LTJ Bukem has been making history since the start of the 1990s, both through the drum’n'bass producer’s DJ sets and classic singles (‘Atlantis’, ‘Horizons’, you know the rest).

Friend of FACT Rob Booth (of Electronic Explorations fame) alerted us this morning to an archive of well over 100 Bukem sets, all available to download for free, and showcasing Bukem in locations as exotic as Brighton Pier and Chambers Worchester. Invaluable? Yo bet.

Download: 175bpm.pl – LTJ Bukem mixes collection

Butter London nail varnish are getting involved with the Olympics in their own special way – by giving us the option to paint our nails in colours that suggest we’ve won something!

They have released a trio of new colours all metallic in nature and harking straight back to the medals that are all ready and waiting to be won by some lucky athlete come the Olympics.

The colours in the trio are The Full Monty (Gold of course), Diamond Geezer (silver) and The Old Bill (bronze).

We think the bronze is certainly our favourite.

Butter nail varnish is a new favourite in general as not only do we love the shape of the bottles and the fact that they have a lid on top of a lid so they never start to look all messy, they are also made without the shed load of chemicals that you find in most nail varnishes.

Butter London leave out Formaldehyde, Tolune, DBP (Phthalates), Paradens, Synthetic Fragrances, Petroleum, Bismuth and Sulphates.

All Butter varnishes are £12 and can be found at Harvey Nichols.

Installations by Jacob Hashimoto.

We hope you’re ready for a new shopping sensation because we’ve just heard about something that could change the way you shop forever. Facebook interactive hangers.

Let us explain. Basically C&A in Brazil (yeah, we didn’t realise C&A still existed either) have started using interactive hangers that are linked up to Facebook and allow you to see the number of people who have ‘liked’ that item online.

The idea is that it’ll make shopping dilemmas a thing of the past based on the idea that if we’re torn between two items we’ll probably choose the one which has had the most Facebook likes.

At the moment there’s no definite word on if the fad will trickle over into the UK but by all accounts it’s proving pretty popular in Brazil so it could well be something that we start seeing soon.

George Fitzgerald has worked his Scuba-sanctioned magic on a new track from Gang Colours.

FitzGerald has recently been earning his bread through releases on the Hotflush label, most notably last year’s Shackled EP. The London beatwreaker also helms the ManMakeMusic label, who have clocked up singles from Jack Dixon and Porto producer Trikk. His productions are situated on the house/dubstep faultline, the chill of the later mingling with the dynamism of the former. FitzGerald has now elected to remix the new single from groggy producer Gang Colours, available to stream for the first time below.

The original, taken from February’s The Keychain Collection, is a muted piano ballad, augmented with broken vocals and IDM fractals. FitzGerald’s take is much more red-blooded. Gang Colour’s croon is left fairly intact, but FitzGerald punches in supplementary layers of analogue synth and percussion. Before long, FitzGerald’s cooked up a shameless techno stomper.

‘To Repel Ghosts’ is due on June 4, courtesy of Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label.

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There’s only a week and a day left to go before the Men in Black return to the big screen with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones’ third film in the series, and we’ve been seeing plenty of great things in recent months that suggest it should be one that will please fans of the original two and newcomers alike.

We were at the UK premiere of the film last night, so be sure to check out on all our video interviews and photos straight from London.

Seven-time Oscar-winning special makeup effects artist, Rick Baker, has done a fantastic, mind-blowing job creating the aliens across all three films, and what we’ve seen so far would indicate he’s stepped things up to an even higher level in Men in Black III.

Sony Pictures have put out a great new featurette showing off some of Baker’s utterly impressive work to whet your appetites for the third film, and give you an idea of what kind of aliens we can look forward to arriving on the big screen next weekend.

“In Men in Black III, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back… in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K’s life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him — secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.”

Barry Sonnenfeld returns behind the camera, directing from a script written (in various stages) by Etan Cohen, David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio.

The brilliant Jemaine Clement is the one we can really look forward to seeing in alien makeup here as the film’s main antagonist, with Josh Brolin joining the franchise alongside Emma Thompson, Alice Eve, Bill Hader, and Nicole Scherzinger.

Men in Black III will be released in 3D next Friday, 25^th May, so only eight more days before we can see it all unfold in three dimensions. For now, your new featurette.

Source: ComingSoon.net.

Recent XLR8R podcast contributor Fantastic Mr. Fox has a new EP on the way shortly from Black Acre, and has shared one of its tunes ahead of that release.

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We’re not able to give you much background history for Wroclaw’s Slawek Czajkowski, but who needs the finer details when you’ve got copulating aliens, Satanic voyeurs and entire epic tales to distract you? Czaijkowski is in an element of his own when it comes to filling a canvas with one-frame narratives featuring characters you’d be more likely to find in some of the weirder episodes of The X Files.

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‘Right by My Side’, a highlight from Nicki Minaj’s extraordinary new album Roman Reloaded, has followed ‘Starships’ as the latest track from the record to receive a video.

Those who aren’t fans of serial smarm-box Chris Brown (so that’s, er, everybody last time we checked) will be pleased to know that the video’s vague premise is a battle between him and Nas for Minaj’s heart – and naturally the better man wins. Hopefully ‘The Don’ was what swung it.

The Smashing Pumpkins have an enormous back catalogue of music, they have sold more than 30 million albums and won multiple Grammy awards and they have no intention of stopping just yet.

The band have a new album coming out, Oceania and they have just unveiled this cover art for it. This will be Smashing Pumpkins 7th Studio album and will be out on the 19th June on Martha’s Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution.

The album cover image is a photograph taken by Richard Shay, son of Chicago legend Art Shay.

Oceania was recorded at singer/guitarist Billy Corgan’s private studio in Chicago with the rest of the band : guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne, and bassist/vocalist Nicole Fiorentino. The 13-song collection (full tracklisting below) was produced by Corgan and Bjorn Thorsrud (a frequent collaborator with both the Pumpkins and Zwan) and mixed by David Bottrill. As part of their 44-song work-in-progress, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Oceania is “an album within an album.”

Oceania Tracklisting:

Quasar
Panopticon
The Celestials
Violet Rays
My Love is Winter
One Diamond, One Heart
Pinwheels
Oceania
Pale Horse
The Chimera
Glissandra
Inkless
Wildflower

London venue Village Underground are constantly hosting the works of famous street artists and this week it’s been given a new lick of paint in the form of this new mural.

The mural was created to celebrate the launch of a new arts project by Dudebox, a company who create limited edition vinyl toys. Dudebox have teamed up with several artists including Ron English, Pete Fowler and Devilrobots to create limited edition toys that are beyond to become collectors pieces for anyone interested in that type of thing.

The new mural reads ‘In Style We Trust’ and can be seen on the side of the Village Underground building so make sure you go and check it out.

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Radio rip of recent Blawan tunes bangs hard.

As dubstep started to split into different strains around 2008, one of the most discussed was the “purple” sound of Bristolian artists Joker [above], Gemmy and Guido.

Heavily influenced by grime, video games and G-Funk, their synth-driven, woozy brand of funk was a breath of fresh air in the face of a genre that – for better or worse – was often synonymous with greyscale. Joker, of course, has gone from strength to strength in terms of his status and reputation, last year releasing his debut album The Vision on legendary label 4AD, while Guido perhaps remains the connoisseur’s choice: his debut album, Anidea, ranked high in FACT’s best of 2010 countdown.

Gemmy, despite the promise of early singles like ‘Bk 2 the Future’, hasn’t quite found that larger audience in the same way that Joker and Guido have. This year he started his own label, World of Wonders, which will follow its recent pair of Gemmy singles with a compilation charting the rise of him and his friends’ purple sound. Titled Purple Legacy – A History of Purple WoW, it’s 15 tracks long, and as you’d expect, features contributions from Joker, Guido and Gemmy himself.

No tracklist yet, but until we have that, remind yourselves of the early version of Joker’s sublime ‘Electric Sea’ below.

Off the back off the all-conquering Let England Shake, Polly Jean Harvey is now set to gift two new tracks to a forthcoming documentary film.

Two boxfresh Harvey songs will feature in What Is This Film Called Love?, a documentary about Irish director and film writer Mark Cousins. Consequence Of Sound report that new cuts ‘Horse’ and ‘Bobby Don’t Steal’ will feature on the film’s soundtrack, as will her landmark track ‘Bring You My Love’.

As well as helping the landmark The Story Of Film: An Odyssey series, Cousins has worked with the likes of Tilda Swinton, and interviewed Lynch and Polanksi. The film is set to premiere in rough form at All Tomorrow’s Parties in London on May 27.