Foreign Beggars
Dynamite MC
Plastic Little
DJ Rattus Rattus
Fabric, London
03.10.08
Fabriclive is one of, if not the, best mix collections in music and with Breakbeat master and erstwhile Santogold producer Freq Nasty behind the decks to showcase his upcoming mix, it was always going to be a lot of fun. The evening however, kicked off in room 3 where DJ Rattus Rattus of the Urban Nerds crew dropped old school UK Garage mixed up with some new bassline tunes, making sure the smallest room in the club got their sweat glands going.
Moving down into the main room, Philly funsters Plastic Little were in full swing delivering their usual tongue-in-cheek raps about experimenting with drugs, remixing their own remix and being rich, all whilst wearing ponchos that looked like they’d been made out of moth-eaten rugs. When they broke out Crambodia, their stand out track, the crowd lapped it up and rightly so.
Dynamite MC filled the gaps between live sets by dropping the usual floor-filling rap – M.O.P., Black Rob and Pharoah Monche – as well as some homegrown artists in Wiley, Skepta and Bizzle. It was then the turn of Foreign Beggars to provide the live entertainment and they certainly got the crowd whipped into a frenzy with a mix of old and new tracks, including two huge beats by Noisia, as well as an appearance from beatboxer MC Zani.
After the Beggars had left the stage, Fiji-born Freq Nasty arrived on the decks and immediately pummeled the venue’s collective ear drums with a mix of breakbeats, fidget and dubstep. It was the dubstep that made the set come alive too, with Rusko’s Hammertime almost annihilating the speakers and a groggy remix of Santogold’s Creator [produced by Freq himself]. If this set was anything to go by, his Fabriclive mix is going to be an absolute banger.
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Photo by Premise.