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Mr Scruff @ Orange Rooms (22/10/09)
Mr Scruff returned to Southampton to deliver a change from the normal. Rather than the dirty basslines and heavy hitting kicks and snares with crashing cymbals, tonight it was about the chilled out Jazzy and soulful vibes. The venue had pulled a very friendly crowd of strong music lovers, most of whom were about to be educated about real music.
With a Manchester-based tea shop, and his very own ‘Make Us A Brew’ teas, he had a shop selling his range of tea, and various merchandise and music at the gig. Situated upstairs, this was a great addition to Orange Rooms’ cocktail bars.
With a huge sound system and humorous graphics he already had a vibe on the dance floor when I arrived, playing a selection of Funk and Oldskool Hip hop. He also found room for dropping Jazz, including Timo Lassy’s track ‘The More I Look At You’ featuring Brownswood Recordings artist José James.
Mixing the musical sounds with some catchy basslines, Mr Scruff played his way through five hours of the finest Broken Beat, House, Jazz, Hip Hop, Reggae and Funk. The tempo started off at around 100bpm, and gradually moved towards 120bpm. Tracks including a remix of Fish Go Deep’s ‘Cure And The Cause’, and some Mr Scruff classics, such as ‘Whiplash’ got the crowd going and raised the atmosphere.
Mr Scruff’s set reached it’s peak shortly after 1am, as he dropped his anthem ‘Get A Move On!’. He continued to raise the tempo, before a long drop out created anticipation on the dance floor. As the screen on the stage read ‘Warning, warning, warning, incoming bassline alert!’ and showed an illustration of a bass knob being turned up all the way, the sub woofers came to life as a bass-heavy dubstep track penetrated the sound system.
As the crowd screamed for one more track, Bob Marley’s ‘Could This Be Love?’ dropped and had everyone left in the venue singing every word. This wasn’t the end, as Mr Scruff still found time to play another of his own productions, ‘Ug’.
Venue: 4/5
Music: 5/5
Sound system: 4/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Review by Ryan Bassoo of Underground-music.co.uk
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