We’ve been quite excited about Emika for a while here at FACT.

The Berlin-based producer and singer emerged on our radar late last year with ‘Drop the Other’, a subterranean epic that came backed with a superb remix from Scuba. A former Ninja Tune intern, Emika moved to Berlin after falling ill at the end of her degree; a tale she explained to FACT in an interview earlier this year:

“I had to have my appendix removed and they completely messed up the operation. I needed more and more surgery – it was a complete nightmare. Then I spent a long time on morphine not really understanding anything. When I was well enough to get a job again I couldn’t relate to society anymore, nothing made sense to me.

“Then HSBC gave me some free flights for upgrading my account to a postgraduate account, and because I’d spent a lot of my childhood in Prague and I’d been to Paris and the usual EasyJet spots, Berlin was the only one I hadn’t been to, so I thought fuck it I’ll just come to Berlin. I discovered the underground music scene here and I felt really good again; for the first time in a year I felt like me.”

Inspired by the city’s music scene (she often “spends all Sunday [at Berghain], writing lyrics in my head over the beats” before coming home and “trying to make what I’ve heard in the club”, Emika began refining her dark form of pop, and collaborated with Lee Jones and Nick Hoppner on a My My EP released via Will Saul’s Aus Music, before signing ‘Drop the Other’ to Ninja Tune.

Anyway, now Emika has announced the follow-up to ‘Drop the Other’. a new single for Ninja Tune titled ‘Double Edge’. She also has a debut album planned for the label.

‘Double Edge’ features field recordings “captured in Tuelfelsberg, West Berlin on a cold winter’s day”, Emika explaining that “she focused on capturing sound, phenomena that exist independently of people and personality. But once back in the studio they become the language I use to tell stories”.

So there you go. ‘Double Edge’ is released on May 10, and comes backed with a remix by Tectonic boss Pinch, whose Underwater Dancehall is still one of the best dubstep albums to date. Naturally, our excitement increases.