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The 20 best new age albums 6 years ago The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 10 November 4 weeks ago Es Devlin: Screenshare 2 months ago Interview: Jeremy Deller 3 months ago Patch Notes: Atomised Listening 4 months ago Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA 5 months ago Interview: Tschabalala Self 5 months ago Interview: Freeka Tet 6 months ago The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios present R
Ryuichi Sakamoto makes a stand against terrible restaurant music, curates own playlist Listen to the composer’s elegantly curated culinary background music below. Writing in The New York Times, music critic Ben Ratliff has detailed master musician and Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Ryuichi Sakamoto’s efforts to combat his growing contention with the music in his favourite restaurant. Dismayed a
Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima’s Streets of Rage 3 OST is a valuable slice of techno history Released this month on vinyl for the first time by Data Discs, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima’s Streets of Rage 3 soundtrack blends innovative generative programming with serious techno innovation and accidentally pre-empted trance. But in a world of endless reissues, John Twells wonders if video
Over the last few years, obscure Japanese ambient classics like Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green and Midori Takada’s Through The Looking Glass have surged in popularity. Lewis Gordon investigates the phenomenon, talking to the record collectors and vendors in the US, UK and Japan that helped inform a new wave of interest. In 1980s Japan, a group of artists were quietly producing what, in 2018, we might r
The 50 best albums of 2017 7 years ago The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 10 November 1 month ago Es Devlin: Screenshare 2 months ago Interview: Jeremy Deller 3 months ago Patch Notes: Atomised Listening 5 months ago Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA 6 months ago Interview: Tschabalala Self 6 months ago Interview: Freeka Tet 6 months ago The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios present R
Whether it arrived in recognizable shapes or abstract forms, house and techno continued to innovate this year. Scott Wilson selects 2017’s best tracks from across both genres. From the Jeremy Underground hotel fiasco to Giegling founder Konstantin saying that women are “worse at DJing than men”, you’d be forgiven for thinking that 2017 was the year that house and techno’s core values of inclusivit
Go behind the scenes of an Aphex Twin classic. Richard D. James has revealed how he made Drukqs track ‘Vordhosbn’ in a behind-the-scenes video. Posted to a Vimeo account that appears to be run by the Warp veteran, the screengrab video features a beatless version of the ‘Drukqs’ favorite running in PlayerPro, the tracker software that he has previously stated was used to write the 2001 album. Track
Fact Magazine Now reading: Beyond the blue blur: The best Sega Genesis soundtracks... In honor of Sonic The Hedgehog’s birthday this weekend and Sega’s new interests in reviving classics for free on mobile, we’ve decided to take a look at some of the best soundtracks on their most iconic console, the Genesis. But rather than focusing on the well known classics, FACT’s resident Sega kid Miles Bowe
Goldie seemingly spilled the beans in a new interview. There have been whispers that Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja may be the anonymous graffiti artist known as Banksy and Goldie may have confirmed it in a new interview. Appearing on Scroobius Pip’s weekly Distraction Pieces podcast, Goldie said of the commodification of graf: “Give me a bubble letter and put it on a T-shirt and write Banksy on
Huge news for Ableton Live users. Ableton has acquired Cycling ‘74, the team behind Max/MSP – one of the world’s most popular visual programming languages for building software instruments. The news was delivered by Ableton co-founder Gerhard Behles and Cycling ‘74 founder David Zicarelli in an interview with CDM, explaining that the deal will enable closer collaboration between the two parties. I
Aphex Twin has carved out his own space in the history of electronic music, spanning ambient, jungle, techno and more. FACT lists his 50 best tracks so far – from familiar classics to incredible deep cuts. There are certain musicians who prompt a special kind of following; a specifically cultish attitude to fandom that might lack the worldwide spread of say, The Beatles, but more than makes up for
Aphex Twin logo designer Paul Nicholson shares the blueprints for his iconic work Another way to celebrate the Selected Ambient Works anniversary. Graphic artist Paul Nicholson has shared the illustration details for the iconic logos and typefaces he designed for Aphex Twin. “The original Aphex Twin logo was drawn by hand using circle templates and rulers in late 1991,” writes on Instagram. “With
The three major record labels could be set to take home $45 million as stakeholders. Google is considering buying SoundCloud for $500 million, with Music Business Worldwide reporting that “high-level rumors” about the acquisition have begun to circulate. Last year, Spotify backed out of “advanced talks” to acquire the platform, which had been reportedly set at a price tag of $1 billion. Music Busi
It’s been a big year for video games and a banner year for soundtracks. FACT’s crew of avid gamers, Scott Wilson, Al Horner, John Twells, Miles Bowe and Lewis Gordon, round up the best of the bunch. Arguably the biggest development in gaming this year has been the democratization of virtual reality technology. Now, those of you who’ve been gaming since before the internet was “a thing” should know
The 50 best albums of 2016 8 years ago The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 10 November 3 weeks ago Es Devlin: Screenshare 2 months ago Interview: Jeremy Deller 3 months ago Patch Notes: Atomised Listening 4 months ago Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA 5 months ago Interview: Tschabalala Self 5 months ago Interview: Freeka Tet 6 months ago The Vinyl Factory and 180 Studios present R
From neon-lit vaporwave to modular exotica to Kanye West reimagined, Bandcamp was once again the most consistent – and consistently surprising – source of incredible new music in 2016. Miles Bowe picks the shiniest nuggets from a year of dedicated gold panning in his Best of Bandcamp column. 2016 was an alienating year, especially online. It was difficult to navigate the web without being bombarde
Fact Magazine Now reading: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music We’re at the stage in history where using music software isn’t so much an option as it is a necessity. Sure, there are always going to be some contrarian sorts who take it upon themselves to record to dictaphone tape and pen their sheet music on rolls of dried human flesh, but nowadays they’re in the minority. If you’re
Researchers restore the first recorded computer-generated music, made by Alan Turing British computer science pioneer Alan Turing made the recording in 1951. The Guardian reports that New Zealand researchers have uncovered and restored what is probably the first recorded computer-generated music. It was made on a machine built by Enigma code-cracker and theoretical computer science legend Alan Tur
Fact Magazine Now reading: The new wave of new age: How music’s most maligned... For years a derided mainstay of yoga studios and health stores, new age music has enjoyed a resurgence this decade as producers and crate diggers re-evaluate a maligned genre. Adam Bychawski speaks to producers Matthewdavid, Deadboy and Sam Kidel about how they fell for new age’s soothing tones, and argues that in age
The land before grime: 10 tracks that accidentally predicted East London’s signature sound Earlier this week, SBTV unearthed a piece of music from Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, a platform game from 1994. The track, by producer Dylan Beale, was released eight years before Musical Mob’s ‘Pulse X’, but sounds so much like grime that SirPixalot created his own dub from it featuring a vocal from J-Wing.
Free music production software: 10 VSTs and DAWs for making great tracks with no money You don’t need to break the bank to get all the software you need to start making music at home. Scott Wilson picks 10 free plug-ins, synths and DAWs that enable you to create a professional sound without spending a penny. The amount of free music software available on the internet has dwindled in recent years,
The first rule of post-rock is that you definitely don’t call it post-rock. Slipping into use in 1994 after Simon Reynolds coined it in Mojo, the term was almost as universally reviled as “IDM”, polarizing bands, fans and critics alike, who saw it as disparaging. Looking back, it seems more fitting now than it ever did then, heralding a shift in both mindset and technique as bands increasingly hea
Download over 200 rave tapes from 1990 featuring Frankie Knuckles, DJ Pierre and more Yeah, yeah, we all know how good it was “back in the day”. The pills were stronger, the music was fresher, the people were nicer, and there wasn’t anyone photographing you sat in a muddy puddle chewing your face off, wondering why they sky’s melting. Thankfully, keen rave archivist Matt Wareham has dug up a treas
SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses 9 years ago The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 10 November 3 weeks ago Es Devlin: Screenshare 2 months ago Interview: Jeremy Deller 3 months ago Patch Notes: Atomised Listening 4 months ago Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA 5 months ago Interview: Tschabalala Self 5 months ago Interview: Freeka Tet 6 months ago The Vinyl Factor
Fact Magazine Now reading: Ryuichi Sakamoto reflects on his unique time with David Bowie “I was with him for a month, every day, on a very small island in the South Pacific Ocean.” When we scheduled an interview with Ryuichi Sakamoto, there was a lot we already wanted to talk about. The influential composer and electronic music pioneer is currently navigating award season for his incredible score
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2015 has been a great year for music, but the place of the record label is more precarious than ever. As more and more artists take it on themselves to build mini-empires on Bandcamp or SoundCloud, it’s hard not to wonder where labels fit in right now (full disclaimer: we did, for at least one second, consider naming ‘self-released’ as our favourite label of 2015.) Thankfully there are always peop
Archive.org deliver a windfall of lost music. If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org has unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-80 into the mid-90s. According to their notes, the 30GB collection was saved from the archives of noise-arch.net and donated by former CKLN-FM radio host Myke Dyer in August 2009. Due to its size and obscurity, the
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