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- The Bug, Mala, Channel One and more bring bassweight to Soundcrash at KOKO
- Watch an 11-year old Björk read the nativity story
- PC Music boss A. G. Cook shares ‘What I Mean’ – grab a free download
- R&S techno trooper Paula Temple gives away her ‘secret weapon’ – download ‘Gegen’
- British singer Joe Cocker dies aged 70
- Stream ‘Nobody Wins’, the first Jodeci single in 18 years
- Jackmaster opens up about life in Glasgow — watch the mini-doc
- “I don’t care about sad robots, I care about SINGERS WHO CAN F**KING SING”: Kanye, D’Angelo, Oneohtrix and more reviewed in the FACT Singles Club
- Download Mixpak’s holiday bundle, featuring remixes by Murlo, Rizzla and more
- FACT mix 476: Eamon Harkin & Justin Carter
- Watch how Fatboy Slim created his crossover smash ‘The Rockafeller Skank’
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 03:20 PM PST
 The Bug heads up a London showcase of serious bassweight. The latest event announced by Soundcrash spans several genres, but with one common thread: weight. On April 18 at North London’s KOKO, some of music’s all-time heaviest acts will lock horns. Headlining the night is The Bug, a bastard from the outlands of grime, noise, ragga and dub whose stage show – here featuring Manga, Flowdan and Miss Red – is infamous for what it does to speaker stacks. Elsewhere on the bill: one of dubstep’s most authoritative acts in Mala, ragga-tinged drum’n'bass madmen Dub Phizix & Strategy and the quietly legendary Channel One Sound System. In short: bring ear plugs. For tickets and more information, head to the Soundcrash website. Watch a promo video for the night below.        |
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Watch an 11-year old Björk read the nativity story
Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:50 AM PST
 It doesn’t get much sweeter than this. Back in 1976, an 11-year-old Björk read the nativity story in a Christmas special for Icelandic TV station RUV, accompanied by music students from the Reykjavík Children's Music School. This Christmas, the program was rebroadcast, and – as you’d expect – has swiftly done the internet rounds. Watch it over here [via CoS], and read our run-down of Björk’s 10 best deep cuts .        |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:45 AM PST
 Festive cheer V3.0. PC Music mastermind A. G. Cook is in mile-wide-smile mode on ‘What I Mean’, a neon-bold and bouncy number that first appeared on his Personal Computer Music mix last year. As if to demonstrate the rapid ascent the PCMus crew have enjoyed this year, the track is now available as a free download via Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac and her Free Music Monday offering on Soundcloud. If you hadn’t noticed, we’re pretty keen on A. G. Cook and the crew round these parts – see where they charted in our end-of-year rundown and read our guide to their hits so far from earlier this year.        |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:40 AM PST
 The R&S regular gives the gift of gritty techno this year. Berlin resident Paula Temple has offered up her ‘secret weapon’ for free download for the next two weeks. ‘Gegen’ is “a very powerful word here in Berlin,” she explains. “It is a word of Tension. It is the word you see on all the protest posters on the streets, and when I first moved here, this instantly made me feel I have come to the right place.” The track’s also named after a club night in the city that “smashes up the idea of ‘normal’”, and Temple says it became her secret weapon in festival sets this year. “I apologise to many people asking for Gegen for not releasing it sooner, it is a rave track and it really stands out on its own,” she explains. Stream and download it below. ‘Gegen’ follows Temple’s excellent Deathvox EP for R&S earlier this year, the second release on the label since she returned from a lengthy hiatus in 2013. [via XLR8R]
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:13 AM PST
 British singer-songwriter Joe Cocker has died aged 70. Known for his gravelly voice, the Sheffield-born musician found fame in 1968 with his cover of the Beatles’ ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’, which was a number one in the UK and was later used as the theme song for TV series The Wonder Years. Cocker also had hits with ‘You Are So Beautiful’ and ‘Up Where We Belong’, a duet with Jennifer Warnes from the movie An Officer And A Gentleman, which won both a Grammy and an Academy Award. His agent Barrie Marshall said that Cocker, who was given an OBE in 2007, “was without the doubt the greatest rock/soul voice ever to come out of Britain- and remained the same man throughout his life. “Hugely talented, a true star, but a kind and humble man who loved to perform. Anyone who ever saw him live will never forget him.” ITV reports that Cocker passed away after a battle with lung cancer. Watch his famous Woodstock performance of ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ below.        |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:06 AM PST
R’n'b group Jodeci have released their first single in 18 years. The group – a pronounced influence on many modern-day acts, including Drake – first performed ‘Nobody Wins’ as part of a medley on the Soul Train Awards earlier this year (and yes, it went better than 2013′s Wembley appearance). ‘Nobody Wins’ has now been released, accompanied with a lyric video centered around domestic violence hotline information. For better or worse, it also features B.o.B. Check it out above, and buy it here. Earlier this year, news broke that the group were working on a new album, with Timbaland and others on production. ’Nobody Wins’ is presumably the first taste of that.        |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 08:30 AM PST
The Numbers co-founder looks back on his youth. Resident Advisor’s latest ORIGINS mini-documentary is about Jack “Jackmaster” Revill, who looks back on the defining moments of a life in Glasgow. It’s a revealing portrait of the DJ and label boss, who opens up about the loss of his mother, problems with drugs, finding a second family at Rubadub and more. Watch it above via Resident Advisor.        |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 08:05 AM PST
 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. Up this week, Sicko Mobb, Gunplay, Chief Keef, Oneohtrix and, of course, D’Angelo.
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST
 Happy Holidays from the Mixpak family. As they did last year, Brooklyn’s Mixpak Records are giving away a bundle of edits and originals from their family of artists. For the price of an email, Mixpak will send you Murlo’s edit of Chris Brown’s ‘Loyal’, Schlachthofbronx’s edit of Bobby Shmurda’s ‘Hot N***a’ and more. Download the tracks now (tracklist follows), and stream Rizzla & Kilbourne’s remix of Zoelah’s ‘Wine Up On Me’ below. Douster – Street Sweeper Riddim 2014 Paleman – Beelzedub (Famous Eno remix) Zoelah – Wine Up On Me (Rizzla & Kilbourne remix) Wildlife! – Bondage Version Cadenza – Don't Go Nowhere Chris Brown – Loyal (Murlo edit) Bobby Shmurda – Hot N***a (Schlachthofbronx edit) Mr One Hundred – J Core Riddim   |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014 06:59 AM PST
 No one does a party quite like Mister Saturday Night. Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin started the party – which soon developed a Sunday afternoon accompaniment, Mister Sunday – back in 2008, and it soon developed a reputation as one of the city’s most fun parties. “Fun” might feel like it downplays Carter and Harkin’s attention to detail – the pair are famous for their meticulous approach to organising parties, an attitude seen in a recent feature for XLR8R on setting up soundsystems, and they certainly don’t half-arse any aspects of the night – but with more smug, dull house nights than ever taking place worldwide, Mister Saturday stands out for its unpretentious, good times attitude. As well as running one hell of a clubnight, Carter and Harkin have shown a smart ear for A&R in recent years, launching their Mister Saturday Night label with Anthony Naples’ breakthrough record Mad Disrespect (its title recently picked as one of FACT’s 100 tracks of the last half-decade), and housing music by Boya, Gunner Haslam, Dark Sky and more on the label. This year, they compiled their label work so far with the Brothers and Sisters compilation, and followed it with their “own musical statement”, a live-recorded mix titled Weekends and Beginnings. Their FACT mix is a companion piece to Weekends and Beginnings, 18 tracks pulled live from the same session. |
Posted: 22 Dec 2014 01:45 AM PST
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