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Audio Doughnuts bring out another long line-up event this time at Hidden. The main headliner is being kept underwraps, but look out from a live set from Rustie, who's currently been to blame for a number of heads exploding due to this anthem:
Grabbing LV & Joshua Idehen is a savvy move after their excellent Routes album, and you can be sure there's going more than a few gunfingers when this one drops:
There's a whole bunch of free tracks to download on the Oris Jay soundcloud page, highly recommended.
Audio Doughnuts always has a ton of residents, so if the future music and weird beats aren't your bag, you can be sure to be skanking away in Room 2 to the skilled smaller names.
I went to the last Audio Doughnuts on the Sunday of Notting Hill Carnival.
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I rocked up to Corsica Studios relatively late (around 11.30pm-ish) to behold a lengthy queue trailing from the front. Thankfully I had a press pass (natch) so was also to skip on through. Corsica Studios is a funny ol' club, with it's unintuitive layout of
corridors and sparse decal. However, this had to effect of making the proceedings feel more like a house
party than a clubnight, albeit a house party with a hefty Function One soundsystem.
I walked into the main room to the sounds of Mella Dee from Mista Men smashing it with a high energy set stirring the thick soup of people on the dancefloor. Besides awesome DJ sets, Mista Men have recently collaborated with Detboi for a release coming out on Hervé's Cheap Thrills label. Zoop.
After Mella Dee's set we went outside for a fag and general vibing with the friendly crowd before Boddika took to the decks.
I was crushed to find out my old SF pal Kozee couldn't make it, it turned out that UK customs turned her away at the border and made her fly back to the US! She needs to get back over here sharpish.
Boddika played a 45 minute set and went in hard with from the outset mixing magnificently. The fact that he can switch and hold usual bass heads so significantly with his detroit style electro is a credit to the innovations of his production. His analogue sound flourished on the Function One speakers immersing the dancefloor deeply.
Highlights of Boddika's set was this tune getting wheeled:
Boddika finished on this anthem:
His set left me thinking that Boddika could be one of the most important recent producers in the UK right now in UK bass music.
French Fries had the unenvious position of being the following DJ, a tough role considering Boddika's class act. He switched the vibe and took things downtempo for a dark poised set, there was no 'Senta' style galloping here. French Fries was billed very late in the night, so the low brooding beats fitted the night's progression.
On the train home from Waterloo I was nudged by a ticket inspector who found my ticket outbound curious as the train was heading back to central London. What felt like a blink actually was a lengthy slumber on the train, missing my stop twice going both ways. An indicator of a great night, no?
Watch out for our Outlook Festival review, coming soon!
