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Back2Front: Heat@Turnmills Review Reported by littlemissgenki / Submitted 21-05-03 19:38 Since HeatEvents’ launch they have taken pride in bringing something a little different to the London hard dance scene. Back2front was certainly not the first time someone donned their clothes in such a manner, but the heavyweights of hard dance going all funky on us had to be seen to be believed. Jump on board this back2front and sideways lurching boat as we negotiate the catacombs of Turnmills and watch them try and pull this one off, with perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening being the new tech room… First up in the funky room was a surprise guest straight off the boat from the motherland and absolutely bursting to make his mark in this land of hope and glory. DJ Kingsize was no box of fags waiting to go up in smoke, this was K3 erupting in Turnmills’ third and smallest room as a good sized crowd went off to his smooth remixing of classic old school tracks, such as Billy Jean and the funky version of Times Like These. The atmosphere was already heady, and it was barely 11 o’clock. Cruising through to the main room Matt Williams had a small but highly appreciative crowd going hard to the likes of Energizer and it was great to see so many harderfasterers already going hard and fast. Perhaps most exciting to this Heat regular was the new tech zone, decked out with black and white walls and errie orange and blue lights like an ultra-tech Halloween special. Ali Wilson had the unenviable task of christening this new den of dance and must’ve thought the crowd had been beamed up by Scottie. While we enjoyed the intimate atmosphere, it was Bunter in the main room who was drawing in the crowd, and this ol pro got our pulses racing with his usual absolute top tunes, which got you hot and sweaty without a gun being pointed at your head. As always Bunter took the crowd way way up, and we still had his funky set to look forward too… But in the meantime it was back to the tech room as Eduardo, our main man from Brazil, stepped up. While it was still no crowded house word soon got round and the tech room slowly filled as those who dared to step in certainly won the lucky dip for Mr Herrera and his happy minions played an absolute afterdark rio carnival set of tech beats. Many a german tech record was played, my favourites being A*S*Y*S’ From Past to Phuture and Glenn Wilson and Staffan Ehrlin’s Arghhh Yea, their wicked mix of A Guy Called Gerald’s Voodoo Ray from their submissions release. Now DJ Herrera is almost as legally blind as I am, but what he can’t see he more than makes up for with his unique sound and his high impact aerobics behind the decks. If you’ve never seen or heard him play I highly recommend getting down to the next Too Much But Never Enough where he is a resident. Back in the funky room funkmaster Matt Williams was serving up a deep dish of ultra funky sounds and beats that had me open armed and loose limbed…indeed, Matt made the line from classic 80s ground breaking film Tron all too real—“All my functions are yours…”. We almost had to pull HF’s very own Camden Nurse out of the DJ booth for some resuscitation. Thank you Mr Williams, you gave a lot of people joy. Next up in the funky room was Billy Bunter—a funky set from the head of HoneyPot records, you’re having a bubble! But it was a case of drop the tunes and watch them fly and superfly they sure did with some timeless old school classics from the 80s being remixed into wonderous things. Sing 4 Unity 2003 pretty much brought the house down but with MJ’s Billy Jean up for adoption again I left my other half tripping the light fantastic down memory lane and went off on a high NRG tour of the rest of Turnmills on this night of many highs… I was now on a mission to see Nick Sentience, who had let it slip earlier in the evening that his set might be a little different to his usual fare. Nick took to the decks in the tech zone and began to take us on a voyage that not even he knew where it would lead us. And how was it different to his sets at Heat&UCP@Coronet and the last Heat@Turnmills? This was pure dirty hard techno, which had me marching through space and time reaching for the stars, until my partner came and dragged me away on parole to the funky room for Steve Hill’s set, via a highly intense main room that Spencer had going mental. The lasers were doing their multicoloured trippy thang and the happy Heat crowd were loving it, with hands in the air left right and centre and big smiles all round. After hearing Steve's superb funky sets upstairs @ HHA and in the wee room at Chemistry@ MOS, I know he’s certainly one DJ who’s just as at home playing funky house as hard. Tonight was no disappointment as he took over from Bunter and kept the usually much quieter funky room in a state of supreme chaos—in fact, T3 had been bursting at the seams all night and now it was positively heaving. Tracks like Music is the Answer were superbly mixed with yet more classic 80s old school…U Spin Me Right Round and Club Tropicana had the funksters shakin their whatevers off, and Steve’s enthusiasm only kept things going higher. But having starting clubbing to such tracks the first time round in a different hemisphere many moons ago, all these classics from my past were makin me feel a bit back to front by now and it was time to go back to the future and check out Heat’s one and only Marc French in the main room. Now DJ French is certainly no jack in the box--he is extremely technically gifted, and reads the crowd very well--but even we were not prepared to be blown away by Marc dropping two tracks produced by another of Heat’s main men, Mr Brad Thatcher, that were so stompin they even dragged one half of Heat’s parents away from the bar and smack bang into the middle of the dance floor grinning from ear to ear. Thatcher’s Wide Awake and Something More Radical had me wondering if this might be the new Steve Blake in the making….I don’t know what was in the water at Turnmills that night but we made it back to the funky room just in time to catch the tallest man in clubland ripping off his shirt and lifting another of the Heat team off her feet and parading her to the crowd as if she was the FA cup…yep, this was indeed a night to remember! Anne Savage had our hearts and minds on high and you’d be forgiven for thinking you were at one of the world’s biggest parties in Ibiza already! But perhaps the best of the evening was yet to come in the tech room. Sterling Moss’s reputation had proceeded him (DJing since he was 16 he’s been a resident at HQ since 97 and is a regular guest at the huge European festivals like Dance Valley where he wows the crowds with his supreme use of three decks, an FX machine and a 909…) but I'd never seen him play. It turned out that the really cool guy I’d noticed lurking round the tech room during Sentience’s set was none other than Moss himself and with his cyberpunk style he could just as easily walked off a film set of some sci fi classic. But for real, this turntable rocker gathered no moss and all his glitter was indeed gold from his supersonic cross fading to his quick silver scratching, this man alone was worth the door charge. I was stunned into silence (and believe me that’s a rare thing…) as the woofers and tweeters rained down tech beats that turned us into a nation of dance zombies all stompin to the likes of Axiom, produced by Apex Records’ Strobe and Moss himself, Remix01 off the Raw label, and Jak1, a hellraising track of Moss’s from Pimp Records. Still in a euphoric daze from Moss’s set I spent the last hour walking back2front from Spencer’s uplifting funk to Anne Savage’s hard tech house—I can’t tell you what either of them played, but they had hundreds of happy clubbers climbing the walls—to finish the evening in the main room where we begged Anne Savage for more…If the back2front fire had been started by DJ Kingsize and Ali Wilson, ignited by Eduardo Herrera and Matt Williams, stocked and maintained by Billy Bunter and Spencer Freeland, absolutely blazed by Steve Hill and Nick Sentience and blown out of control by Marc French and Sterling Moss, it was totally back drafted by Anne Savage. In sum--another coup for the Heat team, who never cease to amaze me with their passion for giving us the clubber the best possible doses of dance music--be it hard, funky or tech--around. With thanks to mrbicgit for the use of his photos The next Heat Event is Heat:Internationals at the Coronet on Friday 23rd May. 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