in it. Manner: Yep, those kinds of bass drops feel so nice. Physical- Manner: Clubbing montage. ly speaking too. RUUSUT Markin: True, it nearly drugged me out a bit. Definitely AT FLOW K-Hand: Global Warning, 1994. At Flow Sun 11th Aug. delivered. Intensive no-nonsense track from a dynamic Detroit techno producer, released by Warp Re- Theo Parrish: Overyohead, 1999. At Flow Sat 10th Aug. cords in the 90’s. Dark and moody deep house sound piece from the Detroitian underground producer. Manner: Pretty merciless! Markin: Whoa. Yeah. A bit predictable. It bothered me that the song started out the same way it finished. Manner: This kind of hits the same spot as the previous track Manner: It sounded more like a state of mind than a but..… composition. Markin: But this one was much better! Markin: Are you ever in that state of mind? That jammed? Manner: Yes, the difference being that this is the type of Manner: Yeah, sometimes. It had that “pscccht, pscccht, psc- music I have been digging lately. I could listen to this at ccht” on every fucking beat. It sounded like you’re being home too. repeatedly slapped in the face and you’re just like “whaa?” Markin: Yeah, I would definitely listen to this. This song had Markin: I would classify this as proper techno. Like why did a base that would be easy to add your own ideas to, and play they even have any lyrics in it? around with it. At some point it felt a bit too long, though. Manner: Yeah. Although I do understand that if a song has a Manner: To me this kind of drawn-out and monotonous, yet repeating vocal sample it can create a hypnotic feel at quite a gentle song felt really good. best, especially if it comes out of a massive sound system. Markin: I liked how the song started out, it had a sensitivity to it. If the mood was right, I might even dance to it. Manner: Yeah.

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