On the other side of the spectrum, artists like coucou chloe, Organ Tapes and Qualiatik have also embraced a DIY spirit, but opted for the pop form, laying out clearly referential, yet refreshing ...

The Bristol beatmaker builds a vibe from scratch. Hugh Pescod has been producing as Redlight since 2009, incorporating the sounds of the British underground into productions featuring artists ...

Utilitarian surf-rock beats from Michael Benjamin Lerner. Seattle-based musician Michael Benjamin Lerner has been making music as Telekinesis since 2009. His fifth album for Merge Records, Effluxion, ...

In the summer of 2006 the Klaxons spawned nu rave, but the real youth subculture of the mid-00s was the music that DJs played after bands had finished: blog house. It’s difficult to define what blog ...

Birthed in Chicago’s blighted South Side in the early 2010s and popularized by artists like King Louie and Chief Keef, drill music – an aggressive descendent of trap – has all but faded from view in ...

With a new documentary film and compilation and everyone from Foals to Friendly Fires citing him as an inspiration, 25 years after his death Arthur Russell’s music – at once both experimental and pop ...

Toumba spools through a two-hour meditation on love, lament and desire with an uncompromising transmission from the heart.

FACT’s John Twells traveled to Latvian capital Riga to check out the second edition of Erica Synths’ Kontaktor festival, a community-focused celebration of techno and technology. When I arrive in Riga ...

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. “The failure ...

Based at London’s 180 Studios, Fact is a multimedia platform championing the global movement of electronic art. Fact incorporates a print magazine, exhibition programme, production studio and ...

In short, evilgiane has had an integral role to play with much of the year’s most unmissable music. His tireless approach to casting beat magic draws far and wide. This is evident in the esoteric ...

You can’t talk about Southern rap without acknowledging pioneering Memphis posse Three 6 Mafia. Formed in the early ’90s by producers Paul Beauregard (DJ Paul) and Jordan Houston (Juicy J), the duo ...