I really love this band. If you like Giorgio Moroder and Suicide and PC&L era New Order, you probably will too.
Here's an Optimo remix of their forthcoming thinghttp://soundcloud.com/thequietus/factory-floor-r-e-a-l-l-o-v-e
Live
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Friday, 25 February 2011 05:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
do we have to?
― racing up the fuck charts (electricsound), Friday, 25 February 2011 05:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Friday, 25 February 2011 05:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
well anyway i have personal and not nec. entirely rational reasons for really, really disliking them but i should probably keep that to myself
― racing up the fuck charts (electricsound), Friday, 25 February 2011 05:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
my eternal undying jocking of all things optimo is going to make it tough for me to appreciate them objectively
but do spill, electricsound
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 25 February 2011 06:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
well anyway i have personal and not nec. entirely rational reasons for really, really disliking them
Enigmatic isn't the word for it.
Anyway, fwiw, they're my favourite live band of the last three years and in the 30 odd times I've seen them, I've seen them do at least four of the best gigs I've ever been to. I was at that Offset Festival show, which was one of the harshest they played with strobes going all the way through a fearsome version of Lying. There were people hitting the floor through it... people being led out of the tent literally frothing at the mouth.
Even if you end up hating them, I'd take a punt on watching them if you can. I'd put their best shows up there with seeing PE in the 80s, seeing the Chemical Brothers at the Hacienda, watching a good Slayer show... I totally get why people don't like them but for me, live, it's currently the perfect synthesis of acid house, noise and (old school) industrial.
― Chap With Wings... Five Rounds Rapid (Doran), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Scroll down to the factory floor bit of this supersonic review and there's a player with a live set of theirs on it.
It wasn't even a blinding gig by their standards but it should give you more of an idea than the odds and sods that they've released on vinyl.
― Chap With Wings... Five Rounds Rapid (Doran), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Why don't people like them?
What I've heard so far has been excellent.
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
(R E a L L O V E) single is out now on vinyl and apparently has been out digitally for like a month. It's weird -- if you were to play me the two tracks blind and ask me which is the original and which is the remix, I wouldn't be sure. Anyway, both are v.v. good.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Monday, 4 April 2011 06:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you acquired it where I did, be careful of the remix. There's a version floating around with two identical tracks. The Quietus had a proper version of the remix posted a month or two ago, and it's really quite different (slower tempo, more noise).
Great single, anyway!
― Millsner, Monday, 4 April 2011 09:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Both sides are up on Spotify btw
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 4 April 2011 09:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
there was a cock up by the people who distributed the digital version and they put the original version on twice instead of the remix. the remix IS very different.
http://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/factory-floor-r-e-a-l-l-o-v-e
― stirmonster, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Any more? I like this band
― Jung Danjah (admrl), Thursday, 18 August 2011 01:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, I will put my hand up as to liking them. Saw them live by accident, too, supporting Chris Cunningham. (Which was actually an awful show, it was way overcrowded and I had a panic attack and had to leave two songs into CC's set, but FF were very good, very very early New Order in the best possible way.)
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 18 August 2011 09:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
what happened to these guys?
― Aceveda (admrl), Saturday, 18 August 2012 05:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
woah a year to the day that I last posted about them. crazy coinc
They've been playing a lot of festivals. I think they're recording with DFA maybe?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 18 August 2012 05:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay, i've never heard of these guys, but that optimo remix is badass. had to turn off the lights for that, instant favorite. live vid in the OP is maybe even better. moar.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 18 August 2012 06:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
can't really hear anything in the live vid but the loop, vocals and ride cymbal - with interruptions by guitar (if that really is the guitar). amazing anyway. like the noisy electro shit more than the goth/postpunk moves.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 18 August 2012 06:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
the 'two different ways' 12" was really fantastic. remises soon from richard h kirk and perc, iirc.
― wank lloyd fright (haitch), Saturday, 18 August 2012 07:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
so good live, think they're touring america soon
― jabba hands, Saturday, 18 August 2012 09:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Make an album.
― kraudive, Saturday, 18 August 2012 09:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Make an album.― kraudive, Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kraudive, Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^This.
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 18 August 2012 10:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
I remember seeing them two years ago at Field Day and pronouncing my exasperation at the lack of an album. What are they up to?
(The Carter Tutti Void album is awesome btw.)
― kraudive, Saturday, 18 August 2012 10:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Last I heard they have an album coming out on DFA early next year.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Saturday, 18 August 2012 17:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, that was mentioned in this Quietus story last month:
http://thequietus.com/articles/09342-factory-floor-dfa
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Saturday, 18 August 2012 17:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
There's also a new tour 12" of Two Different Ways with remixes from Perc and Richard H. Kirk.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Saturday, 18 August 2012 19:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
good look at what the drummer's up to
― contenderizer, Saturday, 18 August 2012 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
so is their name supposed to be a reference to New Order?
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 19 August 2012 02:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
the perc remix just took my head off:http://vimeo.com/46260437
― jabba hands, Monday, 20 August 2012 22:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
like the remixes, but miss the head-shearing harshness of the live stuff
― contenderizer, Monday, 20 August 2012 22:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
digging this collab between FF and...peter gordon!
coming out on optimo later this year. FF & PG also performing together at this ICA event next week: http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=34383&bid=101
― jabba hands, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
That was really lovely!
I do wish they'd stop eking stuff out slowly and put out some proper releases though.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
nice moment of synchronicity - was playing Time of the Last Persecution by Bill Fay when I opened this thread, and then these lyrics from 'I Hear You Calling' came on:
I hear you calling from the riverbankI will be coming when the air is blackAll my time is lying on the factory floorAnd all my time is lying on the factory floor
Some say messiah coming got to get it rightSome say messiah coming give me back my timeAll my time is lying on the factory floorAnd all my time is lying on the factory floor
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
nik void did a pretty great album with chris & cosey this year
― sisilafami, Friday, 7 September 2012 01:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
Kinda think they're doing it the right way! Big release will just attract loads of nonsense. They're working with some great people and getting attention from all the places I'd imagine they'd want attention from. They keep putting out good things. As mentioned upthread that recent Perc remix is woahhh
― Crackle Box, Friday, 7 September 2012 10:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
They keep putting good things out that are so scattered it's really difficult to get enough of a chunk of their material to listen to them, when I'm in the mood to listen to them. Which would be a lot more often if there were, because they are great.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 7 September 2012 13:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://riotofperfume.com/3215/swans-and-why-a-continent-has-sunk-into-musical-myopia/
^^^ This is the most Quietus thing ever written and is so pompous its made me want to hate them. Maybe it shows FF up for the nostalgia they are, but most of what I've heard has been pretty good, if hardly earth shattering.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jesus christ that review was just straight up bullshit - or at least the little I managed to wade through. Did they come to a point eventually? My eyeballs gave up in disgust. If I wanted to read yet another "Americans drive like this, Britishers drive like this..." ramble I'd reread the tipping thread, thanks.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 7 September 2012 18:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
nice
https://soundcloud.com/factory-floor/fall-back-1
I still listen to Two Different Ways constantly
― dmr, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
― Gukbe, Saturday, 12 January 2013 03:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
fall back is probably my fav song of 2013 so far
― flopson, Monday, 22 April 2013 16:00 (1 month ago) Permalink