Where: Corsica Studios, London
When: 29th January 2010
Amidst the murky depths of south London’s Elephant Castle there is an underground club that often warms the hearts of frost bitten party goers. Corsica Studio’s in-house night, Trouble Vision, offered respite from the February gloom with the likes of MJ Cole, Jack Beats and Instra:mental.
Pariah, though, got the show off to a steady start with his blend of soundscapes, skippy two step and warping bass.
Next Untold continued to limber up the ravers. He dropped his original of 'Stop what you’re doing' with its sketchy lack of beat and ever progressing bassline, paying homage to Wiley’s no beat Devil remixes. After a much appreciated reload he laid down the James Blake remix of the tune and the crowd shacked out.
Meanwhile in room 1 MJ Cole was embarking on a 1hour 30minute set to a crowd wedged in like sardines in the proverbial tin. Battling from room 1 to 2 was a serious mission, there were people everywhere. This was Corsica on uber busy overload.
I survived the arduous 20meter journey to find MJ laying down tunes like the funky remix of Sidney Samson’s Riverside, Zed Bias and his own Fly up your banner (Bashment funky) and an instrumental version of crazy in love with Dizzy Rascal’s Flex vocal, which the raving multitude loved.
In a professionally sound set the superstar garage innovator delivered the unexpected by playing to the rock and ravy student-heavy crowd. A crowd who were wowed by the next act - Jack Beats.
Cultivating an army of followers Jack is ripping up London town. But playing a typically trademark wobbly, fidgety, big basslined hour and 15 minutes that seems to vary little from night to night. Tunes like the Jack Beats remix of Project Bassline’s Drop the pressure, Herve and Kissy Sellout’s Rikkalicious and the Jack Beats remix of Fake Blood’s Mars excited the crowd to a kind of space rationed rave fest.
The normally separate Latino/salsa disco room was opened up and turned into a sparsely populated silent disco. The headphoned massive (or should I say minuscule) bopped away to tunes that were undistinguishable from their moves.
While the Jack Beats army frenzied a different crowd were gathering in room 2 for Instra:mental. A survival of the more musically discerning that would have made Darwin proud. Instra:mental’s Forbidden rewarded the bourgeoisie with its sultry subterranean vibe. The set started at dubstep pace. Then the tempo upped to their half-step D&B, engulfing the crowd in the lowest of the low bass and rattling jungle snares.
Rolling from the heavy atmosphere pf the night’s highlight Shortstuff laid down a mix of dubstep and future garage with melodic blips a plenty. The Brackles remix of Always, mixed intricately with Agent X’s Turbulence 4x4 warper, went down amazingly with the raving masses.
Trouble Vision is fast becoming a brute force on the south London scene and with future line-ups looking as strong as this one it’s easy to see why. With the sheer number of people in the place it’s a shame there’s not more room to properly rip it up. But thus is the curse of success perhaps.
Words: Kerry-Ann Virgo
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