Let's talk about Factory Floor

my eternal undying jocking of all things optimo is going to make it tough for me to appreciate them objectively

but do spill, electricsound

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.

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.

Why don't people like them?

What I've heard so far has been excellent.

(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.

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!

Both sides are up on Spotify btw

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

Any more? I like this band

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.)

what happened to these guys?

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?

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.

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.

the 'two different ways' 12" was really fantastic. remises soon from richard h kirk and perc, iirc.

so good live, think they're touring america soon

Make an album.

Make an album.

― kraudive, Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^This.

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.)

Last I heard they have an album coming out on DFA early next year.

Yeah, that was mentioned in this Quietus story last month:

http://thequietus.com/articles/09342-factory-floor-dfa

There's also a new tour 12" of Two Different Ways with remixes from Perc and Richard H. Kirk.

good look at what the drummer's up to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJzMvsUuGl4

so is their name supposed to be a reference to New Order?

the perc remix just took my head off:
http://vimeo.com/46260437

like the remixes, but miss the head-shearing harshness of the live stuff

digging this collab between FF and...peter gordon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskM0V2OkYM

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

That was really lovely!

I do wish they'd stop eking stuff out slowly and put out some proper releases though.

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 riverbank
I will be coming when the air is black
All my time is lying on the factory floor
And all my time is lying on the factory floor

Some say messiah coming got to get it right
Some say messiah coming give me back my time
All my time is lying on the factory floor
And all my time is lying on the factory floor

nik void did a pretty great album with chris & cosey this year

I do wish they'd stop eking stuff out slowly and put out some proper releases though.

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

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.

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.

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.

nice

https://soundcloud.com/factory-floor/fall-back-1

I still listen to Two Different Ways constantly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YkjMeKZcA8

fall back is probably my fav song of 2013 so far

album in september!!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=20189

super psyched. these guys are great.

nice

their earlier stuff is pretty hot too, all basically sounds the same

album in september!!

now October ... digital in September if you pre-order. why are records $28 a pop now though. ugh.

http://store.dfarecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/dfa2392

this is cool too. Daniel Avery - Drone Logic (Factory Floor Gabe Gurnsey Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RcHOiUYrk

the other week I found a copy of their debut single for 50p. http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=1612344&ev=rb It'd probably be worth quite a bit if someone hadn't written in all of the numbered boxes on the sleeve.

to be fair the packaging on the new LP looks pretty elaborate and cool

Probably an obvious point but: the bass on Two Different ways

Did we talk about Beachcombing anywhere? 'Cos it's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJEAfSJH60

Oh shit it's posted on this thread. I can't read.

Can't wait to hear the album. It got a lukewarm review in The Wire (not that I'm taking much more note of the review than that)

This album is great!!!

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/216819962/first-listen-factory-floor-factory-floor

someone had to say it

This is certainly a difficult record but it's winning me over. The singer was in KaitO, a real good guitar band from about 10 years ago.

I don't know, I tried with this but I think they're really boring. Just flat, one dimensional, seemingly using a lot of presets. To say it quickly runs out of steam would be an understatement. They barely seem to be trying by the end of the album.

this album is probably good in some way

obviously a little biased here as i put it out but "beachcombing" with peter gordon never ceases to take me to strange and bewitching places. i really hope they do another collaboration with him.

i'm still undecided about the album but that's partly because i don't really engage with albums very much. however, "how you say" blows me away and sounds monolithically great on a dancefloor.

"how you say" is the highlight for me too by some distance.

Doran, I was at the quietus show but had to leave just as they started cos of the last train. Really regret it

Not sure what "presets" you get on drum kits, guitars and home built modular synths tbh.

I found the album a bit of a bummer at first. Having been a cheerleader of theirs for a few years, I was pretty underwhelmed initially but I've got to say I love it now. I get the impression that a lot of people I've seen moaning about this album on tQ or DiS or wherever (not here) seem to be disappointed because they didn't turn in some indie friendly dance thing that sounded like F*** Bvttons meets Cut Copy or whatever. This album is pretty severe and works in the same way that a lot of minimal music works... loud, on drugs, on the stereo when you're not doing anything else, in a club, driving... I can't think of a worse album to have on shitty PC speakers at work or in the background while you're doing something else.

However, out of all of my favourite albums of this year so far, this is the one where I have most sympathy with people who hate it. I totally get why they do.

man i pound this album, listen to it all the time

to the point that my bf is like "again? really?"

That should say "works well in the same settings under the same conditions that a lot of minimal music works well in/under..."

XP: Ha ha ha. Suck it up The Tune's BF.

Can anyone recommend a top 10 tracks?

All of their stuff sounds good to me but

Two Different Ways
Fall Back
How You Say

If you don't like those, give up, imo.

I think maybe a lot of the vaguely confused handwringing about this album has come about from like 18 months of weird awestruck hype from a certain kind of rock hack. Maybe you have to see them live to appreciate that kind of fervour but it always struck me as over the top. But as a result a lot of people were disappointed with this when it turned out to be "just" a collection of really good Carl Craig rips.

BTW anyone who was hoping this would turn out to be rockier/more EBM might get a lot out of the Gesaffelstein record, which I've been caning alongside this all week.

loved the live clips at the top of the thread. feral, chaotic, hypnotic and cool as hell. disappointed to hear them box it up in such a timid fashion.

I'm looking forward to seeing them live again soon when I guess they may let the noise rip a bit more, but I am not at all disappointed by the album. If you can't hear how it is hard (and clean) I just don't know. Turn it up. Hard and clean. Yum.

this is much better than i gave it credit for. thx kraudive for the listening instructions (LOUD def helps).

if u had to have some suggest u play this loud i don't even know

it was less loud before

Carl Craig and Laurel Halo remixes in two weeks!

Okay seriously they just played a 70+ minute set in support of a 53 minute album. Holy shit.

17 min cover of Louie Louie?

I swear they played "Fall Back" for like at least 12

That song rules

Wow, what. There are people who don't like this album. There are, in fact, Factory Floor fans who don't like this album? Huh.

That 'Drone Logic' remix upthread – well, someone else already said 'loud and clean' so I'll just restate that

I've often wanted something with the intensity of Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey that wasn't quite so try hard as that (by try-hard I mean, look at the title of the album); something like that, but that just went forward without huffling about in leather jackets and biker beards.

And also I wanted something avoided another pole, that boringness you get in a lot of generic techno and house these days. I mean, I'm sure plenty of things that hit this point exist and it's just me not knowing about them by Factory Floor just hit me as being the perfect improvement of both of these things.

Came to this band because I like Peter Gordon, but totally blindsided to learn that Nikki Colk wound up there. Always thought KaitO were severely underrated, and in no small part due to her vocals, so glad to see she ended up not disappearing.

Yes. KaitO were real good.

The tracks don't seem to shine individually but the album as a whole is a great listen.

#RelevantToMyInterests

http://www.factmag.com/2014/10/23/interpol-my-desire-factory-floor-remix/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FactMagazineMusicAndArt+%28FACT+magazine%3A+music+and+art%29

This has basically nothing to do with Interpol at all and sounds like Factory Floor hitting their Technique period slightly early? It's amazing, tho.

playing here in two weeks! Has anyone seen them recently?

Five weeks :( - you got my hopes up

you coming to BCN sic?

If you're in europe already there's this bespoke little festival

http://leguesswho.nl/

oh derp I thought you meant Melbourne

So I got the new one, 25 25. Reminds me of a lot of stuff on the Acid: Can You Jack comp, minimal as fuck (even compared to the first album).

Really loving this new album, relentless tracky and squelchy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JwY0ZBJxqik

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXu_-6-QQA

Well this is fucking fantastic.

ya

it's banging & only banging

http://diymag.com/2018/02/01/factory-floor-new-track-babel-listen-premiere

I'm listening to Gabe Gurnsey's solo lp right now and it's extremely satisfying.

First Nik Void solo album, Bucked Up Space, to be released in April on Editions Mego.

not sure. need to hear more.

The new Gabe Gurnsey album Diablo is wonderful, from what I've heard so far. Definitely the houseier side of the Factory Floor sound. Lead single Push is a banger.

Agree! It feels like New Order/Cabs comfort food, pretty similar to what LoneLady has been doing. The previous one was good, this one is better though I can't decide if I like the vocals or not.

push is so good