This week's Resident Advisor Exchange was recorded in January, live from Southbank Centre in London. Shortly before their Royal Festival Hall performance with The Outlook Orchestra, drum & bass and jungle originators Fabio & Grooverider sat down with Heléna Star to talk about the show. As you can hear from the applause and roars of laughter throughout the recording, the audience was besotted.
The UK dance music scene would look very different without Fabio & Grooverider's contributions over the last few decades. Coming from pirate radio, where they first teamed up in 1987 on Phase One, the duo would go on to carve out the path for drum & bass and jungle, as well as to influence the trajectories of house, techno and breakbeat. Grooverider captures their legacy best when he says: "We are this music."
Launched in 2017, The Outlook Orchestra has collaborated with other pioneering artists like David Rodigan and Mala. The show with Fabio & Grooverider, which they will perform again at Outlook Festival in June, saw 30 years of drum & bass history packed into 31 tracks.
In conversation with Heléna Star, Fabio & Grooverider discussed how the show came together, as well as their staying power in the scene, the legacy of their seminal club night Rage, how drum & bass is still growing and how humour is a vital part of their relationship. Fittingly, they also cracked a lot of jokes.

EX.605 Fabio & Grooverider

My closing set from smartbar last month. Words cannot even begin to describe, so here are the sounds instead. Big <3's to to the institution and Manifest crew for having me.

Tracklist:
What I Got 2 Give - Teakup
Life In The Jungle - Paul Johnson
Victor's Mezcal - Ste Roberts
Touched By God (Peace Division Remix) - Katcha
I'm On Beat - St. David
Slappin' - CM-4 x Jace Inman
Shut Everything Down - Mosca
Reinforced - Fadi Mohem
God Bless Hip Hop - Alarico
Panzer - Dyslecta
Funk Shed - Lars Hurismann
Pop That P - Jon Convex
Ninety One - Ploy
Mad Console - Atrice
Deviant Behavior - Volyk Artem
Inky - nautiluss
Spectral Hearts (Drum Mix) - Batu
Nomadic - KYAR
Sacrament - Lonefront
 Is it? - An Arvin
Telepatic Abuse (feat. DANNN) - DJ Swisha
Only Time (Freddy Lancaster Breaks edit) - Enya
Nightmail 1 - AFX
Why Not - DJ Bobby x Jace Inman
Self Control (DJ Hank remix) - Boylan
Surrender - EQ Why
Perception - Fadi Mohem
VV Squi - Metrist
Stinky - Ploy
The Hive - Gerald VDH
Will With the Wisp - jar
Whispers - Simo Cell
Eat The Rich - Air Max '97
Baby Boy - OTON
Drug Dealer's Accountant - Any Act
The Whole Place Was Crawling - Mosca
Guttermouth - Wheez-ie
Rinse - Fadi Mohem
The Royal Scam - soso tharpa
Torm 3-33 - Lory D
I Will Find You (Soreab Divine Stage Tribute) - Mohikana
Secret Liason - Source Direct

once upon a late night @ smartbar [20.08.2022] (closing set)

Underground legend and old friend of the Cassette Library, Jaye Ward is in the guest mix this month. Expect skippy, bass driven belters a-plenty!

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