The festival will see 2019’s edition moving venue to a “ground breaking” new location, Meridian Water, in North London. The new site is made up of a ten-acre outdoor space with four interlinked warehouses, the largest of which will be the biggest warehouse venue for music in the city, which has a capacity of 7,500. The new location, not only comes with a large capacity, it will allow Field Day to become the latest-running festival in London, with a 3am license.

Among the other names recently confirmed to appear at the two-day festival, and joining Mahalia, Flohio, and Death Grips, include Kojey Radical, Alfie Templeman, Homeshake and Femi Kuti. The announcement comes after additional names were added to the festival’s late-running DJ programme, which included John Talabot and Nocturnal Sunshine, who will be joining Modeselektor and George FitzGerald — both of whom had already been confirmed for live sets.

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The additional names will join an already stellar line-up, which includes headliners Skepta and Jorja Smith. Among the other first names announced is Actress, Bonobo, Diplo, Earl Sweatshirt, Pusha-T, Sinkane, Diplo, Jungle, Octavian, and The Black Madonna.

The following acts are on the bill for Friday the 7th, and will be kick starting this year’s stellar edition, is headliner Skepta, Actress, Bonobo DJ Set, Boy Azooga, Charlotte Adigéry, Death Grips, Deerhunter, Earl Sweatshirt, Femi Kuti, George FitzGerald, HÆLOS, Homeshake, Jessica Winter, Julia Holter, Jungle, Kelly Lee Owens, Kojey Radical, Leon Vynehall, Lost Souls of Saturn (live), Mahalia, Methyl Ethel, Modeselektor, and Pip Blom. Cncluding the show, on Friday, and featuring on the late night show are George FitzGerald, Leon Vynehall, Modeselektor, and Nocturnal Sunshine.

Meanwhile, the acts on the bill, for Saturday the 8th, and following on from the stellar Friday line-up is headliner Jorja Smith, Diplo, Alfie Templeman, The Black Madonna, Celeste, Courtesy, Denis Sulta, DJ Seinfeld, Eclair Fifi, Erol Alkan, Fall Forward, Flohio, Grainger, HAAi, John Talabot, Jvck James, JPEGMAFIA, Mall Grab, Marie Davidson (live), The Mauskovic Dance Band, Mella Dee, MorMor, Octavian, Pusha-T, Rachel Chinouriri, Red Axes DJ Set, Roosevelt, Seth Troxler, Sinkane, Skee Mask, Todd Terje DJ Set. While, rounding off the show, on Saturday, and featuring on the late night performances are Denis Sulta, HAAi, Mella Dee, and Tiga.

Speaking about this year’s line-up, Field Day’s co-founder, Tom Baker, said: “This really is a new and exciting chapter for Field Day, our new home is arguably one of the most dynamic sites in the country, with a line up that is typically eclectic and diverse as ever before. I’m thrilled about the return of Skepta who back in 2016 played to one of the biggest crowds we’ve ever had at Field Day, Saturday’s headliner the brilliant Jorja Smith will be truly sensational, Diplo’s sets are just absolute dance frenzied seamless brilliance, alongside rising artists Pip Blom, MorMor, Boy Azooga and the return of Deerhunter with an excellent new album. Working with purpose-built indoor venues with generous sound levels and early morning curfews is what London truly deserves.”

‘Hot Head’ was posted on their Facebook page as a Youtube link with a message simply stating “NEW TRACK”; the Youtube video was just the song with a black screen. The description on Youtube provided a free download link to the song, hosted on their own label Third Worlds’ website.

The song is the first taste of their new album The Botomless Pit. True to enigmatic form, very little is known about the new album, other than the fact that it is coming out in 2016, and that it might involve the late actress Karen Black – who drummer/producer Zach Hill had written a part for a screenplay for before she died.

Their new song ‘Hot Head’ launches into a barrage of techno-breakcore madness and stuttering shouting, before taking a breath for air amongst rippling synths, only to plunge once more into the relentless flurry of drums, vocals and twisted samples. The song sounds very reminiscent of the cryptically titled ‘Death Grips 2.0′ which closed 2015’s The Powers That B. you can listen to the song below:

Bottomless Pit is also the first album since their double album The Powers That B, which the band had touted as their last ever album when ‘breaking up’ Via napkin. Although when leaking their ‘final’ album, the band commented “you’re right, we might make some more”; although its unlikely anyone following Death Grips’ public actions doubted as much.

Visconti claimed that he and Bowie were “listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar,” and that “We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn’t do a straight-up hip-hop record. He threw everything on there, and that’s exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock’n’roll.”

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem also appears on the album, playing percussion on two tracks. Visconti said that initially Murphy was going to play a significant role on the album, saying: “at one point we were talking about three producers for the album: David, James and myself,” but in the end “he had his own projects to go off to.”

David Bowie’s 25th studio album ★ will be released in January, until then you can watch the full 10 minute video of tor the albums first single below:

The album was announced out of the blue on the bands Facebook page in a typically weird Death Grips fashion. The post simply read “We’ve decided to make a new Death Grips album and it will be called Bottomless Pit.” It was also accompanied by a fourteen minute video of the late actress Karen Black from 2013, reading out a script written by Zach Hill.

The video’s epigraph states: “Iconic 70’s film star Karen Black passed away in August 2013. In February of that year, Karyn Rachtman introduced Ms. Black to Zach Hill. The two immediately hit it off. Zach had written a part for Karen for a film he was developing and gave her the pages for her scenes. Though she didn’t know how the scenes would fit into the final film, she readily agreed to read her character’s dialog on camera for Zach.”

You can watch the video below:

Since they’ve ‘broken up’ the band dropped a stack of instrumentals for NY Fashion Week, along with promoting an album by the mysterious ‘the i.l.y’s’ called ‘I’ve Always Been Good at True Love’ (the band turned out to be Zach Hill and the band’s elusive engineer Andy Morin, with MC Ride making a guest appearance).