RichM I must say that I saw him play Room 1 of fabric once and it was probably my favourite set that I’ve heard in that room (Room 2 would have been Dave Clarke).
It was around 2006/7 as he played his at the time unreleased great remix of Shackleton ‘Blood on my Hands’. He also played Crash Course In Science ‘Flying Turns’, which is a tune I really dig.
The set was just super hypnotic and trippy. Nothing particularly flashy, but seemingly endless interweaving grooves. For instance, he seemed to have a habit of teasing bits of the same tracks in and out at various points throughout the set, which contributes to the sense of losing track of time - if you’re not locked in then I could understand it seeming odd, but when you’ve been lost dancing to what just seems like the same few tracks being played, but then glance at your watch and an hour’s passed, it contributes to the sense of headfuck.
People joke about his own productions being super long, but they serve the purpose in his sets of being things one can blend in and out of other tracks over an extended period of time, which is what he was doing.
It was the longest I’d stayed at fabric as it was difficult to tear yourself away from before it was finished.
