FACT mix 61 comes from Matt Ingram, a seminal music writer and unique recording artist who mainly works under the moniker of Woebot.

A contributor to The Wire, FACT and Stylus, Woebot also ran one of the biggest blogs on the internet – if you haven’t already delved into the archives of woebot.com, you’d do well to start on his Top 100 Records of All Time, or maybe the post where he summarized the history of jazz. Yeah, he was pretty good.

Anyway, Woebot retired his blog a couple of years ago after a short-lived but brilliant internet TV series, and now makes music. He released a pair of EPs on 3″ CD late last year, Automat and East Central One, and earlier this year released a self-titled album that FACT described as having a: “post-concréte, library music-gone-wrong feel that puts us in mind of Bernard Parmegiani and Basil Kirchin; the Stanley Unwin sample is a nice touch. ‘Maker’ is reminiscent of The Focus Group, but with an Eastern-tinged dubstep cant, while ‘Fivenine”s one-note repetitions and chopped vocals are genuinely psychedelic and disorienting.

“‘Horse’ has the same queasy, hauntological quality as some of the best Mordant Music fare, but is altogether less fuggy, with a forthright string and woodwind melody rising brightly from its yawning drones. From there we head to the radiophonic jazz of ‘Pubtronic’, the Popol Vuh-in-dub feel of ‘Daisy Chain’ and the Kraftwerkian electronic pop of ‘X-Ray’. Album closer ‘Vicar’ reconciles dramatic cine-strings with gabba-style drums and FX.”

It was great, basically. But none of Woebot’s original material features on his FACT mix; in fact, he’s gone all out ambient jungle.  Look out for a full interview with Woebot later in the week where he talks in-depth on his love for jungle and how it translates to his original material; ’til then, download this and bliss out:

(Available for three weeks)

Tracklisting:

FBD Project: She’s So (FBD)Code Blue: Angels in Dub (Dee Jay)Plasmic Life: Water Baby (Brain)Essence of Aura: Northern Lights (Moving Shadow)Jazz Vibes: Lucky (Strictly Underground)Jodeci: Feenin (LTJ Bukem Remix) (WEA)Complex State: Revival (Face)DJ Krust: Touch (Full Cycle)DJ Flynn & DJ Flora: Jungle Love (Full Cycle)The Invisible Man: The Bell Tune (Good Looking)Danny Breaks: Rollin’ (EZ Rollers Remix) (Droppin’ Science)D’Cruze: Lonely (Suburban Base)Roni Size, DJ Krust &DJ Die: I Remember (Full Cycle)

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