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May 9, 2024 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
The audio-visual collaborators discuss world-building, identity and decolonising spaces in the digital and offline realms. Gabriel Massan and LYZZA both want to build new worlds, but it’s up to us to figure out how to navigate them.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet on taking a hacker’s approach to create playful, subversive works of music and visual art. Freeka Tet can’t decide whether he’s a hacker, a magician or a sell-out. This might be because he spends most of his time inhabiting all of three of these roles. During his conversation with Fact he emphasises the importance of one of his many self-administered tattoos, the seemingly nonsensical phrase ‘ou ou et ou ou et et’, which curls across his chest in spidery cursive.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
The Houston native on DJ Screw, his city’s musical legacy and What Dreams May Come, his most ambitious project to date. Houston sounds like no place on earth, but these days everything sounds like Houston. From H-town’s finest – Megan Thee Stallion, Beyonce, Solange, Travis Scott – cloud rap prodigy Yung Lean and witch house pioneers Salem, the loose bounce and languid pace of the Southern sound has crept slowly but surely into the sonic textures of our everyday.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Tati au Miel winds through the sounds of their fantastical world. Haitian-born, Montreal-raised DJ, producer, composer and designer Tati au Miel is one of a new generation of artists shaping electronic and experimental music in their own image.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Merry Christmas, from evilgiane. Merry Christmas from evilgiane, the New York producer who was, for many, the sound of 2023.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Bruce showcases his stunning new sound with a haunting medley, performed live on the XR stage at 180 Studios. Larry McCarthy, the artist also known as Bruce, joins forces with artist Mooje and stylist Holly Gillman to provide a glimpse of his stunning live show with a medley of three new songs, captured on the XR stage at 180 Studios.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Fact cover star LYZZA delivers the S/S 2023 issue mix: a propulsive call to dance featuring predominantly Brazilian and LatAm artists. “Being born in Brazil, moving to Europe, being part of the Afro-Latino diaspora and also coming from quite a broken family, I think I never knew where I belonged,” says Fact cover star LYZZA of her formative musical trajectory. “Within my music, it’s just been me trying to piece together these parts and exploring how I feel.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Toumba spools through a two-hour meditation on love, lament and desire. 2023 has been an important year for Toumba, the Jordanian, Ammani producer and DJ born Yazan Zyadat. While last year illuminated Zyadat as one of the most exciting rising talents in dance music as he made consistent efforts to share the spotlight with both local and diasporic SWANA artists, this year saw him digging deeper into the historical and contemporary musical traditions of Jordan.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
Hypereikon form mythopoetic minerals and speculative artefacts from the textural sounds of Kloxii Li, the first glimpse of MUTUALISMX, a planetary-spanning new project from Hexorcismos. MUTUALISMX arrives as culmination of the multidisciplinary experimentation of Moisés Horta Valenzuela, better known as Hexorcismos.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones
With a mix called ‘Bethlehem’, Chuquimamani-Condori marks a cacophonous and cathartic close to the year. E Crampton Chuquimia is one of the most quietly era-defining artists of their generation. Ever since their early music as E+E and the release of their modern classic debut, American Drift, they have continued to explore and illuminate the intricacies of their singular sound, each project unveiling new aspects of their ever-evolving approach to composition, deconstruction and sonic inscription.
