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1. Morrissey details new album, World Peace Is None Of Your Business
2. A Darker Frame
3. Watch Drake don a fake beard and glasses to interview strangers about… Drake
4. Tink recruits Jeremih for new single ‘Don’t Tell Nobody’
5. DOOM “just about done” with Madvillainy 2 – wait, no he’s not
6. Lone
7. Watch Todd Terje’s ‘Leisure Suit Preben’ go out on the prowl
8. A drum’n'bass cover of Kanye West’s ‘Bound 2′ is about to go number one, and it has an awful video
9. Marcel Dettmann is at the controls for next week’s Radio 1 Essential Mix
10. Major labels follow Hollywood studios in suing Megaupload
11. RPR Soundsystem to play 12 hour marathon set at Studio 338
12. The Auteurs ready expanded reissues of Now I’m A Cowboy, After Murder Park and How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
13. Hear 808 State’s Graham Massey explore the history of the drum machine on BBC 6 Music
14. James Ferraro to release new BODYGUARD project later this year
15. Venetian Snares returns with My Love Is A Bulldozer LP for Planet Mu
16. Wolfgang Voigt, Dalhous and Paul Jebanansam to play St John Sessions in London
17. Nirvana perform with Kim Gordon, Lorde, St Vincent and Joan Jett at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction
18. It’s Cocktail Time: The five ingredients that make Todd Terje’s debut so tasty
19. Sleazy house, obscured drones and Jersey club heat: the week’s best mixtapes and free mixes
20. The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus have covered The Beatles’ ‘A Day In The Life’; hear a clip here
21. Smashing Pumpkins to reissue Adore with three discs of unreleased material

Morrissey details new album, World Peace Is None Of Your Business Posted: 11 Apr 2014 12:25 PM PDT …and it has some of the most Morrisseyesque song titles ever. Morrissey took a brief respite from making inflammatory statements to announce his new album, World Peace Is None Of Your Business, last month. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Tori Amos, The Shins), Morrissey is said to be "beyond ecstatic" with the follow-up to 2009′s Years of Refusal. The album is due out in July via Capitol’s Harvest imprint, and we now have the tracklist, via True To You. ‘Kick The Bride Down The Aisle’? ‘Earth Is The Loneliest Planet’? Never change, Moz. 1 World Peace Is None Of Your Business (4:21) 2 Neal Cassady Drops Dead (4:02) 3 Istanbul (4:40) 4 I’M Not A Man (7:50) 5 Earth Is The Loneliest Planet (3:38) 6 Staircase At The University (5:30) 7 The Bullfighter Dies (2:05) 8 Kiss Me A Lot (4:03) 9 Smiler With Knife (5:13) 10 Kick The Bride Down The Aisle (5:18) 11 Mountjoy (5:08) 12 Oboe Concerto (4:07)

A Darker Frame Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:21 AM PDT Available on: Workhousedigital David Harrow is one of those people whose musical life is well worth tracing because it traverses all kinds of hidden places in the cracks between scenes and genres. A London punk, participant in the Berlin Neue Deutsche Welle alongside DAF, member of Psychic TV and Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart, regular collaborator with Adrian Sherwood and various On-U acts, key part of Andrew Weatherall’s Sabresonic set-up and partner with Weatherall in Bloodsugar, producer of jazz-jungle under the James Hardway alias through the nineties – and on, through to a move to L.A. and deep participation in the city’s dubstep and drum’n'bass scenes as well as the Low End Theory Axis as half of the (surprisingly varied, given the name) Pure Filth Sound. All of which is all very interesting, but not really relevant to this curious album, which – even thought it was released to coincide the date of Harrow’s first single exactly 30 years before – doesn’t look back. Instead it stands on its own with its 24 small, bare tracks not quite fitting in to anything but their own odd little worlds. There’s a lot of dance, electronica and dub technique here, but it feels worlds away from any dancefloor as we know it. There are none of the creative collaborations that Harrow seems to compulsively collect – indeed, in contrast to the hyper-social, rave-rocking Pure Filth stuff, this feels like a really personal, introspective project – a dream diary, or sketchbook maybe. Some of the tracks are a minute or less long, and feel like someone working something out through sound, or acting out a little conceptual drama – take the 45-second ‘Glox’ which is just a short sequence of transformations, from whirr to buzz to twinkle, and could easily be no more than a sci-fi sound effect for a robot whizzing past or something, but taken alone as pure sound has a real haiku elegance to it. Likewise the 65-second ‘Domino’, in which alien insectoid mouth sounds rise through electronic chimes and strings then dissipate as a bassy tone rises up in turn and takes over, finishing the piece with such calm that it feels like a logical argument has been run through to its satisfactory conclusion. These are complete pieces, that seem to make sense to themselves, even if you can’t understand them. There are other variations on soundtracky drones and buzzes, too, but the general mode is sparse percussion jams – try ‘Clockwork’, ‘Brokenvoodoo’ or ‘Sore Subject’ – frequently edging into Shackleton territory, though with loose, seemingly hand-played rhythms rather than his studious constructions. There are a lot of tablas, marimbas and gamelan type sounds, but there’s not a hint of exoticism about this: the percussion jams are just as tidy and personal in their internal logic as the more synth-based pieces. The closest parallel might be with the similarly Zelig-like explorer Burnt Friedman, but the miniaturism here gives an even sharper focus on the individual sounds and their place within the constructions. It’s a puzzling listen, and not always satisfying, but good god it keeps drawing you back for more. For an album to function so completely on its own terms as this does is no small achievement, let alone for someone who’s been releasing music for three decades.

Watch Drake don a fake beard and glasses to interview strangers about… Drake Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:19 AM PDT The jolly good sport of hip-hop continues his on-screen japes. Drake has never been afraid to take the piss out of himself on camera, so what better way to promote his appointment as host of ESPN‘s forthcoming ESPY Awards than a comedy skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live? Yes, that’s October’s Very Own in the fake beard, floppy hair and glasses for an edition of ‘I Witness News’. Armed with a microphone, Drizzy combed the streets to canvass opinion on a topic close to his heart – Drake. It’s dead good – watch it in full below, including Drake’s transformation in the make-up chair. A couple of new Drizzy tracks have filtered out in recent weeks, keeping us topped up after last year’s Nothing Was The Same – check out the Lauryn Hill-sampling ‘Draft Day’ and ‘Days In The East’. [via CoS]

Tink recruits Jeremih for new single ‘Don’t Tell Nobody’ Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:18 AM PDT Rapper-slash-singer Tink unveils collaboration with Jeremih. Earlier this week, none other than Timbaland revealed that his “next big project” would be with Chicago upstart Tink, who then previewed their first fruits of their labour, ‘Dinero’, on her Instagram. In the meantime, DJ MoonDawg has just premiered her new single ‘Don’t Tell Nobody’, an ultra-sexy jam propelled by a corkscrewing bassline that’s just crying out for Jeremih to leave his sticky paw prints all over it – which he does, with gusto. Production is courtesy of Chicago beatmakers Da Internz, who apparently played it for Timbaland and thereby introduced him to the multi-talented Tink. Hear the radio rip below via Fake Shore Drive. FACT spoke with Tink late last year and shared the highlights from her rapidly expanding catalogue, which was topped this year by her best mixtape so far, Winter's Diary 2. She's also been in the studio with Kelela and DJ Dahi.

DOOM “just about done” with Madvillainy 2 – wait, no he’s not Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:52 AM PDT It’s actually happening. Update: No, it’s not. It’s an April Fool’s joke. A week late. Cool. After 10 long years, it looks like the sequel to DOOM and Madlib’s stone-cold classic Madvillainy could finally be here. Stones Throw boss Peanut Butter Wolf just posted an email from DOOM to his Instagram, in which the masked rapper promises he’s “just about done” with his verses. Proved you wrong, Madlib! Read the message below – note the ‘MV2′ in the subject line – and cross all of your fingers and toes. In the meantime, DOOM’s been busy putting together an album with upstart NYC rapper Bishop Nehru, while Madlib and Freddie Gibbs just released their cracking collaborative LP, Pinata. If you’re not sure what all the fuss is about, then waste no time in educating yourself with FACT’s Essential… MF DOOM.

Lone Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:58 AM PDT Available on: Ideologic Organ Lone's title couldn't be more fitting. Its seven brief songs consist of just Ai Aso's guitar, keyboard and vulnerable vocals. They're recorded live, the production so immediate that occasional, short spurts of applause and Aso's "arigato" at the end, signifiers of the shared live experience, heighten the music's profound sense of isolation. Listening to Lone, you feel like the audience's sole member, and so you listen in silence, acutely aware of your own body's sounds. She's a solo artist, but Aso is probably best known outside Japan for her occasional collaborations with members of Boris. With that in mind, it's interesting that Aso's audience was also at Unit in Daikanyama, Tokyo to watch performances by Chelsea Wolfe, Sunn O))) and Boris. Rather than aiming for deep in the chest, throat and gut, as those bands do, Aso's music has a floatier quality, seeming to waft nearby and occasionally brush your skin. Her solo music, such as 2004's Lavender Edition LP, has always been fragile and spellbinding, but none so far has delved quite as deeply into solitude as Lone. That effect is largely down to Aso's command of space. Notes will often linger or a word taper off, and guitar arrangements are so spare that the notes sound individuated. But Lone always feels like more than the sum of Aso's bare-bones voice, keyboard and guitar. The barely palpable air of the live setting hangs over 'Kamitsure No Ookina Mizutamari' but as it fades you sense the audience's ears straining to hear every vocal nuance. On 'Date', three-note figures are a sparse outline for Aso's hesitant vocals. They soften on the higher notes, giving the impression not that she's singing outside her range, but that she's straining against its limits. The songs on Lone are taken from a range of points in Aso's career, so despite the few tools at her disposal, its tone is varied and compelling throughout. 'Colchicum' is mournful and contemplative, its pace so slow that you can practically reach into the spaces between Aso's "da-da" coos and guitar lines, and 'Land' is a hypnotic folk song whose figure treads in circles as Aso navelgazes ever more intently. In comparison, the sustained keyboard notes on 'Most Children Do' are imbued with tense drama. They're mixed loudly, but complement Aso's restrained storytelling rather than drowning it out. 'Most Children Do' is from the 2004 LP Lavender Edition; where on the album it's all wisps of gossamer vocals and mulchy guitar, here the arrangements are skeletal and potent. Particularly in the context of the artists Aso shared the bill with at the Unit show, there's nothing especially forceful about Lone's gently psychedelic folk songs. Yet there's a tactile edge to Aso's voice and a purposeful quality to her playing here that makes it easy to peg her on the same continuum as the likes of Boris and Chelsea Wolfe. At the time of recording these intimate songs may have been a prelude to heavier music, but as a standalone album Lone wields its own subtle power.

Watch Todd Terje’s ‘Leisure Suit Preben’ go out on the prowl Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:10 AM PDT It’s video time. Disco king Todd Terje has unveiled the video for ‘Leisure Suit Preben’, a particularly jaunty, library music-influenced track from his ace debut LP It’s Album Time. The character of ‘Leisure Suit Preben’ is loosely modelled on the titular wannabe seducer of the Leisure Suit Larry video games, in case you’re wondering who this sordid, sweaty creature is supposed to be. Directed by Espen Friberg & Emil Høgset, the video follows the “singer, dancer and party animal” from day to night as he heads out on the pull and throws shapes at the local disco. Catch up with FACT’s interview with Terje and find out about the five ingredients that make It’s Album Time so darn tasty.

A drum’n'bass cover of Kanye West’s ‘Bound 2′ is about to go number one, and it has an awful video Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:59 AM PDT Let’s hope you’re not sick of ‘Bound 2′, because – in the UK at least – you’re about to hear a lot more of it. Drum’n'bass duo Sigma’s refix of Kanye West’s Yeezus closer – originally released for free in January – has had Charlie Wilson’s hook re-sung by a session vocalist, and has stormed to number one in the UK Singles Chart midweeks. The video, pictured above, is a real dog: two models hit the road to find themselves under the stars in bikini bottom / beanie hat combos, and then hang out with a trio of dancers whose agency were almost definitely sent a brief involving the word ‘tribal’. We’ve embedded the ‘Nobody to Love’ video below, but let’s face facts: it was never gonna top that original.

Marcel Dettmann is at the controls for next week’s Radio 1 Essential Mix Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:35 AM PDT Easter soundtrack sorted. Berghain resident and techno overlord Marcel Dettmann will deliver the Easter edition of Radio 1′s Essential Mix, airing on June 19 at 1am. It isn’t too often that the German DJ and producer releases a mix – his last was 2011′s Conducted CD for Music Man Records, while his ace FACT mix appeared four years ago. In the past year he’s kept himself busy with the release of his second album, Dettmann II, and scoring a ballet performance in the stark concrete environs of Berghain. The long-running mix series has been on good form of late, with the likes of Jackmaster, MK and Machinedrum all taking the controls in recent months. This weekend’s Essential Mix is in the hands of Bonobo, if you’re tuning in later tonight.

Major labels follow Hollywood studios in suing Megaupload Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:33 AM PDT Record industry follows movie studios in pursuing the defunct downloading haven. Warner Music, UMG, Sony and Capitol Records have filed a copyright infringement suit against Megaupload, the defunct file-sharing site founded by internet entrepeneur Kim Dotcom. In the suit, the major labels say that the site not only hosted but also promoted access to pirated music, and “played an active role in ensuring that it had the most popular content on its servers”. Links to infringing content “were widely disseminated” and “promoted by pirate linking sites”, they claim. The suit follows the filing of a similar suit against Megaupload earlier this week by the six major Hollywood studios – Twentieth Century Fox Film, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Universal City Studios Prods., Columbia Pictures Industries and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Lawyer Ira Rothken, representing Megaupload, said the case against Megaupload “is in reality an assault on cloud storage generally, as the company used copyright-neutral technology.” He added: “We strongly believe that like YouTube, once the court can hear all the facts and analyse the law, Megaupload and the other defendants will prevail.” The record companies contend that Megaupload was “in no respect designed to be a data storage provider. Users without premium subscriptions were restricted not only in their downloading capabilities, but also in their ability to store files on the site.” Megaupload was shut down in January 2012 after a raid on Dotcom's mansion in New Zealand, but a judge found that the search warrants used in the raid were invalid. The indomitable Dotcom is currently launching a political party in his adopted country and making an EDM album with the Black Eyed Peas’ producer.

RPR Soundsystem to play 12 hour marathon set at Studio 338 Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:31 AM PDT Party from sunrise to sunrise with Romania’s finest. Up until now, Romanian DJ collective RPR Soundsystem – made up of ever-interesting experimental house producer Petre Inspirescu, plus Rhadoo and Raresh – have only played London shows within the confines of Fabric. That will change on Saturday June 28, when the trio will host an all-day-all-night party at London’s Studio 338. Not ones to do things by halves, the trio will be putting the venue’s hefty VOID soundsystem to the test with a 12-hour b2b DJ session. They’ll also be curating a full roster of support acts, set to be announced over the coming weeks. The event will run from noon until 7.00am the following morning. Head here for further information.

The Auteurs ready expanded reissues of Now I’m A Cowboy, After Murder Park and How I Learned To Love The Bootboys Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT English pop contrarian Luke Haines has announced the reissue of three albums by his former band The Auteurs. The bumper reissues of 1994′s Now I'm A Cowboy, 1996′s After Murder Park and 1999′s How I Learned To Love The Bootboys will pair remastered versions of the original albums with bonus and previously unreleased material, as well as sleeve notes from the always entertaining Haines. See the tracklists below for full details. The press release includes reams of droll reminiscences from Haines, including the following words about presenting Now I’m A Cowboy, their second album, to label bosses: “Upon hearing the new album the record company flipped. Cautiously. Early word from the press was super positive, but I was worried. I’d heard bits of the new Blur album – ‘Knobbly Knees And A Mug Of Tea'. There was a truck load of ‘English’ stupid on the horizon. Against conformity, I rashly called the album Now I’m A Cowboy. which was exactly how I felt, and the opposite of everything that was about to come.” And there’s this, on trying to complete the band’s final album, How I Learned To Love The Bootboys: “More studio time was booked for more Auteurs recording. I didn’t have a single. I had a song called ’1967′ which I loved but knew that it wasn’t a hit. On the eve of the recording session I visited John Moore, drank half a bottle of Absinthe and promptly fell down a staircase and broke my wrist. All recording plans were put off as I couldn’t play guitar until my wrist healed. Hobbled again.” That incident led to the creation of his 1996 solo venture under the name Baader Meinhof, recently reissued by Cherry Red and recommended by FACT’s Louis Pattison. All three reissues are due for release on June 2 via 3 Loop Music. Haines’ most recent solo album, released last summer, was Rock N Roll Animals – A Psychedelic Story For Grown Ups (And Children). Tracklists: Now I’m A Cowboy CD1 Original Release (CDHUT16) 1. Lenny Valentino 2. Brainchild 3. I’m a Rich Mans Toy 4. New French Girlfriend 5. The Upper Classes 6. Chinese Bakery 7. A Sister Like You 8. Underground Movies 9. Life Classes/Life Model 10. Modern History 11. Daughter Of A Child Bonus material 12. Lenny Valentino (Single Version) (HUTCD36) 13. Vacant Lot – Lenny Valentino single b-side (HUTCD36) 14. Car Crazy – Lenny Valentino single b-side (HUTCD36) 15. Disney World – Lenny Valentino single b-side (HUT 36) 16. Lenny Valentino (Original Mix) – Lenny Valentino single b-side (HUTCD36) 17. Underground Movies (Different Mix) – France only single (DE 3397) 18. Brainchild (Original Version) – France only single (DE 3397) CD2 Bonus Material 1. Government Bookstore – Chinese Bakery b-side (HUTCD41) 2. Everything You Say Will Destroy You – Chinese Bakery b-side (HUTCD41) 3. Chinese Bakery (Acoustic) – Chinese Bakery b-side (HUTG41) 4. Modern History (Acoustic Version) – 3:24 – LP bonus 7" (HUTL16) 5. Upper Classes (BBC Session – 27.4.94) (Prog No: 00YY1217) 6. Rich Man's Toy (BBC Session – 27.4.94) (Prog No: 00YY1217) 7. Underground Movies (BBC Session – 27.4.94) (Prog No: 00YY1217) 8. Everything You Say Will Destroy You (BBC Session – 27.4.94) (Prog No: 00YY1217) 9. Lenny Valentino (Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 1 Session – 9.5.94) (Prog No: 00YY1885) 10. Chinese Bakery (Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 1 Session – 9.5.94) (Prog No: 00YY1885) 11. New French Girlfriend (Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 1 Session – 9.5.94) (Prog No: 00YY1885) 12. Modern History (Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 1 Session – 9.5.94) (Prog No: 00YY1885) 13. How Could I Be Wrong (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 14. Don’t Trust The Stars (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 15. The Upper Classes (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 16. New French Girlfriend (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 17. Showgirl (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 18. Lenny Valentino (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 19. Modern History (Live at Leeds Town & Country) 20. Early Years (Live at Leeds Town & Country) After Murder Park CD1 Original Release (CDHUT33) 1. Light Aircraft on Fire – 2:17 2. The Child Brides – 4:26 3. Land Lovers – 2:31 4. New Brat in Town – 3:55 5. Everything You Say Will Destroy You – 2:42 6. Unsolved Child Murder – 2:08 7. Married to a Lazy Lover – 3:55 8. Buddha – 2:52 9. Tombstone – 3:59 10. Fear of Flying – 4:41 11. Dead Sea Navigators – 3:47 12. After Murder Park – 2:00 Bonus Material 13. Kenneth Anger's Bad Dream – Back With The Killer Again EP (HUTCD65) 14. Former Fan – Back With The Killer Again EP (HUTCD65) 15. Light Aircraft On Fire (Single Version) – Light Aircraft On Fire Single (HUTCD66) 16. Car Crash – Light Aircraft On Fire Single (HUTCD66) 17. Buddha (4 Track Band Demo) – Light Aircraft On Fire Single (HUTCD66) 18. X-Boogie Man – Light Aircraft On Fire Single (HUTCD66) 19. Everything You Say (unreleased early Steve Albini recording) * 20. Tombstone (Alternate Recording) * 21. Unsolved Child Murder (Early Version) (Volume 17 compilation 17VCD17) 22. Kids Issue (BBC John Peel Session -9.3.96) (Prog No: 00YY6231) 23. A New Life A New Family (BBC Radio Session – 1.1.2000) (Prog No: 00YY6231) 24. Buddah (BBC John Peel Session -9.3.96) (Prog No: 00YY6231) 25. After Murder Park (BBC John Peel Session -9.3.96) (Prog No: 00YY6231) CD 2 France Inter Black Session 1. Starstruck * 2. After Murder Park * 3. Kenneth Angers Bad Dream * 4. Unsolved Child Murder * 5. Bailed Out * 6. Light Aircraft On Fire * 7. Buddha * 8. How Could I Be Wrong * 9. Married To A Lazy Lover * 10. American Guitars * 11. Junk Shop Clothes * 12. Kids Issue * 13. Early Years * 14. Lenny Valentino * 15. Showgirl * 16. Land Lovers * 17. Home Again * 18. Tombstone * 19. Housebreaker * * previously unreleased How I Learned To Love The Bootboys CD1 Original Album (CDHUT53) 1. The Rubettes – 3:27 2. 1967 – 2:42 3. How I Learned to Love the Bootboys – 3:05 4. Your Gang, Our Gang – 1:46 5. Some Changes – 3:19 6. School – 2:58 7. Johnny and the Hurricanes – 3:51 8. The South Will Rise Again – 2:24 9. Asti Spumante – 3:27 10. Sick of Hari Krisna – 2:51 11. Lights Out – 2:10 12. Future Generation – 3:11 Bonus Material 13. Get Wrecked At Home – The Rubettes b-side (HUTCD113) 14. Breaking Up – The Rubettes b-side (HUTCD113) 15. Politic – Luke Haines Is Dead (HAINES1) 16. ESP Kids – Luke Haines Is Dead (HAINES1) 17. Johnny And The Hurricanes – Luke Haines Is Dead (HAINES1) 18. Future Generation – Luke Haines Is Dead (HAINES1) 19. School (Previously Unreleased) 20. Essex Bootboys – Luke Haines Is Dead (HAINES1) 21. The Rubettes (Acoustic) – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys Interview CD (IVCDHUT53) 22. 1967 – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys Interview CD (IVCDHUT53) 23. Some Changes – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys Interview CD (IVCDHUT53) 24. Lights Out – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys Interview CD (IVCDHUT53) CD2 No Dialogue With Cunts – Auteurs Last Stand Live At LSE November 1999 1. Baader Meinhof 2. Meet Me At The Airport 3. Burn Warehouse Burn / There’s Gonna Be An Accident 4. Back On The Farm 5. Baader Meinhof 2 6. Unsolved Child Murder 7. 1967 8. The Rubettes 9. Bootboys 10. Your Gang, Our Gang 11. How Could I Be Wrong 12. Buddha 13. After Murder Park 14. Light Aircraft On Fire 15. Lenny Valentino 16. Future Generation

Hear 808 State’s Graham Massey explore the history of the drum machine on BBC 6 Music Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:55 AM PDT A brief history of keeping time. On the latest edition of The Freak Zone, BBC 6 Music’s excellent weekly show unearthing experimental music and forgotten sounds from across the decades, presenter Stuart Maconie was joined by 808 State founder and veteran producer Graham Massey to talk about drum machines. As the name of his own outfit suggests, Massey is a fount of knowledge on mechanical percussion in all forms, and here he gives a brief history of the drum machine from its beginnings in time keeping to its creative use by Sly and the Family Stone, Robin Gibb and Miles Davis, including some ace tracks by Timmy Thomas and Adrian Sherwood’s sample pioneers Tackhead. Head to BBC iPlayer to hear the show – but be quick, you’ve only got two days left to catch it. FACT recently had a snoop inside Joe Mansfield’s vast collection of drum machines and, to coincide with Roland’s revival of its classic machine, compiled a beginner’s guide to the TR-808.

James Ferraro to release new BODYGUARD project later this year Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:31 AM PDT James Ferraro dusts off his black shades and bulletproof vest. In the wake of his last album – the not-exactly-bombastic NYC, Hell 3:00AM - James Ferraro has, like any good Eno acolyte, been busying himself making music in airports and music for elevators. Now, it appears, he’s reactivated the BODYGUARD project, responsible for 2012′s bummed-out Silica Gel mixtape. A spooked new track, titled ‘WĒNQUÁN (EXCERPT)’ has appeared on YouTube under the guise of a new Ferraro account, BODI WĒNQUÁN. Interestingly, the accompanying blurb – “TBA 2014 OFFICIAL” – suggests that a BODYGUARD record proper is on the way later this year. As for the track, it’s very much in keeping with the sort of eerie sino-electronica currently being pushed by Fatima Al-Qadiri and chums. Click below to listen. [via Dummy]

Venetian Snares returns with My Love Is A Bulldozer LP for Planet Mu Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:14 AM PDT Planet Mu regular lines up first Venetian Snares album since 2010′s My So-Called Life. After spending the past few years exploring hypnagogic acid as Last Step and collaborating with Joanne Pollock on an LP as Poemss, Aaron Funk has returned to his Venetian Snares alias for a new LP titled My Love Is A Bulldozer. Appearing on the sleeve in the guise of a statuesque centaur, Funk has included his own singing voice on a few of the tracks, which mesh his “sometimes thunderous yet complex drum programming with delicate musical structures”, as Planet Mu explain. Expect “haunted, atmospheric jazziness, as well as spiky autumnal strings recalling the gothic orchestral beauty of his previous work.” My Love Is A Bulldozer appears on Planet Mu on June 16. Meanwhile he’s booked in for a show at London’s Scala on May 24 and will be heading off to Europe, Japan, Canada and the US throughout summer. [via RA] Tracklist: 01 10th Circle Of Winnipeg 02 Deleted Poems 03 1000 Years Play 04 Your Smiling Face 05 Amazon 06 My Love Is A Bulldozer 07 She Runs 08 8 AM Union Station 09 Shaky Sometimes 10 Too Far Across 11 Dear Poet 12 Your Blanket

Wolfgang Voigt, Dalhous and Paul Jebanansam to play St John Sessions in London Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:55 AM PDT Kompakt co-founder returns to Hackney church. Wolfgang Voigt will be joined by Blackest Ever Black weirdos Dalhous and Subtext label boss Paul Jebanansam for a show at the church of St John-at-Hackney in east London on May 22. Voigt will again present his Rückverzauberung project, an extension of his modern classical work under the Gas moniker, which he also brought to the same venue at the end of 2013. More recently, the German musician remixed DJ Koze for a series of 12″s on Pampa. Other St John Sessions coming up this summer include Laraaji and Sun Araw on June 5, Demdike Stare, Laurel Halo and Shackleton on June 19, and Julia Holter and Karen Gwyer on July 21. Head to the St John Sessions website for tickets.

Nirvana perform with Kim Gordon, Lorde, St Vincent and Joan Jett at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:12 AM PDT Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear joined by four guest vocalists at Brooklyn’s Barclay Center. The remaining members of Nirvana surprised the audience at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction last night by performing a set with four different vocalists. A low-key, accordion-assisted ‘All Apologies’ featured Kiwi newcomer Lorde, while Joan Jett added her gnarled vocals to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Pop innovator St Vincent fronted ‘Lithium’ while the highlight, judging from the brief video clips that have surfaced so far, was Kim Gordon’s wild-eyed gallop through ‘Aneurysm’. Scroll down for clips of each of the performances, filmed by audience members and Stereogum. Nirvana were inducted by REM's Michael Stipe, who described the band as “singular and loud and melodic and deeply original”: “Nirvana tapped into a voice that was yearning to be heard. Nirvana were kicking against the mainstream. They spoke truth and a lot of people listened… They were singular and loud and melodic and deeply original. And that voice. That voice. Kurt, we miss you. I miss you. This is not just pop music. This is something much greater than that.” Grohl and Novoselic both gave speeches, as did Kurt Cobain’s mother Wendy. Courtney Love also made an appearance to give her husband's bandmates a hug they probably didn’t ask for her, afterwards tweeting that it was “the most magical part of the evening”. Also inducted last night were Peter Gabriel, who performed ‘Digging In The Dirt’, ‘Washing Of The Water’ with Chris Martin and ‘In Your Eyes’ with Youssou N'Dour, and panto-rock villains KISS, who didn’t perform. Art Garfunkel inducted Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Sevens), Glenn Frey inducted Linda Rondstadt, Questlove inducted Hall & Oates, and Bruce Springsteen inducted his own E Street Band. Joan Jett performing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’: Lorde on ‘All Apologies’: St Vincent on ‘Lithium’: Kim Gordon on ‘Aneurysm’:

It’s Cocktail Time: The five ingredients that make Todd Terje’s debut so tasty Posted: 11 Apr 2014 02:32 AM PDT The debut album by Todd Terje seems to have baffled as much as it has delighted in its first week in the world, with sceptics quick to pull a face at its unabashedly retro charms and taste for kitschy exotica. As the album cover hints, herein is a place where pointed collars and signet rings live on, where palm fronds frame the view and cocaine dusts the piano lid, and where your drink always, always has an umbrella in it. Anyone expecting 10 sharply honed cuts of shimmering nu-disco will instead discover an absurd melange of squelchy ’80s boogie, giddy Latin jazz, soft-focus porn synths and, on tracks like ‘Alfonso Muskedunder’ and ‘Preben Goes To Acapulco’, imaginary soundtracks for zany ’60s spy movies and Caribbean-set thrillers. It’s a distinctly nerdy approach, as Terje would happily admit (his own blog is even called Let’s Nerd), and one that in the absence of a genre-focused dance scene in Norway. Contrary to the exotic concoctions on the album’s sleeve, the only drink that’ll do for the clean-living Terje is a classic whiskey sour. So to celebrate the belated arrival of his excellent debut album, we’ve come up with a not-at-all awkward extended cocktail analogy to explore the five piquant – and occasionally unexpected – ingredients that combine to make It’s Album Time. Use your keyboard's arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/6)

Sleazy house, obscured drones and Jersey club heat: the week’s best mixtapes and free mixes Posted: 11 Apr 2014 02:19 AM PDT Listening to the deluge of mixtapes and free mixes from hip-hop artists and electronic producers alike is often an insurmountable task. That's why we scour Datpiff, LiveMixtapes and beyond, separating the wheat from the chaff each week. Did you see many quality rap tapes this week? Neither did we. Thankfully, everyone from Martyn to Mumdance dropped mixes for what is one of our most unpredictable rounds-up yet. Use your keyboard's arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/11)

The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus have covered The Beatles’ ‘A Day In The Life’; hear a clip here Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:52 AM PDT Sgt. Bangerz’ Lonely Hearts Club Band. Oklahoma’s premiere purveyors of strained eccentricity have no problems bringing Popland’s bête noires into the fold – remember that thwarted Lip$ha album? Earlier this year, news emerged that The Flaming Lips were working on a cover of The Beatles’ ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ with Miley Cyrus and MGMT, although any actual music has still failed to see the light of day.  As Pitchfork report, Coyne’s Instagram account is currently hosting a short clip of another Miley/Lips Beatles cover, this time of Sgt. Pepper freakout ’A Day In The Life’. The video came with the accompanying blurb: "Woke up ..fell out of bed.. dragged a comb across my head.. Yep!!!! @mileycyrus singing the Paul McCartney bit on A Day In The Life!!!!! Yesss!! Thanks @NewFumes Almost done mixin !! Gon beeee rad!!!!! If ya love The Beatles and John Lennon you gonna love this!!! #freaks #floyd #beatles #srgtpeppers #theflaminglips #lovemoneyparty #dogsmusicfriends #drugmusicthatdestroyshate" Click below to watch. Cyrus, incidentally, has been playing vintage Lips track ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ on her ongoing Bangerz tour (and, as you can see from that photo above, occasionally yanking Coyne on stage for the purpose). The Flaming Lips tour the UK in May.

Smashing Pumpkins to reissue Adore with three discs of unreleased material Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:30 AM PDT Billy Corgan announces chunky box set of the rock survivors’ fourth album. Smashing Pumpkins will reissue 1998′s critically acclaimed but commercially disappointing Adore this summer with a bundle of additional material, including three discs of unreleased music and a live DVD from their 1998 charity tour. Writing on the band’s website, Corgan explained the origin of some of the unheard tracks: “One thing that might excite fans of the album is that we were able to go back and locate elements from the original sessions that were stored digitally, but never used; such as some of the brilliant work done by Bon Harris. In that fresh mixes have been commissioned, shedding new light on not only the songs hidden foundations, but their futuristic nature as well.” The six-disc set will also include a stereo version of the original album, as remastered by Bob Ludwig, plus the album as it was released in mono, available for the first time on CD. No exact release date has been set. Meanwhile the Pumpkins are busy working on not one but two "epic" albums set for release in 2015, while Corgan this week announced an limited edition experimental double album, AEGEA, set to arrive in the coming weeks. Oh, and he’s developing a reality TV show about his wrestling league.