We’re pretty bloody stoked to welcome 2562 up to the plate for FACT Mix 81.
2562, a.k.a The Hague’s Dave Huismans, has been responsible for some of the most arresting dubstep and dubstep-influenced music of the past few years. His debut album, Aerial, was released last year to much acclaim on Pinch’s Tectonic label, and this November its eagerly anticipated follow-up, Unbalance, is set to drop. As previously reported, it’s without doubt one of the best electronic albums that we’ve heard in 2009.
As well as his work as 2562, Dave also produces under the name A Made Up Sound, a project dedicated to more obviously house and techno-oriented sounds. There was a low-key Made Up Sound album released last year, Short Cuts; the AMUS Archive EP, out earlier in the summer on Clone’s Basement Series, is one of the year’s best. This month Dave will bring out ‘Rework’/’Closer’ on the newly formed A Made Up Sound label.
If you’re in London, make sure you check the Unbalance launch party, which takes place at Corsica Studios on Friday 2 October and boasts a line-up numbering 2562, Shed, Kode9, Pinch, Actress, Ikonika, Brackles and more. Enter our competition to win tickets here.
So, what about this here FACT Mix?
“I hadn’t recorded a mix in ages,” Dave tells us, “So I made one that gives an impression of how I like to play in a club right now: warm up with some house and techno favourites and boogie on from there. Some old, some new, some borrowed etc…”
Featuring new productions from 2562 plus tracks from the likes of Martyn, Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir, Marcel Dettmann, Shortstuff and Untold, FACT Mix 81 is basically essential. Download and enjoy.
(Available for three weeks)
Tracklisting:
Starfighterz – Flavour 1Telex – Raised by Snakes (Shake remix)Deetron – Let’s Get Over It (Marcel Dttmann remix)A Made Up Sound – BounceSolid Groove – Flookin’ remixShortstuff & Hyetal – Don’t SleepSeiji – Yo Voy remixA Made Up Sound – ReworkJack Sparrow – TerminalUntold – Never Went Away2562 – LostGeiom – Reminiscin’ (Kode 9 remix)St Files – Tek DubMartyn – Mega Drive GenerationHeadhunter – Prototype (Modeselektor remix)? – Idle Hands 001bThomas Bangalter – What to DoTom Trago – Lost in the Streets of NYC (Actress remix)Elemental – Undulating Elf (2562 edit)