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Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Fabio Breakthru: Valve warm up

Freeness for all Valve ticket holders and only £7 for those without a ticket for a night with BBC Radio One's Fabio, the Breakthru residents and a few new faces.

The crowd bubbled nicely throughout the night, and there was always room on the dancefloor for a skank, with Jayeye rolling it out early on. He dropped some real deepness and a personal fave. Logistics - Together (VIP).

Fabio turned up around half an hour late and seemed to be digging from two separate record bags, one good and one shit. He was dropping 2-3 seriously deep rollers then 2-3 awfully dull boring tunes... to make things worse Long John and Bassman decided then wanted to MC and proceeded to do so. Oh dear, with the "Legendary pair" (I use that term VERY loosely) spitting utter shit over the few decent tunes Fabio was dropping it was painful listening, almost seemed a night of "Karaoke with Fabio" as the guy rolling with him seemed to grab the mic every two minutes and scream "Faaaaabiiiiiiioooooooooooooo" well that's what I heard from outside.

Things soon picked up as new boy SMJ kept things nice and chilled with an hour of sensual liquid rollers, the set felt like one long back massage. Just what I was in the mood for after a busy week at work!

Residents Dan B and Reaction were up next and it was business as usual, plenty of familiar deep, techy, and rolling beats the truly define Breakthru as a club night, Fozz got on the mic and hosted whilst the tunes went on, finally Reaction finishing with the Night (Soundboy remix) which went down a treat.

Finally another new face "Initial" was up for the graveyard shift, with the odd shakey mix he consistently ripped the dancefloor with some techy angry beats, to my delight dropping Noisia - Diplodocus and plenty of other bangers.

On the whole an enjoyable night, didn't really need Fabio, though a shame his set was ruined.
Excellent value for money and roll on Valve.

Few snaps...

"Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabiiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooo"

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This guy was most definitely on Class A's

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A big figure in control of the mic

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SMJ

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As requested

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Reaction

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Frankfurter fest

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and the rest if you care....



Roll on Valve!

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