Wackelkontakt delve into a fractured psyche in ‘Papamummy’ and ‘Progress’

Jerusalem’s foremost “psychotrap” outfit transform the writing of Michel Foucault, the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari and the poetry of Antonin Artaud into cacophonous experimental hip-hop. In Anti-Oedipus, the first volume of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s monumental work Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the philosophers express their...

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VRBA soundtracks Adrienne Cassel’s CGI mutations in ‘intuit’

Taken from Willow Scythe, VRBA’s debut release for London label TT. Pittsburgh producer VRBA has joined forces with 3D artist and designer Adrienne Cassel for the visual accompaniment to ‘intuit’, a track taken from the producer’s debut label release, Willow Scythe. “Distinguished by an unparalleled sense of space, VRBA’s production moves fearlessly...

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Lea Bertucci enlists experimental filmmaker Fern Silva for ‘On Opposite Sides of Sleep’

A highlight from her new album, A Visible Length of Light. Lea Bertucci documents a year of uncertainty and instability on her new album, A Visible Length of Light, interspersing short improvisational snippets with dense compositions that nod to traditional American musical forms like folk, bluegrass, jazz and gospel. Layering bass clarinet,...

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404.zero capture Saint Petersburg in lockdown with AR installation, Arrival

A spontaneous work created using the duo’s first augmented reality filter. In the fourth of a series of four NFTs being made available for auction by Russian multidisciplinary duo 404.zero in partnership with Fact, Kristina Karpysheva and Alexander Letsius present an augmented reality (AR) installation, Arrival. Arrival is a spontaneous video,...

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anaiis teams up with Julianknxx for the intimate ‘juno’

A self-reflective and surreal rumination on entrapment, isolation and anxiety. French-Senegalese artist anaiis has teamed up with multidisciplinary artist, poet and Fact Resident Julianknxx for the stunning visual accompaniment to her new track, ‘juno’. An intensely personal reflection on feelings of entrapment, isolation and anxiety, the...

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Patch Notes: Alex Epton

An experimental modular session from the XL Recordings producer. Alex Epton is a multifaceted producer and composer (also known as XXXChange), whose in-house role at XL Recordings has seen him work with FKA twigs, Arca and Jamie xx.. In 2019 he collaborated with cellist Lucinda Chua on the soundtrack for the documentary film 3OHA. ...

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404.zero draw inspiration from jetlag on Dark Matter

Kristina Karpysheva and Alexander Letsius present the third in a series of NFTs to be auctioned on SuperRare. In the third of a series of four NFTs being made available for auction by Russian multidisciplinary duo 404.zero in partnership with Fact, Kristina Karpysheva and Alexander Letsius reflect on the memory of a period of jetlag back...

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Foodman pairs sushi with machine learning in ‘Hoshikuzu Tenboudai’

Thousands of images of sushi were fed into a neural network to create an incredibly satisfying GAN animation. On Yasuragi Land, the debut album for Hyperdub from Japanese experimental stalwart Takahide Higuchi, better known as Foodman, the producer finds enduring inspiration in life’s simple pleasures. Translated as ‘Tranquility Land’, the...

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Stubborn Heart explore New York after dark in ‘Talking Gold’

Filmmaker Michael England draws inspiration from Orson Welles and Henri Cartier-Bresson for the stunning video. Stubborn Heart, the electronic soul duo of producer Ben Fitzgerald and vocalist Luca Santucci, are back with their first music in eight years. Made Of Static follows on from their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut, bringing Fitzgerald’s...

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404.zero utilise neural networks and analog synthesisers in Deep Echo

The audiovisual work is now available to buy as an NFT at SuperRare. In the second of a series of four NFTs being made available for auction by 404.zero in partnership with Fact at SuperRare, the Russian multidisciplinary duo utilise Natural Intelligence (NI), a system that uses real-life data to train a natural neural network, to generate...

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