The monthly electronic institution known as
Fabriclive has released their newest mix with
Simian Mobile Disco at the controls. Download link available below.
Here's what
Pitchfork had to say about the mix:
"While it passes the test of a versatile, well-assembled mix-- sounding smooth-flowing as a whole, but varied enough to sound weirdly choppy and jarring if you skip to each successive track after a minute-- FabricLive 41 also has the benefit of boasting two major peaks, one early, one late. The aforementioned "Blind" bleeds its way into the outro of new SMD cut "Simple" (a sharp bit of retro-pop-lock Detroitness), then burbles and crests over seven and a half minutes of epic slow build that firmly anchors down the mix's momentum four tracks in. It's bookended sharply by a manic segue between two mid-90s classics, Plastikman's military drumroll arm-flailer "Spastik" and the insistent panic-attack thump of Green Velvet's "Flash", and the ensuing rattling stampede makes it the ideal climax to a mix that largely builds itself on a indie-friendly revival of predecessors like these. This peak is then awkwardly followed up by the actual set-closer, the Walker Brothers' vaguely Roxy Music-esque 1978 disco bid "Nite Flights", which drags that jittery intensity out into the middle of the street and runs it over with a car (albeit a really sleek-looking Lotus Esprit)-- but that's the risk you take with the nu-rave vanguard, and FabricLive 41's reward-to-risk ratio is high enough to recommend it easily." -Nate Patrin
Fabriclive 41: Mixed by Simian Mobile Disco
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