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Ah, electronica, how we have missed thee. This week we’re talking about the debut Factory Floor album and Chris gets to wondering why he like this album in the first place.

Are they a minimal wave band? Post industrial? Tech house? All of these categories seem to fit in their own way, and we talk a little about all three of these, what they are and why they might be relevant to this band.

Many styles of electronic music are repetitive. Indeed, any music that humans want to dance to is repeitive in nature. However, Chris contends that this is a releatively recent phenomnon, and that certainly in the case of Factory Floor, it’s something they rely on heavily. Indeed, songs are so long that the repetitive beats and melodies become weirdly hypnotic.

In this episode we chat about all this and more. Including a little detour into the nature of live electronica and the sort stuff that may seem like an artist is making sounds at a gig, but when in reality they’re probably not…

Is Factory Floor’s debut album an unsung classic? As ever, you decide. Vote below.