FACT mix 197: Margaret Dygas
November 15, 2010 § Leave a Comment
From Fact: Dygas – born Małgorzata Dygasiewicz in Poland, raised in California – has been a notable presence in house and techno since around 2005; she first came to our attention through her association with the then very much on-it Crosstown Rebels crew. Long a DJ of high repute, Dygas’s development in her parallel career as a producer has been remarkable. Working partly in collaboration with NSI’s Tobias Freund, she has now arrived at a trippy, well-honed and unshowily avant-garde techno sound that has seen her release records through such august imprints as Perlon and Non Standard Productions. Her latest and most substantial offering to date is debut album How Do You Do?, out now via Japanese label Power Shovel Audio.
Margaret’s FACT mix finds her at her seductive DJing best, sailing broken, dubbed-out productions from Pinch, Cyrus and Deadbeat through into the oscillating techno waters bossed by Ben Klock and Luc Ringeisen, making time also for a clutch of underground house killers that are completely new to us. FACT mix 197 might not have much of a Halloween flavour, but mark our words, it’s scarily good.
You can both stream and download the mix below via Soundcloud; download by clicking the arrow on the right hand side of the player.
Tracklist:
1. Dorisburg – Mima [Amiara Recordings]
2. Emika – Double Edge (Acapella) [Ninja Tune]
3. Emika – Double Edge (Pinch Remix) [Ninja Tune]
4. Rob Sparx – The Prayer (Cyrus (Random Trio) Remix) [Dubting]
5. Ne Ne – Kala [FMP Records]
6. Deadbeat – Mecca Drum Jack [Wagon Repair]
7. Ben Klock – You [Klockworks]
8. Luc Ringeisen – Sahara [VinylClub]
9. Oska Offermann & Moomin – Joe MacDaddy [Aim]
10. Modeler – Mint Condition [Dubsided]
11. Pursuit Grooves – Mr Softee [Tectonic]
12. Staten Island Aquarium [Kann Records]
13. O. Poliakov – Besides [Bass Culture]
14. Krause Duo UP – Spalter [Philpot]
15. Unknown – Give Me Something To Dance To (NWA) [RAL]
16. I Don’t Remember – It Got Lost [Sorry Recordings]
The summer hotness: James Ruskin – FACT mix 169 [download this s*** now]
July 27, 2010 § Leave a Comment
This is just what I’ve been feeling lately.. a return to bleepy acid-house sounds pitched down to a shuffle. Thick basslines and clean clicks, the sounds of empty brooding warehouses. Nasty stuff for late-night drives or micro-jams in your loft. The mix kicks off with a classic track from Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works II (you know the track – the one that woke you up from your trip with those demented keys) and quickly picks up to a nice pace with tracks by Kevin Gorman and Marcel Dettman mixed atop. 4/4 slips intro breakbeats, some weirdness, some tribal house, some surgeon tracks.. The tracklist on this thing is sick.. and Ruskin slides through abstract sounds and chunky kicks.. dropping a lot of tracks for an hour and 43 minutes of mix. In the words of fellow music enthusiast JD Harrington, “This shit is off the fucking chain.”
Aphex Twin – SAW2 CD1 Track2
Kevin Gorman – 7am Stepper
Marcel Dettman – Captivate
Jesus Jones – Zeros and Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction )
Plaid – Booc
O/V/R – Untitled
Terrence Fixmer – Drastic (Planetary Assault Systems Mix)
Gak – Gak 1
James Ruskin – Graphic
Phuture Pfantasy Club – Spank Spank
Emptyset – Gate 3A
DVS1 – Running
Jeff Mills – Belief System
Robert Hood – Self Power
Kenny Larkin – Glob
Hoodlum – Drama
Marcel Dettman – Screen
Kenny Larkin – Glob (Ben Klock Remix)
Scuba – Minerals
Al Tourettes – When I Rust I Rest
Se7en -m0h (Gary Beck Remix)
Silent Servant – Noise Modulation (Kalon Remix)
Jerome Sydenham & Function – Skimming
Mike Parker – Protolanguage
Daniela Stickworth – The Slot (Xhin Remix)
James Ruskin – Massk
Autechre – pce freeze 28i
Mike Dehnert – Eigenbedarf Part 2
Beardman – M6
Zak Khutoretsky – Polyphonic Love
Rhythim Is Rhythim – Nude Photo
KC Flightt – Lets Get Jazzy (Dope Dub Mix)
Planetary Assault Systems – GT (James Ruskin Remix)
Echologist – Dirt (Ben Klock Edit)
Frank Martiniq – Blast Corps
Peter Van Hoesen – Terminal
Dopplereffekt – Rocket Scientist
Traversable Wormhole – Tachyon (James Ruskin Remix)
Traversable Wormhole – Exiting The Milky Way (Surgeon Remix)
Balil – Norte Route
Mark Broom & James Ruskin – Hostage
Underground Resistance – Amazon (4Hero Version)
Fact Magazine presents a mix by SHED
January 28, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I eagerly downloaded this mix today due to my year-long obsession with Shed’s Shedding The Past LP. With a distinct style and rhythm this guy is breaking boundaries all over the place. Download the mix HERE, read more below from FACT.
FACT Mix 116 is by the one, the only, Shed.
The Berlin-based producer and DJ, real name Rene Pawlowitz, has steadily built a reputation as one of the most consistent and imaginative techno artists of the contemporary era. Despite the adulation, he remains a humble and reserved fellow, one who seems to revel in his outsider status and the freedom it affords – it’s not for nothing that his label, launched in 2004, is called Soloaction.
He’s existed on the periphery of our vision since the mid-noughties, thanks to classic Delsin, Styrax and particularly Soloaction releases like the Looking Back EP and ‘These Kinky Dudes From Germany’, but it was in 2008 that Shed really grabbed us by the nads. First came the remarkable single ‘Warped Mind’, and then his quietly monumental debut album, also released on Ostgut-Ton (home to Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock et al). Shedding The Past found this producer coming to terms with techno’s charged history while also doing everything in his power to nourish and dictate its future, matching melancholy, serotonin-depleted synth melodies to impeccably swung rhythms derived not just from straight techno but dubstep, garage and hardcore. Not for nothing was it ranked as one of FACT’s albums of the decade.
Since then, Pawlowitz has become an ever more vital presence in, and agent of, forward-thinking dance music: his remixes for the likes of Peverelist, Substance, Radio Slave and particularly Taho (‘Energy Fields’) have been genuinely adventurous while also sating the demands of the dancefloor, and his two ongoing, “anonymous” 12″ series, Equalized and Wax – both distributed by the Hardwax store where he works – are remarkable for their elegant subversion of modern techno’s rhythmic givens. And for just being, well, lip-bitingly brilliant.
In summary, and in case it’s not obvious by this point, we love Shed; in fact, when he first floated the idea of recording a FACT Mix we had to have a gin-and-tonic and a lie-down before responding. The mix reflects its makers ongoing interest in dubstep and post-garage forms, with tracks from the likes of Peverelist, Martyn, Joy Orbison, Zomby and Skream (the oft-overlooked ‘One For The Heads’) enjoying prominence, but that’s just one strand of a diverse and hugely rewarding selection: look out for hard and raw techno from Surgeon and Underground Resistance, deadly warehouse minimalism from Pan Sonic and Marcel Dettmann, and out-and-out rave anthems from Aphex Twin, Drexciya and Link. Full tracklist over the page.
Tracklist:
Moving Ninja – Uranium – Tectonic
Distance – Empire – Hotflush
Peverelist – Esperanto – Punch Drunk
Elemental – Metal Funk – Runtime
Moderat – Rusty Nails – Bpitch
Black Pocket – U’re A Sta (Martyn Remix) – Fat City
Skream – One For The Heads – Tempa
Elemental – Shiner – Urban Graffiti
Aphex Twin – Digeridoo (Live in Cornwall) – R&S
Drexciya – Water Walker – Submerge
Link – The Augur – Evolution
UR- The Seawolf – UR
Surgeon – Dry – Dynamic Tension
Joy Orbison – Wet Look – Hotflush
Loefah - Twisup Vip (RMY by Youngsta & Task) DMZ
Pan Sonic – Vampina 2 – Blast First
MDR – Rerun – MDR
Zomby – Strange Fruit – Ramp
Shed – Supa – Soloaction
