CTM 2021: Apotome Artist Takeover – Deena Abdelwahed
A studio session performed with Khyam Allami’s generative music system. In the latest in a series of highlights from CTM Festival’s 2021 online edition, we present an extract o
ALOK AND VIZE HEAT THINGS UP WITH NEW SINGLE ‘LOVE AGAIN’ (FEAT. ALIDA)
Brazilian artist Alok has been in fine form in recent months, recently becoming the most streamed Brazilian artist in the world, with over 2.7 billion
Fact Mix 794: Lutto Lento
An uncanny mix from one of Poland’s most compelling producers. It’s difficult to pin down Warsaw producer Lubomir Grzelak’s music to any one style. As Lutto Lento
CTM 2021: Cyberia
Explore CTM 2021’s virtual festival space ahead of its launch later this week in an exclusive preview. Due to the pandemic, CTM Festival 2021 has taken place online, with a s
Point Blank Music School Interviews DJ Fonti for Black History Month
DJ Fonti has linked up with the highly regarded Point Blank Music School to form something that is as personable as it is constructive. Showcasing background and story with a produ
Evitceles & Rim Mustafin reflect on architecture and memory in ‘Endless Reach’
Images of buildings from Sofia, Berlin and Perm meet in a lysergic merging via the use of a generative adversarial network, or GAN animation. Last year Bulgarian producer Etie
Patch Notes: TM404
An experimental dub techno session from Andreas Tilliander’s studio. Swedish producer Andreas Tilliander started out as one of the ’00s glitch scene’s most notabl
Cecilia Bengolea follows dancehall vitality in Shelly Belly Inna Real Life
Legendary dancehall performer Shelly Belly narrates a trip from the streets of Kingston to the countryside around Bog Walk, Jamaica. The energy of dancehall is undeniable for Cecil
CTM 2021: ERAM & EPX ft. Saskia – AKAM/E/GRAFIA
An audiovisual B2B set focusing on music from Brazil’s ZONAexp label, with vocals from Saskia. This year’s edition of Berlin’s CTM Festival began last month, in an online
Fact Mix 793: Byrell The Great
A high energy club mix from one of the contemporary ballroom scene’s key innovators. Byrell The Great has been at the heart of New York’s ballroom scene for over a deca
Fact Residency: Blackhaine
Bringing the same visceral energy to music, movement, poetry and performance, Blackhaine has proven himself to be a vital new voice. Listen to what he has to say. For multidiscipli
Blackhaine Presents: I’m Only Here
Blackhaine delivers an evocative live performance of two new tracks, featuring mind-expanding production from Rainy Miller and Space Afrika. In this Fact Original Commission, Black
Rainy Miller reflects on loss and healing in ‘Yellowman’
A self-directed visual featuring Preston-born choreographer and performer Amber Calland. Rising Preston producer and multidisciplinary artist Rainy Miller reflects on loss, family
Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs and GAIKA conduct a shamanic ritual in The Wave Epoch
An audiovisual accompaniment to the concept album of the same name, set in a distant future in which the forgotten remains of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have been rediscover
Patch Notes: Heinali
A dreamy modular performance recorded live in Kyiv. Heinali is the alias of Ukrainian composer and sound artist Oleg Shudeiko, a musician who works extensively with modular synthes
Blackhaine Presents: Womb
Rawtape assembles an eerie patchwork of looping movement and GAN animation for the melancholy closer to Armour, the latest collection of tracks from Blackhaine. ‘Womb’
Blackhaine Presents: Transmission (Nothing Urgent, Surreal, or of Meaning)
Industrial machine poetry broadcast from a lonely bridge over the M65. Tom Heyes understands boredom to be a potent creative catalyst. Seeking poetry in the pale, grey landscapes h
Blackhaine Presents: DID U CUM YET / I’M NOT GONNA CUM
Choreographer, MC, poet and performer Blackhaine links up with iconoclast artist Richie Culver for a bleak ode to the anti-climax. “Some things are easier to say with writing
Fact Mix 792: Kasper Marott
Copenhagen’s master of euphoric techno digs out some classics for a “proper” club mix. Kasper Marott’s breakthrough track, 2018’s ‘Keflavik’,
TEEN blurs the digital and the organic with ‘Cache’
Ben Swanwick of Studio Dosage guides us through a sci-fi plant laboratory in the animated video. TEEN blends bleeding-edge digital noise with organic sources of sound on ‘Cac