Electric Dreams

Oh my head is bloody sore today, but I’m sure there are a lot of other people in the same boat. I was out last night at Dublin club Electric City, which was celebrating its fourth birthday. I don’t know how the EC guys have managed to put on the club every week for the past four years, booking new guests all the time and sacrificing a large part of their own lives to run the night. In doing so, EC has become an institution of sorts in Dublin: in my opinion, and I’ll probably get criticised for saying this, it’s the only club that regularly books proper electro and techno guests -  the list is close to endless and reads like a who’s who of these international communities - acts that later cross over or get to play at the bigger events here. Last night, Modeselektor broke their EC cherry and rather kindly gave the organisers, Giles and Simon, a tiny fairy cake with a solitary candle in the middle to blow out. It was funny to see so many indie kids at the club too – even though Modeselektor were Djing rather than playing live. They played one (or maybe two -  sorry, my memory is hazy!) track(s) from the album, a bit of dubstep, Audion’s ‘Mouth 2 Mouth’ (can we darft a law to forbid anyone from ever playing this record again?) a mad new release on Speicher by Jurgen Paape and quite a bit of Germanic minimalism. It was a good, fun way for EC to celebrate four years as custodians of underground clubbing, so here’s to the next four…

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[Jay]

My brain has been replaced with a vibrating cabbage.

[Brophy]

My brain has been replaced with a vibrating cabbage. - surely that's progress?!!