Audio: Ivan Smagghe from Trouw to Fabric

For a DJ like Ivan Smagghe it can become quite perilous to transpose your passion for DJing onto every canvas you get paint with your selection as you travel from club to club. But when it goes right, then something really magical happens. Today, the Kill The DJ compatriot has decided to share his latest experience with us as we get ready to welcome him back to Farringdon on the 24th in Room One. Recorded at Amsterdam’s Trouw, where he was a guest of Patrice Baumel, Smagghe’s just released an 80 minute edit of his experience there earlier this month on his Soundcloud page. Seeing as Ivan provided his own words to introduce the recording we’ll let them do the talking. We ourselves are focused more on the magic in the player below. “After all these years, it takes quite a lot from a club to impress me and when asked about my favorite clubs, I sometimes wish I was a one-armed hillbilly not too good with chopping wood. “TROUW is in Amsterdam, a city that had proven very disappointing since my early memories of Dimitri at the Roxy-who is actually resident for special all-nighters, and still has the magic from what I've heard, at the above mentioned place. “Not only the club itself is amazing, located in an old printing factory but they sometimes move the one of the floor to the best room I've played in ages. Dark as the pit of hell, clever minimal lighting, rough and ready like an East German garage circa 1993. The vibe. Where Black Magic is the religion de rigueur. Not to mention the now ditched performance night where I saw Jesus covered in shit and candles in the wrong candelabra.”