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1. Stream last week’s FACT at BBOX radio show with special guest Brenmar
2. London dance craze shuffling is the focus of new documentary RELEASE
3. Kwaidan
4. FACT TV wants to hear your pitches
5. Gold Panda, The Field and Efterklang added to Rewire Festival lineup
6. Kanye West reveals next album could drop in September, single in two weeks
7. Tulisa cocaine deal trial thrown out of court
8. Premiere: Mighty Mark keeps Baltimore club moving with Mighty EP
9. LV and Josh Idehen announce second album Islands
10. German distributor Intergroove files for bankruptcy
11. FACT mix 451: DJ Orgasmic & Teki Latex
12. Premiere: stream Shabazz Palace’s new album Lese Majesty
13. Surgeon readies ‘Fixed Action Pattern’ for Token
14. “Oh, you’ve come crawling back, Dizz?”: Dizzee Rascal, Catey Shaw and more reviewed – well, massacred – in the FACT Singles Club
15. Teenager dies after attending Latitude Festival
16. Hear a teenage Eminem rapping on ultra-early track ‘Pooh Butt Day’
17. Goblin to perform live scores for Dawn of the Dead and Suspiria at London screenings

Stream last week’s FACT at BBOX radio show with special guest Brenmar Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:44 PM PDT FACT's US team returns to Brooklyn. Last Friday at 3pm ET (that's 8pm for everyone in the UK), FACT's Chris Kelly and Walker Chambliss made their way to the BBOX Radio studio in Brooklyn for this week’s episode of FACT at BBOX, where they were joined by special guest Brenmar. Highlights include new material by The Bug, a Baltimore Club-influenced set and some of Brenmar’s forthcoming remixes; you can stream the episode and take a look at the extensive tracklist over at BBOX. This week, John Twells will be joining Walker Chambliss to host the show, and they'll be bringing a surprise guest familiar to anyone who’s been paying attention to London’s Boxed camp. Make sure you head to the BBOX site at 3pm ET on Friday to tune in.

London dance craze shuffling is the focus of new documentary RELEASE Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:27 PM PDT RELEASE is set to explore British dance phenomenon shuffling – a set of moves you’ve likely seen if you’ve spent any time in London recently. The short feature, put together by documentary magazine The New British, explores how shuffling developed from 1920 jazz dance the Charleston, and its connection to underground house music in the last few years. It began to bubble up following the popularity of UK funky, and has been a regular fixture of London’s underground club culture ever since. Directed by Kez Glozier and filmed by Sam Hiscox, the short documentary will be premiering at London’s BASEMENT on August 1, alongside what’s touted as “an authentic house night.” If you fancy getting your mitts on invites, all you have to do is shoot an email over to join@thenewbritish.com, and you can head over to The New British Facebook page for more info. If you fancy checking out a bit more shuffling to get yourself in the mood, peep this vid of Mad Kezza cutting shapes below, alongside some footage of the Charleston.

Kwaidan Posted: 21 Jul 2014 10:56 AM PDT Available on: Ramp Recordings EP Since last year's album Nexus, released as a double vinyl on Ramp Recordings, Bristol's Young Echo collective have made a virtue of their looseness, splitting off into smaller groups and working across numerous labels, as if on a mission to disseminate their music more widely. Ishan Sound dropped a solo EP, Namka, on Tectonic; Amos Childs, Seb 'Vessel' Gainsborough and Sam Kidel debuted as Killing Sound with a stifling 12-inch on Blackest Ever Black; Vessel is limbering to drop his second long-player on Tri Angle; and now Childs and MC Alex Rendall return to Ramp to turn out their second solo vinyl release under the name Jabu. A collective united by sensibility more than by sound, Young Echo cover a lot of ground, their music lurking in a murky, improvisatory space between grime and reggae, dubstep and techno. Kwaidan is, notionally at least, a hip-hop record, although it is a localised and idiosyncratic example of the form, poetic and introverted, with traces of the brooding dread of the sound system culture that's infused much of Bristol's underground music scene since the late 70s. Yet Jabu's music feels gaseous, billows and drifts like smoke. Rendall's raps are sleepy-eyed streams of consciousness, spat in what feels like that cold hour after dawn when last night's bravado has evaporated and dew collects on windowframes. Childs' productions, meanwhile, recall a little J Dilla or RZA's more soporific, soulful productions, although hopefully I'm not reaching too much if I say moments here remind me of everything from the cryptic fugues of Dean Blunt to the sorrowful grime miniatures of Visionist to the crackly vinyl exorcisms of Philip Jeck. Perhaps some of this is projection, though, because these seven tracks don't hang around – just one tips the three-minute mark – and are constructed with a crispness and minimalism that encourages you to fill in the gaps. ‘Chamber’ finds Rendall musing in long, breathless chains over jazzy double bass notes and a revolving diva hook scuffed up so only the sorrowful emotion remains. The dubby, tectonic ‘Limousine’, featuring a guest turn from Young Echo-affiliated MC Rider Shafique, is a curdled fantasy of opulence and escape, Rendall dreaming of "the freedom to find a good woman and take her to the beach", while ‘Don't Fall Down’ throws the mic to vocalist Jasmine for a crackly soul miniature on slow descending chords. Each track is fleeting, staying around just long enough to leave an impression before vanishing into thin air. Young Echo are probably already rolling their eyes at the idea they might draw lazy comparison to Bristol's 90s trip-hop wave, and fair enough, probably. Still, listening to the finest track here, a skeletal skank of ‘Empty Days’, I'm reminded of the first time I heard Tricky's debut single, ‘Aftermath’, and just how spartan and hollowed-out it felt. Rendall muses darkly as pipes trill and snares clack and echo like struck femur bones. "Trace your thoughts to beginnings/Feel the remorse of a sinner/Trace the skin, feel the warmth of a killer…" It's a reminder that done right, empty space doesn't have to sound empty at all; it can sound like a place through which spectres walk.

FACT TV wants to hear your pitches Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:50 AM PDT Calling all videographers, filmmakers, cameramen and editors. FACT TV wants you.  FACT TV is looking to recruit creative, passionate and able freelancers, worldwide. If you’re a videographer, filmmaker, editor or producer, and whether your pitch is for a new series for FACT TV or a one-off documentary – we want to hear from you. Contact us at facttv@thevinylfactory.com with your pitches, and please provide a link to your previous work.

Gold Panda, The Field and Efterklang added to Rewire Festival lineup Posted: 21 Jul 2014 07:12 AM PDT The Netherlands’ Rewire Festival has announced a slew of new additions to its rapidly-growing lineup. An eclectic festival that takes in artists from many different artistic spheres, Rewire blends an exploratory programme with smart bookings from the club sphere to complement the other events. This means that Gold Panda, Aussie improv duo Gardland and Kompakt’s The Field can sit comfortably alongside an avant jazz collaboration between Dead Neanderthals & Machinefabriek, a performance from ambient noise outsider Wanda Group, and a set from Editions Mego newcomer Klara Lewis. Interestingly, Danish band Efterklang have been added, and have confirmed a performance alongside percussionist Tatu Rönkkö, despite hinting earlier this year that the band would be breaking up. These new additions are on top of performances from Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Jozef van Wissem, James Holden, Colin Stetson and more. For more information and tickets, head to the new Rewire site.

Kanye West reveals next album could drop in September, single in two weeks Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:32 AM PDT It’s been a year since Yeezus, and Kanye West appears to have its followup almost ready. In an interview with GQ, West stated, when asked about how far away the next record was, that it could come as early as September, which is just over a month away. “I think most likely September,” he stated, noting that while he goes “back and forth,” he should have one of the songs out “in the next couple of weeks.” He says initially he wanted the album to drop in June (to “kill it for the summer”) but has to “work on Adidas and be with my child.” On the new single, entitled ‘All Day’, West claims that it’s “a song that can be in the club like ‘Don’t Like’ or ‘Niggas in Paris,’” so we’re hoping it’s actually going to show up in a couple of weeks as planned. There’s always the threat that he could scrap it all and go back to the drawing board, as he says in the interview “when Beyoncé was working on her last album, she took a while.” You can check out the whole interview, where West talks about happiness, his legacy and his collaboration with Jay Z over at GQ.

Tulisa cocaine deal trial thrown out of court Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:31 AM PDT ‘Fake Sheikh’ undercover reporter suspended by The Sun. The trial of N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos has been thrown out of court after the judge said there were “strong grounds to believe” that Mazher Mahmood – dubbed the ‘Fake Sheikh’ because of his fondness for posing as a wealthy sheikh – had lied at an earlier hearing. The X-Factor judge was accused of brokering a cocaine deal for Mahmood – who had posed as a wealthy film producer in an undercover sting for The Sun on Sunday – by setting him up with rapper Mike GLC. The judge, Alistair McCreath, told the jury that the case “cannot go any further” because there were “strong grounds to believe” that Mahmood had lied at a hearing before the trial started. Contostavlos denied brokering the deal, which was exposed in the Sun on Sunday last June. Mike GLC – whose real name is Michael Coombs – pleaded guilty before the start of the trial but also walked free after judge said the case cannot proceed against him. Explaining his decision to the jury, the judge said: “Occasionally – very rarely – circumstances may arise in which a court has to say that whatever apparent merits a prosecution may have, the court cannot allow the prosecution case to be taken forward to trial.” He said that the court “cannot allow itself to be party to improper conduct”, adding: “Where there has been some aspect of the investigation or prosecution of a crime which is tainted in some way by serious misconduct to the point that the integrity of the court would be compromised by allowing the trial to go ahead, in that sense the court would be seen to be sanctioning or colluding in that sort of behaviour, then the court has no alternative but to say, ‘this case must go no further’.” The collapse of the case rested on Mahmood’s evidence about a statement given to police by a driver who picked up Contostavlos from a London hotel in May last year. The driver had initially suggested he had heard Contostavlos talking disapprovingly about drugs but “changed his mind” after a conversation with the undercover reporter, the court heard. The judge said Mahmood gave answers which were “entirely inconsistent” when he gave evidence at the trial last week. Reading a statement outside Southwark Crown Court, Contostavlos said the case had been a “horrific and disgusting entrapment” by Mahmood and The Sun on Sunday newspaper. “Mahmood has now been exposed by my lawyers openly lying to the judge and jury. These lies were told to stop crucial evidence going before the jury, ” she said. [via Guardian]

Premiere: Mighty Mark keeps Baltimore club moving with Mighty EP Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:31 AM PDT The artist formerly known as Murder Mark bridges the gap between old-school and new-school Baltimore. Marquis “Mighty Mark” Gasque turns 25 years-old today, and he’s celebrating the occasion with his first official EP, released by French club repository Moveltraxx. The Mighty EP joins pure Baltimore club bangers like ‘Tear Shit Up’, ‘Trynna Break Me Down’ and a remix of his signature track ‘Cherry Hill & Down Ya Block’ with the vogue-kissed ‘Girls’ and the juked-out booty bass of ‘Ping Pong’; the latter two feature frequent collaborator TT the Artist. “In this project I wanted to showcase how varied the Bmore Club sound is,” the producer writes. “Right now the scene here in Bmore is going through a pretty amazing resurgence. A lot of younger people are getting into producing club music and a lot of the legends are about to drop new projects as well. You may be surprised on some of the magic you hear coming from my city this year.” Stream the EP below and grab it via iTunes now, and check out the seizure-inducing video for ‘Ping Pong’ while you’re at it.

LV and Josh Idehen announce second album Islands Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:30 AM PDT LV and Josh Idehen will release their second collaborative album, Islands, in September. As with Routes, the group’s debut (LV have also released an album sans Idehen, Sebenza, on Hyperdub), Islands will be housed on Keysound. According to a press release, “where Routes saw Josh's voice used in fragments to examine themes of life in modern London, Islands sees LV move Idehen's lyrics and vocals front and centre”, with LV’s Will explaining that “we tried to write music around him, with highs and lows; trying to make it coherent… but not too coherent. "Everything that was coming up through Islands does relate to a part of me," Idehen elaborates. "That feeling of being an outsider, being isolated and this kind of lonely story teller. And not in a kind of 'I'm cool, I'm different', but just an outcast, always on the outside looking in." Keysound may be best known for its instrumental takes on dubstep, garage and more, but Routes was an album closer to Original Pirate Material than Sound of the Pirates, and ranked high on FACT’s 50 best albums of 2011. Keysound will release Islands on September 15. Tracklist: 01. New Pen 02. Run Down 03. Obsessed 04. Imminent 05. Talk Trim 06. Mistakes 07. Shake 08. Shudder 09. Make It Count 10. That Old Darkness 11. Double-Decker Back Seat 12. Out of the Blue 13. Waiting For The Night 14. Angry Hiss 15. Island

German distributor Intergroove files for bankruptcy Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:01 AM PDT More turbulence in the industry as another distro stumbles. German distributor Intergroove, which deals with more than 300 labels including Get Physical, Sushitech, Tsuba and Sex Tags Mania, has filed for bankruptcy. Managing director Ralf Reichert said the Offenbach-based company would continue to distribute records and CDs as it worked to secure its future. ”We will do everything we can to clean up the company of insolvency and continue Intergroove,” he said in a statement. The news comes just a few days after one of its UK counterparts, ST Holdings, ceased trading following a drastic scaling down of its roster. [via RA]

FACT mix 451: DJ Orgasmic & Teki Latex Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:29 AM PDT This week’s FACT mix comes from DJ Orgasmic and Teki Latex, two thirds of the team behind France’s Sound Pellegrino label. Formed in 2009 as a sub-label of Institubes, Sound Pellegrino has spent the last half decade housing club music from both France (Panteros666, Bambounou) and abroad (L-Vis 1990, Teeth), while occasionally combining the two on its Crossover Series, which has introduced the likes of Bok Bok and Tom Trago, and Surkin and Todd Edwards on collaborative singles. The latest chapter in the Sound Pellegrino story is Raw Club Material, a new compilation that focuses on “function & combinability", while also evoking "visions of architecture, minerals and metal." In short, imaginative, idiosyncratic dance music that also tears the club up is the name of the game, and it’s an approach shared by Orgasmic and Latex’s three-deck FACT mix, which features many of the producers – Rabit, Rachett Traxxx – included in Raw Club Material.  “We tend to favour live blends over bootlegs and edits, and the occasional tweaks and glitches you will hear in this mix are made live using (and abusing) the slip mode on the CDJs nexus”, Latex and Orgasmic explain. “We have always had a hard time choosing between 4/4 and broken rhythms, or between techno and a song format, so we tend to jump from one to the other. We grew fascinated and obsessed by these dualities, and it’s the re-contextualisation and association of these tracks together that create our own version of club music.” Tracklist: Deniece Williams — Let’s Hear It For The Boy Bambounou — Idem Ratchett Traxxx feat. Paul Fisher — On Top Variete — Drumworks Friendship — Tool #2 DJ Vague — Hard Working Trax 1 Matthias Zimmermann — Reginald Akkord — Gradient Rushmore — Evertrack Douster & Swick — OS War III Joe Howe — Untitled CWS — Untitled 02 (DMX crew remix) Lokiboi — Let Me See That (Manaré remix) INOJ — Time After Time Ratchett Traxxx — Whoreallywannit MC Bin Laden — Passinho do Farao Spooky — Coolie Joyride Matthias Zimmermann & Joe Howe — Jules L-VIS 1990 & Sinjin Hawke — The Pit Deke Soto — Black Ice Rabit — Thug Rotorvator DJ Cable — Cartridge VIP Aaliyah — Are You That Somebody (DJ Milktray remix) Slugabed — Welcome To My Hood

Premiere: stream Shabazz Palace’s new album Lese Majesty Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:35 AM PDT On their second album Lese Majesty, Shabazz Palaces continue to make hip-hop 100% on their own terms. The duo of Ishmael Butler, formerly Butterfly of 1990s outfit Digable Planets, and Tendai 'Baba' Maraire created Shabazz Palaces in the mid-2000s, releasing a pair of self-titled EPs at the close of that decade, and following them with Black Up - a debut album that combined hip-hop traditions with freeform creativity (as Tendai told FACT last month, “we pop champagne and do all of it … But we don't make it a point to propagate that and push that and go down that lane”). It wasn’t the easiest album to digest, but when the dust settled, it proved to be one of the year’s best. Sub Pop, the group’s label, describe Lese Majesty‘s material as "reveries sent to Palaceer Lazaro [Ishmael] and Fly Guy 'Dai [Tendai] in the year of gun beat battles in excess; in a succession of days, whilst walking in dreams and in varied transcendental states". It’s a grander, more ambitious record than their debut – made in the group’s new studio, they “had the time and space to realise much more than we have before”. But it’s also a record that never spirals into pure indulgence: put simply, just like countless hip-hop classics before it, it knows that all the experimentation in the world doesn’t mean shit if the beats don’t bump and the rhymes don’t hit. Lese Majesty is rooted in tradition without ever feeling trad, and perhaps that, more than anything, is what makes it succeed. We’re premiering the stream of Lese Majesty below. You can pre-order the album on iTunes, or purchase direct from Sub Pop (vinyl, digital or CD) here.

Surgeon readies ‘Fixed Action Pattern’ for Token Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:28 AM PDT The Midlands technician debuts on Belgian label. Surgeon will release the two-track ‘Fixed Action Pattern’ on Token on August 25, pairing a slice of broken-beat techno with a dub version on the flip, as RA reports. The track will also appear on the label’s Aphelion compilation due in November, which features a mix of Token regulars and new faces. This week the FACT office has been zoning out to Surgeon’s creepy, Coil-heavy ambient set recorded at this month’s Freerotation festival.

“Oh, you’ve come crawling back, Dizz?”: Dizzee Rascal, Catey Shaw and more reviewed – well, massacred – in the FACT Singles Club Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:27 AM PDT Each week on the FACT Singles Club, a selection of our writers work their way through the new music of the week gone by. With the way individual tracks are now consumed, the idea of what constitutes a single has shifted dramatically in the last half a decade, and its for this reason that the songs reviewed across the next pages are a combination of 12″ vinyl releases, mixtape cuts, Soundcloud uploads and more. This week, we’re not going to lie – it’s a massacre. Four tracks take an absolute kicking, and one scores – wait for it – the all-time lowest average in Singles Club history. Use your keyboard's arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/8)

Teenager dies after attending Latitude Festival Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:14 AM PDT A teenager has died after attending this weekend’s Latitude Festival. The 17-year-old is yet to be named, but according to the BBC died in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after being airlifted from the festival at around 16.30 on Saturday. A statement from the festival reads: “A 17-year-old male attending Latitude was airlifted to hospital on Saturday afternoon and died in the early hours of Sunday morning. “The young male suffered from an isolated medical condition”, it continues. “The police are not treating this as suspicious.”

Hear a teenage Eminem rapping on ultra-early track ‘Pooh Butt Day’ Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:14 AM PDT Rare song recorded with the late Chaos Kid. Here’s one from the archives – a teenage Eminem getting scatological this ultra-early track, ‘Pooh Butt Day’. Recorded with his early collaborator Chaos Kid, the dates are uncertain but it looks likely to have been recorded any time between 1988 – when Em was 16 years old – to 1991, when he and Chaos Kid were releasing music as Soul Intent. For more of Eminem’s toilet humour, check out this gem of a video that includes classic footage of Percee P throwing down with a fresh-faced Eminem in a bathroom stall. Meanwhile, Em has been busy this month with the launch of his battle rap league, Total Slaughter.

Goblin to perform live scores for Dawn of the Dead and Suspiria at London screenings Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:13 AM PDT Italian horror veterans bring their bone-chilling soundtracks to life next month. As part of this year’s Film4 FrightFest, prog-rock ensemble Goblin are to perform their original scores for George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and Dario Argento’s Suspiria at two special screenings in London. Led by Brazilian-born Italian composer Claudio Simonetti, the four-piece will provide real-time accompaniment to the cult horror classics on August 18 and 19 at Union Chapel in Islington – follow the links for tickets to Dawn of the Dead and Suspiria. If you’re into horror movies and you’re not yet familiar with Goblin, check our Beginner’s Guide to the band to find out why they’re more influential than ever among fans of metal, electronic and experimental music. Last year they released a four-track EP of some of their best-known themes – including Profondo Rosso, Suspiria and Tenebre – on the horror specialist imprint Death Waltz.