Night Slugs: Top 5 Club Settings by Jam City

Jam City is one of those producers whose music inter splices genre notions. Part house, part grime, part techno his club ready tracks are able to fuse all of it into something that just sounds quintessentially him. His ‘Ecstasy Refix’ that we linked yesterday is a perfect example of that: the main riff pure is euphoric dance, his percussion is snatched and off beat and scattergun like the snares of a rousing grime track and yet it’s all regulated at a house tempo. Having released two EPs on Night Slugs to date, ‘Waterworx’ and ‘Magic Drops,’ he’s received a lot of glowing recognition for his music, justifiably finding his feet alongside the baron ice like plain of Wiley’s beatless ‘Devil Mixes’ and house influenced producers like Joy Orbison. Speaking to DUMMY mag recently Jam City talked a little about envisioning his music as shapes, working out a structural base for his music and then sculpting the outcome through his synth work and drum patterns. “You’ll always have a spectral analysis that will show you the shape of things,” he muses. “And it’s funny because I didn’t really use that a lot when I began making things. But now the more I use it, the more that things are really influenced by it. If I could chart any kind of progression in terms of how I write things it would be trying to make it more and more minimal. I think that I can’t really map how I work or the type of music, because it’s all about sensation and it’s very difficult to apply science to that. I guess the one running thread that links it all is that it’s all stripped. Kind of stripped down or direct? There’s not an ambiguity or a vagueness to it.” The strains of modern electronic club music that are so reliant on bass can lose a lot of impact and depth without the meat and punch of a good soundsystem and while we argued between ourselves a little over which room here in our Farringdon venue suits his style best - whether it’s the tight intimacy of Room Three or the stark reflections of Room Two - Jam City himself went a little bit further, compiling his top five settings he’d love to hear and experience his (and other people’s) music in.... 1. The Acropolis “Box-beaters playing as sunrise comes through the columns... baths below for ultimate sweat-soaked experience.” 2. The Bhurj Dubai “Why do we settle for raves so close to the earth? Feel superior and icarus-like whilst clubbing on top of the tallest building IN THE WORLD!” 3. The Shard (incompleted stage) “Local vertigo-inducing club experiences don't have to wait ‘til May 2012. Curfew does not apply.” 4.Second Life “Welcome to the future. Sit back and listen to some Chez Damier whilst cruising oily-pixel booties swaying gently in the neon glow of internet.” 5.Mike Tyson's Mansion “One night only. Sound system already installed. Zebra print rug ready for full capacity. Tickets extremely limited.” Catch Jam City at the Night Slugs Room Two takeover on Friday.