Sorry all for the belated review of Ali B at Fiction. Between making music and being a DJ I manage two myspace pages, two facebook fan pages, two facebook groups, a blog (not this one) and an entire online publication, so I sometimes get snowed under by an avalanche of Web 2.0 responsibility. Anyway here it is:
The crowd on the night was a mixture of regulars and randoms off the street. Ali B’s mix and mashup of jacking nu-skool club electro and b-more classic rave edits worked the crowd perfectly, many responding to the ‘take-the-piss’ remixes as if he were playing the original. When he dropped bangers like the Soulwax remix of ‘Kids’ the dancefloor morphed into a mutant disco mosh pit.
The track that best describes the night for me is ‘Mars’ by Fake Blood. It comes in with enticing crisp slowed-down D&B drums and warped voice samples, jumps into an old-school rave breakdown and then comes back in again with basslines and beats that will move any dancefloor, big or small.
Fake Blood - Mars (Zshare)
Incidentally this track went down the bomb when Data Takashi played it this past Saturday after the Bloody Beetroot's set. In fact one half of the Beetroots played an impromptu set at the very end of the night and he dropped Mars as well; proof thats its the ish-nit.
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