Dumont & Sinden @ HYP?

HYP? promise to flank Sub Club punters with a double dose of bass filled house

Article by Rosie Davies | 29 Jul 2009

When HYP? announce they're hosting a three-hour soundclash to end a summer's partying, it's no surprise to hear they've invited two of Dubsided's strongest forces.

One's a Sub Club veteran whose bugged -out, bass-heavy house has been a welcome, party-starting presence on every vaguely reputable dancefloor this past year - step forward Sinden. The other is a fresh-faced producer and HYP? virgin - Duke Dumont, your time is now.

Dumont's doing two very right things just now. Firstly, he classes himself as 'emotronic', one of the official words of the moment, among other equally hip sounds ('acousmatic', anyone?). Secondly, he's taking radio fluff - Lily Allen's The Fear and Bat For Lashes's Daniel - and, with the most delicate of remixing fingers, shaping it a backbone. An emotronic backbone.

Sinden's remixes and productions are equally as impressive, going down the unashamed route of taking dancefloor hits by A-Trak and Crystal Castles and letting rip with summer synth hooks, but it's probably his bounce-heavy sets as one half of The Count & Sinden which justifies his live reputation, recreating the warehouse scene in under and over-ground clubs across the nation.

Playing back-to-back pretty much guarantees it: twice the energy, and twice the fun.

11pm - 3am, £10