Hyperreal photography meets minimal tech house: Facta’s new album features award-winning Pelle Cass

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Pelle doesn’t so much look at the people who flood his pictures, but more so the movement of the city space. “I’m always surprised at what people are up to when I go over the thousands of frames. I try to pick out all the special moments and put them into a single picture,” says Pelle. Easter eggs of Pelle’s advertorial work can be seen in the images, with models from that job seen wearing trench coats, thus creating his own shared universe between his works. As well as that, scale is an important element of Pelle’s photography. “I like the feeling of a very large print whose actual strength is in the miniature – all the little people bustling or milling around,” says Pelle. “Large print, tiny people.”

“Having been quite familiar with Oscar’s music I felt straight away like this LP was a turn towards a more metropolitan sound,” says Alfie. “The stop-start of traffic lights, the kind of digital buzz of a busy city, more MC vocals.” Helping glue Facta and Pelle together, Alfie’s keen eye was essential to this project, skills in recognising great design that was instrumental during his time at Crack and XL, culminating in a wonderful alt-house album where you feel compelled to stand above the record player exploring the artwork until the needle spins into the dead wax. Who’s there? Where are they going? Is that my dad?