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D.O.T.S. last week was just excellent. A great little club with some amazing djs (and me).

I kicked off with some 70s roots and dub, brought things up to date with some 21st century reggae sevens and then closed with a digital selection. It went down well and I even managed to throw on the odd CD without cocking things up.

Jason Munro from Dallas followed me with a load of his own dubplates. What he does is take whopping great bits of reggae records and put gigantic wobbly basslines underneath them, which is often very effective. He is a very animated chap behind the decks as well.

Benga, tho – wow. This was proper legendary stuff. His set was of old 8-bar 12″ – basically the ancestor of dubstep and grime circa 2000. The tunes were fantastic – there was an incredibly fluid swing to them with space and womph in exactly the right combination. I have no idea what records he played. I imagine very few people would! It felt very special witnessing the set and everyone in the place was grinning like a loon throughout.

Woofah contributor Alex Bok Bok kept up the momentum with some bassline house, but I missed Boomnoise’s performance art dj set of 80s classics cos I had to get home.

Get down there if you are on the southside for definite – it’s a great night. Hello to everyone I had a good natter with as well.

Next month:

D.O.T.S DANCE N PRANCE at PLAN B

6TH SEPTEMBER

SKREAM (exclusive funk / disco / soul set)
WADADDA (punk / reggae / dub)
ONEMAN (dubstep / garage / house )
VERSION (dub / reggae)
SUBEENA b2b DOT (dubstep)
INFINITE (no idea!)

8pm – 2am

£5 / £3 conc

www.myspace.com/joindots

CHECK SKREAM’S recent FUNK podcast courtesy of RINSEFM.BLOGSPOT.COM

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