Testube – Backwater
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Psy’Aviah – Bittersweet (Bonus Version)
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Fact Mix 854: Authentically Plastic
Authentically Plastic glides through disparate sounds with grace and purpose, exorcising restlessness in service of “free form femme fuckery”. Authentically Plastic des
Fact Residency: Theo Triantafyllidis
In his exploration of social technologies and the communities they enable us to create, Theo Triantafyllidis rarely seeks to provide any answers. Instead, his work allows him to co
Theo Triantafyllidis & Slugabed Present: Still Life With Platypus
Still Life With Platypus, a Fact original commission, sees Theo Triantafyllidis and producer and sound artist Slugabed navigating a series of increasingly complex and surreal vanit
Theo Triantafyllidis Presents: Anti-Gone
Theo Triantafyllidis adapts Connor Willumsen‘s graphic novel Anti-Gone into an experimental work of hybrid theatre, performed with one foot in the physical world and the othe
Theo Triantafyllidis Presents: Ork Haus
Theo Triantafyllidis presents a nightmarish vision of the metaverse that is part live simulation, part experimental theatre, drawing as much from The Sims as it does Lars Von Trier
Theo Triantafyllidis Presents: Radicalization Pipeline
Using surreal humour and an absurdist aesthetic sensibility inspired by high fantasy, classic science fiction, MMORPGs and niche online communities, Theo Triantafyllidis builds imm
Fact Mix 853: Jamz Supernova
A 3am club mix full of inspired blends from one of the UK’s favourite DJs and presenters. Over the past decade, Jamz Supernova has grown to become one of the UK’s most
Carpenter Brut – LEATHER TERROR
Carpenter Brut has been a name synonymous with the darksynth and synthwave scenes for as long as I can remember. He’s become an icon within the scene and whenever he releases a n
Heinali performs live from a bomb shelter in Lviv, Ukraine
The composer, sound artist and modular synthesist will perform new material based loosely on the on 12th century organa of the Notre-Dame school, which is taken from a new album he
Stephen McLaughlin & Maxwell Sterling summon images from the digital void in Decay Time
Layering GAN animations with Baroque lettering, video montage and esoteric iconography, Stephen McLaughlin responds to the Maxwell Sterling’s disorientating sonics with a max
Night Terrors – Zenith
Night Terrors’ description on Discogs simply states “Band from Seattle, Washington”. Although that statement is factual, it doesn’t necessarily pique one
Cold Choir – Velvet Surrender
Cold Choir is a duo who I’ve only had the pleasure of encountering once before, which was on the Unearth’d HYPERLINK compilation from Broken Sound Tapes. Considering that I
Thomas Harrington Rawle & Bjarki skewer corporate care in Affirmation Chamber
The audiovisual artist teams up with the producer and sound artist to plunge us back into the Care More universe, a darkly comedic reflection of our own fractured world. Care More
Holon – The Evolution Of Complexity
Being a massive fan of cyberpunk music, I often find myself staring at two mindsets within the genre. There are those who produce massive club beats for futuristic dance nights fil
Gasoline Invertebrate – Cracked Wax Battery
The amount of projects that Brian Graupner is involved in is astounding to say the very least. When he isn’t blasting out his unfiltered nerdiness in The Gothsicles, he’s colla
Fact Mix 851: Nikki Nair
Techno, electro, bass and breakbeat combine on a club mix from the Atlanta-based producer. Since emerging with his debut release in 2018, Nikki Nair’s trajectory has been any
Nightcrawler – Partners in Pain
While there is an overabundance of producers within the darksynth / cyberpunk genres at this moment (no doubt due to the heightened presence of the scene due to the release of the
Tineidae – Mothership
In 2020 I was caught by storm when I encountered Tineidae’s third album “Exo”. Though he had a history with Tympanik with 2012’s “Lights” and 2014’s “Shadows”, it