When Dusky announced recently who they'd organised to play at their Fabric night the 14th of March, I was excited. Long had I waited for this moment and I was sure I knew who would be playing. Yet I was quite surprised. Because of the amount of incredible releases last from AUS Music (Midland and Leon Vynehall are just some of the examples), I was naively certain a number of them would make appearances.
Instead, acts such as Jimmy Edgar, Loefah and Joey Beltram were to play. This of course reinforced Dusky's more recent emphasis on techno over deep house, especially with the release of 9T8.
Not long after this, another post of their caught my eye. They put up a link to a Grain song (Artwork's side project), who was one of the acts playing but who I couldn't find any songs by. The song was Untitled 4, a raucous tropical groove that was simple but incredibly tantalising. It was one of the most original techno songs I'd heard in a while, especially in a period for what I considered a musical drought.
And then something even better happened. I'd heard his remix of Midland's phenomenal Trace but the first hearing of it was of poor quality, ripped from the radio and wasn't the fullest version. But then MixMag put up the full version of the song and I was entranced. Hypnotic, odd, inspired and just generally remarkable, it's one of the best remixes I've heard in a while.
Having kept the Grain moniker dormant for 10 years, he's now come back in fantastic form. If there is someone who will make quite a scene this year, it is surely him. I was never a big fan of Artwork or Magnetic Man, but this is a side of him that I truly respect. Sure to shake things up, Grain will firmly root himself (I had to) in a scene that does tend to stagnate a bit.
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