This was the first drum'n'bass gig I'd ever been to, and I was only going because I'd won a free ticket. Me and Natas and some girls cruised into this at the quite fashionable hour of 02:30. Studio 9 is a small hot dark venue and there must have been a couple of hundred people packed in there under the strobes dancing like maniacs to really loud drum'n'bass.
I slipped into the groove and started dancing, down the front. Some of the mixing wasn't too smooth, but the small few second pauses between each track were welcome reliefs.
Some of the DJs started throwing in rather prolonged atmospheric bits in between the breakbeats, which started cutting the dancing up rather annoyingly, but hey, maybe I was a little too manic for the fact it was 05:00 in the morning [if you've got the staying power the dance-floor really starts clearing out about that hour and you can go nuts].
All in all a welcome introduction to drum'n'bass.
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5 years ago
