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Fabric 21: DJ Heather
DJ Heather grew up in Chicago; a city with a rich underground history and perfectly suited to a kid with a keen interest in music. Her parent’s collection of LPs became the backdrop for her own explorations into music. The prevalence
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Fabric 20: John Digweed
John Digweed is a masterful DJ. Given that he began playing in nightclubs at 16, it's probably only right he should be. Back then, kids in the suburbs could only access house music on illegal rave tapes, or through recordings of
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Fabric 19: Andrew Weatherall
Every so often, reference is made to dance being dead, or rock being healthy, or vice versa. It implies the two things have an inverse relationship; that they can’t co-exist. It’s a load of old nonsense, as the work of Andrew
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Fabric 18: Baby Mammoth, Beige & Solid Doctor
We music industry types spend too much time thinking, speaking, and meeting about things that are not important. Actually, they are important, but not when set against the fact that wonderful people, all over the globe, are making such inventive, infectious,
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Fabric 17: Akufen
Every so often, techno throws us a truly classic album, made by an artist with bags of personality and character. Akufen’s My Way (Force Inc., 2002) was one; a heart-stealing blend of gorgeous, glitchy soundscapes, created in self-imposed isolation by -
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Fabric 16: Eddie Richards
There are countless versions of house music’s beginning, and most of them involve Eddie Richards. In his twenty plus years in the business, he’s charted a course to Fabric that’s included stops at the Camden Palace, Clink St., Top Of The
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Fabric 15: Tyrant mixed by Craig Richards
The following has become fact: mixing records is not as important as making records; a resident DJ is less interesting than a guest DJ; creating a compilation isn’t as worthy as creating an artist album. Craig Richards disagrees.
Being totally committed
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Fabric 14: Stacey Pullen
In the late 80’s, Stacey Pullen was a club kid getting off on his city’s past and present. A few years before, a small group of Detroit residents had pooled their money, knowledge and influences and created a new beat. It
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Fabric 13: Michael Mayer
Michael Mayer was born and brought up in the clean air of the Black Forest, deep in Germany’s south-west corner. As a kid his days and nights were filled with music, either liberated from his parents’ collection, absorbed via his bedside
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Fabric 12: The Amalgamation Of Soundz
Musical Roots
Mark: “I got my deep love of jazz and ambient music from my father; my brother, a couple of years older, is really into music too. I started to get my own musical identity as early as 7 years old
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Fabric 11: Swayzak
Fabric Mix
James: “When we put the tracklisting together we were thinking about what we had played here and what we would select to play here. When we used to come in the past we used to try and scare people as
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Fabric 10: Doc Martin
How did he get here? Growing up in San Francisco during the 1970’s, Doc Martin was a company-loving kid in a music-crazy family. The son of a renowned vocalist, rock and soul powered his household and inspired his generation. Following Peter
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Fabric 09: Slam
Slam is Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle. Synonymous with Glasgow’s underground house and techno scene and their sound-searching record label, Soma, the duo have garnered a reputation as international DJs, accomplished recording artists and respected collaborators. During the last decade they
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Fabric 08: Radioactive Man
Keith Tenniswood has been behind and upfront on a variety of dance music’s most-cherished productions. Growing up he was a Hendrix-head amongst the early eighties electro craze and as a teenager frequented parties on London’s ‘Drum Club’ scene. He’d later
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Fabric 07: Hipp-e & Halo
Fresh from their recent Australian tour, Hipp-e and Halo deliver the next blinding instalment of the Fabric series.
Hipp-e and Halo are longtime friends that share a near-lifelong passion. Brian Vargas (Halo) found a job with seminal Chicago record label/distribution centre,
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Fabric 06: Tyler Stadius
Tyler Stadius spent the majority of his childhood and youth travelling the world with his family, experiencing different cultures and varied lifestyles. Exposed to funk, soul and disco through his father’s record collection, he was a quirky, keen, inquisitive kid, never
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Fabric 05: Pure Science
The fifth release in the fabric series is a blend of entirely new material from Phill ‘Pure Science’ Sebastiane. The son of a Greek nightclub singer, Phill began his musical education during his pre-teens. Influenced by new wave, Industrial and
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Fabric 04: Tony Humphries
From the remnants of Disco’s legacy, against a background of social and technological change, the US witnessed an uprising of musical forms. New York bumped to electro and hip hop; Knuckles and Hardy jacked in Chi-town; 3 star-gazing classmates in Detroit
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Fabric 03: Jon Marsh
Fabric's third release collects the warm house textures of monthly resident, Jon Marsh. Jon rose to prominence with The Beloved, their string of late eighties/early nineties chart hits disguising a slow and steadfast route to success. Originally steeped in psychedelia,
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Fabric 02: Terry Francis
The second release in fabric’s CD series is a one-take mix from weekly resident Terry Francis. Terry’s DJ sets have been an acclaimed highlight in fabric’s two-year history, his dual position as scene-stayer and tastemaker being continually underlined. An unwitting ambassador
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Fabric 01: Craig Richards
Since it opened in Autumn 1999 Fabric has rewritten the rule book of London clubbing. Dedicated to spreading the gospel of underground dance music in all its forms, Fabric has kept it's dance floors rammed with clubbers hungry for a taste
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