Kelly Doherty

Cork, Dublin, London

editor at @thevinylfactory, bylines: Alt Press, NME, i-D, DJ Mag, Clash, Bandcamp, Huck | dj & producer | @threadsradio resident

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Articles

Simo Cell - FL Louis

1 week ago | djmag.com | Kelly Doherty

On his latest EP, Paris-based producer Simo Cell reflects on his influences with four gritty tracks designed exclusively for late-night listening. Drawing inspiration from bloghouse and French Touch, 'FL Louis' — named after the puppet character featured on the record’s cover — delivers uncompromising intensity from start to finish.
Deep Listening: Williams Blood by Grace Jones

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

Deep Listening is a new series in which The Vinyl Factory spins monumental albums and songs, both contemporary and classic, in the Devon Turnbull Listening Room at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb Exhibition in 180 Studios. A meditative listening room created by New York artist Devon Turnbull and programmed by The Vinyl Factory, the space allows visitors to listen to music on a handmade, high-fidelity sound system.
This week's VF HQ playlist

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

Filled with our new favourite cuts and some older gems, we update The Vinyl Factory HQ playlist regularly for your listening pleasure. Our latest playlist features tracks we've been spinning over the last few months-both new and old. Check out the playlist below for cuts from Shanti Celeste, Jenny Hval, DJ Python and many more. Follow us here to keep up-to-date with the playlist, carefully selected by VF's Kelly Doherty. Read more: Listen to the Devon Turnbull's Hi-Fi Listening Room playlist
Ray Keith's Drum & Bass (Devon Turnbull's Listening Room at 180 Studios)

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

" When that music exploded, we became the kings of our own kings, do you know what I'm saying? That feeling of being able to put out a record and say 'fuck the majors'. We were distributing, and they were all like, 'What is going on?' All of us said, 'No, we're gonna do it ourselves. We had the record shops, we had the people, the raves started to grow".
VF represses Gesaffelstein's Aleph on limited vinyl

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty
Gear Talk: Maria Somerville

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

Irish singer, songwriter and NTS host Maria Somerville has just dropped her long-awaited second album, Luster, and it marks a lush, hazy expansion on the sound of her solo recorded debut, All My People. Amidst the release of Luster and a tour across Europe, we catch up with Somerville to discuss experimentation, the relationship between radio and her music and her love of guitar. As an artist alternating between solo work and a full band, how important is having dynamic instruments?
Deep Listening: #3 by Aphex Twin

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

Deep Listening is a new series in which The Vinyl Factory spins monumental albums and songs, both contemporary and classic, in the Devon Turnbull Listening Room at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb Exhibition in 180 Studios. A meditative listening room created by New York artist Devon Turnbull and programmed by The Vinyl Factory, the space allows visitors to listen to music on a handmade, high-fidelity sound system.
VF x Phonica: Roman Fl├╝gel and Tim Reaper (RSD 2025)

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

We're concluding our coverage of Phonica Records' Record Store Day 2025 party with a special b2b from Roman Flügel and Tim Reaper. Closing out the day's festivities, the unlikely pairing of German dance music legend Flügel and London junglist Tim Reaper brought together euphoria and breaks by the buckets, ending another year in a high-energy flurry covering all corners of the dancefloor spectrum. Check out the set above, and don't miss Phonica's full event recap here.
Listen: Poly-Ritmo's Disques Debs

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

"Disques Debs was set up by Henry Debs in the late '50s and ran to the early 2000s, and it was one of the first labels to distribute music from the Antilles to France, and also played a pivotal role in bringing music from Guadalupe and Martinique to an international audience".
VF x Phonica: Grace Sands and Seb Odyssey (RSD 2025)

1 month ago | thevinylfactory.com | Kelly Doherty

We're back to our full-length sets from Phonica Records' Record Store Day 2025 party with an absolute treat from ADONIS residents Grace Sands and Seb Odyssey. A rabble-rousing b2b from the duo saw the Record Store Day crowd experience a set of house, acid and dancefloor anthems - a stellar set, as to be expected, from the purveyors of one of London's finest queer club nights. Check out the set above, and don't miss Phonica's full event recap here.