Welcome to FACT playlist #14.

All sorts for you to tuck into this week. It would be obscene for us not to take the opportunity to pay tribute to Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson, a true legend of experimental art and music, who sadly passed away on Wednesday. The Throbbing Gristle co-founder made some of his finest work with Jhonn Balance as Coil, and one of their must unusual projects – in a career hardly short on unusual projects – was an electronic score for Clive Barker’s original Hellraiser movie. The score was rejected by Barker, but Coil released the music independently on CD years later; the ‘main title theme’ kicks off the playlist.

Earlier this week we published our list of the 10 Best Record Labels of 2010; two of them, Not Not Fun and Olde English Spelling Bee, are represented here by LA Vampires and Forest Swords respectively. Similarly trippy but rather more polished pop comes from Win Win, who with Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzy Bougatsos have crafted a late contender for tracks of the year.

Portishead have just been announced as curators and headliners of ATP’s upcoming I’ll Be Your Mirror weekend, reminding us afresh how good their 2008 album Third – particularly opening track ‘Silence’ – was, and indeed still is. Oh, and for no reason other than that we found a mint copy of Scott 4 for peanuts the other day, we’ve been having one of our annual Scott Walker binges here at FACT, with his gloomy avant-crooner classic Climate Of Hunter on particularly heavy rotation (‘Rawhide’ is taken from it). Speaking of gloomy, Canada’s Women have wormed their way into our hearts with their recent Public Strain LP, an agreeably weedy, withering post-punk update  ‘Venice Lockjaw’. Throw in some classics by Amerie (inspired by the new Theo Parrish edit), Chloe and Dutch acid legends Unit Moebius, and you’re away.