MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
Should nu-disco be filed under so last year? Well, judging by the biggest dance track to turn up the heat this summer, it’s not ready for the bargain racks just yet. For anyone who hasn’t turned their ears onto Tensnake yet, the Hamburg-based producer has cooked up a deliciously infectious slice of nu-disco, ‘Coma Cat’ [...]
I reviewed Ninja Tune’s exhaustive box set to celebrate 20 years of putting out experimental (but always groovetastic) electronica to digi-dancehall. You can read it here on Drowned in Sound.
I’ve just recovered from London Fashion Week, which ran (sprinted, rather) from last Friday to this Wednesday. I reported on some of the parties (thick-rimmed glasses; clipboard; pen-with-a-light-on-it-stylee) for New York Magazine. You can read some of my party reports below, on Grandlife‘s NewYork NewYork party at Maddox (puke) Club, AnOther Magazine‘s private dinner to [...]
A dressed-up clubber, as part of the Noughtie Nightlife exhibition © Antony Price Clubbing photography exhibition Noughtie Nightlife at Rich Mix launched this Thursday at Rich Mix. It features snaps from across the noughties of the capital’s most creative, kaleidoscopic and fashionista clubbers from the likes of Billa Baldwin, We Know What You Did Last [...]
He may look like your Bacardi Breezer-swilling 15-year-old bruv, but this is actually Geeneus, one of the firebrands behind legendary (and bloody brilliant) London underground radio station Rinse FM. I don’t know why I’ve got into the habit of interviewing sullen dance music nerdos lately, but there you have it. Maybe it’s their musk. Anyway, [...]
Drum ’n’ bass’s brightest spark, Sub Focus, headlined Time Out Live‘s latest Nite Sessions club night at East Village last Friday. Needless to say, he tore the Shoreditch club a new earhole – albeit a very blokey, very bolshy earhole. Since Ram Records boss Andy C tracked him down after being handed a demo tape [...]