The house party was a-rockin’. Great place, great people, great food. Really good organisation all round, wicked.

Lots and lotsof dubstep, though. Actually it wasn’t all that bad. The sub-bass going on was ridiculous. Stelfox ended up with a light on his head as parts of the ceiling came down in the basement. This is conclusive proof that dubstep is bad for your health in my book. To his credit, he took me down there again later and we ummed and ahhed about not really “getting it” to a background of woooooohm woooohm woooooooohm.

Then this vocal tune came on and got rewound and we agreed that it was pretty good but it would now be back to half step tedium probably. But the vocals came back and I craned my neck and realised that they were being done live by this good lady. She was only on for a few minutes but it was just what we needed.

I mostly hung out in the bar area – Lex Pretend was first up with some nice r&b bizness. Unfortunately he was mainly playing to me and the bloke who had brought the system. Twas good though. Things filled up a bit when I came on around 8:30, which I’d like to think was down to my immense charisma but was more likely because people had just shown up after finding the place.

I’d brought sme great tunes – 80s/90s Fashion ragga, fast chat, party bashment and some mashups. My mixing was a bit dodge and the whole set was accompanied by the vibrating sub-bass from downstairs which was a bit mental – like your feet were being played an entirely different record to the rest of your body.

But I dunno, a few clangers. Learning to mix would probably give me something to do when a new track has just started. What I tend to do now is just awkwardly hang about until it’s time to put the next one on, or rummage through my bag. Or drink more beer.

Actually I’m probably being a bit over critical of myself – I’m a selector more than Jeff bloody Mills and people seemed to like what I did. “Walk and Skank” got rewound by me. “Red Wine To Gaze” got rewound by the venerable Boomnoise. (Note to Droid – nobody complained about the vocals being slightly out of synch either and I didn’t have the heart to tell them 😉 )

I should also mention that I was almost certainly the oldest git in the place. Wandering about muttering about these young things and their so-called “dub” “step”, heh heh. Anyway, Katie Skills was on after me and brought along a bag of great tunes and a posse of up for it deck-hangers and dancers. She had Sugar Minnott’s “Good Thing Going” in her bag, which was my last tune…

I didn’t take many photos but there are loads someone else did here. My 2nd dubstep event in two weeks and I still don’t really “get it”. But apart from that, it was a top night out.

Venue will be announced on the day but it is easy to get to.

I will be doing a UK dancehall set to nice up the place early on.

Come down, it’s going to be a top one…

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