Great Lengths #3

Exactly a month after my last blog entry and I find myself back in the studio in the US of A, after a 4 week European tour that could be summed up as a long list of departure and arrival times, with lots of interesting happenings in between. Following months of isolation writing my album, I was happy to see so many people being enthusiastic about the music at all the gigs, and especially at the two album launch parties.

The album party at FWD>> (Plastic People, on 8th of february) was just incredible. There was such a positive buzz about the night and the turnout was quite overwhelming. Plastic People is a small club with a low ceiling and a big sound system, and to see this army of bass heads vibing on the music was a lovely sight. The music didn't dissapoint - with dBridge's FWD>> debut, playing a blend of innovative hiphop, dubstep and some drum 'n bass he certainly made his presence known. After Dee I did my thing for an hour and a half, playing quite a few album bits and some 4x4. Then Kode9 surprised everybody with a mid90s drum 'n bass set that included "Metropolis" by Adam F and "Your Sound" by J Majik - it was all good after that! Thanks so much to the FWD>> crew (Sarah, Amy, Rat, Geeneus) for having us, and a huge big up to SP:MC and The Spaceape for doing such a great job hosting it all.

A few days later we found ourselves in Berlin at club Arena for part 2: Lovely club with a good dancefloor and lots of little corners and niches for people to chill out at, and a good system. Adam Marshall opened the dance and Scuba brought a good hour of his new material mixed up with some 2step classics. By this time the club was nice and full, a good 400 happy people for a wednesday evening! Kode and I played back2back, again a mix of all sorts of styles, and to top it all off Berlin's main man Marcel Dettmann held it down with a wicked house/techno set, with fellow Berghain resident Ben Klock joining him until the very early hours. Once again thanks to everyone who made this happen: Nils, Paul&Paul, Marcel, Adam and Ben, Philipp and all the crew that represented.

After these two fantastic nights, I'm really happy to announce that North America will get its own dose of 3024. This time we've been given the chance to play at New York's Cielo Club, home of Francois K's Deep Space and a range of other cool nights, for part 3, the revenge of the return of the Great Lengths Album Launch: friday 17th of April, with myself and Brendon Moeller aka Beat Pharmacy. Hope to see you there!

pic by Tom