Special Requests
Factory Floor - Buzz Saw
Factory Floor return to Phantasy with ‘Buzz Saw’, a driving new single that once more re-establishes the trio of Nik Colk Void, Gabe Gurnsey and Joe Ward as amongst the most vital forces in live electronic music.
Following on from 2025’s sold-out vinyl singles ‘Between You’ and ‘Tell Me’, the spacious groove of ‘Buzz Saw’ bridges the sharp, bracing synthesis of the band’s origins in London’s post-industrial warehouse scene. Once again mixed by legendary engineer David Wrench (Daniel Avery, Floating Points), it captures the band’s most dancefloor-forward instincts, recently rejuvenated via appearances at Berghain, festivals such as No Bounds and Simple Things, plus a headlining UK tour.
As before, Gurnsey’s peerless drum work - tracked in the studio by Stephen Morris of New Order - proves forceful and delicate in tandem with Ward’s percussion, encountering suspenseful breakdowns in the space between Void's enveloping basslines. In dreamlike accompaniment, Colk Void’s own voice drifts serenely upwards, itself slowly consumed and obscured into the band’s full-bodied electronic rush, which is also available here as a more minimal, no-less powerful dub version.
In sonic contrast, ‘Guitar_1342’ finds the band experimenting in their starkest terms, stripped back of their luminescent flow and boldly reduced to an abrasive, dissonant guitar feedback.
Factory Floor’s ‘Buzz Saw’ is out now via Phantasy, available as a limited-edition vinyl pressing in a Riso print sleeve, as well as digitally.
Upcoming Live Dates
May 30th - Serralves em Festa, Porto, Portugal
June 13th - Another Thought Festival, London, UK
June 26th - Black Lights Festival, Blackpool, UK
August 2nd - Lokerse Feesten, Lookerse, Belgium
September 6th - End of the Road Festival, Dorset, UK
| track | artist | |
|---|---|---|
| Buzz Saw | Factory Floor | 5:38 |
| Buzz Saw (Dub) | Factory Floor | 5:34 |
| Guitar_1342 | Factory Floor | 3:29 |
| Buzz Saw (Radio Edit) | Factory Floor | 4:11 |
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