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FACT mix 141 is the eerie, absorbing work of Demdike Stare – the Manchester-orbiting duo of Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty.
Whittaker is perhaps best known for his austere, dub-infused but club-friendly releases on Modern Love as MLZ and as one half of Pendle Coven; Canty is one of the tireless nugget-hunters working behind the scenes at Andy Votel’s Finders Keepers label. Like the Haxan clubnight which predates and informs it, Demdike Stare is a project combining the duo’s interests in techno, dub, drone, early electronics, astral jazz, off-kilter ethnic musics; grounded in samples, it blurs the boundary between DJ and producer, collector and creator, and has yielding astonishing results on record. The first Demdike offering was 2009’s Symbiosis album (released on CD and across two self-titled 12″s), followed by the enchanting mix CD Osmosis and most recently another LP of original material, the two-track, vinyl-only Forest of Evil.
Buoyed by the considerable cult success of their releases, Summer 2010 finds Demdike Stare have venturing out into the world for a number of live audio-visual performances, including an appearance at Shedding The Past, Dubbing The Future (Nocturne 3), a collaboration with FACT at the 2010 Mutek festival that also features King Midas Sound, Shed, Ikonika, Actress and others. Mutek takes place across various venues in Montreal over the period June 2-6, with the FACT event happening at Club Soda on Friday 4. Catch ‘em if you can.
Above and beyond their often tongue-in-cheek invocation of the occult, there is something truly uncanny about Demdike Stare’s overlapping and synthesis of textures ancient and modern, eastern and western. Witness their FACT mix, which sees ‘La Dance De Nadia’ by Lebanese composer Elias Rahbani sharing airtime with Robert Hood’s 1998 minimal banger ‘Grace Under Fire’ (Nighttime Mix) and Carl Craig’s noir-techno sure shot ‘Darkness’, and also features psychedelic reggae of Keith Hudson and German art-prog from Guru Guru as well as four previously unreleased Demdike Stare productions: ‘Rain And Shame’, ‘Matilda’s Dream’, ‘Caged In Stammheim’ and ‘The Stars Are Moving’.
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FACT mix 151: Demdike Stare Tracklist:
1. Demdike Stare – Rain And Shame
2. Demdike Stare – Matilda’s Dream
3. Guru Guru – Atommolch
4. Demdike Stare – Caged In Stammheim
5. Keith Hudson – Satan Side
6. Unknown – Unknown Thai track
7. Elias Rahbani – La Dance De Nadia
8. Robert Hood – Grace Under Fire ( Nightime Mix )
9. Demdike Stare – The Stars Are Moving
10. Carl Craig – Darkness
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OK, there’s no Single Most Influential Musician of One Said Period. Music – and indeed, the world – doesn’t work like that. But if you were to assemble some royal pantheon of the most influencial musicians of the last ten to fifteen years, then Ariel Pink would be near the top of the pile.
Self-releasing bedroom pop records since the late ’90s, where Ariel tributed the AM radio of days gone by, layering his own samples with beat-boxed drums and vocals, he was eventually picked up on by Animal Collective, who released his classic The Doldrums on their Paw Tracks label. Suddenly, people started to pick up on Ariel’s music – most notably, the hauntology massive, who discussed, tributed and blogged about his work in depth, and the hypnagogic pop brigade (Pocahaunted, Washed Out, Ducktails, etc), upon whom he’s the single most significant influence.
While the early Ariel Pink releases were self-produced, his new album, and first for the 4AD label, Before Today (described by Ariel in a recent interview with FACT as “a combination of visions … a game of roulette”) was recorded with the full Haunted Graffiti band, mostly in the House of Blues studio with producer Sunny Levine (Quincy Jones’ grandson) and engineer Rik Pekkonen. The full Haunted Graffiti band have compiled this FACT mix along with Ariel, tracklist follows the download link.
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FACT mix 152: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti Tracklist:
01. НИИ Косметики “unknown”
02. Samsimar “Indang Pariaman”
03. Warfield Spillers “Daddy’s Little Girl”
04. Vahag Sekadean “VS”
05. Chuck Edwards “Oh La La La”
06. FX “Les Choces Ne Sont Pas Ce Quelles Semblant”
07. Aarow “Paris Now”
08. Europeans “Europeans”
09. Dirt Wizard “Kill The Wizard”
10. Softboiled Eggies “Shower In The Rain”
11. Devo “Bottled Up”
12. Prince “When You Were Mine”
13. t.o.l.l. “Milzbrand (edit)”
14. Bobb Trimble “One Mile From Heaven”
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Peter Van Hoesen is at the controls for FACT mix 153, and it’s one to cherish.
Arguably the most exciting thing to come out of Brussels since JCVD, Van Hoesen debuted in 2006 with the Increments EP on Berlin’s Lan Muzic label, and over the past four years has cultivated his own deep but reliably bolshy techno style. This applies to his DJing as well: much to FACT’s delight, he’s a selector unafraid to explore higher BPMs and revel in the intensification of funk that they bring. At the risk of sounding like a middle-aged man in an Underground Resistance hoodie, this is proper techno we’re dealing with.
The main outlet for Van Hoesen’s recordings has been his own Time To Express label, which has also provided a platform for releases from fellow dancefloor idiosyncratics like Sendai, Donato Dozzy and Cio D’Or. He’s also put out records on Morse and Komisch, turning out a number of remixes as well – the most notable for us being his fierce take on Ed Rush & Nico’s industrial d’n'b classic ‘Defect’.
Earlier this year Van Hoesen released Entropic City, his debut solo artist album, recorded at his Foton Studio in Brussels. Where so many techno producers flounder when it comes to making albums, Van Hoesen gave an excellent account of himself, successfully reconciling heads-down, club-oriented material with more unpredictable and investigative pieces. A coherent artistic statement that doesn’t forget to bang when and where it matters, Entropic City will almost certainly find its way into a number of critics’ Best of 2010 lists come December.
PVH’s warmly recommended FACT mix features no less than seven of his own productions, along with a remix of his ‘Trusted’ by Berlin’s Norman Nodge. There’s also space in there for tracks from Actress, T++ and Perc. In a word: killer.
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FACT mix 153: Peter Van Hoesen Tracklist:
01. Peter Van Hoesen: Trusted (Norman Nodge Reconstruction)
02. Actress: Ghosts Have A Heaven
03. Peter Van Hoesen: Defense Against The Self
04. T++: Worn Down
05. Perc: Wooden Art
06. Peter Van Hoesen: Casual Care
07. Peter Van Hoesen: Strip It, Boost It
08. Peter Van Hoesen: Terminal – Entropic Dub
09. Forward Strategy Group: Applied Genetics
10. Peter Van Hoesen: Face Of Smoke
11. Peter Van Hoesen: Second Law
12. Peter Van Hoesen: Testing A Simulacrum
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This morning’s FACT mix comes from Night Slugs new boy Girl Unit.
Well, we say new boy; Girl Unit may have only just released his first 12”, the phenomenal ‘IRL’, but he’s been a part of the Night Slugs crew since the beginning, playing a mixture of mutant club music, hip-hop and R’n’B in a way that’s gripping and completely on point.
Girl Unit’s own productions take in vintage, star-lit house (‘Temple Keys’), dramatic R’n’B (‘Wut’) and 808-heavy Chicago dancefloor gear (‘IRL’), while the mix he compiled for US blog Palms Out is one of the best free mixes we’ve had the pleasure of hearing this year.
New tracks by Bok Bok, Dubbel Dutch, Addison Groove and more feature on Girl Unit’s FACT mix, along with a healthy dose of Timbaland and Terror Danjah, a juke closing session with DJ Rashad and more, and a couple of new productions of Girl Unit’s own.
This Friday Girl Unit will be playing what’s pretty much the party of the year at Cable, London. Presented by We Fear Silence and compiled by FACT, Room 1 sports a 90 minute Mala set, Scuba’s first UK live show, MMM / Berghain’s Fiedel, Altered Natives, Deep Teknologi and Spatial, while Room 2 features Seiji, Subeena and a Night Slugs takeover with Chicago’s DJ Rashad, Lil Silva, Bok Bok, L-Vis 1990, Girl Unit and Jam City.
You can get cheap early bird tickets here; if you’re in London and not down with going then we don’t know what to say.
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FACT mix 154: Girl Unit Tracklist:
1. Mista Men – Lengthy Riddim
2. Jay R Revlon – African Runway
3. Machinedrum – Carry the Weight (Bok Bok remix)
4. Mauser – Jack Orchestra
5. Dubbel Dutch – Throwback
6. Girl Unit – I.R.L (DVA’s Hi Emotions remix)
7. 50 Cent ft. Justin Timberlake – Ayo Technology (Instrumental, Prod. Timbaland)
8. Pirate Soundsystem – Dub N U (Girl Unit remix)
9. Gemmy – Dolla Digital
10. Optimum – Crash Riddim
11. Japanese Telecom – The Making of Ultraman
12. Girl Unit – Shade On
13. Terror Danjah – Sidechain
14. Dubbel Dutch – Madloopz
15. De Schuurman – Nu Ga Je Danse
16. Aaliyah – R U That Somebody (Brenmar’s Windy City remix)
17. Addison Groove – Nautilus
18. La’ Chat – Smoke Junt
19. Girl Unit – Showstoppa
20. Chrissy Murderbot – I Believe In Love
21. DJ Rashad – Drop Juke Out
22. DJ Diamond – Gang Bangz
23. Cedaa – Tiffany
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FACT mix 155 is a heart-stopping live set from Mathew Jonson.
The arrival of Jonson on the world stage nine years ago was a massive kick up the arse for techno. His first couple of 12″s were plenty impressive, but it was the singles and EPs he released over the period 2003-2005 - including ‘Alpine Rocket’, Typerope, Behind The Mirror, Followed By Angels, ‘Love Letter To The Enemy’, Decompression, and ‘Return Of The Zombie Bikers’ – which established the Vancouver-hailing producer’s solid gold sound. Detailed but dynamic, nuanced but bolshy, with a sense of space and darkness-harnessing that to FACT’s ears has as much to do with jungle as techno, Jonson’s productions are instantly recognisable but always different from one another – from the vamping M-nus anthem ‘Decompression’ to the glacial techno noir of ‘Marionette’ via the ruffneck breakbeat of ‘Return Of The Zombie Bikers’, the now Berlin and Goa-based Jonson shifts rhythms and moods with consummate ease. Oh, and if you haven’t heard ‘Dirt Road And A Boat From Soundwave’ – his 2005 collaboration with The Mole on Kompakt – you haven’t heard shit.
Over the past five years Jonson has dedicated a lot of his time to Cobblestone Jazz, the live techno project anchored around himself and homies Tyger Dhula and Danuel Tate. Cobblestone released their second album earlier this year, The Modern Deep Left Quartet, following their debut 23 Seconds and the classic singles ‘Dump Truck’ and ‘India In Me’. He continues to tour the world with his always evolving and never less than explosive live set, and has continued to release extraordinary solo 12″s like Symphony For The Apocalypse and Ghosts In The AI. This week finally sees the release of MJ’s debut solo album, Agents of Time, an introspective, narratively complex ten-track suite that proves him to be a true electronic auteur as well a certified club-smasher. Available via his own Wagon Repair imprint, it’s essential listening.
Jonson’s FACT mix is a recently recorded live set that goes straight for the jugular, and how. It includes five previously unreleased tracks, including a special edit of the evergreen ‘Decompression’. Tough-as-nails but exquisitely layered and brain-scramblingly intricate, this is quite simply techno at its best. Download, enjoy, and turn the page for a Q&A with the man who made it for you.
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FACT mix 155: Mathew Jonson Tracklist:
1. Symphony for the Apocalypse – Wagon Repair – Mathew Jonson
2. After the Bombs Fell – Unreleased – Mathew Jonson
3. Never Say Die Remix – Unreleased – Mathew Jonson
4. Decompression Remix – Unreleased (original on Minus) – Mathew Jonson
5. Ghosts in the A.I. – Wagon Repair – Mathew Jonson
6. Octopus Brains (Mathew Jonson Remix) – Unreleased – Mathew Jonson, Deadbeat
7. Lizards and Dragons (Mathew Jonson Remix) – Unreleased – Mathew Jonson, The Mole, Chris Hreno
8. DMT (Mathew Jonson Remix) – Cobblestone Jazz – Wagon Repair
9. Marionette (Live Version) – Wagon Repair – Mathew Jonson
10. Marionette (the beginning) – Wagon Repair – Mathew Jonson
11. Sunday Disco Romance – Wagon Repair – Mathew Jonson
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Today’s FACT mix comes from the man behind Hyperdub, and one of modern dance music’s most celebrated producers and DJs, Kode9.
Debuting on Tempa in 2002 with ‘Fat Larry’s Skank’, Kode9 has spent the last decade exploring an aesthetic that’s taken him from suffocating dread-filled dubstep to toxic house music. Along the way, he’s released a superb album (Memories of the Future, with frequent collaborator Spaceape) and become just as famous for his record label as his own productions: since Hyperdub’s inception in 2004, it’s released albums by Burial, Ikonika and King Midas Sound, and singles by Zomby, Terror Danjah, Cooly G, Mala and more.
This month, 9 will release the latest in K7’s DJ-Kicks series of mix CDs, a journey from elasticated house and dancehall, through soul, funk and hip-hop, to overbearing dubstep and grime. Kode is one of the world’s best DJs – his extended sets at Plastic People last year are spoken of with pure reverence, and this year he’s let out specialist mixes in 2step and “sino-grime”. Here he contributes a mix of “mostly ’94-’96 jungle”, bound by an icy, misty quality. Lemon D, DJ SS, Undercover Agent and more feature.
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FACT mix 156: Kode9 Tracklist:
1. Soundman & Don Lloyde with Elizabeth Troy – Greater Love
2. Lemon D – Manhatten Melody
3. Dope Style – You Must Think First
4. Nut Nut – Special Dedication
5. Undercover Agent – Oh Gosh
6. DJ SS – MA2 remix
7. 12-10 Series Mk 1 – All that Jazz
8. L Double featuring Bassman – Da Base too Dark
9. Urban Jungle – Back in the Daze
10. Sacred – Kall the Kops
11. Fusion Forum – Vintage Keys
12. Maldini – Def Roll
13. Bad Influence feat. DJ Rush Puppie – Time & Time
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