FACT Magazine Bristol bass dons Hodge and Facta ready collaborative 12″ for Tempa @ Musique Non Stop

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1. Bristol bass dons Hodge and Facta ready collaborative 12″ for Tempa
2. Watch Damon Albarn reunite with Blur’s Graham Coxon, play with Brian Eno and De La Soul
3. The Illumaphone turns coffee cups into a musical instrument
4. Moderat: ‘A New Error’ LIVE
5. Watch Kendrick Lamar’s stunning Saturday Night Live performance

Bristol bass dons Hodge and Facta ready collaborative 12″ for Tempa Posted: 16 Nov 2014 03:42 PM PST Two leading members of Bristol’s new school link up for a collaborative 12″. For well over a decade, venerable London imprint Tempa has maintained its position at the forefront of bass-heavy UK music, evolving from seminal garage and dubstep imprint to a more all-encompassing hub for everything dark and weighty. Given both the sound and quality of their recent output, it was probably only a matter of time before either Hodge or Facta ended up with a release on Tempa. The pair will both mark their debut on the imprint with a collaborative 12″ to be released later this month. As well as making up one half of house duo Outboxx (who provided the most recent instalment in the FACT mix series), Hodge has delivered a string of heavy 12″s on Livity Sound sister label dnuoS ytiviL as well as Peverelist’s Punch Drunk imprint (see the excellent ‘Bells’ from last year, a collaboration with Pev). Facta is a relative newcomer operating in similar murky territory, releasing the excellent Loveless 12″ on Bristol label Idle Hands earlier this year. The pair’s 12″ for Tempa contains two collaborative efforts. The A-side, ‘Spheres Of Costa Rica’, melds tribal chanting and percussion with heavy low end. The flip side is reserved for ‘Visions’, a deeper, more grimy effort with an ominous, lurching bass line. Tempa will release Hodge and Facta’s Spheres Of Costa Rica / Visions 12″ on 24 November. You can preview both tracks below. Tracklist: A Spheres Of Costa Rica B Visions [via Resident Advisor]

Watch Damon Albarn reunite with Blur’s Graham Coxon, play with Brian Eno and De La Soul Posted: 16 Nov 2014 09:52 AM PST The former Blur frontman brings out the big guns at The Royal Albert Hall. Over the course of his career, Damon Albarn has worked with scores of music’s biggest names. Last night, at the iconic Royal Albert Hall, he brought a few on stage to play a few fan favorites. Backed by touring band The Heavy Seas, a choir and string section, Albarn worked through his voluminous catalogue (the setlist is below). Highlights included bringing former Blur bandmate Graham Coxon out during the first encore to play a handful of the band’s songs; the second encore featured appearances by Brian Eno, De La Soul and Kano. Watch some fan-shot footage below. Last month, Albarn teased plans to relaunch Gorillaz in 2016. [via Gigwise] Spitting Out the Demons (Gorillaz song) Lonely Press Play Everyday Robots Tomorrow Comes Today (Gorillaz song) Slow Country (Gorillaz song) Kids With Guns (Gorillaz song) Three Changes (The Good, the Bad & the Queen song) Bamako City (Mali Music cover) Sunset Coming On (Mali Music cover) Hostiles Photographs (You Are Taking Now) Kingdom of Doom (The Good, the Bad & the Queen song) You and Me Hollow Ponds El Mañana (Gorillaz song) Don’t Get Lost In Heaven (Gorillaz song) Out of Time (Blur song) All Your Life (Blur song) Encore: End of a Century (Blur song) (with Graham Coxon) The Man Who Left Himself (Blur song) (with Graham Coxon) Tender (Blur song) (with Graham Coxon) Encore 2: Mr. Tembo Feel Good Inc. (Gorillaz song) (with De La Soul) Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz song) (with Kano) Heavy Seas of Love (with Brian Eno)

The Illumaphone turns coffee cups into a musical instrument Posted: 16 Nov 2014 07:47 AM PST The continuing quest to turn every household object into a musical instrument. In the same vein as the Ototo — an experimental synthesizer that turns electrical charges into sound — is the Illumaphone, “a light-based, spatial, electronic musical instrument” created by Princeton graduate / Codecademy software engineer Bonnie Eisenman. The Illumaphone (made from “six stolen coffee cups”) uses photoresistors, an Arduino Uno board, and Princeton’s ChucK, a musical programming language developed at Princeton and allows a wave of the hand to control volume and vibrato of each cup’s pre-determined note. Watch the Illumaphone below and get the whole story on Eisenman’s blog. For something more traditional, check out our feature on the synthesizers that shaped modern music. [via Make]

Moderat: ‘A New Error’ LIVE Posted: 16 Nov 2014 05:55 AM PST Filmed at this years Unknown festival, Croatia.

Watch Kendrick Lamar’s stunning Saturday Night Live performance Posted: 16 Nov 2014 05:31 AM PST Plus: SNL parodies Miley Cyrus, Sam Smith and more. Kendrick Lamar made his second appearance on Saturday Night Live last night, playing divisive new single ‘I’ and the collaborative ‘Pay For It’. The performance of ‘I’ has drawn the most attention, thanks to Kendrick’s all-black contact lenses, half-braided hair, James Brownesque tics (“hit me!”) and new dance moves. His performance was more understated but no less powerful on ‘Pay For It’, on which he was joined by Jay Rock and Chantal. Kendrick also appeared in a skit that parodied Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s new duet album with a record titled Young Tarts & Old Farts. For their parodies of duets between 2 Chainz, Ariana Grande, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Sam Smith and a handful of boomer favorites, head to Mediaite.