#84 Feat. Staff Picks in Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern)

UK electro artist Emile Facey, aka Plant43, has built a discography totalling 10 albums and a slew of 12s on respected scene mainstays CPU, Frustrated Funk, Semantica, Shipwrec, Cultivated Electronics and Trust. Emile is admired by his peers for his unwavering support of electronic music as an artist, DJ and promoter. His productions have been supported by luminaries like DJ Stingray, Helena Hauff, Dave Clarke, Surgeon, Rodhad, Jane Fitz and Solid Blake and have been aired on BBC Radio 1s flagship Essential Mix, BBC Radio 6, Rinse FM, Threads, NTS and the Resident Advisor Podcast. Journalist Ben Murphy has called his style Intricate, melodic and bewitching while giving him a 9/10 review in DJ Mag. He is a regular guest at Berlins renowned techno club, Tresor, who released a recording of his live performance at their 34th anniversary event in March 2025, Londons FOLD and festivals across Europe. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his first release, Emile Facey presents Feeding the Machines, his fifth album on Plant43 Recordings and the culmination of his work to date. These ten tracks explore Emiles passion for electro, drum and bass and techno. Of Feeding The Machines Emile said: I love a precise, machine-made sound but with this album I wanted to foreground the human so I recorded multiple passes of phrases from hardware synths, each one capturing my physical movements in real time. The slight differences in each layer creates this organic texture to the tracks, giving it a looseness or imperfection. Humans are weird and its that unpredictability that makes us interesting.Juno said: Feeding The Machines is full of signature excellence, from the lithe rhythms of Information Decay to the jittery drums and introspective chords of Anthropomorphic Algorithms via the dark, hurried urgency of the paranoid Absolute Inertia. This is another long player that is as adventurous as it is emotive and cinematic.

Plant43

#89 Feat. Staff Picks in Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern)

UK electro artist Emile Facey, aka Plant43, has built a discography totalling 10 albums and a slew of 12s on respected scene mainstays CPU, Frustrated Funk, Semantica, Shipwrec, Cultivated Electronics and Trust. Emile is admired by his peers for his unwavering support of electronic music as an artist, DJ and promoter. His productions have been supported by luminaries like DJ Stingray, Helena Hauff, Dave Clarke, Surgeon, R?dhad, Jane Fitz and Solid Blake and have been aired on BBC Radio 1s flagship Essential Mix, BBC Radio 6, Rinse FM, Threads, NTS and the Resident Advisor Podcast. Journalist Ben Murphy has called his style Intricate, melodic and bewitching while giving him a 9/10 review in DJ Mag. He is a regular guest at Berlins renowned techno club, Tresor, who released a recording of his live performance at their 34th anniversary event in March 2025, Londons FOLD and festivals across Europe. Reflection | Reaction is a trilogy of EPs written by Plant43 over the course of winter 2022/23, the first in the series marking the 10th release and third anniversary for the artists Plant43 Recordings label. Over the course of twelve tracks and over an hour of new music Emile Facey takes the listener on an emotional journey through the frosty depths of winter and into the warm sunlight of spring.

Plant43

#93 Feat. Staff Picks in Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern)

UK electro artist Emile Facey, aka Plant43, has built a discography totalling 10 albums and a slew of 12s on respected scene mainstays CPU, Frustrated Funk, Semantica, Shipwrec, Cultivated Electronics and Trust. Emile is admired by his peers for his unwavering support of electronic music as an artist, DJ and promoter. His productions have been supported by luminaries like DJ Stingray, Helena Hauff, Dave Clarke, Surgeon, R?dhad, Jane Fitz and Solid Blake and have been aired on BBC Radio 1s flagship Essential Mix, BBC Radio 6, Rinse FM, Threads, NTS and the Resident Advisor Podcast. Journalist Ben Murphy has called his style Intricate, melodic and bewitching while giving him a 9/10 review in DJ Mag. He is a regular guest at Berlins renowned techno club, Tresor, who released a recording of his live performance at their 34th anniversary event in March 2025, Londons FOLD and festivals across Europe. Interlinked is the fifth release on Emile Faceys new imprint, however the title track was originally written just after the UKs EU referendum in 2016. Having forged many strong musical ties with other European countries over many years, the UKs vote to leave the EU left him feeling disconnected and saddened. Now that the UK has left the EU and musicians try to navigate the impact on electronic music, a culture that thrives on being completely interlinked he felt it was time to release this track that expresses that sadness but also conveys some hope for a future in which music can connect us all again. The driving urgency of Ancient Voice follows, future electro designed to move dance floors when they return. Closing track The Silent Flock is a slower, more contemplative expression of discovery and hope.

Plant43

#102 Feat. Staff Picks in Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern)

2025-08-01 Fanzine

Plant43, Umwelt, Bombyx Blow, Robert Cosmic, Slit Observers