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.
VANGELIS KATSOULIS
The Sleeping Beauties LP
(Into The Light)
Archival work from Greek label Into The Light who raid the archives of Vangelis Katsoulis for a selection of early and unreleased tracks as well as a few from his debut The Slipping Beauty. Fans of ambient and melancholic synthesisers should take note.
AURORA HALAL
Passageway (inc. Terrence Dixon remix)
(Mutual Dreaming)
Debut EP from Aurora Halal, versatile audio-visual artist with a knack for subtle dancefloor explorations and backed here with a remix courtesy of techno legend Terrence Dixon.
VERMONT
Vermont LP
(Kompakt)
A team up between Marcus Worgull from Innervisions and Motor City Drum Ensemble, Vermont explores Krautrock inspired soundscapes, which is arguably not what you might expect considering their respective solo outputs. Recorded in Cologne with a collection of analogue gear, it features a flurry of notable collaborators from the Krautrock world.
PHENO
Kani LP
(Sahel Sounds)
The BasedGod of the Sahel lands in Phonica, and you know you need this. We featured the mind bending awesomeness of Pheno in our Bandcamp column last year, so don’t delay on what his blend of Autotune raps, glitchy beats and homemade tinny electronic music.
VRIL
Torus LP
(Forum)
More house and techno explorations from Vril, with a debut album for Forum who released the Prince of Denmark album last year.
