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If FACT TV has taught us one thing, its that our readers (or, erm, viewers) like to see how musicians make things.

Egyptian Lover playing his Roland TR-808 live through a hotel alarm clock is the most popular episode we

New London grime night Boxed returns this Friday, May 24, at Brixton’s Plan B.

Focused on the current wave of promising grime producers – and there are a lot of them, check Boxed resident Slackk’s monthly mixes for proof – and firmly repping South London despite a recent excursion to Shoreditch’s Plastic People, this edition of Boxed will feature residents Slackk, Mr. Mitch, Logos and Oil Gang – recently picked as one of our labels to watch in 2013 – alongside Flex FM DJ Grandmixxer.

You can check out full details of the night, plus win a competition to blag guestlist, vinyl and more, here.

Some tidbits from Nile Rodgers‘ talk at the International Music Summit in Ibiza have come trickling in through Twitter this morning. 

The most interesting of them refer to Rodgers’ future collaborations. Following his work on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, including the #1 single ‘Get Lucky’, Rodgers – who in the past has worked with the likes of David Bowie, Diana Ross and Peter Gabriel – has been in the studio with EDM poster boy Avicii, Rodgers describing him as “one of my favorite songwriting partners I’ve had in a long time. I have so much respect for him.”

Avicii has clearly been taking inspiration from the collaborators on Random Access Memories – it emerged earlier this week that he’s also been working with Giorgio Moroder. Also in the pipeline for Nile: a session with fast-rising UK duo Disclosure, and work with Chase & Status, Etienne Daho and David Guetta. Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Rodgers revealed that earlier this week he was “with David Guetta writing a song [they've also been having lunch meetings together]. It was unbelievable, we went until 2 in the morning, and Arthur Baker and Taylor Dayne popped by – it felt like it was if we were back in the ’80s. And we laughed and said,

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Here’s some intriguing news regarding this summer’s biggest “musical by a pair of middle-aged men” that seems to have slipped under the radar in the last week. 

As evidenced by everything from those fawning Collaborators clips through to its atavistic lyric sheet, Random Access Memories is an instrumental record through-and-through; out with computers, in with analogue kit and good honest fretwork. As MTV note, however, Messrs Bangalter and de Homem-Christo haven’t completely given up on the club producer model.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1′s Pete Tong at the start of the week, the pair revealed that they’ll be producing their own remixes of RAM tracks in the coming months. According to Bangalter, this will mark the pair’s first proper excursion into the selfie remix:

“We’re working on some mixes ourselves. So, yes, there will probably be Daft Punk mixes of Daft Punk. Usually, we never mix ourselves, that’s something we feel we’re interested in doing this time.”

The first track the pair will tackle is ‘Get Lucky’; according to Ba...

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We were very pleased when we heard the first single from Bristolian Hyetal’s new album Modern Worship (out 3 July), the excellent Northwest Passage. Now he’s given us not one, but TWO great new tunes from the record, the bouncy, computerised Jam The Network and the similarly digitally busy Moving Statues:

Following a successful outing in 2012, the Independent Label Market will return to London for another whirlwind of trading, bartering and digging. 

Unlike your regular garden variety record fair, the Independent Label Market invites bosses and high-rankers from a slew of independent labels to sell their goods direct to the public. Previous years have seen the likes of R&S, 4AD, Domino, XL and Warp offering an assortment of new, vintage and rare records.

The fifth London edition of the event will take place on Saturday July 13 at Spitalfield’s Market. Over 50 labels have been confirmed, with more yet to be announced. Posters, audio equipment, screen prints, and other assorted paraphernalia for music enthusiasts will also be available to buy on the ground.

In a new development for the project, the event has been partnered with the East End Live music festival. The new one-dayer will feature performances from Charles Hayward, The Monochrome Set, Toy, East India Youth and more

The initial list of participating labels has been announced, and is included below. Head here for further information.

Participants:
4AD
Angular
Because
Bella Union
Big Dada
Brownswood
Caught By The River
Chess Club
Critical Heights
Dead O...

The Casady sisters are back to divide opinion and elicit a wide range of facial expressions with their first album since 2010's Grey Oceans, Tales of a GrassWidow.

Firstly, let's address most critics' main gripe with CocoRosie and talk about the vocals. They're odd and wildly changeable; one minute toddler, the next shrill belter, the next angelic chorister. It's not like versions of these haven't been heard, enjoyed and celebrated in other acts - Björk and Joanna Newsom are frequent comparisons - but there is something that doesn't sit quite right with CocoRosie, at least not on a first listen. And what that something is, from a listener's perspective, is suspicion.

Joanna Newsom's vocals have lost and gained her admirers in equal measure, but there has never been any doubt that they're sincere, and she was consistent and fascinating within them (until her perhaps inevitable vocal issues and consequent softening). Björk sings with her genuine Icelandic accent - who actually enjoys a fake accent? - about cutlery and balls of yarn and it's fine because it's not forced. She's delightfully mad and it's part of what makes her such a dynamic and fiercely exciting songwriter and live performer.

But with CocoRosie, it comes across as too thought-out, placed, invented, and that can prevent the sisters from seeming like real people. They displace themselves from reality, and create too wide a gap between themselves, their creative...

Named after the artiest porn film ever short, Behind the Green Door sees New Yorker Laurel Halo return to the beat-driven work of her earlier EPs on Hippos in Tanks. In contrast to the glassy ambience of lauded debut album Quarantine, Green Door finds the classically-trained producer dropping four intricate but bruising chunks of bass music, each of which takes Hyperdub

You don't have to make a classic album to make a good one. The Days Run Away, the second record from Sunderland's Frankie & The Heartstrings is never going to appear on a list beside Sgt Peppers and Nevermind, it's unlikely to be discussed by Andrew Collins and John Robb on Channel 4 clip shows, and it's probably not going to bother the top 10, though it certainly deserves to. That's not the kind of brilliant album - and it IS a brilliant album - this is. It's not going to change many lives or break many hearts, but crucially it is going to break some hearts, save a few lives, while it unshowily goes about its business of being the perfect twenty-first century indie pop record.

What The Days Run Away has in spades is charm, character, wit and heart. It's part of a grand tradition of beautifully balanced, honest indie and indie-pop that has its roots in the Eighties and The Smiths, Postcard records and C86, bloomed in the Nineties with the cuter end of Britpop and forged its own identity in the last decade or so thanks to the likes of Los Campisinos, Slow Club, Betty and the Werewolves and the Tender Trap. The kind of bands that come with hand drawn fanzines and and a reverential approach to? vinyl. The kind with the history of British alternative music stretching behind them like ghosts, the shades of Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler looking over their shoulder. In this case the latter is literally true, Butler hims...

Due to such enforced real-life distractions such as family commitments, holidays, Masters Applications and the likes of such things, this month