Annie Mac Presents

So it's Friday night and I'm chilling for once. This is usually my London mission night, but this week Saturday night sees our regular mash up at KOKO in Camden when Annie Mac Presents comes rolling back into town. We've been three times in the last six months, and if it's anything like the last ones it's going to be another mental night, so I'm on the download (literally) tonight, checking up on who's gonna be playing.

Big tings a gwan

 


In order of who I'm most looking forward to seeing:

• Jack Beats - Wobbly, dirty, nasty electro/fidget house. My favorite sound of last year.
• Rivastarr - Electro house from a relative newcommer on the scene as far as I'm concerned, having not really heard of him until hearing his tracks on the Loose Cannons' show after Snowbombing last year, but I've been loving his sounds ever since. 
• sbtrkt - Deep and bassy -just how I like it. Dubsteppy African vibes and some techy influences. I've not seen him before, so looking forward to checking him out. He's on first at 9:30, so no doubt I'll be the first one on the dancefloor, sticking my head in the bassbins!
• Annie Mac -  Mashes up the best of everything from Electro to Drum & Bass, passing through Dubstep, Disco and Techno along the way. Her show, along with Fabio & Grooverider's, has been my go to wake up call first thing on a Monday morning for a long time now. Expect to find Ian drooling near the front for the whole set.
• Wiley - While I'm not a big fan of his pop tracks, he remains the king of Grime. Back in the day (although not my day -I didn't get into Grime until a few years ago), when he was calling himself Eskiboy, him and the Roll Deep Crew were pioneering the Eskimo sound that has morphed into modern day Grime. Tracks like What Do You Call It?, Eskimo, Icerink remain amongst my favorites of the genre. I saw him live breifly at 93 Feet East a few years ago and he concentrated on the chart hits like Wearing My Rollex. I'm hoping he leaves them at home and gives us a pure, grimey masterclass in where the Eskimo sound came from.
• Sub Focus - He's made some monster tracks and no doubt I'll be going mental when he rinses out the D&B at the end, but I've seen him quite a few times recently, so I'm looking forward to the others more. He mixed Could This Be Real into Major Lazer into The Count & Sinden - Mega last time I saw him at Fabric though, so expect him to mash it up a bit as well.

I might just have to get my mixing fingers out tomorrow and lay down a soundtrack for the journey up there (not that I can actually mix yet!).

Can't wait!