Tasty Weekender

Anybody laying off the booze or taking it handy for November can be forgiven if they break their pledge a few days early, as the last weekend of the month is a feast for Dublin's techno scene. On Friday night, Berlin's Tobi Neumann comes to the Button Factory. Neumann is well known for his minimal mastery, is a regular at Fabric, Watergate and all the major haunts, and comes highly recommended. As his MySpace says, "if they aren't yelling, it ain't Tobi". How German is that?

The following night, after no doubt a bottle in the Bernie, we will be off to Twisted Pepper to see Ben Klock AND Carl Craig. An outrageous pairing for such a small venue, this is a big one. Tickets are on sale on tickets.ie and I can't imagine there being any on the door by the time this one comes around. We don't need to say too much about either of these, we have already sang Klock's praises in our EP preview. By all accounts his set there was a mesmerising, deep, dark roller, very in the style of the Berghain crew of which he is a part. Carl Craig is one of the grand daddys of Detroit techno. Not quite as causal in the origination of the genre in the late 80s as the likes of Juan Atkins, Mike Banks, Kevin Saunderson et al, Craig was influential in keeping the ball rolling in the 1990s. As the Berlin and Detroit techno scenes started to merge, Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills and Craig were very much the chief characters in the fusion. Expect soulful, funky yet heavy-hitting drums to be the order of the day for his set.
A big weekend for Dublin, don't miss out!!!

Here's a video from Carl Craig's visit to Dublin in 2006, it takes about a minute to get going but you can hear the crowd's reaction, phenomenal!!