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Special Vinyl Editions

MGMT offer Congratulations to all of us

Phoenix, Silver Apples and more to play Field Day 2010

Details of James Murphy’s Greenberg score revealed

Marcel Dettmann to release debut album

Jamie Lidell draws for his Compass

Ghost Box present Mind How You Go on vinyl

Massive Attack Heligoland special vinyl edition

UK’s “father of electronic music” Tristram Cary on Trunk

Mythical Mandré 4 LP to be reissued by Rush Hour

Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs deluxe vinyl box set

Five Records: Matmos

From proto-jungle to "sandscape funk", Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt pick their favourite platters

Tracks of the month: January

20 best: Minimal Wave

40 best: Reissues / Compilations of 2009

10 Producers to Watch in 2010: Part Two

The second part of Tom Lea's round-up of promising UK artists, with mixes from Mosca, Julio Bashmore and more.

10 Producers to Watch in 2010: Part One

The making of North/South/East/West

20 Albums to look forward to in 2010

Triangulation: the three faces of Scuba

The Hotflush head honcho gives us the inside track on his eagerly awaited new LP

Martyn: “What I do is quite risky”

Yeasayer on Odd Blood, harmonies and why size matters

Electro stalwart I-f talks pirate radio and movie hitmen

Best Coast: endless summer

Meet Beth Cosentino, the Los Angeles pop slacker for whom life's permanently a beach

Not just a drink: meet Japan’s Midori Hirano

Into The Magician’s Private Library with Holly Miranda

Blaking convention: soul and sampling with James Blake

Best of the archive

New talent: Nite Jewel
"One of the first cassettes I remember purchasing was Warren G's 'Regulate'..."
New talent: The Drums
"We are obsessed with perfect pop", say the soon-to-be-huge Brooklyn duo
Label profile: Touch
The work of this venerable "audio-visual publishing project" is more impressive and relevant than ever

Yeasayer: Odd Blood

"Odd Blood: a frustratingly brilliant record. And Duran Duran: awful" Comments

Scuba: Sub:stance

Hotflush boss preludes his new artist album with a sublime mix CD for Ostgut-Ton Comments

Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM

"That rare thing: a collaboration that draws out great work from both artists concerned." Comments

Sully: ‘In Some Pattern’

"Literally very good music for dancing to." Comments

Yeasayer: ‘O.N.E.’

"A solid piece of retrofit pop" Comments

D1: ‘Jus Business’ / ‘Pitcher’

"The most underrated dance producer in the UK?" Comments

FACT mix 122: Autechre

The living legends of electronic music deliver an ultra-rare DJ mix for FACT. Essential listening, to say the least Comments

FACT mix 121: Bass Clef

The Hackney sub-romancer takes us on a trip to the rhythmic heart of Africa Comments

FACT mix 120: Lone

Nottingham’s Lone steps up this morning for a FACT mix of fractured hip-hop, pop, funk and more Comments

Win tickets for Matmos, Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswald and more in London

The Big Pink announce UK tour

LoneLady and Sian Alice Group in London

Chemical Brothers to headline Sónar; play two Roundhouse shows

Rustie, MJ Cole and Joy Orbison to play next free FACT party

James Murphy and friends at East Village

Deviation Sessions welcomes Mala

Wifey chills with Martin Kemp, Braiden and Spatial

Beirut and Billy Bragg join the Green Man

Sunsplash returns with Jamie Lidell and more

Red Bull Music Academy: 2010 events guide

Latest acts announced for Camp Bestival

Kinetica Art Fair 2010 comes to London

The Vinyl Factory presents Grace Jones

Chris Ofili at Tate Britain

Kenneth Anger exhibition and screening

Download a track from Cool World, the new EP from LuckyMe’s own rock three-piece

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