Factory Floor are back, expanded to a three piece, the core duo of Gabe Gurnsey and Nic Colk Void joined by Joe Ward and recording with New Order's Stephen Morris in Macclesfield. Factory Flor last released new material in 2018, Soundtrack For A Film, a modular synth workout for Metropolis, the 1927 Fritz Lang film that invented science fiction cinema. The new track, Between You, is an FF tour de force, industrial machine drumming, bleak synths, tumbling percussion and Nic Void's emotionless vocal. It's hypnotic and powerful, warehouse bodybeat party music. The video below was filmed at a live performance in Montreal last year, a blur of movement, limbs and percussion. You can get Between You digitally at Bandcamp (the 300 limited vinyl have all long gone). Hopefully there will be an album to follow.
Back in 2016 Factory Floor released an album called 25 25 on DFA. I loved it, a perfect collision of minimal repetitive machine music, Hacienda beats and stripped back vocals, acid house reduced to its bare bones with absolute precision.
Their 2018 re- imagined soundtrack to the silent film Metropolis is a joy, less mechanical than 25 25, the modular synths bringing a human edge to the machine rhythms. They played it live for the film's 90th anniversary at the Science Museum's IMAX in 2017. This track was a highlight...
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