This Friday’s exclusive FACT mix comes from Jason Fine, an up-and-coming house producer who’s released on Omar-S’s FXHE label, and been an office favourite since we first heard his stunning Future Thought album – one of our Best of 2009 – last year.

The Michigan-dweller’s sound looks to the golden years of Chicago and Detroit club music, full of yearning melody and with an electro-influenced bulbousness that invites comparison with Mr Fingers, Virgo et al. In the era of rigidly quantised, precision-tooled production, the live, unsequenced feel of Fine’s drum and synth programming is as bracing as a smack on the chops. We had to get him on the FACT mix, and the results are superb.

Not to place the reference points too highly, but fans of Detroit legends Drexciya and the city’s current house music golden boy Kyle Hall should both be into this – and there are wonky synth-led moments that will appeal to followers of Holland’s Legowelt. You can download Fine’s FACT mix below; a full interview with the man is on page two.

(Available for three weeks)

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