ON THE FLOOR Critical mass


TECTONIC PLATES VOL.3 LAUNCH, FABRIC, LONDON


DJ Mag takes a Critical look at Tectonic Plates Vol.3 Launch, Fabric, London


WHAT a line-up! Not for those of closed minds, faint hearts, disregarding ears! Tonight is most certainly a line-up for the heads, each and every room infl ated with the most innovative and forward-thinking artists from the dark and murky corners of bass music. Heading for room two we barely push through the entrance, the room absolutely rammed. It seems Critical is the place to dwell tonight. We’ve hit the room at the right moment, managing to squeeze ourselves up onto the side platform just in time. At this very moment the entire room drops down in synchronized appreciation and steps in time to the sounds


of Dub Phizix & Skeptical’s mighty ‘Marker’. Karsa leaves the wheels of steel as MC Bassline introduces Phace and yet more dark, deep dubs follow. Phace is building the energy in the room to an inconceivable high like a tower of wobbling Jenga, surely there’s only so much this room can withstand. Sweat is dripping from the pipes above and for the fi rst time in our lives we’re indifferent at being speckled with a complete stranger’s perspiration. This is an atmosphere at breaking point and here’s the break, Phace drops his and Noisia’s killer mantra ‘Floating Zero’…


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