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Recorded live in Ireland a couple of weeks back, it’s a big, brash unwaveringly banging selection of lysergic acid house, mind-melting techno and neo-electro that intensity-wise makes the Chemical Brothers sound like Robson & Jerome.

SMD is of course the duo of Jas Shaw and James Ford, the latter also producer for the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons. They recently released the album Temporary Pleasure, with guests including Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Jamie Lidell, Telepahte and Beth Ditto.

FACT Mix 107 is a potent taster of what to expect when SMD headline Get Loaded In The Dark on New Year’s Eve at the Brixton O2 Academy. They’ll be joined by Chase & Status, Herve and loads more – click here for more information and tickets.

To this end, we present a round up of this year’s Cross Section download albums. Each bursting with a month’s worth of tunes from the band’s we write about.

Check out your favourites and discover 2009′s wealth of great, new talent.

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A bit of a legend when it comes to UK electronica, Keith Tenniswood – the man otherwise known as Radioactive Man – is no slouch. Dozens of 12”s, remixes, albums and compilations (including a memorable early effort for the fabric series) have cemented his place as one of our best loved electronic experimentalists over the years, and anyone who’s seen him DJ will attest to quality of his mind-boggling “proper” electro, acid flavours, techno workouts and downright unclassifiable sonic weapons. We saw him play at Heaven once at a Glade Festival party, and after jacking our bodies like crazy for an hour, we left thinking “what the hell was that exactly?”

To celebrate the tenth birthday of Wang this weekend – a legendary party that he’s been playing at for years – he’s put together a very special mix for us, mostly made up of exclusive and unreleased material. Get your freak on people…

Radioactive Man plays at Wang’s 10^th Birthday in London this Saturday 14^th November alongside Squarepusher, Simian Mobile Disco, Andrew Weatherall, Plaid, Mark Broom and many more. Click here for full details.


Sum up this podcast in 10 words…
Wibbly wobbly Wang style beats and booms especially for DataTransmission.

What’s your personal favourite track on it?
Smorsh – Crazy Bovine currently sending people crazy in the disco.

What’s the special ingredient in this mix?
Red wine.

What’s the best gig you’ve played recently?
Thursday night in Cambridge called The Priory at The Fez Club.

What have you got coming up?
Wang 10th Birthday! Also nearly finished new Radioactive Man album which will be out in the spring on Control Tower…

And finally, do you have a special message for our readers?
Keep the fire burning you lovely people.

And – as you can hear from Oliver Bondzio in this music-and-words recording – their twin reference points remain the same: the jacking end of the Chicago sound (cf their remix of a Mike Dunn remix, the no-frills banger ‘Heavy On Wire’ or their unreleased version of the first US house record to reach No1 in the UK charts, Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley’s ‘Jack Your Body’) and purist electro (one of the two remixes from ERP aka Convextion and an old favourite from Appolon.)