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Daniel Avery Launching ‘Divided Love’ Residency at Fabric

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Daniel Avery

Rising UK DJ/producer Daniel Avery will begin a residency at Fabric in London this summer. Dubbed Divided Love, Avery will bring his mixing magic to the esteemed nightspot beginning August 15. The bill will feature three rooms of talent. Room one will present Factory Floor (live), Dopplereffekt (Live), Helena Hauff andVolte-Face (BleeD); room two will feature Machinedrum (DJ set), dBridge, Consequence, Skeptical, Stray, Kid Drama MCs: SP:MC; and room three is TBA.

Avery’s association with Fabric dates back to 2007. In addition to playing the venue, he mixed 2012’s Fabriclive 66 before going on to release music on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound. Fans eager to see Avery are well advised to see him in August as the next edition of his Divided Love residency won’t take place until November 14.

Obligatory press release gush from Mr. Avery: “Fabric is my home and I’m proud to be a resident. The club has been with me from the beginning so starting my own night there feels genuinely exciting. Divided Love will be about presenting acts who are doing something special… sonic souls, faith affirmers, music for the mind… The lineup for the first event is a perfect summary of what I want the night to be about,” he continues. “Factory Floor, the best live band in the world right now, legendary dystopian electro heads Dopplereffekt, Golden Pudel resident and acid machine Helena Hauff plus BleeD’s main man Volte-Face on warm-up duties.”

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Compilation Review: ‘Fabric 68 – Petre Inspirescu’ (Fabric)

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Fabric 68 - Petre Inspirescu

★★★☆☆

This is a dark, long, self-showcase of deep house that if spun any deeper would bypass the earth’s core and tumble out the other side of the globe. Leave this to hum in the background and it’s hardly the most immediate, dynamic mix bearing the Fabric name, never mind the argument of whether mixing all your own material is any sort of challenge or spectacle. Yet conversely showing an individuality that the flagship craves of all its contributors, Petre Inspirescu is a character of sorts. Half the time he cowers from the audience having not adjusted to the light that frames him; otherwise you visualize the Romanian scrabbling away, happily oblivious to his surroundings as he organizes a subterranean science slash archaeological dig for beats and pieces.

The mix is veiled in the unspoken and the unknown yet poses a sunken funkiness, a backbone of non-nondescript 4×4 against minor key scrapes and chimes, the slightest hint of the folk-based and the theatrical, the contradiction of the jet black against faraway pipers, after hours percussionists and random rhythm enhancers. “In Miriste” sounds as if it’s keeping its head just above boggy water; “Anima” and “Seara-n Crang” get closer to the truth and more from Inspirescu’s introversion, but contend with mournful or inquisitive orchestra extras. When in full stride, it clutches the straight and narrow hard (the grappling “Murgul”), but it may take time to get inside your head and stay there.

File under: Luciano, Steve Bug, Lee Gamble

Compilation Review: Daniel Avery / ‘FabricLive 66’ (Fabric)

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★★★★☆

Daniel Avery sounds like he’s moving to every beat, feeding off crowd energy, turning every button push and cross fade into an aerobics class. Fabric’s route 66 selector is no idle focal point, though his hands don’t get carried away, trained to teach at tech-house central. With barely a discernible hook to grab hold of for the duration — the kind of set that you come away from buzzing, if completely unable to name a stand-out track or high point — the crowd are kept up for 76 eventful minutes. Featuring plenty of the DJs own stock (Avery’s “Naive Reception” ping-ponging between speakers), it pumps with relentless flavor without being manic, and funks with a tough outer shell that the spinner is unabashed about, eventually making it see the mix home.

Simian Mobile Disco’s “Supermoon” catches ears with its euphoric synth rockets to the moon, well set up by the party-feeding “You Think You Think” by Sneaker. After a literal pause trying to split the mix into sides, the second half feels less ‘interactive’ and with heads clamped down more. Avery’s “Water Jump” heavies up the vibe with bassy breakbeat leading into gruffness from James Welsh and Forward Strategy Group, and a deathly lull between Morgan Hammer & Matt Walsh swarms over the arena to turn the early grins into appreciative grimaces.

File under: Nautiluss, Justin Robertson, Erol Alkan

Compilation Review: ‘Fabric 65 – Matthias Tanzmann’ (Fabric)

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★★★★☆

The first half of Fabric’s 65th expo from Ibiza resident and man behind Moon Harbour Matthias Tanzmann is serious. He delivers bass-driven, eyes on the prize, hostile and hard funkin’ house, switched to a 24-hour bug of garage sickness through Tanzmann’s “Konoa,” minimal but with veins bulging from its temples, faced with being boxed in but using its fists to drive its way out. Quite the dating profile. It’s time to shine is naturally when the kick and bottom end have blown every light bulb in the building, and is the end of the week sound for when you feel like taking out some anger on the futility of your day job. Even the off-the-wall lyrics to Monkey Maffia’s “Sources from the Past” won’t stop the sense of aggravation on the tip of Tanzmann’s tongue, and the only answer to Shenoda’s “The Question” is mean mugging to a tech snarl sheathed in Bucketheads percussion. It’s not full blow vitriol, but wisps of steam are evident exiting from the spinner’s ears.

When Davide Squillace’s “Do Somebody” takes its place, the funkiness is upped but the tension has eased, Tanzmann indicating it’s time to re-button the shirt and straighten the tie. It’s hard to penalise the German for playfully lightening the mood of the party, replacing the thrust and throwing of haymakers with deep house’s marked trudge and tribalism’s ceaseless throb. The best of both worlds then, albeit a little begrudgingly.
File under: Maya Jane Coles, Alexis Cabrera, Daniel Stefanik