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This is maybe the most unexpected show I performed so far. The Next is a little nightclub located in the middle of the historical centre of Strasbourg. It's a neat venue, with a nice staff and a good sound-system, but one can say it's very mainstream music-driven, so the odds to hear experimental, or even electronica stuff there is near zero.

Actually that was quite a challenge for me to adapt my style to this peculiar place. I had to find the right balance between my usual weird no input sounds, and some more musical/danceable elements, so I wouldn't lose the whole audience instantly. Turned out it worked pretty well, as people looked like they were really enjoying the moment. Interestingly, the most receptive were the younger part of the audience. I remember that the deeper we went into the expedition, the larger was the physical separation between the older ones, chatting and smiling in the background, and the younger ones, nervously dancing and headbanging just in front of me.

Thank you very much Nico, Mich-Mich and all the Kollectiv Wolfgang for trusting me and making this weird crossover of genres happen, thank you Ricardo for the great conversation, thank you Flipper for hosting the party, and thank you Crash Server for recommanding my name to the team. It was both a fun and interesting project to work on.

PS: The water sound you can hear in the beginning comes from the entrance of the Next.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers

Expedition 20: SXB2 (Next) [Intro]

This was a promo show with Lawze for Basshertz on Sunday 4th May at the Arcadia Lounge, Bexleyheath where we both played at.

I done an all vinyl set because they needed to be played and Lawze come with a mix of vinyl and digital including some of his dubs. 

Darkspin Track List
1. 12 Bit Jungle Out There – Pills N Shit (Parallax Recordings)
2. Unknown Artist – Midnight Zone (Blueskin Badger)
3. Manix - Intelligent Hoodz (Unreleased Plate) [AKO]
4. Unknown Soldier - Homage To Catatonia [Okbron]
5. Specialist X – Delmar Soul [AKO]
6. Nebula – Love & Unity (Scientific Wax)
7. Haste – Tek [Twilight]
8. Micky Finn & Aphrodite Ft. MC GQ – AWOL [Okbron]
9. DJ Hybrid – 945 On The Dial [Suburban Base Records]
10. Xtra Spice Mikey – Trippin’ Ahead {Soulux Remix) [Future Retro London]
11. Just Jungle – We Not Done [Spandangle Selection] 
12. Ray Keith – Untitled 10 Hotstepper [Kniteforce]
13. Bizzy B – Give It Up [Brain Records]
14. Bizzy B – Dibi Dibi DJ [Brain Records]
15. Theory – Unleash The Flying Monkeys [444]
16. Tango & Fallout – Revelations (Essence Of Aura Remix]
17. Submerse – Nobody Knows [Future Retro London]
18. Flatliner – Dream Odyssey [Out Of Romford] 

Lawze Track List
1. T-Cuts - Dust A Sound [Mined]
2. Java - Come Out [Compund Dubz]
3. WDDS - Spaceship Riddim Jungle Tool [Western Lore]
4. Fyber & Nusance - Way Back When [Compound Dubz]
5. Melisa Morgan - Fools Paradise (Lawze & Hurrian Remix) [Dub]
6. Black Coffee - Superman (Lawze & Hurrian Remix) [Dub]
7. Fish Go Dee - The Cure And The Cause (Lawze & Hurrian Remix) [Dub]
8. Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Lawze & Hurrian Remix) [Dub]
9. Black Coffee - Turn Me On (Lawze & Hurrian Remix) [Dub]
10. Leroy Hutson - So Nice (Lawze & Hurrian Remix) [Dub]
11. Fyber & Nusance - Da Ting [Compound Dubz]
12. Lawze & Hurrian - Rub A Dub [Dub] 
13. Tom & Jerry - You Can’t Do Wrong [AKO Arcade]
14. Pete Cannon - Chalice [N4 Records]
15. Tek 9 - Beg Dem Rizla [AKO Arcade]
16. Java - Number 1 Sound [Steppaz Culture]
17. Tim Reaper - Phonetics [Mindgames]

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