digital + spirit + storm

here  you see a very excited horsemouth 

with one of his drum and bass heroes digital.

for many years (ok roughly from 1993 on until about 2003) horsemouth was completely besotted with drum and bass.

his first introduction to it was dj hype’s drum and bass selection volume 3 mixtape (well no ok - he’d heard it coming out of people’s cars in hackney), he listened to the first track until the drop and was then so amazed by the chopped up breakbeats he rewound it and started listening to it all over again.

friends took him down to metalheadz and from then on (fueled by pay from his job) he was off - movement, the end, renegade hardware, grace, whatever the liquid drum and bass night was called, whatever dylan’s night was called, whatever T-AK’s night was called...

hence horsemouth was very excited to hear of a mixed dubstep/ techno/ drum and bass afternoon and evening for free in brick lane.

horsemouth met dave webb up at the gig early on but sadly at a certain point in the evening the venue started requiring photo id to get in leaving three of horsemouth’s friends stranded outside. by this time dave and horsemouth had been seduced by sub-bass (and having various cartilagenous bits of their bodies rattle) and so stayed (gentlemen please forgive him). the three un(der)documented ones found a party in the end. dave and horsemouth on the other hand stayed and spent a small fortune on beer (at pub prices - that is to say five pounds a pint).

producing or dj-ing on his own digital’s tunes are full of spinbacks, horns, rave stabs, sirens and lashings of ugly menacing bass. this makes them great fun - usually digital and spirit (aka phantom audio) were exactly the same but with a single beautifully textured ambient sample over the top. horsemouth can’t recall ever having seen spirit playing out on his own before (but then he doesn’t have any clear memories of seeing digital play out before although he must have). if anything, this time, spirit’s set of tunes was even uglier.

the night was rounded off by dj storm - it was good to see her smiling away as she delivered fresh doses of bass and ugliness clearly still enjoying it after all these years.

horsemouth thought he might have forgotten how to dance (it has been so long) but not a bit of it.