Review: Seth Troxler's Acid Future at Tobacco Dock

After a heavy night at Fabric on the Friday with no sleep, we headed straight to Seth Troxler's love letter to all things driven by the 303, that being his special one off festival - Acid Future at London's Tobacco Dock venue.

The unique and industrial setting was the perfect place for the sweaty, techno-loving masses that swarmed in ready to rave, with dedicated party animals coming as far as Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester to touch base for the debauched celebrations.

Kicking things off in the second room was the ever-eclectic Skream with a techno set, playing classic cuts such as Larry Heard's 'The Sun Can't Compare' (below) to the beat hungry crowd.

During the week the space is used as a car park for the nearby city slickers of Canary Wharf, making it the perfect throwback venue. It arouses thoughts of the old skool days of illegal warehouse parties when all you needed for a decent place to lose your inhibitions was a great sound system and thousands of loved up ravers dressed to sweat.

Later on we checked out the legendary Arthur Baker and The Martinez Brothers banging out a tribute to the symbolic 808 machine with an exclusive live show in The Little Gallery area, that saw a weekday conference room decked out with 250 disco balls and complete with lasers.

Even though their set was short but sweet, only clocking in at around 30 minutes, they managed to find time to bash out a special mix of Afrika Bambaataa's influential 'Planet Rock' that Baker himself produced.

Stepping up to the dub plates afterwards was Tom Trago, who spinned a mixture of old and new, including Telex's 80's electro fuelled 'Moskow Diskow'.

We headed back into room two just in time to catch 80s acid house pioneer Danny Rampling take to the decks. This was when the party well and truly kicked off as the intense, squelchy techno tunes Mr Rampling was dropping sent the mad-for-it ravers into a crazed frenzy.

Stepping up to carry on the shenanigans was the legendary selector DJ Harvey who tore the roof off the venue as he played the insane ten minute version of Adonis' ridiculous 'No Way Back'.

After getting caught up in the madness of room two, we made our merry way to the sparkle infested Little Gallery to hear glitchy techno enthusiasts Paranoid London's epic live show. Their throbbing set consisted of club favourites 'Paris Dub', the rawness of 'Transmission 5' and game changer 'Eating Glue' that brought the house down.

Stepping up to round off the nights antics was Glaswegian party boy Jackmaster who got the masses hungry for more disgusting techno goodness.

Fresh from an unforgettable set at the Boiler Room just a few weeks ago with US garage sensation Armand Van Helden, the club connoisseur played a number of thumping tracks that included a special slowed down mix of Lil Louis' sleazy 'French Kiss' and Da Posse's thumping 88 tune 'In The Heat of The Night' (above).

Here's hoping that a second instalment will hit the 'high' seas near the shores of London's scenic Docklands in the near 'acid' future!

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