You can now buy an Amen break waveform made out of wood - Fact Magazine
The internet provides. It’s not often we bring you home furnishings on FACT, but this wooden sculpture of the Amen break waveform demands your attention. The junglist artwork, which uses laser-cut slices of birch to mark out the pattern of history’s most famous drum break, was created by Colin Hendee of Austin, Texas, and is currently available to buy from his Etsy page. You can even choose your o
Pioneer unveils another USB-only DJ controller - Fact Magazine
At the end of 2014, Pioneer unveiled the XDJ-1000, “the first in a new line-up of digitally-focused, USB only, Rekordbox-ready players”. The latest all-in-one controller is the XDJ-RX, unveiled at this week’s NAMM show, and it’s another unit designed to be used with the company’s music library application Rekordbox. As MusicRadar reports, the RX combines a central two-channel mixer (which can also
Take a look at Aphex Twin's extensive Syro gear list - Fact Magazine
Fact Magazine Now reading: Take a look at Aphex Twin’s extensive Syro gear list If there’s one thing that Aphex Twin‘s legion of followers love to do, it’s speculate exactly what gear he’s been using all these years. Throwaway lines in interviews and rare photos notwithstanding, the full extent of Richard D. James’ labyrinth of studios (he has multiple setups in his current home, if we’re to belie
The 50 Best Albums of 2013
Illustration by Alex Solman Skip to: #50 / #40 / #30 / #20 / #10 or view the selection as a single page text list – without audio, images, or write-ups – here. In 2013, album lists aren’t just best-to-worst rundowns – they’re ways of demarcating what an “album” is (or isn’t) in the first place. Is a mini-album a full-length or an extended single? Should a clutch of Soundcloud demos be judged along
The FACT Dictionary: How dubstep, juke and cloud rap got their names
The FACT Dictionary: How dubstep, juke, cloud rap and other genres got their names Balderdash and DatPiffle. “Language is the dress of thought”, wrote Samuel Johnson – and, like any ethical shopper, sometimes you want to investigate exactly where your dress came from. The music fan’s dictionary is full of unlikely and strange little tags: some (witch house, wonky) have always been ridiculous; othe
EVOL's new acid house mixtape is 14 minutes long and has 301 tracks. You need to hear it - Fact Magazine
EVOL’s new acid house mixtape is 14 minutes long and has 301 tracks. You need to hear it Prepare to squirm. We’ve had some odd FACT mixes in our time – Julia Holter’s found sound session springs to mind – but, in the lunacy stakes, nothing before or since has come close to rave deconstructionists EVOL’s May 2012 FACT mix. Based almost exclusively around the classic Hoover sound, the selection cram
GEMA reportedly crack down on DJs as well as clubs, adding new "laptop surcharge" to sets - Fact Magazine
GEMA reportedly crack down on DJs as well as clubs, adding new “laptop surcharge” to sets Earlier this year, GEMA, the body charged with collecting royalties in Germany, announced a controversial overhaul of its fee structure. Having historically charged venues a flat rate, GEMA are introducing a system based on the size of the venue and a percentage of ticket prices. GEMA’s original proposal was
The 15 greatest techno albums you’ve never heard – FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
A good techno album, much like a good man or woman, is hard to find. That it’s difficult to translate dance music into the realm of the full-length is undeniable, but the truth is that techno isn’t like most dance music. To paraphrase Derrick May, the beats are an afterthought. Techno is head music as much as body music, and for the right producer, the space and time afforded by an LP’s runtime pr
How to... start a record label
How to start a record label: 13 essential tips from Hyperdub, Ninja Tune and more Ever wanted to start a record label? Chances are, if you’re reading FACT, that the answer is yes. Hell, you may already have one. The major labels of this world may be in trouble, but not since the DIY explosion of the late 1970s – which led to the formation of Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet, 4AD, Mute and literally hu
Anonymous launches new music platform - Fact Magazine
Hacktivist collective has released Anontune program. Today, a group of programmers affiliated with the faceless web activist group Anonymous launched a new social music program, in development since December, called Anontune. Anonymous is releasing the application as part of its offensive against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the music industry group that has fought for yea
Moodymann - Picture This EP - Fact Magazine
We premiered Detroit house icon Moodymann’s ‘Summertime’-sampling ‘9 Nites N Nowhere’ yesterday, and now his full Picture This EP is available from Scion A/V. The man with the ‘fro born Kenny Dixon, Jr.’s new eight-track EP is a worthy addition to a career spanning almost twenty years. It includes ‘9 Nites N Nowhere’, as well the relentlessly funky ‘Basement Party’, mellow cuts like ‘U Ranaway’ an
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