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Intelligent selecting and inventive mixing, coupled with a good variety of tracks from
within the breaks genre and beyond, conspire to make this latest in the 'Fabriclive'
series one of the best so far. Freeland's recent LP 'Now and Them' was a quality outing, but in the mix is where you really get a feel for someone like him. Opening with the brilliant spacey rock of "Loveburns" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the track drops in the blink of an eye into some fine, punchy breakbeats and the stage is set for over an hour of adventurous mixing, gut-crunching basslines and totally explosive drops. Indeed, from that opener there's a real "rock" feel to the entire mix that belies Freeland's leanings that way. His re-edits of The White Stripes and Nirvana last year showed this,
and the acapella of "Heel'n'Toe" with its "funk, rock, reggae, soul" coda from 'Now and Them', used to great effect here with Evil Nine's "Hired Goons", hammers home. Things undergo a great tempo drop in the middle with Freeland's own (rather twee) "Burn The Clock" before picking right back up with UNKLE, Telemen and "F-Groove", the b-side to Freeland's recent single he did with Tom Middleton and Josh Wink, "Rise Up". The closing triumvirate of LFO's "Freak", Origin Unknown's remix of Freeland's "Mind Killer" and
Radioactive Man's "Airlock" is clever too, running respectively from brutal techno to
drum&bass and ending with electro-driven breakbeats. In all, a class mix from start to
finish and an excellent primer for anyone interested in what "breaks" is really all about.
Another good reason to go visit the Fabric nightclub out there in thew wilds of Commercial Road, E1 one of these days too. Recommended. |
