Wow!! Man did I get a real treat last night. I went to fabric to see adam freeland play with his new live band Free*Land. I was expecting some really hard breaks… that they would be playing something like his DJ sets. Dance music, repetitive beats, deep bass and droney sounds. But oh no, they had guitars and used them to full effect and a real live drummer too.
The mix of music was really weird but good. It started with some great industrial tinged stuff, industrial breaks and industrial dub, crazy I know but it sounded excellent. Towards the end they softened up, the hard edge had gone, and they had some chick on vocals. I can’t remember exactly what the end was like as I was a little mashed at the time, but I was pumped by the end of their set and that kept me going till 5am.
Overall the rest of the night at fabric was excellent too. It’s not the bastion of house music that it used to be. This entire night was hiphop, drum&bass and breakbeat. All very exciting.
