Night Slugs


Having run for just shy of two years, L-Vis 1990, Manara and Bok Bok's Night Slugs clubnight has charted the cutting edge of bass-heavy gutter music with admirable consistency. With an ethos that stays true to club music's function as floor filling party music as well as continually highlighting innovation and experimentation, Night Slugs has successfully surfed developing trends in UK bass music whilst boasting ridiculously fun line ups and parties. Over its short history the London party has hosted grime legend Terror Danjah, the relentlessly boundary pushing Zomby, hype party crew Trouble & Bass and a who's-who list of UK Funky's best proponents: Roska, Lil Silva and Scratcha DVA to name a few. 


As with all such endeavours, it was only so long before the night made the leap into becoming a label. Bok Bok's essential Sub.FM radio sets have always showcased a dizzying array of unreleased dubplates, many of which not just totally awesome, but also lingering in obscurity and label-less. With their first release the crew show themselves to be excellent selectors as well as party DJs, with Night Slugs 01 being headed up with the much hyped debut release from Mosca. Square One's tell tale synth hook might ring some bells having spent the last few months being rinsed by every DJ worth their salt. Even more excitingly, the EP boasts a jaw droppingly good remix package from a laundry list of the UK's best rising stars. Bristol's own Julio Bashmore makes an appearance off the back of the Dirtybird released Um Bongo's Revenge, Roska continues his ubiquitous presence around every release worth owning and the Night Slugs guys both contribute their own rerubs. A fairly essential purchase for any fans of remotely funky party music.



And it doesn't end there either. Remarkably good producers in their own right, L Vis 1990 and Bok Bok have tons of devastatingly good dancefloor destroyers on the brink of release. Continuing to fufill his role as UK bass ambassador to Mad Decent, L Vis releases the remix package of last year's excellent United Groove. MJ Cole's refit bolster's the original's haunting tribal stomp with some serious bass weight whilst TRG ups the groove with some of his textbook percussive flex. On the brink of release for Bok Bok is the brilliantly off-kilter Citizen's Dub, coming via Blunted Robots. A disorienting, rising and falling rainbow coloured synth line lends some psychedelic power to the funky template whilst Bubbz lends a few gurgled bars, fittingly about being too drunk to stand up straight. At Numbers' ridiculous take over party at Fabric at the beginning of the month it got numerous airings in every room, its pretty nutso and looks set to really bring Bok Bok out of L Vis 1990's Diplo endorsed shadow.



Simon Docherty

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