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- Take a trip into the unhinged world of Australian bush doofs with this brilliant documentary
- Watch the video for Jens-Uwe Beyer’s ‘Moewen’ forthcoming on Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2015 compilation
- Experimental techno duo OAKE ready debut LP for Regis’ Downwards imprint
- “Who is this record for?” First thoughts on Wu-Tang Clan’s A Better Tomorrow
- Watch a 19-year-old MF Doom address the U.S. Senate
- Watch a trailer for Robert Curgenven’s They Tore…
- Soundcloud to launch subscription service with Warner Music Group
- Drum’n'bass shapeshifter Stray drops great new hip-hop mixtape Since You’ve Been Gone: download and read our Q&A
- Pearson Sound readies album for Hessle Audio
- Capital Children’s Choir ‘Shake It Out’ LIVE at The Vinyl Factory
- Stream every round of this year’s epic Red Bull Culture Clash
- Egyptrixx announces new album, launches Halocline Trance label
- The Record Sweep: Luke Vibert
- Charli XCX-producer J£zus Million returns with maximalist The Error EP — stream trap epic ‘Taught To Run’
- Stream Vladislav Delay’s beatless Visa in full
- 2 shot after Freddie Gibbs show at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade
- You can now play over 900 classic arcade games in your browser
- Milo McBride makes club music for futuristic wastelands and lounge utopias — stream his debut EP
- Yamaneko reveals debut album Pixel Wave Embrace for Local Action
- secretsundaze reveals New Year’s Day special with Efdemin and Patrice Scott
- Hideout 2015 celebrates 5 years with Skream, Nina Kraviz, Joy Orbison and more
- Joker preps “cinematic” new album Mainframe
- R.I.P. London dancehall DJ Joe Grime
- BBC Radio 1 set to launch internet television channel
- Beyoncé confirms four-disc Platinum Edition Box Set featuring two new tracks
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Posted: 04 Nov 2014 05:17 PM PST
Warning: This video contains psytrance. The wild Australian bush doof scene is not something we’ve covered on FACT in the past. For those unaware, a bush doof is an Australian term for a rave set within untamed rural surroundings. Australia has had a rich history of such events, with the bush doof movement first emerging from the ashes of the collapsed inner-city rave scene in the late ’90s. The recent introduction of draconian alcohol licensing laws and strict curfews in the metropolitan areas of Sydney and Melbourne has led to another boom in the bush doof scene, with both the size and number of events increasing once again. Sydney filmmaker Ivan Lentell has attempted to document this burgeoning movement in the first episode of his Sceno’s Subcultural Safari series, developed in collaboration with FBi Radio. The result is a hilarious insight into an admirably unpretentious world brimming with unbridled psychedelica, relentless trance music and white people with dreadlocks. There is an unquestionable unity between revellers, as the filmmaker eloquently states “They’re like one big organism sperming all over the mud. It’s beautiful.”         |
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Watch the video for Jens-Uwe Beyer’s ‘Moewen’ forthcoming on Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2015 compilation
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 04:00 PM PST
Kompakt give us a taste of this year’s instalment in their Pop Ambient series. Jens-Uwe Beyer is perhaps best known for his synth-pop experiments under the guise of Popnoname (or PNN), although the German artist has been a regular contributor to Cologne institution Kompakt’s Pop Ambient series since 2005. The Pop Ambient series has collected ambient experiments from artists worldwide since 2001 and is compiled each year by Kompakt co-founder Wolfgang Voigt. For the 2015 edition Beyer provides a heady, spaced-out drone jam entitled ‘Moewen’. The track has been given the video treatment ahead of its release next week, with the classy video accompaniment compiling vintage mountaineering footage for an immersive sensory experience. Kompakt will release Pop Ambient 2015 on November 10. Kompakt recently uploaded a playlist of its Pop Ambient compilations from 2001 to 2013 on YouTube. You can stream it below.         |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2014 03:19 PM PST
 The Berlin-based pair have unveiled their debut album. OAKE first appeared on Karl O’Connor’s Downwards label with the release of their excellent Offenbarung 12″ in April last year. The duo followed that up with Vollstreckung, a collection of four industrial techno experiments that arrived on Downwards offshoot D/N in December. OAKE also contributed a track to Downwards’ stellar Halha compilation earlier this year and today unveiled the details of their first full-length offering. Entitled Auferstehung, details of the album are scarce having been revealed in typically cryptic Downwards style. All we know is that the album contains 11 tracks and "marks an end and a beginning at the same time.” Downwards will issue OAKE’s Auferstehung in a 2-LP package scheduled to arrive on December 1. Tracklist: A1. Vorwort: Umiha Sien A2. Kapitel Eins: Edunien Edreue A3. Erstes Buch: Desterieh l'Remm B1. Zweites Buch: Var Genstien B2. Drittes Buch: Graevann Grewen B3. Kapitel Zwei: Brachem Dest C1. Viertes Buch: Mortre Wrid C2. Fuenftes Buch: Dreloi Wechd D1. Kapitel Drei: Rechs Zegon D2. Sechstes Buch: Rehmin Sicht D3. Siebtes Buch: Drestan Sened [via Juno Plus]         |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2014 02:33 PM PST
 It’s finally happening. After countless delays, a war of words between RZA and Raekwon, and head-scratching side-projects, the Wu-Tang Clan's new album A Better Tomorrow is finally coming out on December 2. Perhaps to prove that the album exists, Warner Bros. scheduled a listening party at New York’s Quad Studios. FACT’s Brad Stabler was there — here are his first thoughts on the album. |
It’s 2014, and the only thing bumping through the Quad as the Wu began to show up one by one (except for Method Man, sadly), was golden age hip-hop, with ‘Buggin’ Out’ damn near starting a sing-along. At 7:50, ‘A Better Tomorrow’ off Wu-Tang Forever played, and then, after a quick intro, so did the record of the same name.
Good news: it’s not terrible. Bad news: it’s still 2014. Is this record even necessary, son?
A Better Tomorrow, the first outing from the 36 Chambers since 2007′s limp 8 Diagrams, scores right out of the gate. ‘Ruckus in B Minor’ has all the makings of a catalog classic. The group asserts they’re still number one right at the drop, and with Method Man and GZA lobbing fastballs, you could almost accept this to be true. ‘Ruckus’ is one of RZA’s strongest productions to date– the samples come fierce and fast, the tempo starts and stops, and even the requisite gunshots sound meaner than they have on a Wu-Tang production in years. Its follow-up, ‘Felt’, one-ups it. The beat is a sneak attack, reversed drums duking it out against soul swallowed in reverb and awkward pauses for the MCs to break through. At this point, I was hooked.But something felt off right away. The best Clan records have always been built off the individual charisma from the MCs than the group’s collective chemistry– the latter always hidden until the former has finished the track off. ‘Ruckus’ and ‘Felt’ prove the rule again, but starting with the third tune the group collectively comes unglued one by one. The irreverent humor is mostly gone. The verses slowly began to lose personality at the same time the MCs begin to decreasingly acknowledge the others. RZA’s production gets more saccharine, becoming more Champloo than Afro Samurai.
With the exception of ‘Hold the Heater’, A Better Tomorrow‘s entire middle is a parade of duds. ‘Preacher’s Daughter’, which begins with Ghostface whimpering "I met on her on the bus with black eyes/She said she don’t fuck with black guys," turns into an after school special not even a dark ass flip of Al Green’s ‘Here I Am’ can save. A more sober, personal direction isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but for long stretches this record feels less like a Wu-Tang outing and more like a stopover at group therapy.
“That leaves the question: who is this record for?”
The final third thankfully pulls through. ‘Necklace’ — with its sample scolding "Brother, I think that necklace is causing you too much trouble" — is aces. Inspectah Deck and Ghostface deliver two of their best verses in years — Pretty Tony almost one-ups ‘Shakey Dog’ off of Fishscale — and the track gets quotable line-for-line. This forward momentum sails all the way through the close of ‘Wu-Tang Reunion’. The humor comes back roaring — my favorite being Method Man somehow making "When I’m in jail, hold onto the soap" and "Niggas sip coke through a crazy straw" on ‘Never Let Go’ and ‘Ron O’Neal’ work — and it’s a solid landing after the record’s middle. The latter packs even more punch as an album cut.
So there’s a solid one-two punch, a flaccid middle, and a stellar close. As the record played, the Quad — specifically younger, more casual heads — began to clear out one-by-one. Or at least retreat to the bar to wait for Instagram opportunities. That leaves the question: who is this record for?
As a group effort, it doesn’t work: the members are there, but the Shaolin isn’t. As something that could stack up to the rest of hip-hop in 2014, it doesn’t work either. As a personal change in direction, it seems tired. Old heads seemed genuinely baffled by the album’s middle. The bounce is back, and when the record gets back to the old swagger fans are used to, it’s on point. The rest of the time, there’s no edge. At least on the first impression.
Good news, though: it’s not terrible.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 01:38 PM PST
It’s Election Day — check out a fascinating Rock The Vote throwback.
Back in 1990, Rock The Vote was founded by Virgin Records exec Jeff Ayeroff, campaign operative Steve Barr and others. Their first initiative to get young people to vote was to lobby for the “Motor Voter” bill, which allowed people to register to vote when receiving their driver’s license at the DMV.
In 1991, MF Doom — back when he was unmasked and went by Zev Love X — addressed a US Senate committee hearing focused on the National Voter Registration Act, accompanied by his KMD partner-in-crime Onyx. Watch a video of their comments below.
The bill passed Congress the next year, due in large part to Rock The Vote’s efforts, but President George H.W. Bush vetoed the bill. Bill Clinton successfully used the veto as a wedge issue in that year’s presidential election, eventually signing it into law. [via Rappcats]
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 01:37 PM PST
Robert Curgenven’s SIRÉNE is one of our favorite 12″s this year, and the producer is set to follow it with They tore the earth and, like a scar, it swallowed them.
You might have guessed from the title that it’s a charged piece of work, and finds itself exploring themes of colonial violence, settlement and struggle with specific reference to Curgenven’s homeland of Australia.
Curgenven interprets these themes with a familiar, noisy selection of treatments, dragging a selection of carefully-picked field recordings and instrumental drones through his cascade of effects. You can see a trailer for the album, outlining its themes with a collection of images, below.
The album will be released on red vinyl on Curgenven’s own Recorded Fields Editions label, and will be available on November 17.
Tracklist:
01. Scattered to the wind, the fortunate
02. Only the dogs and the fires on the horizon
03. The heat at their necks
04. And when the storm came, they were the storm
You might have guessed from the title that it’s a charged piece of work, and finds itself exploring themes of colonial violence, settlement and struggle with specific reference to Curgenven’s homeland of Australia.
Curgenven interprets these themes with a familiar, noisy selection of treatments, dragging a selection of carefully-picked field recordings and instrumental drones through his cascade of effects. You can see a trailer for the album, outlining its themes with a collection of images, below.
The album will be released on red vinyl on Curgenven’s own Recorded Fields Editions label, and will be available on November 17.
Tracklist:
01. Scattered to the wind, the fortunate
02. Only the dogs and the fires on the horizon
03. The heat at their necks
04. And when the storm came, they were the storm
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 12:35 PM PST
Warner is the first major label to make a deal.
Earlier this year, Soundcloud reportedly offered equity to the major labels in exchange for a promise not to sue over copyright, and it appears that Warner Music Group is the first to take them up on it.
A deal between the streaming giant and WMG covers Soundcloud’s ad-supported “On Soundcloud” program and a subscription streaming service that will launch in 2015. According to a press release, the deal will help artists earn revenue from “user-generated mixes and mash-ups.”
Previously, SoundCloud announced plans to introduce advertising to its service, with users able to collect royalties for the first time. [via Techcrunch]
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:48 AM PST
Stray is one of our favourite contemporary drum’n'bass producers, though as his Against the Clock session shows, he doesn’t just make drum’n'bass.
In his new mixtape, Since You’ve Been Gone, the Exit-affiliated producer lifts the lid on several years’ worth of hip-hop beats, influenced by the lop-sided feel of Dilla and his contemporaries, the crisp snap of the Neptunes and more. We’re premiering Since You’ve Been Gone - you can stream it in full at Stray’s Soundcloud (below), or download the whole thing here.
On top of that, FACT TV are hosting the lush animated video for Since You’ve Been Gone‘s title track – made by our own Kamil Dymek and Pawel Ptak. We’ve embedded that mid-way through our catch-up with Stray below.
Hey Stray, why did you choose to do Since You’ve Been Gone as a mixtape? Like why would it not have worked as a set of singles or even as an album, say? Or was it just that you wanted it to stay separate to your d’n'b stuff?
It's a compilation of some tracks I wrote around three years back. I wanted to give them away all in one go because they're tunes which I think belong together… I guess the mixtape format allows me to draw a line under it and focus on new music for my album. The tracks are definitely a bit rough around the edges – the project files for these are mostly fucked so I couldn't go back in and polish them up but I think that's a good thing. As it stands the tracks serve as a sort of foggy snapshot into the past and it feels great, if a little strange, to be finally putting them out there.
It’s mostly hip-hop on here, as was the case with your Against the Clock episode.. is it frustrating that you’re always pegged as a d’n'b producer when this is clearly a part of what you do?
It'd be frustrating if it limited what I felt I could write or DJ, but it really doesn't. There's an increasing amount of crossover between the two scenes and drum & bass heads seem so open minded at the moment to what I'm doing. I'll never forget what the d’n'b scene has done for me and I still feel like I owe it a lot – instead of jumping ship and rebranding myself, I'd prefer to keep trying to adapt people's perception of the genre and its inhabitants. That said, I'm finding myself playing a lot of events that have little if any connection to d’n'b, and I I'd like to think my music reaches people who might not necessarily be into it at all – the internet naturally means that genre definitions are not what they once were and I'm enjoying the ride into the unknown.
What hip-hop artists are big inspirations / influences on the project?
Dilla is probably the clearest influence.. There's also shades of Luke Vibert, some D'Angelo, Neptunes, Questlove, maybe some FlyLo / Thundercat going on.. I don't want to make out like I'm comparing my work to those guys by the way, just saying they were probably big influences on the project!
What’s the significance of the title? Big Kelly Clarkson fan?
Not so much, but I hear she's a big fan of my music. She likes the hyper-footwork material the most. I met her once at a rave and she kept asking me what type of compression I use on my master channel and then forgetting the answer and asking again. I told her I'd make a track with the same title as one of hers just to keep her off my back.
I wanted an animation video done for the title track which conveyed a sense of journey, love lost, and the light at the end of the tunnel. Never in a million years did I imagine the video would turn out as beautiful as it did – to say that Kamil and the guys at Spinning Arrow did an incredible job would be an understatement. The video features a guy with a stick climbing a ladder to what could be interpreted as heaven, or an infinite nothingness beyond the realms of the universe. I'd prefer to leave any intended meaning ambiguous but I know I personally felt entirely disarmed and heavy hearted the first time I watched the video and I love the idea that it could have as powerful an effect on others.
What else do you have in the pipeline after this?
Things have been going pretty full throttle with the Ivy Lab and 20/20 projects as of late – the amount of new music that we are on the tip of releasing is ridiculous, and a lot of it is hip hop / beats material. As for solo music, there will definitely be another Exit EP dropping sometime next year, and I'm currently working on my first LP. It's taking me ages, and I'm nowhere near finishing it. That's partially to do with moving house though – I'm looking forward to getting back into the grind with it all properly around the start of next year. I'm curious to see how this mixtape giveaway goes down because I've always got tons of unreleased bits sitting around on my drive and it might be an idea to get into the habit of just putting them out there in this format.. Either way thanks to FACT for helping me push this project!
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Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:26 AM PST
Could this be David Kennedy’s first full-length album?
The ever-reliable Midland spilled the beans a few hours ago, tweeting: “HESLP002 – Pearson Sound. Early 2015. Yes.” As you can probably guess, that catalogue number would be for the second LP on Hessle Audio, the label co-run by Pearson Sound, Ben UFO and Pangaea.
We’ve reached out to Hessle Audio for more details, but for now, we’re left to speculate. Will this LP be a full-length Pearson Sound album, or perhaps a compilation of Kennedy’s many releases for the label? For what it’s worth, HESLP001 was 2011′s 116 & Rising retrospective.
More as we have it.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:09 AM PST
Capital Children’s Choir performing their incredible version of Florence + the Machine’s ‘Shake It Out’ live at The Vinyl Factory Car Park in celebration of the release of their ‘Untrust’ EP, a collaboration with the artist Dinos Chapman.
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Posted: 04 Nov 2014 08:55 AM PST
Rebel Sound may have lifted the crown but truly, everyone was a winner at last week’s Red Bull Culture Clash.
Reggae chief David Rodigan captained his team – which included Shy FX and Chase & Status – to victory with a Trevor McDonald dubplate, a guest appearance from Tempa T and a special introduction from the hapless crew of Kurupt FM. Meanwhile, Stylo G made a guest appearance for Stone Love, while A$AP Mob brought Danny Brown and House of Pain along and Boy Better Know invited pretty much every grime MC in town. Mr Beatnick was on the ground for FACT – find out what went down in his live report.
As Potholes In My Blog point out, you can now listen back to the whole show, round by round. If you turn it up loud enough you can pretend you’re in the crowd of 20,000 going berserk for ‘That’s Not Me’.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:50 AM PST
The experimental producer announces two new projects.
Night Slugs veteran David Psutka (best known for his work as Egyptrixx and Hiawatha) has launched Halocline Trance, a “vessel for his music, visual and collaborative projects.”
The label’s first release will be the new Egyptrixx album, titled Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power]. The full-length marks 5 years of output from the experimental club project, features visual and video design from long-time collaborator ANF and “advances the structural ideas” of last year’s A/B To Infinity.
The album is due out early next year. FACT TV spoke with Psutka at Mutek about his collaborations with ANF, the process behind his latest album, and the Club Constructions manifesto.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:40 AM PST
£100 to spend. Ten minutes to spend it. One wall of vinyl to spend it on. This is the Record Sweep.
Channeling the spirit of Dale Winton / David Ruprecht, our new crate digging game-show gives contestants ten minutes to spend one hundred pounds at Hackney Wick's monster record emporium Vinyl Pimp. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs had a crack at The Record Sweep last time round, which you can watch here.
For more information, see here
Channeling the spirit of Dale Winton / David Ruprecht, our new crate digging game-show gives contestants ten minutes to spend one hundred pounds at Hackney Wick's monster record emporium Vinyl Pimp. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs had a crack at The Record Sweep last time round, which you can watch here.
For more information, see here
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:30 AM PST
The 20-year-old producer follows-up last year’s Cold Shoulder.
Boston’s J£zus Million first caught our ear with his productions from weirdo pop-star Charli XCX; he later collaborated with Chicago rapper Sasha Go Hard on the Cold Shoulder EP.
The youthful producer (born Joseph Zucco) will return next month with The Error, an EP for UK imprint The Full Hundred that features three originals and three remixes; it’s due out on December 8.
“It was written and produced at a time in my life where I felt extremely stuck in my ways,” he writes of the EP. “I locked myself in my mother’s basement and slept there for days at a time, hammering away at what would become The Error.”
“It’s partly a soundscape and partly something you could possibly play in a club. I had zero inspiration for it so I had muster up my own. For the most part, you decide what it sounds like and how it catches you. I can’t do that for you." Fair enough — stream lead track ‘Taught To Run’ below; the EP’s tracklist follows.
01. Taught To Run
02. If You Forget
03. Exile
04. Taught To Run (Magical Mistakes Remix)
05. If You Forget (Patrick Brian Remix)
06. Exile (Taquwami Remix)
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:14 AM PST
Finland’s Sasu Ripatti returns with a blissful collection of dusty ambience.
We’re rather massive fans of Vladislav Delay around these parts, so when we heard the Finnish electronic music vet was prepping his first foray into ambient music in over a decade you can imagine our glee. You see Ripatti’s run of mostly beatless records on Mille Plateaux in the early 2000s still drops jaws today, and even the idea that he’s returning to this mode was enough to set our hearts racing.
Thankfully, Visa (so titled after a disappointing run-in with the US department of homeland security) is just as good as we’d hoped, and you can stream the album in its entirety below.
If you’re still in the mood to hear more from the consistently reliable Finnish producer, FACT’s very own John Twells put together this list of Ripatti’s finest productions to date.
Visa will be released on Vladislav Delay’s own Ripatti imprint on November 10.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:11 AM PST
Gangsta Gibbs claims he was the intended target.
Early Tuesday, two people were shot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after Freddie Gibbs performed at the new Rough Trade record store. "They tried to kill Tupac. They tried to kill me," Gibbs told the New York Post. "I'm still alive."
Law enforcement sources tell the Post that a single gunman “stalked” the victims — allegedly two members of Gibbs’ entourage — before opening fire at 1:13 am. One victim was hit in the leg and the other in the hand, but neither was seriously wounded. There have been no arrests in the shooting.
Earlier this year, we spoke with Gibbs about his album with Madlib, and he noted that he’s now lived in Los Angeles longer than Tupac did.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:05 AM PST
Not strictly music-related (annoyingly, the games we’ve tried play without music), but definitely of interest for FACT readers: over 900 classic arcade games available to play in your browser.
The work of The Internet Archive, the online arcade features established classics (Streetfighter) and obscure gems (Goalie Ghost) alike, and has already ruined our chances of getting anything done this afternoon. That 100 Best Albums of the Decade thing we were meant to be finishing? Forget it. Check the whole thing out here [via Alternative Press].
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST
Listen to the born-and-bred New Yorker’s debut offering.
Milo McBride makes frazzled and futuristic club music that nods to everything from Burial to Brainfeeder. His RUINZ EP bubbles, surges, and gurgles like the field recordings of imagined club spaces; press materials reference futuristic wastelands and lounge utopias.
“Thinking about places helps inform the vocabulary I use,” he writes via email. “I love all types of sound. Producing them for an imaginary environment challenges me to be finds new flavors.”
“I was breaking my usual forms and habits,” he says of the EP’s creation, “straying away from loops and exploring more personal rhythms. I felt more open to making mistakes, and using them to create moments of ambiguity.”
Stream RUINZ below — ambiguous moments and all — and grab it on iTunes.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST
Yamaneko will release his debut album, Pixel Wave Embrace, on Local Action later this month.
The London-based producer’s tracks have been circulating in sets by Logos, DJ Milktray and particularly Mumdance over the last six months, and although Pixel Wave Embrace represents his first full release, a press release explains that it’s part of a trilogy-of-sorts, starting with this May’s Pixel Juice mix and also including a forthcoming mix titled Pixel Healing Spa.
Although Yamaneko takes grime as a key inspiration, the press release emphasises there are “no samples from grime records here; instead, he twists samples from the places you’d least expect into the sort of flat snares you’d associate with classic records from unsung grime acts like Imp Batch.” New age and meditational cassettes are also a big influence on Yamaneko, and because of this, Pixel Wave Embrace will be released as cassette and digital rather than vinyl.
Stream ‘Noises In The Wave Wires Like The Kissing of the Sea’ (feat. Rimplton) below, as well as the aforementioned Pixel Juice mix. Pixel Wave Embrace will be released on November 21, and can be pre-ordered here.
Tracklist:
01. Fragrance Transmission
02. Greeen Hillz
03. Slew Wave
04. Tropics
05. Yonkoma
06. Accela Rush
07. Primrose Island
08. Seabrooke Rise
09. Tugboat
10. Calotype Process
11. ~
12. Noises In The Wave Wires Like The Kissing Of The Sea (feat. Rimplton)
13. Adrift
[Disclaimer: Local Action is a label independently operated by FACT staff member Tom Lea.]
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 06:56 AM PST
secretsundaze has a history of hosting the finest New Year’s Eve parties, so it stands to reason that they’d want shake things up a bit.
This year instead of powering through the New Year’s Eve mess like champs, the secretsundaze crew are set to to their thing on New Year’s Day, with their sore heads only adding to their resolve. As is to be expected, there’s a corker of a lineup too with Efdemin, Patrice Scott and Zenker Brothers all delivering mammoth 3-hour sets, and residents James Priestley and Giles Smith making it official.
For more information check the flyer below, and head here for tickets.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 06:23 AM PST
Croatia’s Hideout Festival is 5 years old, and are set to celebrate in style next year.
Hideout will be hitting Croatia’s gorgeous Zrce Beach once more in 2015, and the party’s kicking off on June 28. The first wave of artists have already been announced too, and it looks like a typically diverse selection of dance music’s great and good.
There’s Skream, Joy Orbison, Scuba, Nina Kraviz, Gorgon City, Eats Everything, MK, Duke Dumont, Loco Dice, Shy FX, David Rodigan MBE, Redlight, Paul Woolford and loads more.
Head over to the Hideout Festival site to see the full line-up so far and to snag early tickets.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 05:57 AM PST
It’s been a long time coming, but Joker‘s eagerly-awaited followup to 2011′s The Vision is ready for launch.
Entitled Mainframe, it’s described by Joker himself as markedly different from its poppy predecessor, and has been produced with the album listening experience in mind. “From start to finish the whole album is a story,” Joker tells us, “each track key changes and blends into each other. It’s like an emotional, grimey, cinematic, electronic, rnb-ish mindscape”
Needless to say, we can’t wait to hear what that might sound like and you can take a peep at the album’s enormous tracklist below, which features guest spots from Zak Abel, Sam Frank and Rochelle Perts (and instrumentals for those of you that just can’t stand vocals).
Mainframe is due for release on February 16 via his own Kapsize imprint.
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Boss Mode
3. Wise Enough feat. Zak Abel
4. Midnight
5. An Intervening Episode
6. Lucy feat. Sam Frank
7. Scene 1 (Qo,noS)
8. Scene 2 (Neon City)
9. Scene 3 (Spirit Ruins)
10. Mahogany
11. Love feat. Rochelle Perts
12. Fuzz Bop
13. Mixed Emotions
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14. Wise Enough Instrumental
15. Lucy Instrumental
16. Love Instrumental
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 05:46 AM PST
London-based dancehall DJ Joe Grime has sadly passed away.
A regular fixture on East London pirate station Deja Vu FM, where he held down the weekly Bashment Show, Joe was much-loved to the capital’s dancehall fans, and could also be seen playing at night’s like The Heatwave’s Madd Raff sessions and Mosca and Unknown Soulja’s Commandments.
In 2013, Joe was diagnosed with Angiosarcoma of the heart, as well as cancer on the lungs, adrenal gland and spine, and despite intensive chemotherapy he was left terminally ill.
Deja Vu, who held a fundraiser dinner and dance for Joe less than a month ago, announced his death this afternoon.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 05:33 AM PST
The Beeb are pushing their beloved Radio 1 into the visual realm next week with help from iPlayer.
BBC Radio 1 will have its own video channel which is set to feature music videos, documentaries, live performances and anything else you can imagine coming from the minds of the current Radio 1 DJ crew.
The new channel is targeted squarely at young people who already consume their media from multiple sources – socially, virally and via YouTube of course – which the Beeb reckon is a large chunk of Radio 1 listeners. This service will consolidate material in one place and attempt to harness the radio station’s massive fanbase and funnel it into this new venture.
The channel is set to be launched on November 10.
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 04:56 AM PST
The rumours were true, folks.
Beyoncé has announced a four-disc compilation called the Beyoncé Platinum Edition Box Set. The set is due for release on November 24, as we’d expected when the item popped up in online stores.
The package contains two CDs and two DVDs, including a collection of songs called More featuring two brand new tracks titled ’7/11′ and ‘Ring Off’ plus remixes with added guests: ‘Flawless’ featuring Nicki Minaj, ‘Drunk In Love’ featuring Kanye West, ‘Blow’ featuring Pharrell and ‘Standing On The Sun’ featuring Mr. Vegas.
The original album’s full set of videos appears on one DVD, while the other has a live concert DVD of the Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. You also get a photo booklet and a Beyoncé mini calendar. Fans who previously purchased the original BEYONCÉ visual album digitally will be given the opportunity to add the bonus materials.
Check out the tracklists below. [via Pitchfork]
More tracklist:
01 7/11
02 Flawless Remix (ft. Nicki Minaj)
03 Drunk In Love Remix (ft. Jay-Z and Kanye West)
04 Ring Off
05 Blow Remix (ft. Pharrell Williams)
06 Standing on the Sun Remix (ft. Mr. Vegas)
“LIVE” DVD:
Run The World (Girls)
***Flawless
Get Me Bodied
Blow
Haunted
Drunk In Love (Featuring JAY Z)
1 + 1
Partition
Heaven
XO
Original DVD:
Pretty Hurts
Ghost/Haunted
Drunk In Love
Blow
Angel
Yoncé/Partition
Jealous
Rocket
Mine
XO
***Flawless
Superpower
Heaven
Blue
Grown Woman
Original CD:
Pretty Hurts
Haunted
Drunk in Love (Featuring JAY Z)
Blow
Angel
Partition
Jealous
Rocket
Mine (Featuring Drake)
XO
***Flawless (Featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Superpower (Featuring Frank Ocean)
Heaven
Blue (Featuring Blue Ivy)
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