MUSIC. NIGHTLIFE. CULTURAL RIOTS. LONDON TINGS. BY KATE HUTCHINSON.
In this video interview, I talk to elusive electro producer Fake Blood about his latest music project, a live soundtrack to Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian surrealist horror ‘Suspiria’ at the BFI. He’s best known for bass-heavy club smasher ‘Mars’, which was swiftly rehashed into Dizzee Rascal’s loopy grime-pop hit ‘Bonkers’, but Blood’s career and influences are [...]
I’ve got lots and lots of time for (Graeme) Sinden. An illuminating DJ and genre-mangler, he’s got a regular show on Kiss Fm; he ran a successful dubwise house night with Sinden, Get Familiar, at Fabric; he got some of that chart and mainstream success with pal Hervé as The Count & BEEPER BEEPER BEEPER [...]
Read my exclusive review of Pete Tong’s Wonderland at Eden, Ibiza, featuring Pnau and Crookers, on Clash Music.
Superstar DJs-in-the-making Crookers (aka Italian duo Phra and Bot) knock out soaring, bouncing, choppy electro club belters hinging on heavier than thou hip hop, from MC vocal lines to grimey Miami bass jitters, that’s hotter than Beyoncé’s G-string. They’ve been all over Europe this summer – I caught their blazing sunrise set at Melt Festival [...]