Drum and bass in America had exactly one period of mainstream attention, in the late nineties, and one of the men on this bill was at the centre of it. He never stopped, which in a genre this faddish counts as a kind of moral achievement. Pairing him back to back with a turntablist of the same vintage is the detail that makes this worth the trip: two people who learned to mix on vinyl, in public, with no safety net, doing it in front of a crowd half of whom have only ever seen a DJ press play. The younger names on the bill handle the heavier modern end. A downtown room on Spring Street, late, with a system that can carry the low end this requires. Go for the back-to-back specifically, and stand where you can see their hands.
Drum and bass in America had exactly one period of mainstream attention, in the late nineties, and one of the men on this bill was at the centre of it. He never stopped, which in a genre this faddish counts as a kind of moral achievement. Pairing him back to back with a turntablist of the same vintage is the detail that makes this worth the trip: two people who learned to mix on vinyl, in public, with no safety net, doing it in front of a crowd half of whom have only ever seen a DJ press play. The younger names on the bill handle the heavier modern end. A downtown room on Spring Street, late, with a system that can carry the low end this requires. Go for the back-to-back specifically, and stand where you can see their hands.
Drum and bass in America had exactly one period of mainstream attention, in the late nineties, and one of the men on this bill was at the centre of it. He never stopped, which in a genre this faddish counts as a kind of moral achievement. Pairing him back to back with a turntablist of the same vintage is the detail that makes this worth the trip: two people who learned to mix on vinyl, in public, with no safety net, doing it in front of a crowd half of whom have only ever seen a DJ press play. The younger names on the bill handle the heavier modern end. A downtown room on Spring Street, late, with a system that can carry the low end this requires. Go for the back-to-back specifically, and stand where you can see their hands.