On sundays we take a step back and turn the dial a notch down. This day of the weekend is a great opportunity to let in the sound waves that massages the eardrums and stimulate the senses. Sounds meditative huh, but after a good weekend of absorbing the club most of you will walk around the house like zombies anyway.

aus is the solo project of Yasuhiko Fukuzono, who was born in Tokyo and is one of the owners of flau. flau is a record label and casts its net across a worldwide community of artists with a particular affection for fragile arrangements and microscopic songwriting.

Since the time of a teenager, Fukuzono has been composing music for experimental film works, and enormous tape works have been produced during this period. Over the years his work received rave reviews from around the world for his unique and exquisite interpretation of today’s electronic music.

Light In August, Later is his latest work released on Someone Good. It’s a measured and paced collection of pieces that evoke warm visions of open plains, sun causing mirages to gather on the ground. In this vision the detail of the environment close at hand somehow becomes united with the epic horizon laid out beyond it. It is in fact this relationship between focused detail and sweeping texture that is at the very heart of this edition.

Matching cycled melodic passages with tiny electronic clicks and tones, aus generates a music that borrows the harmonic intent of pop but reduces it to a fine grain. Melodies blossom, are swept up in a gauze of processing and become transformed into something exquisitely intimate and engaging.

Collaborating with Viennese musician Glim on two pieces, and joined by artists such as Cokiyu on others, this is a record that speaks to aus’s abilities not only as a composer, but also a sound crafter of the highest order. An essential and compelling deconstruction of electronic infused pop by one of Japan’s most impressive young artists.