Fact Friday (16 July 2010)

Our Fact for this Friday is that 65 years ago the first nuclear weapon explosion took place during the Trinity Test.

And today we have some news nearly as unexpectedly important and monumental, 15 more Cloudcasts from Fact Mix Archive have been uploaded, taking it up to 130. (The pics are links to the Cloudcasts)

Now we’ll leave you with one of the highlights of this batch, the Autechre mix. The magazine described this mix as ‘unpredictable, kaleidoscopic affair, rooted in sinuous leftfield hip-hop but with bursts of tremulous ambient electronics, techno, hectic breakbeats and, at one particularly memorable point, metal.