January 1st, 2010 was a sad, sad day for electronic music fans in Perth. Origin, with its killer line-up and super sweet vibe was over. And if you were anything like this reviewer, your head was freakin’ pounding and assuming any non-foetal body position was totally out of the question. However, several days later we were offered a comedown cure that couldn’t be rivalled by any isotonic beverage or ancient wive’s tale. Skream and Benga were coming back for round 2, upstairs at Shape on Sunday night. Break it down for the full review.
“It’s busy! It’s good! We need some action!” was what my taxi driver told me after I waited around 45 minutes to find him in order to transport myself from a (the only?) South Perth hot spot to Shape nightclub on Friday night. The dude wasn’t lying either. Whether it was christmas parties, celebrating the end of another working/studying year, or reaquainting one’s self with a balmy summer evening, it seemed most of Perth was out and about. And what better way to spend the early hours of Saturday morning than a 2 level bass4yaface assault – local drum and bass pumping upstairs and on the ground floor dubstep boundary pusher, Appleblim of the UK was popping his Perth cherry. Break it down for the full review.
Pickles is a DJ hailing from North Perth and is basically the reason I got into DJing and dance music myself way back when (see – four years ago). He likes pretty much every genre of dance music floating around and so it’s with great pleasure I post not one, but TWO, cracking mixes the lad has whipped up in recent weeks. The first is a banging selection of electro/tech numbers that will have you doing some kind of crazy mosh/dance hybrid in your mind while the other, his bread and butter, is a crushing 60 minutes of dubstep madness. That’s right, dubstep. I know PQ isn’t exactly dubstep headquarters, but to be honest nowhere really is in the Perth blogosphere, and I’d like to believe we are all open-minded individuals willing to try/listen to something new. You’d be doing yourself a favour in this regard because it’s an awesome mix, and who doesn’t like pulling the hoody over the head and bouncing to some dubstep every now and then? Full track lists on the flip side… BOH!
Pickles – Randy Harris Live 1978 Mix
Pickles – It’s Fuckin’ Hostep
