The Glaswegian multimedia artist shares his first short film.

Konx-om-Pax is the alias of Tom Scholefield, an artist who has released music on Planet Mu (last year’s Regional Surrealism) and has helped define the visual aesthetic of Hyperdub, Brainfeeder and LuckyMe with his design work.

Scholefield wore all the hats in the creation of Under The Bridge, a short film that he directed, animated, edited, and sound designed. Two young men encounter (and flee) an incandescent construct of skulls, reminiscent of the neon-coated, deep space creature that he animated for Lone’s Galaxy Garden trailer.

Watch the short film below. Last year, FACT spoke with Scholefield about life on the margins, getting bottled and the enduring power of Boards Of Canada (a prescient conversation, on that last note).

A slice of Detroit arrives in London on Saturday May 25.

Well this is just a bit exciting, London’s Make Me have scored a rare appearance from Detroit house legend Marcellus Pittman. Known for his slew of releases on Theo Parrish‘s Sound Signature and Omar-S‘s FXHE, Pittman is also a member of the spine-chillingly important 3 Chairs alongside Parrish, Moodyman, and The Rotating Assembly’s Rick Wilhite.

Support will be coming from Make Me residents Rubin, Rupe and Nic Baird. Needless to say, this night is going to be more than essential, and tickets are strictly limited so it’s worth booking earlier rather than later.

For more information and tickets head here.

FACT’s favorite Canadian shares his latest collection of originals.

Last week, Hemsworth teased the Still Awake EP with the gossamer dance-pop of ‘Perfectly’. Now, he’s released the entire seven-track EP (including a remix by Tokyo producer Taquwami) for free. Head to his website to download the EP, or use this alternate link. The cover art and tracklisting follow.

Later this month, Hemsworth will embark on the One Man Boy Band tour. In February, FACT TV spoke with him about his next album, his forthcoming EP with Deniro Farrar and whether there’s such thing as “selling out” in 2013.

01 Empty Thoughts Over A Shallow Ocean
02 Perfectly
03 03 (｡◕‿◕｡) (or, I Want To Stare At Your Face Until I Die)
04 Mistakes To Make
05 track 5 (crashed)
06 All Our Thoughts Are Physical
07 Perfectly (Taquwami Remix)

Trap back.

Bandcamp might have a reputation as something of an indie outpost, but it seems like even slightly crazed Atlanta rappers see the business model as being workable. Gucci Mane‘s latest album Trap House III (billed as Gucci’s final ‘trap’ record) was just released via the digital distribution network, and while the rapper is no stranger to putting music online (we’ve had countless mixtapes this year already) it’s the first time a ‘proper’ album of his has made its debut online.

Weirdly the album still isn’t available on iTunes, and Gucci himself Tweeted that “It must be a conspiracy”. We’re not sure about that, when you push your album forward a couple months, we’d assume that this stuff can happen pretty easily.

You can hear the album below and purchase it from Bandcamp. [via RapRadar]

Boards of Canada will premiere new music on BBC Radio 1 tonight, between 7pm-9pm UK time.

The music – which we presume will be the full version of the track that was premiered yesterday at a Tokyo junction – will be broadcast on Zane Lowe’s show. The same show broadcast one of the six codes that led up to the announcement of Tomorrow’s Harvest, the first Boards of Canada album since 2005′s The Campfire Headphase, and one of the year’s most hyped albums.

You can read up on the impressive campaign leading up to Tomorrow’s Harvest here, and read FACT writers debate its merits here.

Chillwave, is that you?

Still probably best known for contributing the memorable theme to Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s comedy sketch show Portlandia, Washed Out (aka Ernest Greene) has now announced his highly anticipated second album. Produced by Ben Allen, who produced the album’s predecessor Within or Without, Paracosm will be appearing on the Sub Pop label on August 13.

From the sounds of the trailer (which you can view below) it feels like Greene is attempting to take his dusty chillwave to the next level, adding a Technicolor sense of Widescreen through samples that sound as if they’ve been pulled from the reels of aging Disney movies.

Apparently the producer used around fifty instruments (including the tape-loop-based Mellotron) on top of his usual collection of samples, so there’s definitely a sense that Paracosm will be somewhat bigger budget than what we’re used to from Washed Out. It’s certainly not lo-fi any more. [via Pitchfork]

Boya Dee, a.k.a. Boya DeeMarko, of grime collective Nu Brand Flexxx, became an unlikely celebrity when his eye-witness Twitter account of yesterday’s savage attack in Woolwich, London was quoted by pretty much every newspaper going.

Good on Boya Dee then, for turning down some substantial sums of money to sell his story – a story which he had every right to sell, really – to the press. “Apologies to all the news reporters I ignored (including you Jon Snow) but I really do not have anything else to say on the matter”, Boya Tweeted today.

“Since the incident occurred, I’ve been offered up to £75k from media outlets for my story. I’ve turned them all down. This story is not about ME And doesn’t need to be sensationalised anymore by me selling my story for a few bucks.”

“Finally”, he concludes, “all u folk who gave out my number for a few hundred quid have officially been taken off my christmas card list!”. You can read Boya’s account of yesterday’s attack further down his Twitter feed.

Continuing our hard-hitting investigation into the tawdry world of catastrophic fan body art.

For a few months about a year ago, you couldn’t move for terrible fanboy tats and trims: the girl with the Skrillex chest ink, the man with the Drake-fro, and Yelawolf’s supremely ill-advised Johnny and June Cash tribute all indelibly etched onto our brains. Then, after a lull, came the worst of the bunch: step forward the Thom Yorke nipple tattoo.  

The latest tat-rocity comes to our attention via drill anti-hero Chief Keef’s Twitter account (which, after that infamous blowie image, has become a go-to for eye-melting images). The rapper posted an image of a fan’s full-back Chief Keef tattoo, rather awkwardly headed with his birth name Keith Cozart. We’re not sure how to best describe the image in mere words: a cross between Lando Calrissian and an incubus? Rick James doing an impression of a gremlin? A chiuhaha being gobbled by an Ood? View the image above, then have a lie-down. [via Complex]

Party like the sun’s shining at Shoreditch’s Village Underground on June 22.

Influential French label Kitsuné are bringing their hugely successful Club Night back to London this summer, and line-up is making us think there might even be some sunshine to go along side it (we should be so lucky). Headed up by acclaimed Norwegian nu-disco pioneer Lindstrøm, the list goes from strength to strength with appearances from Kitsuné veterans Gildas & Jerry Bouthier, LA disco rockers Classixx, fidgety Kitsuné faves Punks Jump Up and fresh Gallic talent Pyramid.

Phew, it might be a pretty long list of names, but knowing Kitsuné they’ll make sure it’s a blissful affair, and promising to bring the sun, sea and sounds to grey old Shoreditch you’ve got to hand it to ‘em – they’re doing the Lord’s work.

For more information and tickets head here.