FACT Mixes

FACT Mixes episodes:

• 03.06.2019

  FACT mix 694: Morgiana Hz

  Born in Poland, Karolina Karnacewicz has long used music as a tool to make sense of the wider world. As a teenager, Karnacewicz started a punk band – Post-Spirit – before moving to Poznań and shifting hir focus to dance...

  
• 02.21.2019

  FACT mix 692: Cera Khin

  Cera Khin grew up in Tunisia surrounded by music. Her dad was a record collector and introduced her to a wide variety of sounds, from French classics to Egyptian and African jams, and when she got a little older, Khin...

  
• 04.16.2018

  FACT mix 648: Laraaji

  s the 1970s drew to a close, composer Edward Larry Gordon had a revelation. He’d spent the early part of his life studiously immersing himself in music, studying composition and piano at the prestigious Howard University in Washington D.C., but...

  
• 09.27.2016

  FACT mix 570: The Maghreban

  It’s not easy to pin down Ayman Rostom, aka The Maghreban. Rostom’s been producing music for years, but until 2014 the sounds were a long way from The Maghreban’s crumbling house. He cut his teeth as part of Surrey-based hip-hop crew...

  
• 09.19.2016

  FACT mix 569: S U R V I V E

  Netflix’s Stranger Things is a phenomenon. The third most-watched original show on the network, the sci-fi series has captured hearts and minds with its nostalgic premise, lovable cast and, most importantly, the eerie, synth-driven soundtrack from Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of...

  
• 09.12.2016

  FACT mix 568: Mike Patton

  Artists don’t come much more legendary than Californian vocalist Mike Patton. Known for his distinctive vocal style, Patton rose to notoriety with avant-garde rock troupe Mr. Bungle before, in 1988, replacing Chuck Mosley as frontman of rock band Faith No More....

  
• 09.06.2016

  FACT mix 567: Riz La Teef

  Riz La Teef is hard to miss – you can spot him lugging a bag of whitelabels and dubplates to the dance when everyone else is wandering in with USB stick and a pair of headphones. Along with a few...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT mix 566: Equiknoxx

  Earlier this year, Equiknoxx, the Jamaican duo of Gavin “Gavsborg” Blair and Jordan “Time Cow” Chung with collaborators Bobby Blackbird and Kofi Knoxx, released Bird Sound Power on Demdike Stare’s exceptional DDS imprint. The album sums up Equiknoxx’s output perfectly,...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT mix 565: Dixon Avenue Basement Jams

  They launched their label Dixon Avenue Basement Jams in 2012 off the back of a decade of digging and DJing as residents at Monox, the two-room haven for house, techno and electro described by Jackmaster as nothing less than “Glasgow’s...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT Classic Mix: Jackmaster

  Last month he reminded us of his undying love for proper techno via a DJ Kicks mix packed with heavy-duty belters sourced from Berlin, Detroit and Glasgow, a selection harking back to his formative years at his first party, Seismic....

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT mix 564: Dre Skull

  Brooklyn-based producer, DJ and boss of the esteemed Mixpak imprint, Dre Skull (aka Andrew Hershey) is a serial overachiever. And when his crew took the win at this year’s RBMA Culture Clash in London he proved that despite previously shaky...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT mix 563: Deerhoof

  At that stage they were truly at the top of their game. The early critical acclaim of albums like Reveille and Apple O’ had led to a genuine swell of interest in Deerhoof’s peculiar, deeply original avant garde rock music...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT mix 561: M. Geddes Gengras

  The LA-based producer has been putting out music at an alarming rate for the last decade, both solo (under his own name and using the aliases Personable and Fantastic Ego) and in a plethora of bands, from Britt Brown’s stoner...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT Classic Mix: Holly Herndon

  FACT has been running our weekly mix series since April 2008, so with hundreds of brilliant sessions gathering dust in the vaults, we decided to dig through the archives and pull out some of our very favorites. Holly Herndon...

  
• 09.01.2016

  FACT mix 560: Bwana

  Toronto’s Nathan Micay (aka Bwana) has had a vintage year so far. In March, he released the Capsule’s Pride mini-album via Glasgow imprint LuckyMe. The record was built from snippets taken from Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 animated film adaptation of his...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT mix 559: Konx-om-Pax

  We’ve had Konx-om-Pax’s Caramel on constant rotation since Planet Mu sent us an advance copy a couple of months ago, and it’s turned out to be the rare record that seduces everyone in the office. The second album from...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT Classic Mix: Four Tet

  FACT has been running our weekly mix series since April 2008, so with hundreds of brilliant sessions gathering dust in the vaults, we decided to dig through the archives and pull out some of our very favorites. Next up...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT mix 558: Strict Face

  Thank the magic of high-speed internet for the bounty of eerie club mutations and emotional bangers offered up so far by young producer Strict Face, whose releases on Mr. Mitch’s Gobstopper, Mumdance and Logos’ Different Circles and Nina Las Vegas’...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT mix 557: Kim Ann Foxman

  Kim Ann Foxman has had quite the career. As the former vocalist of nu-disco troupe Hercules and Love Affair she notched up serious acclaim, but in recent years has been building up her name as a house DJ and producer,...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT Classic Mix: Autechre

  FACT has been running the popular mix series since April 2008, so it felt like a good time to dig through the archives and pull out some of our very favorites. Back in 2010, Rochdale lads Sean Booth and...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT mix 556: Vatican Shadow

  When acclaimed noise stalwart Dominick Fernow (aka Prurient) established Vatican Shadow with 2011’s quadruple-tape album Kneel Before Religious Icons, it appeared amongst a throng of noise-adjacent techno releases. However, fusing the chugging rhythmic elements of Muslimgauze and the doomy textures...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT mix 555: Damiano von Erckert

  Damiano von Erckert may hail from the metronomic city that gave us Can and Kompakt, but his taste for soulful, sample-heavy, loose-jointed house aligns him more closely with fusionists like Floating Points and the dusty vinyl warriors of South London’s...

  
• 08.30.2016

  FACT mix 554: The Body

  The Body are Rhode Island natives Lee Buford and Chip King, an avant-metal unit whose noise-and-sludge-nihilism has grown increasingly adventurous as they’ve sought to distance themselves from the insular genre-worship of their metal peers. Their recent album for Thrill...

  
• 08.25.2016

  FACT mix 553: Serge

  The Dutchman’s ear for the very best house, techno and electro has helped him build Clone Records, the DIY label he founded in 1992, into a veritable empire, including a distribution company and record store in Rotterdam and a dizzying...

  
• 08.25.2016

  FACT mix 552: Low Jack

  Low Jack is Philippe Hallais, a Honduras-born, Paris-based DJ and producer who’s been carving out a grubby, noise-infested seam of house and techno since his debut Slow Dance EP in 2012. A steady stream of releases on vital labels like...

  
• 08.25.2016

  FACT mix 551: Courtesy

  Copenhagen is one of the coolest cities in Europe right now, and it’s no coincidence that the Danish capital is also home to Apeiron Crew, a four-strong DJ collective who formed two years ago after meeting behind the counter of...

  
• 08.25.2016

  FACT mix 550: James K

  When we first encountered her, she was Jamie Krasner, the angelic voice behind Physical Therapy’s breakthrough ‘Drone On’. Krasner’s voice has always been one of her greatest weapons, but as time has gone on and she’s shifted into her James...

  
• 08.22.2016

  FACT mix 549: Denis Sulta

  We’re not sure exactly how Denis Sulta came to be dubbed “Glasgow’s man of the year”, but as he was behind two of the most essential 12″s of 2015, we’re not going to argue. The young DJ and producer learned...

  
• 08.22.2016

  FACT mix 548: Peder Mannerfelt

  Donning an unsettling blonde wig for live performances and press photos (he ends up looking like a techno Cthulu), Mannerfelt questions the cult of the producer, and despite his first “proper” solo album only appearing in 2014, he’s been at...

  
• 07.13.2016

  FACT mix 547: Joe Hart

  Joe Hart has been a low-profile hero of London’s club scene for the last six years as one half of nomadic night World Unknown, making the railway arches and sex dungeons of south London throb with decade-spanning acid, EBM, electro,...

  
• 07.13.2016

  FACT mix 546: Endgame

  Endgame is a name you will have come across if you’ve been slinking around the gloomier parts of London in the small hours recently. A co-founder of the Bala Club collective, along with Uli-k and Codes’ Kamixlo, and host...

  
• 07.01.2016

  FACT mix 545: Frak

  Frak is the lifelong alliance of three analogue-obsessed Swedes who’ve amassed a vast back catalogue of degenerate techno and searing acid rave since their debut gig in 1988, when the barely-teenage renegades first adopted the masks that have become their...

  
• 06.30.2016

  FACT mix 544: Tim Gane

  The Essex-born musician and studio maverick may be best known for absorbing krautrock, psychedelic pop and freaky library music into the peerless back catalogue of his band Stereolab, but the jazz ethos of freedom and experimentation has always been a...

  
• 03.31.2016

  FACT mix 543: Jessy Lanza

  The Canadian artist has, with a couple of expertly-crafted singles (‘It Means I Love You’ and ‘VV Violence’), reframed the vivid pop of Japanese institution Yellow Magic Orchestra and updated it for 2016 with the help of Junior Boy Jeremy...

  
• 03.24.2016

  FACT mix 542: Loom

  Mr. Mitch’s Gobstopper label has incubated some of the most curious and beguiling grime hybrids of the last few years, from agenda-setting club tracks to pensive peace edits, and Suffolk-born producer Loom has been at the heart of the label’s...

  
• 03.23.2016

  FACT mix 541: Tortoise

  Founded back in 1990, the band innovated with a studio-touched blend of jazz and rock, lighting the touchpaper for very American take on the post-rock sound that was bubbling up on both sides of the Atlantic. Less indebted to hardcore...

  
• 03.11.2016

  FACT mix 540: Via App

  Brooklyn-based techno outsider Dylan Scheer (aka Via App) cut her teeth on the Boston noise circuit, playing scuzzy shows in basements and lofts, before targeting the rest of the world with her exemplary debut album Dangerous Game in 2014 (which...

  
• 03.07.2016

  FACT Mix 539: Ash Koosha

  The second FACT mix of the week (we love to spoil you) comes from Iranian futurist and Bandcamp breakout star Ash Koosha. We’ve been raving about the now-London-based producer ever since hearing his debut album GUUD on Olde English Spelling...

  
• 03.02.2016

  FACT mix 538: Ziro

  Bristol’s Ziro has been a key member of Crazylegs since its launch in 2012, providing the local label with its first release, the itchy, techno-rooted ‘Coded’/‘Oni’, and teaming up with Trim for the scorched grime of ‘Lost’ in 2014. Last...

  
• 02.22.2016

  FACT mix 537: JT The Goon

  JT The Goon’s grime credentials are as robust as they come. As a member of East London’s Slew Dem Crew in the early ‘00s he had a hand in several key productions and co-produced the classic ‘Gunman Riddim’ – the...

  
• 02.15.2016

  FACT mix 536: Not Waving

  Alessio Natalizia unleashes the pustulent club material for your sick disco.

  
• 02.10.2016

  FACT mix 535: Fatima Yahama

  Fatima Yamaha was the short-lived alias of Dutch producer Bas Bron. He released just the one record under that name, 2004’s A Girl Between Two Worlds on Dublin label D1. It closed on a track called ‘What’s A Girl To...

  
• 02.10.2016

  FACT mix 534: Mood II Swing

  Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone released too many great records to count in the 1990s, both originals and remixes for the likes of Kim English and Fonda Rae. Although they were a house duo, their drum programming – skippier and...

  
• 02.10.2016

  FACT mix 533: Roly Porter

  He first started releasing music as half of industrial grime/dubstep duo Vex’d (with Jamie Teasdale, who now releases as Kuedo), dropping a succession of speaker-blowing 12″s on labels like Subtext and Planet Mu. They were one of the first acts...

  
• 01.19.2016

  FACT mix 532: Paula Temple

  After emerging from a decade-long hiatus in 2013, Paula Temple quickly cemented her reputation as one of R&S Records’ heaviest practitioners, with two records of sky-scraping, yet minutely detailed techno (that year’s Colonized EP and 2014’s Deathvox, both soon to...

  
• 01.12.2016

  FACT mix 531: Flava D

  Flava D has released some volume of music since debuting on Pitch Controllers in 2012. As well as her regular home of Butterz – through which she’s released ‘Hold On’, ‘On My Mind’ and more – she’s dropped singles on...

  
• 01.12.2016

  FACT mix 530: Grant

  Coming from mysterious producer Grant – whose album The Acrobat last year on The Lauren Bacall imprint was a low-key favorite over here – the blend of deep house, abstract electronics and jazz fusion (honestly) should be all you need...

  
• 12.21.2015

  FACT mix 529: Trackman

  Most people probably know the producer and DJ for his work alongside Chris Peat as Altern 8, but there’s much more to Archer than that. His mid-90s run as Trackman, starting with the self-titled Trackman EP on Ideal Trax in...

  
• 12.21.2015

  FACT mix 528: Bing & Ruth

  Formed in the mid-2010s, the group has evolved through several changes of personnel and label, recently settling with hometown label RVNG Intl. for the release of 2014’s Tomorrow Was The Golden Age. Bing & Ruth’s highest profile record to date,...

  
• 12.07.2015

  FACT mix 527: Jóhann Jóhannsson

  Since 2002, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been wowing listeners with his unique blend of subtle electronics and epic orchestral flourishes. With Englabörn, his debut album for the esteemed Touch imprint, Jóhannsson inadvertently kicked off a movement some dubbed “post-classical”,...