Welcome to FACT playlist #13.

What with all the hype surrounding their lavishly orchestrated score for Tron: Legacy, its easy to forget Daft Punk’s roots in no-frills dance music. Thomas Bangalter‘s ‘Outrun’, released on his Roulé label back in 1995 is a ‘floor burner without parallel – we’d go as far as to say it’s one of the greatest club tracks ever, and if you’ve not heard it before, you’re in for a treat.

Katy B and Cults are two up-and-coming artists who’ve just signed big deals with Columbia; it’s safe to assume that you’ll be hearing a lot more of both in 2011. Though Katy’s new material finds her ploughing a more commercial dance furrow, her collaboration with Geeneus on ‘As I’ remains one of the finest and most effortlessly poppy tracks to have emerged from the UK funky underground – in a better world it would have stormed the charts. Cults, meanwhile, specialise in indie-pop that’s easy to swallow and hard to resist. ‘Go Outside’, already a blog hit, bodes well for their forthcoming debut album.

James Blake is gearing up to release his own debut full-length in ’11; will it live up to his remix of Untold’s ‘Stop What You’re Doing’, one of his lesser-known, but most brilliant, productions? Shackleton‘s remix of Congotronics’ Kasai Allstars, meanwhile, is easily the equal of anything on his impending Fabric CD or current 12″ ‘Man On A String’. This week’s chief FACT mixer, D1, weighs in with ‘Sorrow Remix’ – a yearning dubstep beauty that has never seen release but has been a part of FACT office lore ever since we first heard it on the radio three years ago.

Legendary krautrocker Manuel Goettsching plays his first UK show in over a decade in Glasgow next month, and so we thought it an opportune time to dust down the majestic ‘Shuttlecock’; doom metal icns Earth have just announced a new album, prompting us to revisit their last LP, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull, and pull out the exquisitely desert-dried ‘Rise To Glory’. To round out proceedings we’ve thrown in a melancholy electro classic in the shape of ‘Let Me Be Me’ by The Other People Place (a Drexciya alias) and Andy Stott‘s ‘Hostile’, a white label techno track from a couple of years back that seems to get fiercer every time we hear it.