I arrived to hear DJ Broken Yolk pulling out all the stops with a selection of high quality industrial ragga mash ups. Very nice indeed. No idea what most of it was. Probably a bit cheeky to sample Volcano Sound’s dubplates for your breakcore records, I would think. JA Soundsystems are not people I would want to mess with personally, but presumably whoever made that track feels they are well up to the job. The crowd responded accordingly

Aphasic took the stage shortly afterwards and powered up his I-book. But this was not to be your usual “watch bloke hit keys on laptop” yawn-fest, because of the simple addition of one very loud, very boisterous, very mental MC. Having someone shout out big ups to all the crews never fails to bring up the energy that extra notch and I think it’s well worth going that extra mile for your public.

Things started off bassy, with no beats. Keep them waiting! Finally, when even the MC was itching for some action, in came some crashing amens. The rest was a blur – mashed up funk with a Jah Tubbys Studio siren over the top and some effects thrown liberally into the mix. Occasionally there would be some respite with a breakdown, including one with some great resonating noises (I think from a forthcoming JUNK release?). I really enjoyed some of the slower tracks which were beginning to verge on IDM (a shit term for some good music – this wasn’t plodding noodly stuff, it was really engaging).

All the stops were pulled out towards the end, with the anthems ‘Dirty Face’ (off the Ambush Bass & Superstructure EP) and the stupid fast track off JUNK001 leaving people sweating and smiley.

Like Superman in reverse, the MC took off his shirt and transformed himself into Dionysus – DJ extraordinaire. Things got even messier from that point on, with some serious cross-fader abuse. In the first 10 minutes he’d mashed up speedcore, the Art of Noise, the Ramones, breakbeats, and bagpipes. No mercy was shown…