This year, we’ve brought in several new weekly features to FACT’s schedule.
Joining My Favourite Record and Forgotten Classics is The Week’s Best Vinyl Releases, a Saturday column by our friends at Soho record shop Phonica. It sounds obvious, but few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store, and after years spent discovering gems in Phonica’s end of year lists, it made sense to give them a regular space on FACT. Every Saturday morning, they’ll run down the five vinyl records that you should grab this week.
TOM OF ENGLAND
Be Me / Germans In The Jungle 12″
(An STD Production)
Dancefloor veteran Thomas Bullock returns to his Tom of England alias (last heard on The Trilogy Tapes) for two cuts of psychedelic machine music.
KZA
Dig & Edit 2 LP
(Endless Flight)
For his second solo LP, Tokyo’s KZA dug deep into his impressive record collection to craft lithe, sample-based disco-house hybrids that run the gamut from languid to lively.
BAYO DAMAZIO
Listen To The Music 12″
(Voodoo Funk)
Originally released in 1981 by Nigeria’s Phonodisk, this one’s a luscious slab of Cameroonian disco-funk, lovingly reissued by West African specialists Voodoo Funk.
PENDER STREET STEPPERS
Openin’ Up 12″
(PPU Records)
Members of Vancouver’s burgeoning Mood Hut collective, the Pender Street Steppers share two spaced-out slices of 80s-facing bedroom house via DC vintage specialists People Potential Unlimited.
SHERIFF LINDO & THE HAMMER
Aftershock Dubs LP
(EM Records)
The first new album in 25 from Australian dub maestro Sheriff Lindo, the previously-unreleased material on Aftershock Dubs has been battle-tested on Outback sound systems for years.
Phonica turns 10 this year, and will be celebrating with a new compilation, 10 Years of Phonica Records, as well as a party at London’s Fire on February 15. For more on the compilation, head here.
