Listen: FACT’s week on Spotify (27/08/10)

1. DMX Krew – A New Man
Rephlex today announced a new double-album from electro standard-bearer Ed DMX. It will be the second full-length that he’s released this year – the first being a more reflective effort for Danny Wolfers’ Strange Life label, The March To The Stars, from which this beautifully woolly analogue pastoral is taken.

2. Hercules & Love Affair – Classique #2
Hercules & Love Affair mainman Andy Butler has just inaugurated MR. INTL, a new label that he’s founded to release music made strictly in the spirit and mode of classic house – “nothing that sounds pre-’86 or post-’94”. Though more commonly associated with disco, his fetish for  stripped-down box jams was nowhere more evident than on the very first ever Hercules & Love Affair single – the bumping, bleep-laden ‘Classique #2’.

3. Hot City – Another Girl
In the week that they appraised FACT of their album plans, we thought we’d revisit their breakout track: the springloaded, none-more-bolshy ‘Another Girl’.

4. Model 500 – I Wanna Be There (Radio Edit)
Techno founding father Juan Atkins is the latest legend to contribtue to RVNG Intl.’s FRKWYS series; this year also sees the release of a new EP from his Model 500 project. Neither of these new records, however excellent they might be, are going top this 1996 classic.

5. Theo Parrish – Dark Patterns
Speaking of legends, here’s a seminal cut from Theo Parrish, the subject of a FACT ‘Essential…’ feature this week. Taken from his 1998 album First Floor, it’s house at its most dusty and hypnotic.

6. Coil – A Cold Cell In Bangkok
FACT revealed earlier today that Tussle are working on their new album with JD Twitch of Optimo. This chilling track by mucky post-industrialists Coil was remixed especially for Optimo’s Sleepwalk compilation. It’s a tenuous connection to current affairs, granted, but it’ll do for us.

7. Colin Newman – Fish 4
This week we have mostly been marvelling at the sheer brilliance of Colin Newman’s Commercial Suicide album, and wondering why it isn’t better known. Unfortunately it’s not on Spotify, but another Newman album, Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish, is. This is one of its highlights.

8. Peter Broderick – Not At Home
Peter Broderick has a new mini-album scheduled for release this Autumn; ‘Not At Home’ is taken from Home, the album which brought the singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist to a more mainstream audience last year. Deservedly so: if all Mum-friendly folk-pop was this rich and sweeping then the world would be a better place.

9. Mogwai – Punk Rock / Puff Daddy / Antichrist
Our most recent FACT mix is by Mogwai, perhaps not the most obvious choice. But we’ve grown up with the Scottish post-rock band, and though we’ve not liked everything they’ve ever made, we’ve always been impressed by their honest and committed approach to music. The tracks of theirs that have really stayed with us over the years are not the grandstanding guitar assaults for which they’re most famous, but more haunting numbers like this horn-assisted closer from 1999’s Come On Die Young.

10. Brian Eno – Spider And I
Ah yes, so the lavish vinyl box set editions of Brian Eno’s new album for Warp were unveiled this week. They look nice, sure, but more importantly they give us another excuse to listen to Before And After Science, and especially ‘Spider And I’.