16/04/2008
Today’s one of those days. Brain’s in meltdown, works on top of you, people are spreading their own self-pity about the place like DIY confetti made from rusty nails and sharpened daggers. Still, there’s always a little something to brighten up the woes of bills, come downs, hangovers and problems with your sex life. Go!Zilla at East Village, Shoreditch, for example. I mean, who wouldn’t want to go to a night showcasing some of the finest DJs on the house and techno circuit – the world over? I couldn’t think of anything better.
I should probably purchase a new pair of trainers so I can dance the night away like a hyperactive chimp with 400,000 volts of electricity zapped up its butt, because Swiss house and techno master Ripperton is heading to East Village. I’m not a total house, techno, electro, hip hop and breakbeat connoisseur to be honest. Honesty is the best policy after all. So I’ll do my best to describe Ripperton and the rest of the line-ups sound as simply as possible.
If ever you’ve had an urge to dance to a record by a certain artist after listening to a more chilled out groove by said artist then you’re along the right lines. One minute you’re sucking on a bottle of East Village’s finest and admiring that piece of skirt in the corner, the next you’re on your feet and dancing like a horny bunny rabbit. It’s the change in tempo you see. Ripperton’s techno and house has earned him respect across the field, as one half of Lazy Fat People and Perspective records. So he’s obviously fantastic.
Resident DJ James Priestly, just one reason why Go!Zilla is so popular, will be joining AKA resident Karl Gonzales downstairs in the venue. Both dip into the whole deep house vibe, whilst James has been busy as a bumble bee working on his own honey-dipped sweetness. Priestly has been co-producing much revered EP ‘The Source’ and is remixing ‘Happy’ taken from Robert Owens new album ‘Compost’. We’re assured that it’s a very good album and shouldn’t actually be thrown into the rest of the shit and mud to be used as fertiliser next year; despite the name.
Upstairs will host names that are just as big on the dance circuit. Who’s Afraid of the Cosmic Truth return to Go!Zilla on the back of some of the finest off-the-cuff parties this side of London. Then you’ve got Quiet Village, consisting of Matt Edwards, he of Radio Slave fame, and Joel Martin. The pair will be sharing a “unique blend of Balearic nu-disco,” which can only be a good thing. Despite the bills and the rest of the crap that makes up an average day, I’m almost smiling now. One things for sure, I’ll definitely be smiling on the night.
Go!Zilla at East Village
Saturday 19th April
9pm – 4am
89 Great Eastern Street,
Shoreditch, London,
EC2A 3HX
Tickets: £8 (before 11) £10 (after 11)
£6 (NUS b4 11) £6 (concession b4 11)
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