Herbal Viagra For The Clubber’s Soul
If you haven’t heard of Pojmasta yet, bow down and worship anyway, because he’s in my DJ pantheon and this is my blog. Not content with rocking my subwoofer with his mixes of Toxic (glitchtastic!) and Milkshake (disco!) and Lucky Star (as uncategorizable as the original!), his recent 30 minute Scummer Mix is masterful and creative and groovy as fuck.
AND HE’S PLAYING AT HERBAL ON 8 OCTOBER.
Meanwhile, over here Zouk is on some sort of “Most Boring Fabric DJs Ever” trip with James Lavelle and Lee Burridge, the Heineken Green Room Sessions are continuing straight and unerringly down the middle of the road with Thievery Corporation, and from what I’ve heard so far the big hip-hop DJ at Zouk Out this year is Jazzy Jeff, who is good but I’ve already seen him twice.
No one can deny that a decent stream of big-name DJs come to Singapore, and if time and money permit I’m perfectly happy to go see them. It’s just that I feel that where the sort of clubbing music that fascinates me is concerned, London is charging ahead and I’m stuck here doggedly trying to get enthused about the famous but bland, imagining Russ doing his “bored dance”. (Props to Andrew Chow though. Phuture is my little oasis of joy when he spins.)
So, has this been yet another rant about missing London? Mostly, but not totally. There are a few things that help me cope with not being in London, and one of them will soon be here. Normally I’d be gnashing my teeth about not being able to see Pojmasta at Herbal on 8 October, but given that I will be lying on Sibu beach with Alec on that day, I wouldn’t be anywhere else for the world.
“Bored dance”: Haha. Yeah, that one never fails me. I was doing my bored dance on Tuesday night at The Tuesday Club after Andy C finished his set.
“after Andy C finished his set” = RUBBING IT IN, asshole! Grarrr.
Woah.. that Scummer mix is.. good. He took a bunch of tracks from the cheeziest party album in the world ever and made it sound really slick and interesting. You’ve heard it all a million fucking times but the way he combines it is so unexpected. The Billie Jean sample comes on and you roll your eyes but this guy distorts it all over the place and it sound fresh!
I was thinking “almost as good as Paul’s Boutique” just before he played that track from To The 5 Boroughs. The original is just a really dull retread of Rappers Delight but Poj crafts it into something stunning.
Anymore DJ recommendations Michelle? I don’t know much about grime stuff. :)
Its been five months since Michelle and I have seen each other face to face. Sorry if some soppyness is overflowing into the site, but I think you’ll all understand. I’ve listened to a few minutes of this ‘Pojmasta’ and though not quite my cup of tea, it was errr interesting. Perhaps we can download him to an mp3 player and take him with us to Sibu. I can do my ‘pathetic’ hip-hop dance in embarassingly public places.
You know, for someone who appologised yesterday that he’d be too busy to be online, I seem to be online a lot. The rest of you guys are like this at exam time right?
Thanks for the Poj links. I’d offer to swap links to music, but I’m retro and like to use vinyl. :)
Lavelle is boring, agreed. My experience of Fabric was often that it was too cool for school.
James: I’m not anywhere as clued into grime as I’d like to be, but a good place to find out more is BBC’s 1Xtra, which you can listen to online. Also, if you go to the I Love Music messageboard (linked on my sidebar) and do some searches, there will be loads of threads discussing it.
Daryl: I guess you’ll have to go get yourself a DJ gig somewhere and invite me then. :) Fabric was amazing for its first year and a half at least, but then it started to suffer the fate of all superclubs – infiltration by plebs who just wanted to get rat-arsed and pull. (Girls in the drum’n’bass room in heels! The madness!) Still, for the most part the drum’n’bass room on Fridays did manage to maintain a fairly consistent level of visceral bone-crushing noise, which I liked.
Alec: Pojmasta’s mix doesn’t have Naughty Girl on it, and is therefore unworthy of your silly dancing. Don’t worry baby, some day your dancing will be cool. If it could happen to bell bottoms and blue eyeshadow, it could happen to you.