FACT Magazine Watch Kraftwerk: Pop Art, an hour-long documentary on the band from BBC4 @ Musique Non Stop

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1. Watch Kraftwerk: Pop Art, an hour-long documentary on the band from BBC4
2. You can now download all 110 tracks from Aphex Twin’s Soundcloud
3. Big Narstie tore into grime sell-outs on Charlie Sloth’s 1Xtra show
4. The Pirate Bay is back online, but former staff plan to launch rival site
5. Lo-fi sci-fi, vintage Rhymesayers and Detective McNulty rapping: the week’s best videos
6. Watch D’Angelo’s performance on Saturday Night Live

Watch Kraftwerk: Pop Art, an hour-long documentary on the band from BBC4 Posted: 01 Feb 2015 04:44 PM PST New documentary from BBC4 traces four decades of the band’s storied history. German innovators Kraftwerk were the subject of an hour-long documentary from BBC4. The programme features new interviews about the band and plenty of archive footage, including a live track from the original Computerworld tour in 1981 and excerpts from Ralf Hütter's last ever filmed interview from the same year. Simon Witter's film also has a rare clip of the band playing as a three-piece and a French television "staging" of 'The Robots', as well as footage from Kraftwerk’s recent concerts at London’s Tate Modern. You can watch Kraftwerk: Pop Art in full below or via BBC iPlayer.

You can now download all 110 tracks from Aphex Twin’s Soundcloud Posted: 01 Feb 2015 04:28 AM PST It’s the mother lode alright. After sharing dozens of never-before-heard tracks on Soundcloud this week, Aphex Twin has made all 110 of those early gems available to download. The account appeared with “user4873635301″ leaving a Soundcloud comment on Aphex Twin’s ‘Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed [snr2mix]‘: “Would like to know the full setup for this track, brilliant music man. I love your early 90′s stuff so much, I was doing stuff in the early 90's, similar to you but I didn’t know about you when I did it ! Im also 43 years old I'm going to be uploading it to soundcloud soon, gotta dust off the old DAT's & cassettes!” Aphex Twin replied, writing “beautiful stuff, would love to hear more”, flagging up the prankster’s mirror account and the trove of incredible material, much of which seems to date from the late ’80s and early ’90s. Since then the account has migrated to “user48736353001″ (note the extra zero). His Soundcloud bio now states: “fly away babies, good luck!” As RA points out, two EPs have also appeared on a Bandcamp run by a “user48736353001″, but we can’t say anything for certain about their provenance. The fact that each EP costs £7 certainly makes us sceptical. Stream the entire set below and download them from Soundcloud. Here’s FACT’s guide to the facts and fictions of his mythology.

Big Narstie tore into grime sell-outs on Charlie Sloth’s 1Xtra show Posted: 01 Feb 2015 04:24 AM PST You can always count on Big Narstie to have an opinion. On Charlie Sloth’s Radio 1Xtra show this week, the grime MC responded to a question about Chipmunk’s recent Fire In The Booth session with a lengthy speech about commercial grime and Radio 1′s failure to support “road” artists like him. “Tinie [Tempah] and Chip trying to beef on a hardcore grime level is like Boyz II Men and Dru Hill,” he quipped, adding that both MCs took the commercial route while it was available to them, but now their fans are older they’re trying to get back in with the real scene. “Grime was not the way forward for [Chipmunk], he was making money, everyone was making money [...] The reason why all these other MCs was ahead before me is ‘cos they sold out.” He then launched into a ‘Teachers’-style shout out to unsung grime heroes like Axe FM, Spooky, Flex FM, South Soldiers and more: “If we’re gonna talk about grime, let’s talk about the originals.” Sloth was left pretty much speechless, but did manage to use his bomb sound effect about 10 times more than necessary. Watch the full clip below or listen back on iPlayer. Watch Big Narstie and Ghetts’ guide to making it as a rapper on FACT TV.

The Pirate Bay is back online, but former staff plan to launch rival site Posted: 01 Feb 2015 04:20 AM PST The Pirate Bay is back up and running two months after Swedish authorities took the file-sharing site offline. The relaunched site has been trimmed down to make it easier to operate, losing dozens of moderators and admins who looked after the site in the process. The move has angered former staffers, who are now distancing themselves from thepiratebay.se, as Torrent Freak reports. "I wish I had better news to come with. The launch that is about to take place on February 1 is not us," said WTC-SWE, one of the lead admins of The Pirate Bay. "It was until some dickhead decided to take TPB crew out of the picture. He thinks a site can be run without any staff at all and at the same time keeping up with fakes, internal issues etc.” The former staff say they will no longer offer support for a site that they have no 'control' over, and have warned downloaders to be cautious of malware. Now they’re planning to launch their own version of the site from a new domain using a Pirate Bay backup. "It's only a matter of time. I will need to blast the whole coding and clean up all the mess. The real TPB will be back with proper staff and all," WTC-SWE added. Last year Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg was sentenced to three years in jail for hacking a Swedish technology company.

Lo-fi sci-fi, vintage Rhymesayers and Detective McNulty rapping: the week’s best videos Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:58 AM PST Welcome to FACT’s newest feature: the weekly video round-up. As we note at the end of every year, music videos have never been better. But too often, music videos — along with documentaries, live sets and interview clips — get lost in the shuffle of news and new music. With that in mind, FACT is doing what it does for mixes, mixtapes, vinyl and more: rounding up the internet’s best videos on a weekly basis. And to remove our bias, we won’t be including our own content — you’ll have to stay tuned to FACT TV for all your Against The Clock, FACT Freestyle and Big Narstie needs. Use your keyboard's arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/11)

Watch D’Angelo’s performance on Saturday Night Live Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:28 AM PST D’Angelo performed live for the first time since the release of Black Messiah on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Backed by his band The Vanguard, he played two cuts from that album – ’Really Love’ and ‘The Charade’. True to the record’s political streak, the band made references to the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner with shirts emblazoned with “I Can’t Breathe” and a chalk outline of a body on the stage floor. [via Hypetrak] Watch the clips below, with J.K. Simmons introducing ‘Really Love’ (he made no attempt to correct the band’s tempo, sadly).