Factory Floor’s Nik Colk Void shares the first and last records she bought and the one she always reaches for in an emergency…
FIRST
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Nirvana
‘Bleach’
(Sub Pop, 1989)
“The album and the T-shirt came with me on a school trip to Florence. It was introduced to me by some older skater friends in my step-brother’s year. ‘Nevermind’ had already happened, but ‘Bleach’ represented me much better at that time. I couldn’t get enough of the raw noisy energy, the heavy repetitive bass riffs and metal drums. I could sing along and have a shoegaze nod at the same time.”
LAST
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Donato Dozzy
‘Filo Loves The Acid’
(Tresor, 2018)
“Distinctive genres seep heavy in the synth world, acid house being one of them. Italian artist Donato Dozzy was the last record I bought. Before he became a producer of music he was a DJ, so he has a deep understanding of that transcendental mind state which, I felt, was essential when writing with Factory Floor. In a dance audience, or with musicians performing together, when you feel it and unite at the same time, then you know it’s right.”
ALWAYS
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I-LP-O In Dub
‘Communist Dub’
(Editions Mego, 2015)
“I can listen to Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen’s records again and again, but this one in particular. Bending dub as a technique to a more pragmatic sensibility rather than using it as a genre. Interesting patterns emerge, wet discordant sounds, humanistic in content, but with no voice, just machines and air. Simple but I’m forever hearing something different every time.”