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1. Ja Rule blames egos for preventing supergroup with DMX and Jay-Z
2. Hear Drake’s Jodeci-sampling number ‘How About Now’
3. Listen back to Caribou’s Essential Mix featuring new tracks from Daphni, Joy O and Pearson Sound
4. The closing track from Aphex Twin’s Syro isn’t what you think it is
5. Damon Albarn “reactivating” Gorillaz for a 2016 release

Ja Rule blames egos for preventing supergroup with DMX and Jay-Z Posted: 19 Oct 2014 05:50 PM PDT The trio once planned to come together as Murder Inc. Ja Rule, Jay-Z and DMX have each reached wildly different levels of success in recent years, however back at the turn of the millennium all three rappers were at the top of their game. At one point, the three would-be New York icons planned to form a supergroup under the banner of Murder Inc. and even donned the front cover of XXL’s ninth edition under the Murder Inc. name back in the middle of ’99. The trio recorded a bundle of tracks together however a combination of factors prevented the project from ever seeing the light of day. Speaking to MTV, Ja Rule revealed the main reason why the supergroup never panned out. "We tried to deliver that album.” said Ja. “It was a situation where egos all just played a part in its demise. We couldn't get X and Jay in the same room, from long ago, their storied battle on the pool table, guns out [and] all of that. That carried over into our careers and we were all trying to do our thing separately and it carried over. It was hard to get all of us into a room to do what we needed to do." He continued "We did a few records together and those records will always be classics to a lot of people in the history of hip hop. I wish that album would've came to fruition, it would've been real dope… I think there might be one– one or two joints that's still out there that y’all haven't heard." Watch the full interview below.

Hear Drake’s Jodeci-sampling number ‘How About Now’ Posted: 19 Oct 2014 05:01 PM PDT Drizzy asks ‘How About Now?’ on a new leak. Earlier today a mysterious new track from Drake surfaced online. Entitled ‘How About Now’, the previously unheard number was uploaded to SoundCloud by a teenage user who claimed that the track is taken from Drake’s forthcoming album Views From The Six. The leak was quickly removed from SoundCloud but is still floating around online. ‘How About Now’ interpolates Jodeci’s classic ‘My Heart Belongs To You’ and finds Toronto’s favourite son lamenting a girl who didn’t appreciate him until he was on top. ‘How About Now’ is of a similar vibe to Drake’s Nothing Was The Same material and sounds as though it could have been a track that didn’t make the album’s final cut. Boi-1da is rumoured to have produced the track but those reports are unconfirmed. Listen to ‘How About Now’ below.

Listen back to Caribou’s Essential Mix featuring new tracks from Daphni, Joy O and Pearson Sound Posted: 19 Oct 2014 03:59 PM PDT Caribou takes us inside his record bag for Radio 1. The latest Essential Mix comes from veteran producer Dan Snaith under his Caribou guise. Snaith’s Essential Mix features two new tracks from his Daphni alias as well as fresh material from Boddika and Joy O (‘Untitled’), Anthony Naples (‘Miles’) and Pearson Sound (‘Rubber Tree’). “Right now is an exciting time for me, with a new album about to come out and a world tour about to kick off.” said Snaith to Radio 1. ”But it also means I’ll be taking a break from all the DJing I’ve been doing as Daphni over the last few years. So this mix incorporates some of the music I’ve been playing in my DJ sets over the last little while and also some of the music I’ve been making.” Caribou cracked the UK top ten album chart last week with his latest latest full-length, Our Love. Click here to listen to Caribou’s Essential Mix.

The closing track from Aphex Twin’s Syro isn’t what you think it is Posted: 19 Oct 2014 02:10 PM PDT The piano closer of Aphex Twin‘s new album Syro may be one of the album’s most memorable moments, but very few have picked up on where it’s actually from. Rather than a studio-birthed composition like the rest of Syro, ‘Aisatsana’ (presumably a reference to Aphex’s wife, Anastasia) is a recording or replay of the part of Aphex’s 2012 “remote orchestra” show at London’s Barbican where music was produced from a suspended, swinging piano (with added bird song). Naturally, some Aphex fans have picked up on this, but most reviews of Syro - ours included – completely missed it. Watch the footage below, and read FACT’s 50 best Aphex Twin tracks.

Damon Albarn “reactivating” Gorillaz for a 2016 release Posted: 19 Oct 2014 01:34 PM PDT Albarn feeds the rumor mill. In a feature about his recently released debut solo album Everyday Robots, Damon Albarn is said to be “in the process of reactivating Gorillaz for a 2016 release.” Last we heard, Albarn was teasing the possibility of a “Gorillaz-esque” album. Previously, he sent mixed signals about the band, which ended due to creative differences with Jamie Hewlett. A new Gorillaz album would be the virtual act’s fifth, following 2011′s The Fall. Since the group’s demise, the former Blur frontman has stayed busy with a solo career, collaborations, plans for a family musical… and he even did a FACT mix. [via SMH]