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DJ Fresh & Coki @ Junk Club |
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Southampton’s leading Drum & Bass promoter joined forces once again with the city’s biggest underground music nightclub. With Raygun’s resident DJ / MC partnership Gerra & Visionobi , and DJ Stone leading the way for headline acts Coki and Fresh, expectations were high for this event, as over six-hundred screw-faced, bass-hungry citizens flocked to London Road to witness Junk’s sound system pushed to it’s limits, and then some…
As the doors opened, Gerra was preparing the bass-bins for the on-slaughter ahead. Rolling 2-step rhythms, endorsed by dark sub basslines took the sound back to the beginning of the Dubstep movement. Some early Tempa releases and Burial productions established a raw, rave-like atmosphere. Soon building the set up with some Dub flavoured tracks, to which Visionobi picked up the microphone to address the audience who were already beginning to congest the dance floor.
Shortly after midnight the venue was almost full-to-capacity, and DJ Coki was ready to deliver an hour of upfront Dubstep. It was a characteristic selection of gritty-edged anthems, including his take on Richie Spice’s ‘Marijuana’. This had the crowd jumping, all set for Breakbeat Kaos co-owner, DJ Fresh.
He followed suit, starting off at 140BPM, before quickly switching to the faster genre. Adam F - ‘Shut The Lights Off’ received an appreciative reaction, in advance of it’s December release. He continued to rapidly mix and switch his way through the whole spectrum of Drum & Bass and Dubstep music, including various tracks from his forthcoming album ‘Kryptonite’, before ending a very energetic set with some Jungle-influenced tracks, including Chase & Status’ remix of Top Cat’s 1994 classic ‘Ruffest Gunark’. Towards the end his set was, however, let down by his laptop, running Traktor, intermittently jogging, which begs to question is this new technology really superior to vinyl?
Raygun’s jump-up specialist ‘DJ Stone’ then rounded-off one of the busiest nights Southampton has seen since before Summer.
Tune of the night: Adam F & Horx feat. Redman – Shut The Lights Off (Released 28th December 2009 on Breakbeat Kaos)
Venue: 5/5
Sound system: 4/5
Music: 4/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Review by Ryan Bassoo and Chris Fuller of Underground-music.co.uk
www.raygunyouth.com
www.reskue.co.uk
www.junkclub.com
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www.myspace.com/freshbadcompany
www.myspace.com/djgerra
www.myspace.com/visionobi
www.myspace.com/stonednb
Watch out for video footage of Gerra & Visionobi from this event…
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