In the world of techno, Birmingham is often talked about as the home of schlocky 4×4 brutalism, as practised by the likes of Regis and Surgeon in the 1990s.

Sidestep to house, however, and there’s Mark E – Britain’s king of chugging house and disco. On the surface, there’s little to link Mark E with the Brum techno elite, but one thing they do share is an uncanny hypnotic quality to their music – Regis has talked in interviews about the joy he finds in “mak[ing] tracks that had very little but are massively hypnotic”, and Mark E’s sets have the ability to draw you in like few others. Dude’s never in a rush, and when you give in to his sets, it’s like time’s ceased to exist.

In 2011, Mark released his first album, the smouldering ‘Stone Cutter’ on Spectral Sound, but for us he’ll always be about the singles – let’s face it, everyone should know about his re-edits by now – and the mixes. Seriously, the mixes – you can listen to them for days. It seems absurd that he hasn’t done one for FACT yet, but today we redeem that: Ron Trent, Silent Servant, Osunlade, Fred P and more feature.

Tracklist:
1. Norm Talley – The Journey – Scott Grooves Beats – Third Ear
2. Ron Trent – Big Medicine – Future Vision
3. Vick Lavender – Did you Really – Nightlife collective
4. Lady E – Seems to me – Thug
5. Apartment 4/4 – Citydreems – Parkwest
6. LY – Back to Zanzibar – azuli
7. Oskar Offermann & Moomin – Joe Macdaddy – AIM
8. Blackboxx 3 EP – FPR
9. Mark E – Midland Nights – Running Back
10. Seven Davis JNR – Breaker – Must Have Records
11. Nicas Dream – Nica’s Beat – Foreplay
12. Fred P – Project 02 – UQ
13. Silent Servant – Invocation of Lust – Hospital
14. Mark E – Bog Dance (demo mix) – Spectral
15. Pretty Noises Project – Time Trekker – Circular Motion
16. Osunlade – What Makes you High – Yoruba