Factory Floor return in 2016 with 25 25, their second album for DFA and the follow up to their hugely acclaimed 2013 self-titled debut. With their music stripped to a mesmerising dance of percussion, fragmented voice and melody, 25 25 captures the next vital stage in the evolution of one of the UK's most restless and exploratory groups. Today the band share 'Dial Me In', the album's lead single that is available now on a limited 12".

Following the release of their debut album Factory Floor in 2013, the band - consisting of Nik Void and Gabriel Gurnsey - slimmed down to a duo. Having already boiled the scorched textures of their early singles down into their debut's hallucinatory club-not-club stomp, they both seized the opportunity to voyage further along the pathway, mixing the album with razor-sharp precision via David Wrench (FKA Twigs, Caribou).

Inspired by playing a growing number of late night club shows, the pair's music gradually evolved into the sound captured on their second album and in their current live incarnation: a stark, ultra-minimalist and eerily soulful dancefloor pulse, yet one that still bears Factory Floor's unmistakable hallmarks of hypnotic repetition and jagged, punkish intensity.

Speaking of 'Dial Me In', Void says: "Being openly progressive has always been the Factory Floor way, be it via improvisational live shows, early Blast First releases, DFA reworks, or open studio collaborations and residencies.

'Dial Me In' was the first track Gabe and I wrote together for this record. At this time we were both exploring new set ups - some unfamiliar gear like modular systems, as well as various machines combined with regular old stuff like my Roland sampler, live drums and effected live vocals. Our shows between 2014-2015 where steadily moving towards late night club stompers, and gradually our tools were becoming more and more mobile within two Peli cases wheeled across the continent. We were forever testing out changing sets from one place to the next. This single is all about transition, adjustment and transparency - something we needed to get out there so that dots can be joined and the next page can be turned ready for 25 25."

25 25 is out 19th August 2016 via DFA.

Live date:

17.07.2016 DOUR Festival

Geneviéve Pasquier. live one. tape. raubbau raub-044

side a. studio recordings. running time 36:36

1 outback

2 blitzkrieg baby. part 3

3 warm leatherette (sharcactus remake)

4 douleur (sharcactus collaboration)

5 8 p.m. daily news

6 recipe

7 i am not yours (alternative version)

8 today the disco (alternative version)

9 schizofren (alternative version)

side b. Live at rhiz / vienna 25.04.2011. running time 36:43

1 emméne moi

2 blitzkrieg baby 3

3 bouge!

4 all the other girls

5 fusion

6 warm leatherette

7 dead man

8 i love you

Edition of 100 copies. release date: 13.06.2016. this tape includes an mp3-download-code

After the first lady of electro industrial has been hiding in the long grass for some time (or rather she has been pursuing her role as a member of thorofon), the numerous fans of geneviéve pasquier will be delighted to discover this little stocking filler: nine unreleased outtakes and alternative versions, and eight tracks from a 2011 live performance in vienna, both covering her entire creative period from the electro pop beginnings to the more experimental and headstrong material that made up the ant-zen albums 'soap bubble factory' and 'le cabaret moi' in 2006 and 2009.

Shifting between styles with ease, geneviéve pasquier presents a sound that is timeless, accessible and abrasive at the same time, with her extrovert vocal performance always taking the lead. the studio recordings really fathom the boundaries of the electro industrial gene pool, from the soundscapes of 'outback' or 'i am not yours' to the industrial grit of '8 p.m. daily news' or

'schizofren', from the sleaziness of 'douleur' to the minimal electro of 'recipe' and 'blitzkrieg baby' (complete with the unsettling sound of war), not even shying away from a booty-shaking, tongue-in-cheek remake of her cover version of 'warm leatherette'. geneviéve pasquier’s emotive, alluringly distanced croon takes center-stage on the live tracks, a manifesto of female fortitude, confident and unique.

More than a treat for the fanboys, 'live one' is a convincing and coherent compilation, drawing from the past and pointing towards the future (even though those categories are void in the geneviéve pasquier universe), and if there’s a 'live one' you may also hope for a number two.

tracklist:

1. the [law-rah] collective: 1

2. cinema perdu: 2

3. cinema perdu: 3

4. the [law-rah] collective & cinema perdu: 4

5. the [law-rah] collective: 5

release date: 09.june.2016

In our lives we meet various people and we get to spend some quality time with a couple of them. depending on who we spend our time with and in what state of mind the time together is spent, we talk about friendship. and the more honest and unconditional this friendship is, the more it adds to the quality of our respective lives.

It's a rare thing when you meet someone and right from the first moment you know you add to each others lives. it only happens a few times - and maybe not even that often - but we have all been there and we all recognize those moments; as well as the people it concerns. and yes, those times bring back a warm and fuzzy feeling.

But then there are the many ways a friendship can end: a wrongfully interpreted word, a misunderstood thought, incompatible visions or simply because it started to cost more energy then it gave back. as incomprehensible a friendship can begin, it can also end.

Sadly there are also true and deep friendships that have never ended, even when said friend has left this dimension. the feeling that we're left with is just about the worst feeling ever...
With 'invocation' the [law-rah] collective and cinema perdu present a split album with personal views and interpretations of the emptiness that remains. finding closure in a process of grief. not the most happy of feelings, but it's a feeling we all recognize, an emotion we can all relate to and maybe the one thing we all have problems with giving it a place in our lives.

The process of composing, writing, producing and finishing 'invocation' has helped us seeing things in perspective again after loosing loved ones.

'invocation' - simply to have that final conversation, to share that final drink, or just to say you care...

Newly signed to Play It Again Sam at the tail end of last year, FEWS are pleased to announce news of their debut album MEANS on 20th May 2016. Coming into view last summer with the single ILL – an eight-minute sonic rollercoaster courtesy of Dan Carey’s Speedy Wundergound imprint, FEWS then marked their debut for Play It Again Sam with The Zoo. Inhabiting a musical landscape that evokes a post-punk legacy, one that continues to evolve and thrill and one that has already seen The Zoo afforded playlist status at 6 Music is merely a taster of what’s to come.

The Swedish / US quartet have been swift in getting things off the ground, 2016 has already seen a series of rapturously received live shows. Intermingled with their own live shows, the band have also accompanied the likes of Fat White Family and Money in Europe whilst the UK has seen them traversing the country as guests for Bloc Party and the recent sold out Spring King tour.

100 Goosebumps reveals another side to this multi-national four-piece, a swath of pulsating guitar backed with a metronomic backbeat, almost three minutes of perfect symmetry that has already proven to be a live highlight and destined to be a festival favourite this summer.

13/07 LIVE @ Dour Festival

The Swedish duo Invoke The Insult is the exaltation of the best electro-industrial / EBM art, simultaneously oldschool-newschool oriented. Jonas & Klas create an attractive, danceable and dynamic technological sound, through equipments capable of expressing the maximum emphasis, which will lead the listener into a pure and rational electronic dimension.

Aggressive, obscure and acidic vocals, hypnotic drum-programming, punctuations of sequencers and alienating keyboards are the peculiarities of the thirteen songs included in the great album entitled “You Can Trust”, with which Invoke The Insult wish to state once and for all their authority and obtain important credits among the fans.

Distinction, talent and hard determination are the elements that will act as propellant to this amazing project, establishing an intense contact with your body and your senses: the effects will be indescribable.