The Week's Best Vinyl Releases

Few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store.

After years spent discovering gems in Phonica’s end of year lists, it made sense to give them a regular space on FACT. Every Saturday, Phonica staff will pick out the five vinyl records you should grab this week.

 

MIDLAND
‘Before We Leave’ (Gerd Janson Remix)
(Phonica White)

An epic return for Midland, who floats down on a flying carpet laden with midnight grooves and lush strings à la Andrés. Gerd Janson’s light touch remix is just the ticket, coaxing out a foxy bassline while leaving the smoky strings intact, and the ‘Bare Bones’ mix is a fine rhythm track for your crates.

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SEVERED HEADS
Dead Eyes Opened
(Dark Entries)

Chances are there’s not enough mutant analogue gore-pop in your life, right? Reliably sound reissue label Dark Entries have got a three-track solution via Aussie industrial oddballs Severed Heads, whose 1983 single ‘Dead Eyes Opened’ is the sort of freaky electro that’d fit right into a Powell set.

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TAMBIEN
‘Der Elf’
(ESP Institute)

Billing yourself as a “beacon of hope in a dark warehouse” is a bold gambit indeed, but Bavarian trio Tambien pull off that melancholic, goosebumps-raising mood on ‘Der Elf’ and seal the deal with the erotic after-hours pulse of ‘Are You In Touch’.

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LOWTEC
Workshop 20
(Workshop)

Jens Kuhn brings three tracks of raw, minimal deepness which gently unspool and falter to an almost molasses-slow pace. Modest, yet disarmingly addictive.

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PX$H6XD (POSH GOD)
Hot 003
(Trax Couture)

Unknown entity POSHGOD unleashes some dirty filth for the school holidays over five tracks of gnarly, venereal house, peaking on the liquid gold euphoria of ‘Nubian 124′ and the ultra-jackin’ ‘Dancin’ ‘N’ Shit’.

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