Audiojak Fri 7th March – The Cell, Lincoln

Audiojak Friday 7th March 2008 – The Cell, Lincoln. The first of the monthly parties with Audiofly playing a very special four hour set!

Eva Oyon

Date published: 19th Feb 2008

2007 was special for Audiojak. Whilst 2006 saw them begin their mission to educate and inform the Lincoln population of the qualities inherent in underground dance music, this was the point where they began forcing the issue. Hauling down previously unthinkable names like Ivan Smagghe, Lee Burridge and Paul Woolford, not to mention a serious roadblock when electro leviathan Erol Alkan came to party, they quickly began changing the way of thinking in the city.

The Modus Operandi suddenly shifted to the leftfield, the harder to reach aspects of dance music were suddenly thrusted into Lincoln’s way of thinking and the city will never look back

And so now the commitment steps up a gear. Last year was focused on sporadic events, expertly designed to ensure that the remit soaked in slowly on the city, but in true unrelenting fashion, Audiojak has now gone monthly.

The first Friday will see a renewed effort from the club to refashion Lincoln’s clubbing scene, with a further emphasis on every exciting aspect of electronica promised. Added to the twisted excursions through acid, minimal, techno and electro, Audiojak is now exploring dubstep, disco and neo-soul, roughing up the vibe considerably. More parties inevitably means more possibilities, and the expansion in club hours makes for a push into these newer musical pastures.

The first shindig sees Anglo-Italian duo Audiofly stepping up to the Cell platters. The techno tag team have been one of the twenty first century’s success stories, crafting some seriously emphatic dancefloor fodder for the noughties’ Warehouse Generation. Warped grooves, skewered house, stripped back funk and flaky acid fly incessantly out of their productions, recorded under a staggering list of aliases (Rekleiner and Sleeper Thief among them) and fired off on labels like Get Physical, Mobilee, Dessous and Steve Lawler’s imprint VIVA. It was for Lawler where they first cut their teeth as DJs as well with a residency at his Ibizan Jaunts for Viva at Space.

Since then they’ve become international players in their own right, appearances at the Panorama Bar in Berlin, Space, Pacha and Amnesia on the White Isle, regular fixtures of the WMC and frequent purveyors of London’s underground like Mulletover and Players at The End. This kind of global pedigree makes them perfect for the first stage in Audiojak’s 08 manifesto... standard bearers for the new era.

They are joined on the night by Audiojak’s resident dream team, the Karpet Kritterz and Plastic Soup honcho General Jimmy. KK remain the organisational nucleus behind Audiojak, their DJ sets retaining the organic flavours of the musical output, whilst General Jimmy remains their loose cannon with his excursions through the outer limits of the modern dancefloor. Local hero Mark Green also plays, making his Audiojak debut by warming up for Audiofly.

The Full Line-up

Audiojak

Friday 7^th March The Cell, Mint St, Lincoln LN1 1UB

Audiofly

Karpet Kritterz (Dan Travis, Adi Dales, Rob Cole)

General Jimmy (Plastic Soup)

Mark Green 01522 541677

9pm-4am

£6 NUS or Snifty/£7 all others