Danny gets deep, down and dirty at Trouble Vision's birthday bash.
London has been throwing shapes at parties hosted by the Gold brothers for a little over three years now. Trouble Vision have been shacked up in Corsica Studios for their bi-monthly nights and have brought momentous selectors in the past – playing anything from ABBA to gabba. Last year’s birthday saw MJ Cole and Zed Bias do a back-to-back garage set – that is the stuff dreams are made of – as well as Scuba and SBTRKT also having a spin.
Twelve months on and the UK bass scene is still going strong – yet seems to have been tucked to one side in the genre cupboard. We are in the throes of deep house fever and it's now taking pride of place.
It wouldn’t be any other way for FCL, a collaboration between the lynch-pin at We Play House Recordings, Red D and his label signing, San Soda. The Belgian duo smashed out a wicked 12” last year and have been known to DJ at many events together, but tonight sees a rare back-to-back set from them. It's not long before the stage adjacent to the DJ booth is awash with jacking bodies and outstretched arms.
Room two is a whirlpool of looped 808s with Bulgaria’s KiNK playing live. He’s been throwing listeners' ears back twenty years to the glorious days of the birth of house and techno for the past couple of years, working closely with Neville Watson in the past.
A pair of Ableton Launchpads are up and running and he raises one of the boards above the ledge of the booth to demonstrate his manipulation of the sounds to the audience. This is the 21st century’s braggery in the vein of Hendrix playing a guitar with his teeth, and the audience lap it up.
MCDE ignites the amassed with his trademark smooth house grooves such as Metro Area’s ‘Orange Alert’. Over an hour into the set he notches down a gear to lead us down a new path of sweet and soulful disco funk that you’d expect from Low Life events. He's just injected a whole lot of sex into the room. The three hours isn’t enough and he’s forced to extend his set past 6am closing time.
I said last week that deep house embodies a “leave your attitude at the door” vibe and it seems that was a premonition of tonight’s event. It’s not clear whether Trouble Vision, the venue or the genre of house can be attributed as the cause but it’s certainly apparent here. Working your way through the crowd doesn’t have the hassle it usually does: all attendees have hung up their hang-ups along with their coats. Whatever the cause of the warm atmosphere the effect is delightful.
Happy Birthday Trouble Vision.
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