The hip-hop/R&B power couple re-team with Mike WiLL.

Ciara has enlisted beau Future and producer du jour Mike WiLL Made It for ‘Where You Go’; the three last worked together on the Ghost Town DJ-sampling smash ‘Body Party’.

The starry eyed song finds the producer applying his synth-and-bass formula in service of major key dance pop without sacrificing the syrupy grooves and all-encompassing bass of his finest productions. It looks like that Miley Cyrus collaboration was a sign of things to come.

Listen to ‘Where You Go’ below. Ciara’s self-titled fifth album is now set for release on July 5.

The Louisiana upstart flips Keef’s latest effort.

On the latest leak off his Stranger Than Fiction mixtape, Kevin Gates takes the beat from Chief Keef’s ‘Macaroni Time’ for a ride. The synth-heavy track, produced by teenaged beatsmiths Dirty Vans and Vince Carter, is well-suited for the heart-on-sleeve Autotune addict. It goes without saying that Gates is also a more skilled technician than Chief Keef (‘Hold My Liquor’ aside), and he raps circles around the drill star while keeping things light (“Nintendo Wiiii”).

Listen to ’100it Gang (Marijuana Time)’ below. His last release, ‘Roaming Around’, was tackled by the Singles Club, and he’s one of FACT’s rappers to watch.

The Bristol legend mines Instagram for his latest video.

The video for ‘Hey Love’ is comprised of thousands of images that were shared with Tricky after an online request for images inspired by the lyrics and mood of the lovelorn song, which features the lilting vocals of Francesca Belmonte.

‘Hey Love’ appears on False Idols, Tricky’s best-in-a-decade new album. Tricky was forced to reschedule a tour due to visa issues. However, he recently sat down with FACT TV (part one and part two) and has been frequently featured in our Talking Heads series.

We are the µ-Ziq makers.

It’s been way too long since the last solo album from Planet Mu boss and veritable electronic music survivor Mike Paradinas (six years to be exact), but now we finally get to hear his long awaited new opus. It’s quite surprising too – a long way from the hiccuping fast edits and corrosive breaks of his earlier ‘drill ‘n bass’ material, Chewed Corners is a remarkably more cinematic affair.

Paradinas appears to be taking a leaf out of fellow Mu veteran Kuedo’s book and looking to Vangelis’s Blade Runner OST for influence, and that’s no bad thing at all – just check the thick, doomy synth-laden textures on ‘Christ Dust’ for proof. It’s not all doom and gloom though, Paradinas’ unshakable zany streak is present throughout, and by the time we reach the album’s final track ‘Weakling Paradinas’ we may as well be in Ibiza. [via XLR8R]

JJ DOOM get the royal treatment with this new video from street artist Steve ‘ESPO’ Powers.

Still exiled in London, mysterious rapper DOOM took advantage of his location in this fresh video for album cut ‘Bookhead’, trawling around a local corner shop (or bodega to our US readers) and ending up in a used book store. The track was chopped from 2012 collaborative album with producer Jneiro Jarel Key To The Kuffs, but it’s the video that wins out here, especially when DOOM hijacks the bodega’s fisheye mirror and uses it as a replacement mask. We can only imagine how difficult that was for the camera crew.

FACT recently had Oli Marlow rustle up a guide to The Essential… MF DOOM, and if you’re wondering about the status of the long delayed Madvillainy 2 (DOOM’s collaboration with LA beatmaker Madlib), you might be disheartened to read that it “probably won’t happen”.

The strangest video you’ll see today, complete with twerking, body horror, and a piñata full of hot dogs.

The video for Miley Cyrus’ ‘We Can’t Stop’ is what happens when a teen pop star makes a hip-hop party video in the age of Tim and Eric. Directed by video veteran Diane Martel, the clip features a scantily-clad Cyrus toying with a few hip-hop tropes (grills, twerking) and some out-there imagery, from taxidermied animals wearing jewelry to a skull made of french fries.

See for yourself below. The controversy-courting single was reviewed by the FACT Singles Club, who alternately called it a “dead-eyed ode to MDMA written by people who don’t appear to have taken any” and “kind of like a ‘Glee’ version of what rave music might be like.”

The video will reunite the Lost Highway collaborators.

The video for Nine Inch Nails’ comeback single ‘Came Back Haunted’ will be directed by David Lynch, according to Pitchfork; NIN mastermind Trent Reznor produced the soundtrack for Lynch’s 1997 film Lost Highway. Reznor just tweeted a photo of himself and the legendary director with the caption “tr;dl” (below).

‘Came Back Haunted’ will appear on Hesitation Marks, due out on September 3, and received a middle-of-the-road score by FACT’s Singles Club. The album will be followed by a huge tour, the band’s first since 2009. For his part, Lynch will release “modern blues” album The Big Dream on July 16.

Read our alternate history of Reznor’s career, and watch the Mark Romanek-directed video for Lost Highway‘s ‘The Perfect Drug’ below.

Dominick Fernow massively reconfigures the Order of Noise standout.

The propulsive ‘Court Of Lions’ appears on Vessel’s debut solo album for Tri Angle Records, Order of Noise. On his remix of the track, Hospital Productions’ Dominick Fernow (under his Prurient alias) strips away the layers of clattering percussion to reveal something ambient and — apart from a minute of the colossal noise for which he is known — soothing.

Stream the remix below. Earlier this year, Prurient released Through The Window on Blackest Ever Black, and he will tour the US with Godflesh this October. Read Angus Finlayson’s review of Order of Noise, which he described as a “meaty, satisfying listen.”

Atlanta’s brightest hope is back.

Rome Fortune‘s Beautiful Pimp mixtape is still one of our favourite drops this year, so much so that FACT featured the Atlanta rapper in our recent Hip-Hop in 2013… For Dummies feature. Now he’s back with a brand new track, and with a beat from Ethereal (note: his name’s a big clue to his style), Rome is back on point dropping his characteristic rhymes over some seriously smoky electronic goodness.

There are few other rappers right now that have managed to capture the essence of the ailing cloud rap sound without dropping into the scene’s tired tropes – Rome has managed to not only crack this, but he’s chiseled down Atlanta’s hard-edged sound in the process. [via Steady Leanin']