Audio celebrates eight years at the helm of Brighton dance music with a stellar line up both upstairs and down, including Oneman, Boddika and Pariah.
Self-professedly a ‘clubber’s club’, Audio has maintained a firm grip on the scene by consistently providing big names and carefully balanced demographic between its slick upstairs cocktail bar and solid underground club. Their eighth birthday promises a fluid interchange between the two, with disco, house and hip hop DJs such as Tru Thoughts’ Robert Luis upstairs and some of the forerunners of dance music below ground.
The latter sees Boddika return to Brighton for the first time this year. Previously one half of instra:mental and longstanding collaborator with Joy Orbison (see their masterclasses in razor-edged genre-hopping 4/4 ‘Mercy’ and ‘Dun Dun’), Boddika produces analogue-heavy metallic beats equally dependent on acid house 303s as juke hi-hats and mellow 90s synth washes. His sets deliver similarly blistering doses of techno and bass, as grizzly as the man’s bald head.
Joining him, Oneman as much a ‘DJ’s DJ’ as Audio is a ‘clubber’s club’, is equally known for a tendency to drop huge hip hop and soul classics as an unmatchable collection of the freshest dubplates in town. A frequent resident of the Boiler Room, his sets unflinchingly segue from Hudson Mohawke to Bobby Caldwell through old school garage and r&b. A master in the field.
Similarly eclectic, Midland has previously collaborated with the likes of Pariah and Ramadanman, but also remixed acts as disparate as chillwave hipsters Washed Out, 90s rave nostalgic Lone and new wave house pioneer Julio Bashmore. His sets have been hailed by Boiler Room as some of the finest they’ve seen and will complete an almost impossible to beat lineup at Audio this Friday.
£10 + BF, 18:00 til late.
For more information visit www.audiobrighton.com
