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Friday the 13th sees fabric hosting a lesson in dancefloor dynamics. Fabric regulars Josh Herve (the Count) and Graeme Sinden bring their live show to the club for the first time ahead of the release of their LP later this year. Creators of the massive “Beeper” tune (now featuring Kid Sister on vocals) the boys bring their unique flex to fabric, celebrating all that’s fun in dance music. Soaking up a huge array of influences (check Sinden’s show on Kiss 100) the two have released numerous bumpy excursions on a plethora of in-house labels and recently signed to Domino Records for their collaborative debut album. Sinden has steadily built his reputation through his remixes for the likes of Basement Jaxx to Bonde Do Role to Mark Ronson and his DJ sets at his fabric residency Get Familiar, whilst the Count’s “Ghetto Bitches EP” and recent “Cheap Thrills” release have been slaying crowds on the regular. On the 13th, they’ll be joined by another of dance music’s most lauded duo’s; Berlin’s Modeselektor.

On Saturday the 7th of June we are especially pleased to announce a rather special showcase and performance in the coziest room of our disco, Room Three. Achim Brandenburg aka Prosumer will be playing an extra special DJ Set alongside Murat Tepeli featuring Elif who will be performing live on the night.

Prosumer currently lives in Berlin and he gained his expertise first as an avid record buyer at Saarbrücken’s Hard Wax record shop, where he later went onto work behind the counter. This is also coincidentally where Prosumer and Tepeli first met. This was during the heyday of labels such as Prescription and Relief, a time very much of soulful house music, which still can be heard in Prosumer’s sets today, showing how much of a fan and aficionado of Chicago House and Detroit Techno Prosumer really is. Slowly but surely this avid record collector turned into Prosumer. The reasoning behind Achim’s choice in his guise came from a character in Alvin Toffler’s sci fi novel “3rd Wave“, in which the term Techno was allegedly penned for the first time (ever).

Tayo's Cool & Deadly hits Room 1 at fabric showcasing the much anticipated and intriguing Magentic Man project. Magnetic Man is brand new live experience from two of the most exciting dance music talents of the moment Skream and Benga alongside long time dubstep producer Artwork; a trio who've come a long way since their split releases on Big Apple records 6 years ago. The 9th May sees them here in fabric performing an innovative, absorbing and highly adventurous live set combining raw, bass-lead improvisation with established low end anthems.

As champions of the dubstep sound they've molded the many different genres of bass heavy music into a new sound that's quintessentially British. Back when Garage was a dirty word these young producers single mindedly set about creating the blueprint for a new stripped back sound borrowing from dark garage pioneers like Zed Bias and fracturing the 2 step rhythms of El B. Ignoring the champagne Bling of the commercial UK garage scene and in turn ignored by the music press at large it was this small bunch of producers like Artwork, Horsepower Productions, Digital Mystikz, Skream and Benga that pushed the underground garage movement forward into deeper, darker territory.

Where the world is the stage and Matinee is the catwalk you parade upon…

This month Matinee pays homage to the Paparazzi; creating a night where glamour and glitz collide under an array of photographer’s flashes. You’ll rub shoulders with Matinee’s A-list celebrities, scantily clad gogos and the outrageously beautiful clubbers for a taste of La Dolce Vita, Matinee style. At Matinee Paparazzi everyone’s a star…so strike a pose, there’s nothing to it!

Once again Matinee creates a delightful 12 hour clubbing extravaganza for London’s most stylish, glamorous and hunky clubbers. With vintage metrosexual, polysexual and homosexual style, Matinee attracts one of the sexiest, most flamboyant crowds in the capital.

Many of London’s bass-driven scenes attempt to stay as much divided from the surrounding scenes as possible. Dubstep is adamantly determined to stay disassociated from drum n bass, drum n bass struggles to realise its connection to techno, and fans of techno may not be aware of just how much they have in common with reggae enthusiasts. But though each scene thrives independently, a unifying truth rumbles between each and every one - the universal spirit that animates and conjoins all things bass: dub. On 25 May, Dublime presents a welcome celebration of dub, the ruler of all bass subcultures and pusher of all movements, and the missing link that connects the various dots of bass’ derivatives. With an immense lineup, extremely diverse yet entirely linked, Dublime brings together past and present, pioneers and prodigies, opposites and parallels...

“I wanted Dublime to incorporate all the music I love which has always been linked to dub in some shape or form. I feel dub is the heartbeat of all electronic music, be it jungle, house, techno or dubstep. Lee Perry invented dub, and to surround him with artists such as Dillinja, Kode 9 and Rusko - this demonstrates exactly what dublime is about. You could call it a massive timeline of dub, illustrating the way it has morphed and influenced modern day electronic music.” - Matt V, Dublime.

FRIDAY 22nd December, 2006
FABRICLIVE

When it's three days before Christmas, you know time has pretty much run out on your naughty vs nice year long battle royale. So forget your own gettin'-nothin' grief, and take sides in the original musical grudge match, OLD SCHOOL vs NEW SCHOOL! The fight to the death has begun and this time it’s personal…  Maybe there are still some lessons to be learnt from legendary musical craftsmen Jon Carter, Mekon and The Glimmers (insert chin stroking sounds)? Or does the relentless power of the new wave of genre-irritators Duke Dumont, Shy Child and Reverend and the Makers simply destroy all that walked before them? Seriously, if Christmas is a time for anything, it’s time for sleigh-ing (mwahh!) ones musical enemies …  

Ready your weapons, choose your colours, whose cuisine will reign supreme?
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Babyshambles' Drew McConnell has teamed up with LMHR to curate a fantastic line-up of indie/rock, grime, hip-hop and drum'n'bass for the charity's major fundraising event for the year.  Supported by acclaimed artists including TERRY HALL (THE SPECIALS), ANDY C, AKALA, THE VIEW, MYSTERY JETS, JERRY DAMMERS (THE SPECIALS), JAMMER, METRO RIOTS, N.A.S.T.Y., FIONN REGAN, HEARTLESS CREW, NU-MCs and of course BABYSHAMBLES themselves, the event moves to unite musicians and audience members regardless of genre, to further establish a national movement against racism and fascism through music.

Set up in 2002 in response to rising levels of racism and electoral successes for the fascist British National Party (BNP), Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) believe that music is living testimony to the fact that cultures can and do mix. LMHR use the energy of our music scene to celebrate diversity and involve people in anti-racist and anti-fascist activity – as well as to urge people to vote against fascist candidates in elections. LMHR has helped to mobilise against further BNP election victories, in the tradition of the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement of the late 1970s.

Phew! Did the last twelve months whiz past in a nano second or have we just been riding the boompity boomp boomp from our beloved Craig & Terry, the Scratch Perverts, Grooverider & Andy C, the Plump DJs, Switch & the Stanton Warriors and all our lovely friends & family (too many to mention!)? We’d only just dropped our fancy dress to the dry cleaners, when the reminder to dust off our extra special glad rags and shiny shiny dancin’ shoes returned! And just like every friendly neighbourhood disco should, we’re celebrating our birthday with an extended weekender. Time for some serious birthday fun! We hope you can make it along to any/all of our birthday shows this week - thursday 19th / friday 20th / saturday 21st / sunday 22nd / thursday 26th.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2006

REMI KABAKA (DJ set), FATBOY SLIM (DJ set), MYLO (DJ set), DAMON ALBARN (DJ set), ZANE LOWE (RADIO 1, DJ set), THE ORDINARY BOYS (LIVE), ANNIE MAC (RADIO 1, DJ set), RACHEL BARTON (DJ set), ARTHUR BAKER (DJ set), MAROON TOWN (LIVE), DUDU SARR (DJ set).

Join Aduna - one of the UK’s most creative organisations which builds partnerships with Africa - on a remarkable night of music to fundraise for their work. Aduna is looking for your help to raise money to set up training programmes for young African artists.

It’s true, we’ve all been waiting patiently for graceful scratch-master and vision-sonic pioneer DJ Yoda to release his cut and paste debut opus “The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda”. And finally, after laying down his live digits long enough, he’s pieced together a classic sample symphony: a brilliant nod to the hip hop sub-genre maintaining the belief that the turntable, as a musical instrument, can be used well outside of its perceived comfort zone. Sonically old school with five-finger discount sounds from the beatstreet and beyond, it’s also hilarious, easily feel-good, and technically progressive. And heavyweight guests like Biz Markie, Sway, Jungle Brothers, Ugly Duckling and Princess Superstar make short work of Yoda’s triumphant beats.

FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER
ROOM THREE:
DIPLO PRESENTS MAD DECENT...
Diplo, Orgasmic, Scotty B, Sinden, Radio Clit

Wes Pentz, aka Diplodocus, aka Diplo. The man, the myth, the legend. Who could’ve expected that the young Southern boy, raised on shrimp boats and bibles, would have an imagination big enough to take his radical ideas to dancefloors across the globe? Diplo, with his nonchalant attitude and genre-mashing, everything-in-the-box DJing style, somehow reintroduced the idea of a party to a complacent world. All the club hipsters, skinny-legged jeans as tight as their lips, soon wised up and broke into smiles, waving their (previously crossed) arms wildly above their heads. From being the name whispered around close-knit underground circles, to being the name on the lips of anyone with a pulse; from having his Hollertronix parties being a rowdy night at a small Ukrainian bar in Philly, to being internationally replicated and deemed “legendary”; from having his romantic life being known amongst his closest friends, to having his starry relationship with M.I.A. scrutinized/idealized amongst all blog writers and forum addicts; from having his debut album being a relatively hushed release off Big Dada’s roster, to having his new indie label (Mad Decent) steal the spotlight from all the majors...it seems that in the fast-moving, ever-changing world of Diplo, the last five years have been a tornado of fame, success, love and...luck?

It’s funny how we feel a need to project logical, identifiable imagery onto the natural world: for example, spotting faces in clouds or a man in the moon’s craters. Though “paradolia” may sound like a word that describes some kind of paranoid flower, it’s actually the fascinating phenomenon behind this feature of the mind. And the concept of Paradolia spawned one of the most beautiful, enthralling, mesmeric albums to come out of techno. It blew through the scene in the coherent human form of Glaswegian Alex Smoke.

“I just thought it was a great way to describe music in general and particularly the way that the more random elements can be harnessed into something rhythmically and melodically interesting.” – Alex Smoke

FRIDAY 4th AUGUST
ROOM ONE:
CHIBUKU SHAKE SHAKE...
Mark Ronson (LIVE), Scratch Perverts, C2C, The Mixologists, Beat Monkeys
ROOM TWO:
CHIBUKU SHAKE SHAKE...
Pendulum, Dillinja, Ed Rush, London Elektricity, Loz, Tony S & Ali Mac
MCs Rage, IC3 & Verse
ROOM THREE:
CHIBUKU SHAKE SHAKE...
Recloose, Matty J (Nuphonic), Luke Carr

Every good celebrity bash has a good DJ. With a family in the public eye as much as the stars who hired him, it didn’t take long before Mark Ronson was on the most wanted list for the said spot (rocking parties for everyone from Jay Z to P Diddy to Gucci to Hugo Boss, to name but a very few). Ronson went on to bang out a torrent of dancefloor-dwelling remixes, and soon expanded to full-on production - first Nikka Costa’s debut album (though if you blinked, you may have missed it), and then his own critically acclaimed LP ‘Here Comes The Fuzz,’ which featured Ghostface Killah, Mos Def, Sean Paul, Q-Tip and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. The LP contained the infectious ‘Ooh Wee,’ which quickly climbed the charts worldwide and to this day remains a staple in every conscious DJ’s box.

FRIDAY 7th JULY 2006
ROOM TWO:
WALL OF SOUND PRESENT LOVE & GOOD TIMES...
Chemical Brothers, Vitalic (LIVE), Metronomy (LIVE), Mekon (DJ Set)

What can be said about Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands that hasn’t already been said? Since their medieval history classes at Manchester University in ‘88, the Chemical Brothers have heard their tracks showcased in innumerable big budget films and video games; DJ’d alongside Oasis (much to the distaste of Liam), Prodigy, Carl Cox, Orbital, Underworld; been remixed by Dust Brothers (after their name battle was amicably ended), Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzales, Sasha; worked with Hope Sandoval, Bobby Gillespie, Bernard Sumner, Richard Ashcroft, Beth Orton, Fatboy Slim, Tim Burgess, Kele Okereke, Oasis, Q-Tip, Michel Gondry, to name a few; won three Grammies; achieved countless #1 singles and albums that sold millions around the world....you get the point. It’s been talked into the ground next to the gophers.

FABRIC'S BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
thursday 20/ friday 21/ saturday 22 october 05

Can another year really have flown by so fast? It seems like only yesterday we were dabbling in our delicious chocolate fountain, rocking out to live sets from Death In Vegas and Alter Ego, breaking out the fancy dress and getting deep down ‘n’ dirty with Craig and Terry well into the sunshine hours. It seems to us that each year just keeps getting better, with more amazing nights than we could possibly mention... Like all proper party people, we’re celebrating our birthday with an entire weekend of fun and games! We hope you’ll join us.

Are you a rocker or a dancer? Do you get worked up at the sound of well-tuned bass guitar or does a dusty ARP get you in a lather? Is it silver Nike high-tops or perhaps you’re more of a Van’s man?

There’s no time for a reader poll or market research. You’ve got to choose; pick a camp people it’s the law! Since the vinyl burning disco riots of ’78 it’s been illegal to like both, punishable by social exclusion. In the rock vs. dance bunfight everyone has to take sides. The idea that the two share influences or are co-dependant is a scurrilous rumour created by terrorists to destroy the minds of our fine, young citizens. Think you’re going to wear your uber-cool flick cut to that Bloc Party gig? Think again. They’ll be having none of your kind.

San Miguel presents: A Taste Of Sónar 2005
Thursday 26 May
9pm – 4am
£10 (0870 902 0001 or www.fabriclondon.com)

On Thursday May 26, Fabric hosts a special presentation of Sónar 2005, in collaboration with the festival’s main sponsor, San Miguel. ‘A Taste of Sónar’ previews some of Sónar 2005’s new trends, and features artists performing at the festival three weeks later [June 16, 17, 18].

For the third year in succession, Sónar presents an introductory event in London for all true followers of the festival. The party will take place in all three rooms of the venue with each featuring exclusive visuals.

Eargasm, FABRICLIVE's all breakbeat party hosted by the Plump DJs, returns on FRIDAY DECEMBER 10. The launch night in August was easily the UK's biggest breaks event, and the incredible atmosphere that night is true testament to the strength of this thriving and exciting scene. The second installment is even bigger and, for breaks freaks, is simply unmissable.

Joining The Plumps is the cream of UK breaks talent, including The Freestylers, FreQ Nasty, Hyper, Krafty Kuts, PFN (Proper Filthy Naughty), and Evil Nine. They’ll be playing alongside FABRICLIVE residents Ali B, Stanton Warriors, and Joe Ransom, and Radio 1’s own breaks champion, Annie Nightingale. In addition, some heavyweight international talent flies in to complete the line up.

Fabric’s Fifth Birthday Weekend takes place over three nights this October...

Keith Reilly (Owner): "It’s always nice to celebrate a birthday, but it only measures an increment of time. I prefer to celebrate the freedom our public has gifted us. I feel truly blessed that we have never been forced to deviate from the path we chose. I thank each and every last person that ever came along to support what we do."

Mocky, a self-professed 80's pop junkie, makes super-sweet pop tracks with funny, punchline raps. His new album, 'Are + Bee' (Fine), has fast become one of Fabric's '04 faves. Employing our trademark sense of timing, we interrupted Mocky’s creative process, and asked him a series of tiresome questions. Catch him here, or at the V Festival, or Bestival.

FABRICLIVE presents ‘Eargasm’, a night of the very best breakbeat, across 3 rooms, on friday 13 August...

Eargasm is a new party hosted by the Plump DJs at FABRICLIVE. Starting on 13 August, Eargasm will be a regular quarterly feature in the FABRICLIVE calendar. Initially focusing on the stunning array of breakbeat talent the UK has to offer, Eargasm will showcase the best breakbeat worldwide. In 2004 breaks is flourishing and diversifying with new labels, producers and successful clubnights displaying a range of styles and influences. Breakbeat has always been a core sound of FABRICLIVE, presented in the main rooms alongside drum n bass, by residents Ali B, James Lavelle, Plump DJs, Stanton Warriors and Joe Ransom. Fabric is proud to present the sound across the whole venue, and alongside the Plump DJs who we’ve seen grow into accomplished and recognised artists.

New Zealand born, FreQ Nasty, has been making waves on the UK breaks scene since his first release ‘Boomin Back Atcha’ on Botchit & Scarper. His most recent album was ‘Bring Me The Head Of Freq Nasty’ on Skint and he’s remixed Kelis, Fatboy Slim, Gorillaz and KRS 1.