Fabriclive 53: Drop The Lime
<i>Fabriclive</i>'s latest offering veers of the beaten track, but does it benefit from varied track selection?
Moving from warm, pulsating house to his trademark 4/4 bass, future garage and dubstep, Drop The Lime’s FabricLive contribution rises above being simply a club mix. This is carnival music, albeit a rave-carnival: percussive house gives way to the horns and whistles of Foamo’s Centavo, the Eastern chants and thigh-smacking bongos of Zombies For Money’s Kolkata and, of course, the unmistakeable call-to-attention rap of this summer’s dancehall snare perks up those heavy, heavy basslines.
That said, it’s got enough fists-in-the-air bangers to satisfy: old house classics such as Adonis’s No Way Back sit alongside newer tracks like Egyptrixx’s Everybody Bleeding. There’s only one problem, and it happens about half way through when DTL falls into the ‘eclectic’ trap and elbows in Rock Around The Clock. “I’m surprised I got away with putting rockabilly on a FABRICLIVE CD!” he muses in the press blurb. I’m not so sure he has.