FACT Magazine Rustie drops new single ‘Attak’ featuring Danny Brown, hear it in full now @ Musique Non Stop

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1. Rustie drops new single ‘Attak’ featuring Danny Brown, hear it in full now
2. Jeremih announces new mixtape Not on my Album, shares ‘She Knew It’
3. Gerry Read remixes every track on Lootpack’s classic LP Soundpieces: Da Antidote
4. Stream Midland’s string-laden new single ‘Before We Leave’
5. Light in the Attic reveals reissue of mysterious crooner Lewis’s second album Romantic Times
6. Hear new 12″ Voodog from techno maestro Ricardo Villalobos
7. Justin Bieber has gone deep house
8. Hear Jessie Ware team up with Romy xx on ‘Share It All’
9. Field recording legend Chris Watson set to release iOS and Android app
10. Rinse celebrates 20 years with a heap of parties, collaborations and station takeovers
11. Vessel reveals glam-influenced new album Punish, Honey; hear ‘Red Sex’
12. Watch Clipping’s new video for ‘Story 2′
13. Shackleton drops unexpected 12″, Deliverance Series No. 1
14. Redinho announces long-awaited debut album on Numbers; stream ‘Playing With Fire’
15. Hear Atlanta rapper Chilly Chills’ sizzling new single ‘Movie’
16. UK garage pioneer Noodles returns with house project Nu-Agenda; hear a track now
17. Lee Gamble shares artwork and tracklist for new album KOCH
18. Watch Boxed’s ridiculous Boiler Room session featuring Slackk, Mumdance, Spooky and more
19. “Drum & bass isn’t going anywhere”: dBridge rails against a “daft musical stereotype”
20. UK garage, Green Velvet and club mashups: the week’s best free mixes
21. Kele Okereke’s new album teaser sounds a lot like Burial and the xx

Rustie drops new single ‘Attak’ featuring Danny Brown, hear it in full now Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:04 PM PDT Debuted on BBC Radio 1, ‘Attak’ is another taste of Rustie‘s eagerly-awaited new LP Green Language. The track features a guest vocal from helium-voiced Detroit spitter Danny Brown, which probably shouldn’t be a big surprise. Rustie produced a trio of tracks on Brown’s excellent Old full-length last year, and it seems as if Brown is repaying favor. It’s a massive, balls-out banger, and Brown’s screeching rhymes yet again prove that the two were made for each other. Now we’re even more excited about Green Language than we were before – roll on August. Green Language will be dropping on August 26 via Warp Records.

Jeremih announces new mixtape Not on my Album, shares ‘She Knew It’ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:03 PM PDT Woozy nu-R&B crooner Jeremih has shared the title and first taste of his next mixtape. Hilariously, it’s titled Not on my Album, so we’re guessing that it’ll be a set of tracks that didn’t make it to his eagerly-awaited Def Jam debut. This news comes hot on the heels of the release (or was it a leak?) of Jeremih and Shlohmo’s long-delayed No More EP, but we’re not complaining – more Jeremih can only be a good thing. To go along with the announcement, the singer has shared a brand new cut (which we assume has been snipped from the mixtape) – a fairly mediocre-sounding collaboration with Chi Hoover entitled ‘She Knew It’ which you can stream below. Not on my Album is set to drop on August 4, and you can bet that when it does, it’ll be reviewed in FACT’s weekly mixtape column. [via Complex]

Gerry Read remixes every track on Lootpack’s classic LP Soundpieces: Da Antidote Posted: 24 Jul 2014 11:22 AM PDT One remix would be intriguing enough, but Gerry Read has gone and dissected the entirety of Lootpack‘s classic debut album. Some of you no doubt remember when Soundpieces: Da Antidote dropped back in 1999 on the Stones Throw imprint. For many listeners it was an introduction to the virtuoso production talent of Californian beatmaker Madlib, he took care of the production on the entire record, and shared mic with rapper Wildchild. Now Gerry Read has taken each track from the classic LP and repurposed it to fit his needs, dissolving Madlib’s loose, jazzy rhythms and replacing them with 4/4 pulses and slithering house basslines. It’s an ambitious project, certainly, but one that’s well worth a listen. Just remember to grab a hold of the original record if you haven’t already – it’s essential stuff.

Stream Midland’s string-laden new single ‘Before We Leave’ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 11:22 AM PDT Northern techno and house producer Midland returns with his contribution to Phonica‘s ongoing White Label series. Having released a slew of killer slabs since 2010, Harry Agius is a name it’s hard to avoid if you spend any amount of time clicking through the pages of FACT. The producer made his name following a release on Phonica’s very own label (2010′s ‘Play the Game’ 12″) and now he’s making a return with ‘Before We Leave’. It’s a lush, pulsing house belter, layering disco strings over the kind of bassline that makes the mind wander straight to Detroit. You can hear the entire track in full below, and the ‘Play the Game’ 12″ is available now via Phonica.

Light in the Attic reveals reissue of mysterious crooner Lewis’s second album Romantic Times Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:21 AM PDT The story of shadowy Canadian outsider Lewis is slowly becoming clearer. We still don’t know much, but when his second album – Romantic Times – was discovered by the Light in the Attic crew, they at least found a surname – the ‘new’ record is credited to one Lewis Baloue. Those of you with a keen eye might have noticed that a super rare copy of the album – which previously had no Google fingerprint at all – appeared on eBay this weekend (bidding is currently at $1,750). Well this forced Light in the Attic’s hand, and they fast tracked the announcement of its reissue. You can now pre-order the record (which is slated for release on November 18) on vinyl and CD, and anyone who does gets an instant download, which is rather generous. We can reveal that we’ve already heard the record and it’s a scorcher – jam packed with the kind of eerie, Lynchian ballads that made Romantic Times‘ predecessor so alluring. Whether more records are found, or the identity of the elusive Lewis Baloue is ever discovered (we’re loving the rumors that he’s some kind of high-class con man) remains to be seen, but Canada’s answer to Jandek is a curiosity we’re totally on board with.

Hear new 12″ Voodog from techno maestro Ricardo Villalobos Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:51 AM PDT The Chilean lord of 4/4 Ricardo Villalobos is back with a brand new 12″. Entitled Voodog the 12″ features two tracks, imaginatively titled ‘Voodog Pt.1′ and ‘Voodog Pt.2′, and from what we’ve heard from the Soundcloud clips (which you can blast below) it sounds as if he’s continuing his exploration of progressive, noodly techno with typical aplomb. As anyone who’s caught Villalobos performing in the last few months will recognize (we managed to marvel at an extended set at this year’s Mutek festival), the tracks are perfectly primed for that moment at 4am when your legs are about to give way and the next set of chemicals are just about to take hold. The 12″ will be released on Pressure Traxx this September.

Justin Bieber has gone deep house Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:24 AM PDT That’s “deep house” in the 2014 sense of the word, anyway. Justin Bieber has posted a bunch of video clips on Instagram revealing what he’s been working on in the studio since releasing his really-pretty-decent Journals album. And it’s with a sense of crushing inevitability that we can report that the Biebs has gone house. Or what passes for house these days – in the clip below he lends his vocals to a bouncy, big-room track that wouldn’t sound out of place in the upper reaches of the post-Disclosure UK charts. You may find that the clip below is a bit glitchy. That’s the sound of millions and millions of Beliebers being exposed to, er, EDM for the first time as they swarm across the rebel poseur’s Instagram. The potential ramifications of this are unknown, but potentially huge. (Hat tip to Mistajam for bringing it to our attention.)

Hear Jessie Ware team up with Romy xx on ‘Share It All’ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:07 AM PDT The modern soul star shares a non-album cut. Ahead of her second album Tough Love, Jessie Ware has unveiled a new track that won’t appear on the record (at least, not until the deluxe edition is out). The slick ‘Share It All’ was co-written with Romy from The xx, as you’ll notice from those plaintive one-note guitar lines buttressing the chorus. Catch up with her new single ‘Tough Love’ and look out for the album – which features contributions from BenZel, Miguel, Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford, Toronto producer Nineteen85 and songwriter Ed Sheeran – later this year. [via Dummy]

Field recording legend Chris Watson set to release iOS and Android app Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:47 AM PDT It’s probably the last thing you expected to hear today, but Chris Watson is about to have his own app. The fabled field recordist (who has captured environmental sound for some of the BBC’s best-known shows) and founder member of Cabaret Voltaire has teamed up with Brighton-based arts collective The Nimbus Group, and they will be debuting the app at this year’s Brighton Digital Festival. Called Nimbus, the app contains a hand-picked selection of some of Watson’s most beloved recordings, as well as four sound-based games to fiddle with on the bus. One game is a navigation challenge where you have to follow the direction of certain sounds, one uses the north-south auditory axis, one is a selection of sounds for insomniacs (this already sounds bloody essential) and the last game only unlocks when you happen to travel at the velocity of a diving peregrine falcon, which is 300km per hour, if you were wondering. Whether you’re a newcomer to Chris Watson’s incredible sound recordings, or a seasoned veteran with a stack of his Touch CDs sitting on your desk, we reckon Nimbus should be an essential download – we should hardly have to mention that it’s free for the duration of the Brighton Digital Festival. [via The Wire] Nimbus will be released on September 10, and available on iOS and Android.

Rinse celebrates 20 years with a heap of parties, collaborations and station takeovers Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:23 AM PDT The pirate-gone-straight puts out the bunting for two decades of broadcasting. Rinse has announced a whole heap of parties, collaborations, one-off events and takeovers to mark its 20th birthday. In addition to a previously announced birthday bash at Fabric featuring Todd Edwards, Slimzee, Lisa Maffia, Romeo, Darq E Freaker and more, they’ve revealed a string of FWD>> clubnights to coincide with a six-week series of genre takeovers on the station. Kicking off with two days of jungle programming on August 30 and 31, the series will chart the major strands of UK club music over the past 20 years, focusing in turn on dubstep, house, funky, grime and garage. On the events front, the station will host an Ibiza Rocks party with Route 94, Jess Glynne and Oneman on September 12 before returning to London for a night at Ministry of Sound on October 4 and a special event at the Tate gallery on December 5. And on top of that, there’ll be a pop-up shop in East London open from September 19-28, a collaboration with clothing line Billionaire Boys Club and another with photographer Shaun Bloodworth and design studio Give Up Art. Rinse.tv will also have live streams of all the events so you won’t miss out, wherever you are. Keep an eye on Rinse20 for more details.

Vessel reveals glam-influenced new album Punish, Honey; hear ‘Red Sex’ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:05 AM PDT Young Echo alum Vessel is back with his second full-length, and appears to have made a creative about-turn. A far cry from the filigree electronic experimentation of Order of Noise, Punish, Honey instead drags us into a world of industrial electronics, glam rock and mucky soundscapes. It’s all part of Vessel’s plan to create a “more organic” sound, and he managed this by stripping back the electronics and “using sheets of metal as percussion, sawing up bikes to make flutes and creating harmonic guitars all by his own hand.” The result is an album that will no doubt stand as one of the oddest on Tri Angle‘s roster, and first single ‘Red Sex’ is certainly a taste of something very different indeed. Apparently the album finds Vessel asking himself the question "What does 'Englishness' in music really mean?" and we have to say, we’re very curious to find out. Punish, Honey will be released on September 15, via Tri Angle. Tracklist: 01 Febrile 02 Red Sex 03 Drowned in Water and Light 04 Euoi 05 Anima 06 Black Leaves and Fallen Branches 07 Kin to Coal 08 Punish, Honey 09 DPM

Watch Clipping’s new video for ‘Story 2′ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:46 AM PDT On Clipping’s new album, the trio “take timbres more befitting of harsh noise, industrial and extreme electronic productions and mould them into body-popping funk.” In other words, hard industrial hip-hop is the name of the game, though CLPPNG never becomes difficult to the point where it’s too much of a slog to replay. Clipping’s latest video, for ‘Story 2′, is equally intense: opening on stuttering shots of feet and closing with a fiery climax. Like past videos ‘Bout That’ and ‘Bullshit’, it’s directed by Cristina Bercovitz. Clipping will play Jabberwocky festival this August in London; CLPPNG is out now.

Shackleton drops unexpected 12″, Deliverance Series No. 1 Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:31 AM PDT Shack’s back. The Berlin-residing producer has dropped a surprise 12″ on his own Woe To The Septic Heart label, a follow-up to his epic Freezing Opening Thawing 12″ from the start of the year and his contribution to Bleep’s 10th birthday compilation. Deliverance Series No.1, apparently the first in a string of new releases, arrived on the Hard Wax website today, as JunoPlus reports. There’s little accompanying information, but this time the artwork comes not from regular collaborator Zeke Clough but from German painter and filmmaker Strawalde. Hear clips of the effervescent A-side ‘Beat His Command’ and its spiralling, off-kilter B-side ‘Vor Und Zurück’ over at Hard Wax. Tracklist: A. Beat His Command AA. Vor Und Zurück

Redinho announces long-awaited debut album on Numbers; stream ‘Playing With Fire’ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:30 AM PDT It’s finally here, the glossy debut from Numbers‘ secret weapon Redinho. The talkbox crooner (a.k.a. Londoner Tom Calvert) has been astonishing with odd drops and collaborations (his collaboration on Rustie’s upcoming album Green Language is a doozy), but now it’s time for him to show his grand scheme on this self-titled LP. The record features a host of tracks we’ve heard before – ‘Stay Together', 'Stinger' and 'Searching' are all present and correct, and joined by a host of killer new material. The album’s first proper single is ‘Playing With Fire’. Stream it below, after a quick catch-up with Redinho about the album. Redinho will be released on September 22. The album’s been a long time coming, have you been working on it on/off since Bare Blips? Yeah it’s been a long journey. I’ve moved house several times in this period – I know this because I can remember what houses I was in when certain ideas were first sketched out, and some of these go all the way back to when I made Bare Blips. There’s a couple of past singles on here, were those always intended as part of an album, or did they just end up fitting too well to leave them off? ‘Stay Together’ came out because Hud Mo was in love with it after hearing it at a show I played at Fabric. He asked for it, then he kept playing it out, and included it on a mix, so it ended up on YouTube of course, and people wanted to hear it. ‘Searching’ and ‘Stinger’ had firm places on the album at the point of their release, and I think Stay Together is my best work so I always wanted that on the album. Where are you coming from with this album? When you set out to write it, what were your goals and aims for it, and how have they changed in the time since? I always wanted to use the talkbox live, so this became a big part of everything. But I wanted to use it in ways that took it beyond pure Zapp vibes. So you can hear it in weird ways throughout the album – the nosiy intro of ‘Stinger’ is me plugging it in, the first bass riff that comes in on ‘Searching’ and the bass line on ‘Sharp Shooter’ is through the talkbox, then obviously there are the lead vocals, but also backing vocals accompanying guest singers and all sorts of textures and sampler instruments. I experimented with tempos and moods, modern production sounds, and the biggest part for me was the harmony. Trying to use long chord progressions that took the talkbox stuff beyond its usual homes and flooding the club with an emotional uplifting atmosphere. Playing live was a big part of the process too, and there was a constant back and forth between the frontline and the lab. As a result there are an exhausting amount of edits for most of these tracks, and my hard drive is like a documentation of my descent into madness [laughs]. I grew up playing music in bands, playing with drums, synthesisers and turntables. So at the heart of what I do, I always imagine that there are some humans playing this music in some sort of live way. But above all, I love emotional music, and all of this boiled down to a vision of Stevie Wonder and Roger Troutman being produced by Aphex and Hud Mo, and that’s how I see the album now. Tracklist: 01 Stinger 02 Jacuzzi 03 Playing With Fire 04 Dive 05 Searching 06 Shem 07 Bubbles 08 Sharp Shooter 09 Making Up The Rules 10 With Or Without You 11 Get You Off My Mind 12 Suction Skit 13 Going Nowhere 14 Say I Want You 15 Stay Together

Hear Atlanta rapper Chilly Chills’ sizzling new single ‘Movie’ Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:24 AM PDT Lil Silk’s partner in crime Chilly Chills returns with another killer new drop. If you’ve been watching closely, you would have caught Chills on the stunning Archive Nation crew compilation from a couple of weeks back. He yet again showed he’s one of the group’s most lyrically dextrous members, and had us wondering when the Chilly Chills mixtape is going to finally make its appearance. Well it looks as if we’re getting closer and closer, you can stream new single ‘Movie’ below, and it’s yet another reason to pay attention to the Atlanta rapper, with its moody synth-laced backdrop and a confident brace of rhymes from Chills.

UK garage pioneer Noodles returns with house project Nu-Agenda; hear a track now Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:11 AM PDT UK garage don Noodles hasn’t released any of his own productions since 2000. For the reasons of why the former half of Groove Chronicles – along with El-B – quit at the peak of UKG’s success, and never really capitalised on his reputation as a godfather of dubstep, you can look forward to an in-depth FACT interview coming very shortly. But in the meantime, you can hear the results of his first recording sessions in 14 years here. The Nu-Agenda project is a duo with longtime friend, the Leicester grime/bassline/dubstep journeyman Dubchild – who has released several projects on Noodles’s DPR label in the last few years – and is based strictly on blissed-out, synth-heavy house. As Noodles says, "this is my roots, before garage I played house, jungle and techno, and as everyone knows the garage itself emerged from house." A ten-track self-titled Nu-Agenda album is released on DPR on the 18th August (you can pre-order now), and Noodles promises "there’s a lot more to come – I’ve been in the studio with some of the most important names from the garage days, too… It’s been a long time coming, but now I’m back to doing what I should be!"

Lee Gamble shares artwork and tracklist for new album KOCH Posted: 24 Jul 2014 05:59 AM PDT We’ve been offered a little bit more info on Lee Gamble‘s highly anticipated new full-length. Brummie sound design wizard Lee Gamble is back this autumn, and he’s carrying with him the follow-up to 2012′s acclaimed Dutch Tvashar Plumes. As we reported a few weeks back, it’s called KOCH, but now we can take a peep at the spiffy artwork (above) and marvel at the generous 16-track selection. It’s billed as a continuation of the themes Gamble explored on the album’s predecessors – the ambient d’n'b deconstructionism of Diversions 1994-1996 and the mutant club music of Dutch Tvashar Plumes, and from what we’ve heard of it so far, we’d have to agree. If you fancy a sneaky listen to one of the album’s highlights, make sure you tune in to FACT’s BBOX radio show tomorrow at 3pm ET (8pm UK). KOCH will be released on 2LP, CD and digital on September 12, via PAN. Tracklist: 01 Untitled Reversion 02 Motor System 03 You Concrete 04 Nueme 05 Oneiric Contur 06 Head Model 07 HMix 08 Frame Drag 09 Voxel City Spirals 10 Yehudi Lights Over Tottenham 11 Jove Layup 12 Ornith-Mimik 13 Caudata 14 Flatland 15 Gillsman 16 6EQUJ5-7

Watch Boxed’s ridiculous Boiler Room session featuring Slackk, Mumdance, Spooky and more Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:58 AM PDT Dark0, Dullah Beatz, JT the Goon, Logos, Mr Mitch, Murlo and Oil Gang also make an appearance. The whole Boxed family was in attendance for the grime clubnight’s Boiler Room session on Tuesday, a rolling three-hour B2B2B2B that was easily one of the rowdiest and sweatiest BR broadcasts in recent memory. Watch the action above or download the audio via Boiler Room – sadly you can’t hear the crowd, so you’ll just have to imagine them going berserk for rewinds and singing along to this. Bonus points if you can ID the tune Mumdance opens with. The next Boxed takes place next Friday, August 1, at Birthdays in Dalston, with Mumdance, Nammy Wams, Mr Mitch, Oil Gang and Logos. Pick up the first and second Boxed compilations for free to get up to speed.

“Drum & bass isn’t going anywhere”: dBridge rails against a “daft musical stereotype” Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:35 AM PDT “Stop being so bloody daft!” Drum’n'bass veteran dBridge has railed against what he sees as the misrepresentation of the genre, saying “some form of daft musical stereotype has taken hold of journalists and musicians who, frankly, should know better”. In a post on Exit Records’ Tumblr, the producer born Darren White explains: “It seems to be a popular narrative with journalists and other non-Drum & Bass producing musicians at the moment, to wonder and show surprise that producers are still making DnB, that it's ‘still here’ and that it still has any kind of musical value or worth.” He adds: “Just because you're not looking, doesn't mean it's not there.” His comments likely refer to the cluster of recent articles exploring new directions in d’n'b, including FACT’s own investigation into the rise of the “slow/fast” sound partly inspired by White’s own Autonomic venture. Referencing a bunch of contemporary variants of d’n'b being produced by the likes of DJ Fresh & Wilkinson, Loxy, Paradox, Noisia, Fracture and Stray, the former Bad Company member argues that the genre’s many offshoots “no longer have much to do with each other”. “The only thing that really binds them all is a tempo, and more importantly (or not?), the name,” he says, adding: “It has its subtleties just like other genres, subtleties that if people could be bothered, or, I suppose, cared, would easily hear. For example, even though we made music together as Bad Company, comparing what I do now to what my buddy DJ Fresh now makes, is like comparing Steve Aoki to Jimmy Edgar. Yet, we still operate within similar brackets of dance music.” D’n'b has outlived many other scenes and has “earned its place at the table”, he adds, concluding: “It's not going anywhere. It's been around long enough for you to know there are differences within the genre. Show it the respect it's earned and deserves. And stop being so bloody daft!” Read the blog post in full, and for more from White, check out FACT’s interview with him from last year about reuniting Bad Company and drum’n'bass at 20. In 2013 he also teamed up with Kid Drama to form a new group and podcast series under the name Heart Drive, while Exit Records released the second volume of its Mosaic compilation series.

UK garage, Green Velvet and club mashups: the week’s best free mixes Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:09 AM PDT Each week, FACT's Mixtape Round-Up trawls through the untamed world of free mixes, radio specials and live blends so you don't have to. We've now decided to break this into two features: the week's Best Free Mixes (think Soundcloud, Mixcloud) and the week's Best Mixtapes (think DatPiff, LiveMixtapes). Naturally, there'll always be some level of crossover between the two, but for now we've split the columns up, with Mixes running every Thursday, and Mixtapes every Friday. For this week’s outing, we’re happy to present another total hodgepodge: sizzling UKG and bassline, sludgy rap, vintage techno explorations and plenty more. Use your keyboard's arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/7)

Kele Okereke’s new album teaser sounds a lot like Burial and the xx Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:31 AM PDT Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke has announced his latest solo album, Trick, with a teaser of music. Given that Kele’s been forcing his way back into the spotlight this year with a series of mildly controversial, sometimes hypocritical articles for Noisey (rallying against “cultureless dance music” while releasing on Crosstown Rebels tells its own story), it’s easy to be cynical about the announcement’s timing. It’s a lot easier to be cynical, however, about the music on the teaser. The track that comes in at the 17 second mark has got to be one of the most shameless Burial rip-offs yet, with drums that sound like they’ve been copy/pasted straight from Untrue, while the tune that follows is ripped straight out The xx’s playbook. It’s hardly the first time that those two artists have been copied, of course, but provided neither of them were involved in Trick’s tracks (Burial did remix Bloc Party, back in 2007) it’s staggering how blatant this case is. Kele wrote about “Miley’s approbation [sic] of twerking” and “Sam Smith’s note-for-note pastiche of Atlanta soul” in that aforementioned Noisey article, so who knows – maybe he’s making a statement by appropriating two of modern music’s most influential acts. Make your own mind up below – Kele will release Trick on October 13.