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Palestinian-Egyptian artist Oldyungmayn plays to his own shifting emotions while underlining the vital necessity of undying momentum. “When I was researching and conceptualising this mix, I was ...
Birthed in Chicago’s blighted South Side in the early 2010s and popularized by artists like King Louie and Chief Keef, drill music – an aggressive descendent of trap – has all but faded from ...
Taking inspiration from the synthesizer-driven funk of George Clinton, G-Funk brought an electrifying new sound to gangster rap, welding squealing leads and squelching basses to West Coast street ...
How prehistoric biota inspired the SVBKVLT artist’s captivating new album, Holes of Sinian. This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2023 issue, which is available to buy here.
Road rap sprang up in London during the mid-2000s, emerging from grime’s heartland in a period when the genre was out of favour. For a few years, road rap temporarily eclipsed grime as the ...
From Drake and Zayn to Kanye and James Blake, 2016 has been littered with albums marred by ridiculous run-times, each spanning over 17 tracks. Are artists getting more ambitious, or is there a ...
Let’s be clear: trance isn’t cool. It never was cool, it isn’t cool, and it never will be cool. As a genre, it’s also responsible for a lot of absolute bilge over the years. It became one ...
Desiigner’s ‘Panda’ is the number one song in America right now. His detractors say he’s ripping off Future, but the controversy surrounding the 19-year-old New Yorker’s rise to fame is ...
London post-punks Family Fodder have been blazing trails with their eclectic racket for 37 years – and they’re not done yet. With a new album and two albums of solo instrumentals from ...
In this feature, published in the new S/S 2023 issue of Fact’s print edition, Serpentine curator Hans Ulrich Obrist asks a range of digital artists what elements every good video game should have.
FACT’s John Twells traveled to Latvian capital Riga to check out the second edition of Erica Synths’ Kontaktor festival, a community-focused celebration of techno and technology. When I arrive ...
Primary Optics is a series that dives into the ideas and technology behind some of the world’s most innovative audiovisual shows and artists. Earlier this year, FACT travelled to Berlin to ...