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There was only ever going to be one outcome when the dubstep WHAT THE DJS
heavyweights landed on Manchester’s Warehouse Project
SAID…
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ubstep has landed in cochlea-tickling frequencies rattle from hands on the dancefl oor stay skyward, the @MaryAnnHobbs
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Manchester, then. “When I high to low around the long main room. yelps are no less frequent and elbow room “Massive night up at the Warehouse
say fi sh, you say chips!” remains just as precious. Party in MCR. Incredible vibes...
shouts Londoner Caspa With short sets crammed into the main melting hot!! Big-up all kru in the
from the front of the stage room (Martyn also plays tonight), there’s Straying away from the main tunnel, we place tonight... you RULE!! :)”
at tonight’s Thrasher party at The no time for things to turn stale — not that soon fi nd ourselves lost in the dusty
Warehouse Project. Behind him on the there’s any chance of that happening chambers that lead back to the second @Caspadubstep
decks, Benga resets the record after a when Skream steps up. From his room. Littered with gaggles of dancers “Can’t believe I had the whole crowd
cheeky spinback from Skream who’s just crowd-pleasing remix of La Roux, through and drinkers, they contain a sloped saying this...’When I say fi sh, you say
broken free from the gaggle of artists the hypnotic strains of Joy Orbison’s concrete beach complete with deck chairs chips’! Can’t believe it worked!”
exchanging banter and slugging from beautiful ‘Hyph Mngo’ to the Croydon and a large movie screen. Once through all
cans at the sides. The stuttered beats and don’s own junglist movements, his set is that, things get even darker in the second @Jokergoonstep
shuddering beats kick back in… and off energetic, playful and sound-switching room where the beats are more serious, “MANCHESTER WAS LIIIIIVE!!!!”
we go again. stuff. Amongst a slew of oh-so-serious the heads are more restrained and the
All this jovial boisterousness, jostles for techno nights, it is scenes like this that atmosphere is all the more underground. @GasLampKiller
attention and carnage-fuelled invigorate the Warehouse Project Once seen as a bolted on afterthought, “THANK YOU MANCHESTER. WHAT A
camaraderie sum up tonight’s vibe, and programme to new heights. the second room now feels part of the FUCKING NIGHT!”
explain why so many Manc youths have When Skream bows out along with the fi ttings and the line-up refl ects that.
embraced this fi rst ever dubstep night various MCs which come and go through First we’re treated to Gas Lamp Killer’s @modeselektor
proper at The Warehouse Project. And the dubstep sets, German duo spellbinding odyssey as the LA beatsmith “Massive RAVE up at Warehouse
they really have too. Modeselektor step up to the raised desk weaves psychedelic, trippy melodies with Project in Manchester!.. Just
As with many of this season’s Warehouse and begin tweaking, twiddling and broken beat hip-hop. Mary Anne Hobbs incredible... thank u mthrfckrs!!! :-)”
Project events, Thrasher sold out well in fi ddling with a range of music-making then calls on everything from minimal
advance. The vast tunnelled innards of machines. Their burping, bottom-end staccatos to huge wobbly basslines, before
the underground car park are packed out tech and enchanting, off-kilter Illum Sphere sequences a journey through appreciatively there are just as many girls
by midnight. Already there are plenty of electronica sits uncomfortably amongst post-Dilla beats, 2562 futurism and eerie dropping shoulders and hopping from
backward baseball caps, hoodies and the other sounds on offer (as proven by Thom Yorke re-rubs. heel to toe.
Hunter S Thompson-style sun visors, all being asked “Who is this?” more than Far from the cock-fest you’d imagine, for
skanking at half-pace as Rusko’s live, once during their set) but, for two hours, all the boys nodding intensely and Back in the main room, Joker steps up,
the lights go down and the sounds that
the prodigious Bristolian likes to call
‘purple music’ seep out of the stacks. For
the fi rst hour of his set, the previous
tomfoolery is forgotten and the man
touted as dubstep’s answer to Timbaland
gets serious. Showing greater technical
decksterity than all who’ve gone before,
Joker threads a journey from restrained,
spaced-out future funk, through
tumbling, ink-stained bass to kinetic and
ravey jungle — bossing the fl oor as he
goes.
When he drops The Prodigy’s rave classic
‘Out Of Space’ at gone 5am, the main
room is still packed out and bouncing.
Thrasher might be the newbie of this
year’s Warehouse Project programme, but
on tonight’s showing it’s here to stay.
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