Loefah & Fabio - Head to Head
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Two generations of UK dance innovators pick each other’s brains.
Loefah has helped to change the sounds of UK underground clubbing twice, first with DMZ, the dubstep record label and club night that he ran with Mala, Coki and Sgt. Pokes, and then with Swamp81, a label that drew from 808-driven electro and hip-hop in a dark UK club context.
Fabio meanwhile has been a presence on UK radio since the mid-80s, eventually becoming recognised as one of the most important drum’n’bass DJs. Before jungle happened, however, Fabio and his long-time partner Grooverider were residents at Rage, a central London night where they championed early acid house and the sounds of Chicago and Detroit. It’s this era that we focus on: the interview takes place at Heaven, before Fabio and Grooverider played a “classic Rage set” at Swamp81’s Carnival takeover of the club.
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Fabio is the best DnB DJ IMO - he took in a direction that was fresh and where it needed to go.
Good to hear Loefah in a good chat, and great to learn more of Fabio and his influence. Thanks for the vid
Fabio, knows his stuff!! Great knowledge
EDM, spot on by Fabio. That term makes me laugh every time I hear it!
Middle class lot trying to do a thing that they have absolutely no clue about
Brilliant, more like this please
What a great interview
Wow you need to do more of these
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can you guys upload the full version? without the takeouts? i wanna hear fab's opinion on EDM.
a good video from fact mag for once
that was sick.
BRILLIANT..REAL TALK
A lot of truth spoken there
Awesome insight.
Dons both of em.
wow, this is fuckin amazin.
Big up chaps :)
Yes Peter!
Man, what I would pay to get an invite back in time to Photek's wedding...
❤️❤️❤️
interesting watch
The thumbnail fooled me. I was going to say fabios a British dj in his 50's. Not that guy in the pic 🤣😂 i grew up on fabs
Big up Fabio x
At 12:30 where Fabio is talking about losing the hunger after everyone was ballin out - its attainment of a goal - the journey to attaining a goal is what motivates us but once attained the hunger goes because the journey seems like its over - thats when you find another goal or focus on lack of motivation.
Tyson Fury is a very good example when someone seemingly reaches their peak and how that can be a stress.
yes d&b was the real deal in 90,s but in this decade Swamp 81 is to me beyond genre new bomb
I've got a lot of respect for Fabio, but I'm not sure that was the main reason Carl Cox left the rave scene and went techno. That was the jungle/start of d n'b time in '94, I think Carl just wasn't feeling the music that hardcore had turned into.
Agreed although Carl was playing hardcore techno in 93. But he definitely had the foresight to jump ship and onto bigger things. Fair play to him.
Thanks for that! What's the song at the beginning?
+Pablo Martinez Not 100% sure but it sounds a lot like Atlas - Driftin Thru The Galaxy
+Drumtrip yes bro i think you nailed it :)
Slight disagreement with Fabio. Ron probably played more Reinforced tunes then any other DJ.
dubstep imploded imo. the scene became over-saturated with shit releases, unmemorable tracks, names nobody cares about anymore, and all the OG's saw this and rightfully packed their shit up and moved on. in a way though, i wish producers like loefah, cyrus, DMZ, d1, vex'd etc released more and continued to set the "standard"... maybe the scene wouldn't have gone so far south
Not sure I agree with what you said about "all the OGs", some of them stuck to their guns and kept pushing. Others changed genre or quit music altogether. Out of those who stayed doing music, I have the most respect for those who kept doing real dubstep
Whats the intro music anyone?
+Ross Hudson Atlas - Driftin Thru The Galaxy
+Drumtrip cheers man