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  • Sasha and Digweed Roundhouse 11th October 2024

I’m home safe, thanks Millsy. For me, a really good night! I’ve seen them play at Privilege pre-covid and they were pretty meh, but tonight I thought solid. Sasha went hard from the start, then about an hour of JD around 8 pm then B2B. Not sure if it’s the live performance but it felt like they were mixing into each other’s bass and kicks as opposed to any key/ melodic mixing, so the set felt quite kick heavy and continued in that vein- no melodic floater intros. Sound was decent where I was, getting a lot of it off the monitors. Obligatory shout, but lovely to meet @baggers44, Mrs McCay, and the JC crew @Along_the_Wire @Smallman1 @IndustryStandard @ScottBailey who were on sparkling form. Few money shots…



    Definitely one of the good ones. Much better than hackney last year 👍

    My initial view is that it was decent, thought hackney was better. Sasha by himself was shit sound wise, was so quiet so could just hear chatter. Johns first couple of tracks were fucking great.

    Some belters played in the night but no fucking clue what any of them were

      Had an absolutely wicked night! Sasha was right on it from the get go and was up around the 128-130 mark with no messing around.

      RichM Sasha by himself was shit sound wise

      The sound where @Wasily and I were was great! We were getting a lot off the monitors, but there were also a couple of massive subs right below which were making the ground wobble around us, especially when Diggers came in and dropped some massive basslines!

      I was in the pisser when Diggers came on, but sounded like he got quite the reception!

      Both of them were on fire with loads of unrecognisable tunes. Only one I trainspotted was the Audio Junkies track that I started my Disc 3 with.

      Great to see all the JC crew out again, and big shout out to Alex as always.

          ScottBailey I was at the bar when diggers came on, so also missed that, but heard the massive cheer!

            Anyone know the track at the 7 min mark? That was the start of when Digweed came on

              RichM yeah, that’s the Audio Junkies - Aspects Of Rhythm track that I was talking about above. Sasha’s played it a lot in his recent sets.

                  Had a great evening.

                  Thought Sasha was mint for the opening 2 hours. Shame the sound system was set to ‘shite’ for that part. (I don’t get why you wouldn’t just have it set up from the start when a headliner is playing?) He dropped a track that had a woman going ‘aaahh aaahhhhhhhhh’ over it (similar style to raincry) that was monstrous then Digweed came on at 8 absolutely swinging. (Him getting a proper welcome from the crowd was a lush moment) His hour or so was mental good. They both dropped some absolute bangers. The longer it went on though, the more it became apparent they don’t really mesh together as well as they used to. Digweed bringing the hammer down with driving prog techno only for Sasha to bring it back down (he did a 20 min section that was just cheesy shite - including a remix of what sounded like 9pm till I come (Michael Mayer remix maybe?). Pulled it together for the last hour when it was more fitting to play some closer cheesy ish tunes. Sasha dropped an out of time mash up / remix. Didn’t recognise anything else other than some LNOE tune which is always a result when seeing Sasha and it was nice letting John wrap it up with another round of appreciation from the crowd.

                  Roundhouse was a decent venue. Atmosphere was way better than outernet (mainly because S&D were front and centre, not shuffled off to the side) but not as good as a proper club but hey ho. When I saw the signs saying pt 1 - Sasha 6pm, pt 2 Sasha & Digweed but no time, I did think it was contractual loop hole where he’d only do an hour to make sure everyone got paid so was a relief when he come on.

                  Great to see some faces from the board.

                  8/10 Reckon Digweed will be immense if you can catch him on his todd at the mo

                    Wally think @Wasily summed it up best to me last night. He said “if you heard Sasha’s part on Mixcloud/Soundcloud it’d probably sound pretty average, but the fact that we were stood on top of bass-bins and had the monitors hitting us made it feel all that much more bangin’”

                      Think I heard this.

                      Wally That’s an excellent round up Wall. Had a brilliant night - great to see everyone - particular shout outs to @baggers44, @IndustryStandard and @Smallman1. Even the Doris like it. I was pretty twatted by 7:30 - didn’t mind the Sasha cheese fest, quite nice to have a change of gears. Had a minor carry on when I got in and now feel like I’ve been dug up.

                          Wally still hoping he will do an XMAS daytime XOYO. I know I’m in the minority but I prefer seeing him on his own these days

                            Wally Sasha dropped an out of time mash up / remix

                            Was a mash up of out of time and song for life. I have a short vid of it. Followed it up with a remix of Papua New Guinea.