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I’ll admit I’ve been continually astounded by how unfamiliar I am with the artists and the tracklistings selected by Craig Richards. “Where does he find this stuff?” in broken record mode I always ask my dealer. And he’s done it again here.

‘Jovian Zoology’ sets a high tempo from the start and with 18 tracks he doesn’t hang about. All full on techno gems that’d keep those Phonica guys and gals happy all day as it’s hard to spot the joins. Regular readers will know I’m a sucker for anything resembling the dark throb of the engine room and the best here are ‘Iky’ and ‘From A To B’ and ‘Knisterpop’.

And that’s just the half of it as CD2 is a live set from Transparent Sound (Orson Bramley and Martin Brown from Bristol). Just press play for the finest ambient techno house. ‘Sucking Lemons’ is a dark prelude to the title track, The Two Headed Monster that was originally released on 12” on Orson. To steel the title of a later track, it is ‘Proper Techno’. Particularly the express train qualities of ‘Spot The Difference’ which are all coming back into fashion (I’m told); Rebirth?

Over 7 years, Fabric fashions have come and gone but it’s remained one of the top clubs with the longest queues to get in to see the top DJs from all over the world, As a record of this, they started their own Fabric CD mix series. Some have been particularly good at capturing DJ sets. Off the top of my head, Carl Craig (FabricLive25) Diplo (Ninja Tune) had some good mixes in it, there was the Rob da Bank (Sunday Best/Bestival) eclectic selection and even Roots Manuva (Big Dada), Joe Ranson, The Herbalizer (Ninja Tune) and Ivan Smagghe.

They are up to No. 30 at the moment (Rub-N-Tub available now) and they don’t look like stopping.

Links:
www.fabriclondon.com 77a Charterhouse Street, London EC1 10pm — 7am Saturday 21st October : 7th Birthday
Room 01: Craig Richards, Terry Francis, Andrew Weatherall, Ricardo Villalobos, Rob Mello, Lindstrom (Live)
Room 02: Swayzak (Live), Matthew Dear, Louderbach (Live), Claude Von Stroke, Matthew Styles
Room 03, The Amalgamation of Soundz, Need2Soul Presents Ron Trent.
www.myspace.com/blackstrobe
www.fabriclondon.com Saturday 28th October, 10:00pm — 7:00am £15 (£12 nus & Fabric First) Smagghe: “This is the scream of the guy who did not want to be pigeonholed.” [Fabric 23 Mix]

Thanks to ‘Brother’ Martin Hectic for his dealership arrangements with Rick ‘Ricky’ R.

Reviewed: V/A — The Two Headed Monster (Orson Records) Cat. No.Orson cd001 Release date: Aug 2006: Notes: CD1 is a DJ Mix by Craig RichardsCD2 is a live set by Transparent Sound
Tracklisting:
1-01 Andy Toth — Jovian Zoology
1-02 Sweet ‘n Candy — Mail
1-03 Crane A.K. — Electrothermid
1-04 Ryan Crosson — Artists Have Bad Haircuts
1-05 Lineas De Nazca — Circuito Interior
1-06 Apoll — From A To B (Falko Brocksieper Remix)
1-07 Lexdinamo — Iky
1-08 T.Raumschmiere — Knisterpop
1-09 Und — Coccopuffs
1-10 Motor — 1.1
1-11 Alex Under — Gavroche
1-12 Joel Mull — Untitled
1-13 Actual Jakshun — Sequential Circus
1-14 Louderbach — Grace (Anxiety)
1-15 2000 And One — Get Down (Shinedoe Remix)
1-16 Raudive — Turn It Off
1-17 Marc Ashken — Hair Up High
1-18 Matt John — Jokebox
2-01 Transparent Sound — Secrets Of The Sane
2-02 Transparent Sound — Voyeurs Chance
2-03 Transparent Sound — Hell Bent
2-04 Transparent Sound — The Cider Club
2-05 Transparent Sound — Sucking Lemons
2-06 Transparent Sound — The Two Headed Monster
2-07 Transparent Sound — Spot The Difference
2-08 Transparent Sound — Proper Techno
2-09 Transparent Sound — Vintage
2-10 Transparent Sound — Variations Of An Attitude