Judith Priest, The Cavern, 13th June ‘08
By Matt Jackson
Another sweaty night down the Cavern with DJ Critter making his debut at Evolution with an opening set of good old fashioned mash up in the style of Shitmat rinsing out Prodigy’s Hyperspeed on 45rpm and some mad new Toecutter track glitching it up a treat. After many years of Critter aka Christ being a formidable flailing force on lots of dancefloors it was good to see his DJ’ing match his enthusiasm for funky shapes and moshing manoeuvres.
Next up was Barny taking everyone way back in to time with an awesome selection of 91-94 rave tunes. Starting off deep and dark his set built on a solid foundation of tracks echoing in long forgotten warehouses of years gone by and shifting in to more euphoric territory as his set went on.
Junglist Souljar was on at 10 spinning some ragga and built up in to amen frenzy topped off with Splash- Babylon and plenty of other ragga jungle classics old and new as more people started to arrive and got bouncing on the dancefloor.
Then it was time for Count Vanderhoff to take control playing some of his own productions and mash ups, a highlight being the one blending (EIB) – Planet Dust and Brisk & Trixxy’s Exe Opener and some dark tecchy drum and bass and gabber.
Judith came on afterwards sadly not in priest’s robes on this occasion but hammered out some hardcore techno rhythms over a variety of horror samples and noise, sliced and diced in to tiny shards of abrasive sound nevertheless. Everyone was on the dancefloor by this point going bananas to his onslaught of comedic breakcore mayhem and loving it as his set twisted and turned through plenty of time signatures and breaks.
To finish Noisemonkey rounded off proceedings with a set of junglism from across the years spinning some 93 Dillinja, Equinox, Fanu and [NSF] Crew amongst others. All in all a quality night of eclectic mayhem.