The great electronic albums of the 1970s get plenty of kudos – but what of their predecessors? Casual accounts of the history of electronic music tend to point back to familiar sources: Suicide ...

Taking inspiration from the synthesizer-driven funk of George Clinton, G-Funk brought an electrifying new sound to gangster rap, welding squealing leads and squelching basses to West Coast street ...

Let’s be clear: trance isn’t cool. It never was cool, it isn’t cool, and it never will be cool. As a genre, it’s also responsible for a lot of absolute bilge over the years. It became one ...

From Drake and Zayn to Kanye and James Blake, 2016 has been littered with albums marred by ridiculous run-times, each spanning over 17 tracks. Are artists getting more ambitious, or is there a ...

A solo modular set from Carter Tutti Void and Factory Floor’s Nik Void. For the first of a series of Patch Notes episodes filmed behind closed doors by Fact at 180 The Strand, we invited Nik ...

Richard D. James makes a rare live appearance in London. Aphex Twin has been confirmed to headline next year’s Field Day with a performance in The Barn, a brand new indoor stage for the London ...

Digital album leaks have been happening for more than 20 years, but it’s been a long time since they were this prominent in the news. Leaks became a regular occurrence for the label around eight ...

Jigga historians, take note: he’s spelling his name with an umlaut again. On the website of Jay-fronted streaming menace Tidal, Jay Z has suddenly become Jaÿ-Z – and only a few years after he ...

How prehistoric biota inspired the SVBKVLT artist’s captivating new album, Holes of Sinian. This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2023 issue, which is available to buy here.

Primary Optics is a series that dives into the ideas and technology behind some of the world’s most innovative audiovisual shows and artists. Earlier this year, FACT travelled to Berlin to ...

Jeff Mills has unveiled his new UFO-inspired percussion instrument. Last year Jeff Mills revealed one of his most intriguing projects to date – a plan to make a drum machine based on a UFO ...

“Dear Tommy will be a shitty pop album. I’m not there to feed him ideas. You will get garbage.” Italians Do It Better co-founder Mike Simonetti is still angry about the $13,000 he claims ...