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HeatUK Great Artists @ Turnmills (12/7) Reported by littlemissgenki / Submitted 06-08-03 13:20 Another eagerly awaited party from the HeatUK team, and even with one half of the dynamic duo suffering the trauma of almost losing a leg in the battlefields of Ibizan Heat, all the ground work had been laid. The stage was set for M and M to drag the high class clubbers of Turnmills back down memory lane to some of the bowels of this dark hard harsh place we call hard house. But don’t let me mislead you—Heat had not booked the mother cursing chainsaw wielding blonde bimbo of the hip hop world, Mr Marc French had invited one of the Godfathers of hard house and a Trade legend. This was no counterfeit, but the real Sir Ian M. And this was more than just two great artists having a dual—this night was truly filled with great artists. So sit back, relax and let me paint this postclubbing classic for you. As DJ Coaster breezed into the fully loaded pallet that is the main mixing booth at the world-renowned Turnmills, he had a half filled dance floor to paint on, which is no mean feat at such an early stage of the night. It could well have been the warning on tickets to get there before 11pm, but I’d like to think that this new light is good enough to drag people away from the pubs early enough to hear what he has to play. He didn’t disappoint and had the floor stomping. Any thoughts of a few more jars in some of the trendy bars around Farringdon clearly left the building as Coaster spun what I would classify as a perfect blend for this stage of the evening. Next up in the main room was Snake, not his first sliver across the Heat team’s DJ canvas and this serpent is really getting his fangs into the scene with bookings across the board. Unlike some of his DJ peers he stands on his own, behind the 1’s and 2’s and had a good old street-like DJ name: this may seem a bit silly to the dedicated scenesters out there, but I feel choosing a non-human DJ name takes away the ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ factor somewhat slightly. Not only can this DJ rock the house, but he looks great in head phones and wears superb shirts. If Coaster put the ink in our wells, Snake sprayed it up the walls with his ghetto love. You could easily have been forgiven for thinking it was 3 am and not just after midnight as tracks like Escalation had the happy Heat crowd going hard out. Here in the home of the Gallery one of the main commissions was about to be etched by one of England’s most famed hard dance artists, as Spencer Turner Freeland took to the easel. He filled the canvas with his freeland hard mix of hard house and trance, making it easy to forget that there was more to this night of great artists than just hard dance. Meanwhile, in the funky house room MJ Fairweather, Ryan Briggs, Christian Lewis and Marcus Wallis kept the Turnmills faithful very happy to have sloped into their gucci loafers and grooved back down to Turnmills for a night of feverish hot step and a shake down, as the house room stayed cool and funky all the way down the play list. I’d even go as far as to say the atmosphere in the funky room rivalled that of the main room—and it was just as rammed. But as if by magic a third room, unadvertised, had been painted on to give us a treat to bring our heart rates down but our toes still tapping. This secret garden of a room was decked out with cult classic film billboards and hosted by the thirstydjs team, who I must thank for playing a funked up track off one of mrbicgit's favourite healing albums of all time, Tracy Chapman’s debut album. For after hearing that he managed to stay on cloud 9 even after splitting his trousers right up the back…too much cake perhaps? You could only laugh at this ironic act of losing the seat of his pants as one of the biggest Trade DJs was almost due to play. Yes, both funky house rooms were jumping but it’s the hard shit we came for. If your head was spinning from the tunes Spencer made then now your eyes were fixed on the roof of the Clerkenwell ceiling, for it was Marcael Angelo French’s turn to white wash the place and fill it with his unmistakable heavenly vision of hard trance utopia. If you’ve ever wondered where he finds some of his hard dance tunes you’ll have to travel through time and space to hanger 51, as not only is he a great DJ but he produces some sublime tracks himself. Marc graced our ears with Sharkboy’s Harmless and his very own Killer Disco, one of my favourite summer anthems, and judging by the crowd’s reaction I’m not the only one who feels this way. Marc finished this stormer of a set with Peroxide Records’ new release Blow my Mind by Danny Gilligan and Todd Tobias, and talk about ending on a high note! But all good things must come to an end, so it passed and Marcael Angelo’s delicate brush work was traded in for the obscene life and times of a master of ear piercing soul bleeding hardistic talents of one of satan’s little helpers and Trade’s handbag hard house (but not the silly kind of handbag you see being danced around but the kind that Maggy, the original hard lady, would knock teeth out with). Time to step up and just like Salvador Dali painted warped dreams Ian M had us wishing we’d never woken up for if you like hard house for its hardness than this is one DJ you really have to hear. The main room at Turnmills was ram packed and for the fainthearted fainting was no escape, it was shoulder to shoulder so they would have come to for more of the same. Only a flat line would have got you out, but Ian M had no flat notes, each record seemed to go higher and harder up the Richter scale. It was an earth shattering set, people were falling through the dance floor and even the hardest of stompers found it harder and faster than they ever had before at Heat. Even as people picked themselves out of the ruins of what was once their sane minds, Ian Dali M had yet more satanic verses for us. I think I heard a canon go off and the sprinklers come on, for if it was a firework surely I would have heard it? The Turnmills laser made me feel like I was a slug under a magnifying glass in the midday sun with no way to run and nowhere to hide, had me praying for the crucifixion—Christ, what a hard set! Even though it was hell for leather and my ear drums still haven’t forgiven me, it was worth the trip to Turnmills for this hard fast set alone. HeatUK's usual suberb production complete with multicoloured laser and glitter bombs was just an added bonus. As Ian Dali M had painted his last self portrait in his set, the over heated crowd drew in their breaths and hoped for a little respite. There's always the danger after a particularly hard set that things can go too flat though--indeed, the flatness of a post-LAB4 Convergence of yesteryear springs to mind: where is there left to go after that many beats per minute? So all eyes fell on Frantic’s resident golden child BK, and if we were hoping for a bit of relief from the night’s commissioner HeatUK we was not going to get any from this kind of hard music. Like Van Gough, BK set to work carving that soft flesh on the sides of our heads (known to us as ears), dragging us on his abstract vision of twisted hard dance with the cry of Revolution ringing in our lug holes, there we stomped til it was time to leave this ram packed night filled with some of the greatest artists of these hard dance times. A big thanks and congratulations to the HeatUK team for recovering (?) from Ibiza to throw a fantastic party of great artists. Thanks to mrbicgit and midnight expressions for the use of their wicked photos. The next HeatUK party is Evolution at Turnmills Saturday 9 August - for full details click here Photos courtesy of Midnight Expressions Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster :: Other Features By littlemissgenki: HeatUK (The DVD) – From The Backyard To South West Four - World Premier Preview: Interview with SnowBall Productions Paradise City 001 Preview: From free parties in pubs to private jets—interview with Antiworld promoter Enrico Sorbello Blatantly Brisk: interview with Paul Nineham Paradise City 001 preview: interview with Mauro Picotto Never Enough Maria: Interview with the Queen of Hard Dance The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable. Comments: From: Danny Gilligan on 7th Aug 2003 16:25.02 what a great write up! welldone! From: FrankyB on 12th Aug 2003 08:13.34 yeh wicked review mate!!! It was certainly a wicked night From: Duinkonyn on 21st Aug 2003 11:13.55 It was 1 of the best n8's ever and on my bday aswell.

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