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WE'VE GOT 5 PAIRS OF THIS SUPER FLY SOUNDING ALBUM AS FABRIC REACHES IT'S SIXTH DECA OF RELEASES. SIMPLY EMAIL COMPS@THERANSOMNOTE WITH "DAVE CLARKE, I LOVE HIS DARK MOODY LOOK AND HIS MUSIC IS PRETTY SPECIAL TOO… GIVE IT ME, PLEASE I NEED SOMETHING TO WARM ME UP!"

DAVE CLARKE

FABRIC 60

He may be known as The Baron Of Techno, a moniker given to him by John Peel, but Dave Clarke has an anarchist streak a mile wide and punk in his soul. From his break-through ‘Red Series’ in the mid 90s Dave Clarke has become one of the world’s most revered global headliners, whose frenetically charged DJ sets show a man with ‘techno’ coursing through his veins. Whether cutting and phasing classic electro to Chicago house, IDM, punk, techno and Industrial via his 3FM globally syndicated ‘White Noise’ radio show (www.whitenoiseradio.net), globe-trotting DJ sets or his own substantial discography, Dave Clarke has consistently put musical integrity above all else. It’s this continued future thinking, electronic ethos that the techno don brings to fabric 60.

“It is a sonic journey man…don't you hate that! I wanted to have a gothic and bass heavy start that represented the sonic characteristics that Room 2 is capable of handling. I also wanted it to have some real electro, as Fabric is one place that can truly appreciate that. It's all pretty dark though and I think it represents the edgier side of club music that you only get to hear in clubs that care.”

As a DJ, Clarke always pushes his equipment to the limits – tweaking, cutting, fading and scratching at breakneck pace whilst monitor needles dance in and out of the red. What started him on the road to being a DJ was combining his father’s love of technology with his mother’s disco-soul records, tunes by the likes of Roy Ayers and The Crusaders.

“My dad had disco lights in the front room. Record decks, reel-to-reels, reverb units, he even did a thing on BBC Radio about quadrophonics. It’s pretty obvious where I get it all from really."

For someone with such an obsession for sound and sonic detail it’s little wonder that Dave has made himself a techno bunker within the cavernous brick walls of Room 2.

“The friendliest staff ever, the best technicians and the baddest bass. Easily my favourite and most consistent UK club that I have ever played in.”

It’s this inviting backdrop that enables such in demand headliners to push the boat out, experiment, try out new releases for the first time and generally take an open-minded sweatbox on a journey to the centre of bass. With fabric 60 showcasing 17 upfront, and sometimes unknown new releases Dave Clarke has eschewed any desire to look back with guaranteed party tracks and focus solely on completely new material.

From the opening tonal throb of Raudive’s (aka Oliver Ho) ‘Shiver’ to the dark and gothic underbelly of Crotaphytus ‘Cnemidophorus Sexlineatus (The Mr. Pauli Monster Bass Guitar Remix)’ and the IDM crunch of Tommy Four Seven’s’ Armed 3’ Clarke makes his futurist intentions clear. With new electronic exponents like Scape One, Exzakt, Sync 24, Heliopause and Dynarec, Clarke brings the electro outsiders under the microscope whilst the dark acid house of Cristiano Balducci’s ‘Pride’ keeps the Chicago 303 flame burning brightly. We then get a taste of the new sound of Detroit as Marc Romboy vs. Paris The Black Fu get remixed by Kenny Larkin and Ray 7 & Malik Alston’s ‘I.D.F.D.F.I.’ bumps and grinds to a new Motor City beat. Of course when DC is behind the decks, you’re never far away from some blitzkrieg techno and Stephane Signore’s ‘Sacrifice (Radical G – 2k11 Edit)’ delivers them album’s central speaker shredding peak before Gesaffelstein’s ‘Aufstand’ takes us well and truly into the section marked electro.

Finally Dave Clarke takes us into the dark hinterland, a grey area where electro, electronica and techno meet as Clatterbox and w1b0 do battle for beats supremacy before the cinematic vision of Baz Reznik’s ‘The Attic’ closes the show with a macabre death dance of slowed down beats and atmospheric emotion.

TRACKLISTING:

01 Raudive – Shiver [Wires]

02 Crotaphytus – Cnemidophorus Sexlineatus (The Mr. Pauli Monster Bass Guitar Remix) [Solar One]

03 Tommy Four Seven – Armed 3 [CLR]

04 Marc Romboy vs. Paris The Black Fu – Dark N Lovely (Kenny Larkin Remix) [Systematic]

05 Ray 7 & Malik Alston – I.D.F.D.F.I. [Truth Manifest]

06 Cristiano Balducci – Pride [Black Catcher]

07 Cute Heels – Silence Complot [Black Leather]

08 Stephane Signore – Sacrifice (Radical G – 2k11 Edit) [Patterns X-Series]

09 Gesaffelstein – Aufstand [Turbo]

10 Scape One – Time Falls (Dynarec Remix) [Cultivated Electronics]

11 Exzakt – Clarity (Lethal Agent Remix) [Monotone]