Shy FX @ Xplicit, 20 Aug

The ferocious Shy FX threatens to scare away the tourists with an onslaught of basslines and well timed drops

Article by Rosie McLean | 27 Jul 2010

As anyone who’s followed Xplicit for a handful of years will tell you, these nights guarantee big crowds, big names and big bass noises. This year’s festival event will be a Digital Soundboy label special, hosting the label's founder, junglist time lord Shy FX, and the label’s burgeoning next-generation talent, Breakage. Long has Shy FX been wise to the music scene, gaining early underground regconition with 1992's Jungle Love, and later commercial success with anthem Original Nuttah. Alongside tunes like Roni Size’s Brown Paper Bag and The Ganja Kru’s Super Sharp Shooter, Mr FX’s most played tune throws most into fits of nostalgia when dropped at the right moment – something he tends to do frequently.

Younger Breakage is celebrating his second album, which features smoking collabs from superstars Roots Manuva, Newnham Generals, Burial and more. In both his remixes and productions he's very much a child of Digital Soundboy’s broad ethos, and the versatility and energy which crackles from all the DS homeboys. Last but not least, renowned bloggers the Phuturelabs collective are hosting the upstairs, so expect what you would from discerning electronic music critics: cream of the crop releases from a universe of genres.

 

11pm-5am, £12