It's one of the pleasures and pains of living in London. During the summer and November/December you could be going to three amazing things per night. Such as tonight - Terror Danjah, heavyweight producer is scoring a soundtrack to Blade Runner in Stratford, The Roots are playing Somerset House, and my sis invited me to DJ Shadow at that nonsense, soulless 02 venue.
If I had my choice this weekend I would be going to Dirty Canvas at Rhythm Factory tomorrow, to see Jammer (above) live, and Hot Chip play some UKG. Here's this week's Metro club column, highlighting what else is on. Of course there's shed loads more on including Lovebox, and Fabric on Saturday who have Ricardo Villalobos and Mala (Digital Mystikz), and considering everyone's at Lovebox the club might actually have enough room to dance without elbowing someone's drink out of their hand.
Metro Clubs Column July 19th
Dirty Canvas hosts the launch party for cult grime MC Jammer’s Are U Dumb? mixtape. Jammer’s a former member of Nasty crew (Kano) and producer for Dizzee, Wiley, Roll Deep and Boy Better Know. Murkle Man, with Jammer imagined as a superhero, is tongue in cheek genius that grime could do with more of. Tomorrow also features Hot Chip with an exclusive old school garage set, Digital Mystikz’s shyboy Coki’s rootsy basslines and Logan Sama (Kiss), DJing, as Newham Generals (signed to Dizzee’s Dirtee Stank) perform live.
Over recent years, Kinky Malinki’s bucked the house backlash and evolved to become a major London house night. Kinky continues to grow bigger and better, whether hosting nights in Puerto Banus or boat parties and Saturday’s Turnmills date is another notch with a launch party for their second compilation of ‘uplifting house music’. And that basically sums up Kinky Malinki’s vibe: feelgood house that leans towards the funky, Latin and soulful but also incorporates dirty, tribal, tech and electro house. DJs include Space resident Jonathan Ulysses, Soul Central’s deep vocal house and US-style garage and house from Grant Richards.
Seven Year Glitch versus Club Do It! at Elephant & Castle’s not-quite-a-club-but-not-quite-a-warehouse Corsica Studios, reflects the growing influence of DJs/producers such as Diplo, Switch, Aaron La Crate and Blaqstarr. Saturday’s Seven Year Glitch… celebrates rowdy and crude dance music from DJ Assualt’s lewd electro/booty bass, fierce rhymes and rhythms from grime posse Ruff Sqwad and bashment, baile funk, Bmore gutter and crunk from DJs including Prancehall and Faggatronix. You can see the attraction of hosting nights at off-radar venues when they’re hassle free and promoters can charge a bargain £7 on the door.
If you’re looking for a Lovebox afterparty and the official afterparty at Ministry (featuring Groove Armada) is a trek too far, then Fabric’s an obvious bet with the incredibly talented and equally revered Ricardo Villalobos conjuring an epic, hypnotic journey through contemporary electronic dance music, while in room two Mala (Digital Mystikz) creates widescreen, rootsy dubstep soundscapes, and Vex’d perform live.
Sat, Kinky Malinki, Turnmills, Clerkenwell Road EC1, 10pm to 6am, £15 adv, £20 door. Tel: 020 7250 3409. Tube: Farringdon
Sat, Seven Year Glitch… Corsica Studios, Elephant Road SE17, 11pm to 5am, £7, £5 concs. Tel: 0207 703 4760. Tube: Elephant & Castle
Tomorrow, Dirty Canvas, Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel Road E1, 10pm to 3am, £9.50 adv, £11 door. Tel: 020 7375 3774. Tube: Whitechapel
Sat, Fabric, Charterhouse Street EC1M, 10pm to 9am, £16 in adv. Tel: 020 7336 8898. Tube: Farringdon
A version of this appeared in London Metro on July 19th, 2007
