A new year’s resolution of sorts at FACT: every Saturday, we’ll post a run-down of the music – old and new – we’ve most been enjoying in our UK and US offices that week.

No emphasis on the boxfresh or the under-the-radar: just an honest account of what’s spent most time on the respective office stereos, with (where possible) links to the music.

Vril – Vortekz

Rumour has it this was the first record in two decades to crash the systems at Dubplates & Mastering. Title track’s all sorts of decent, but the churning dub edit absolutely knocks.

Charles Hayward – Smell of Metal

Rothko-inspired gloom groove from 1990, recently reissued by ΚΕΜΑΛ with bonus sweeteners from JD Twitch and Max D, Plays like a twitchier, funkier Mezzanine.

Rainer Veil – New Brutalism

Modern Love do it again with this airy second EP from Northern duo Rainer Veil. Like foggy, narcotic fueled memories of dark, muddy fields and blown-out soundsystems, but with fewer hippies.

Blaqstarr – Blaqstarr The Mixtape

This one’s from 2011 and — despite the Amy Winehouse covers, electro-house tracks and rap-rock flirtations – its brightest moments still sound like the future of club music.

Mogwai – Rave Tapes

The new full-length from Glasgow’s finest, and it sounds like – well, it sounds like Mogwai obviously, but it’s still a joy to hear a band continuing to refine and explore their sound even on their eighth album.

Call Super – The Sound of Basement Q RBMA Mix

Dreary cliche though it is, this is one of those ‘journey’ mixes that has a real sense of direction behind it, turning this way and that way as it sinks deeper into flickering, third eye-opening trance shapes.

Total Freedom – Overdrive Infinity #9

Teki Latex’s Overdrive Infinity is like American Bandstand for bored French Tumblr teens. Total Freedom kills it as always — who else is mashing Kat Dahlia and King Louie?

Minibus Pimps – Close to Ground

An ambient music demigod and the bassist from Led Zeppelin? Gloomy, murky and cavernous – not one for amping yourself up at 6pm on a Saturday night, unless your plan’s to jump off a railway bridge.