Ah, Fabric was excellent on Saturday - Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Hawtin playing back-to-back for seven hours in Room 1 - paradise on earth. Except it was very rammed and one could only dance in a crabby fashion with arms pressed to one’s side. Unless one was on the guest list and had access to the VIP bar, where things were a bit more roomy. Thanks Nick! Myself, Adrienne and Pier had a lovely time (the Stropharia Cubensis we munched earlier were not unrelated to this), and we left around 2.30am after a good boogie. The sound system at Fabric is just excellent - loud and punchy but somehow you can still talk to the person dancing next to you and be heard. Must be magic.
Villalobos’ debut album, Alcachofa, is magnificent and is already probably my album of the year. He is Chilean-German and infuses his beautifully organic, curly, sad, dark, lovely minimal house with a latin inflection, constantly twisting the time signature like a Rubik’s Cube. Read the review at Pitchfork and then buy it from Boomkat, because they are nice.
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