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“A prog rock indulgence”: James Holden goes in-depth on his first album in seven years

21st May 2013 • No Comments

Seven years have passed since the former teen prodigy of trance James Holden released his debut The Idiots Are Winning. More of a mini-album, it centred around two epic tracks, 'Lump' and '101 [...]

Catching Zs: the avant-garde Brooklyn outfit on regrouping, remixing and <em>musique concrète</em>

Catching Zs: the avant-garde Brooklyn outfit on regrouping, remixing and musique concrète

20th May 2013 • No Comments

Don't be hoodwinked by the name - if you're looking for a band that's impossible to nod off to, Zs are the fellas. Formed by disillusioned jazz students Sam Hillmer and Alex Mincek at the Manha [...]

“Who wants to be the Lenny Kravitz of house? Fuck that”: Contakt goes On Record for Cybotron’s ‘Cosmic Raindance’

18th May 2013 • No Comments

On Record is a regular feature on FACT in which we ask an artist we admire to pick a record that means a lot to them, and use it as a jumping off point for a conversation. In this instalment� [...]

Say it with flowers: Felix K on his killer debut album and the story of drum ‘n bass in Berlin

Words by Peter Nix • 17th May 2013 • No Comments

Cast your mind back to 2009-11. Drum ‘n bass looked like it might be getting really interesting again, for the first time in over a decade. Instra:mental had kicked the door down, their ‘Wa [...]

“All the mysteries are still there in the music.” LA’s Baths on his skewed version of pop

Interviewed by Chris Kelly • 16th May 2013 • No Comments

Later this month, Will ‘Baths’ Wiesenfeld will release his second album, Obsidian. It is a departure from his ambitious Cerulean — but that shouldn’t be a surprise. When we last spoke t [...]

On Record: Disclosure vouch for Slum Village’s <i>Fantastic Volume 2</i>

On Record: Disclosure vouch for Slum Village’s Fantastic Volume 2

Words by Tom Lea • 8th May 2013 • No Comments

On Record is a regular feature on FACT in which we ask an artist we admire to pick a record that means a lot to them, and use it as a jumping off point for a conversation. In this edition we c [...]

Rave Tales: MK tells FACT an anecdote from his time playing parties

7th May 2013 • No Comments

Rave Tales is a new feature on FACT - and, where possible, FACT TV - where we ask an artist for an anecdote from their time playing gigs. The gnarlier the better. For the first instalment, we [...]

“The song? Fuck off”: lo-fi punk poets Sleaford Mods big up Wu-Tang and savage the system

Words by Louis Pattison • 3rd May 2013 • No Comments

Britain in 2013: a grey sprawl of provincial town centres with all the windows boarded, of tabloids jabbing fingers at “illegal immigrants” and “benefit cheats”, of minimum wage jobs that [...]

Punk Movement: Pete Swanson meets Holly Herndon

Words by Maya Kalev • 2nd May 2013 • No Comments

You might not expect Holly Herndon and Pete Swanson to be musical kin. The first is a doctoral student of composition who applies a rigorous academic sensibility to her forays into vocal proces [...]