Delete @ Jacobs Market, Cardiff
Fri 24 feb
My favourite DJ finally comes back to Cardiff, for the first time since he visited Clwb Ifor Bach nearly four years ago in a dream team also comprised of Floating Points and Andrew Weatherall. This event, courtesy of Buzz favourites Delete in the excellent subterranean space beneath Jacob’s Antiques, is likely to have a more deep and dark vibe that Ben operates brilliantly in.
Starting to make his name during university in Leeds, Ben Thomson was part of the internet-linked diaspora of non-London-based dubstep fanatics early in the genre’s genesis. Now, he is one of the most ardently loved and sonically unique DJs in the UK. In 2013, Ben UFO was inaugurated into the esteemed canon of the Fabriclive mix series – a milestone representing the unpredictable and exciting influence he and his label Hessle Audio have had on electronic music in the last decade.
His, and the label’s, trajectory through dubstep, garage, UK funky, house, techno and all sorts of cross-genre hybrids has been shared by thousands of listeners and DJs alike. His hallmark has seemingly been a belief in the power of the DJ to transcend genre. Beginning as one of those feted selectors of the nascent dubstep scene, like Oneman and Braiden, who blended whatever worked, whether 4/4, halfstep, or 2-step, Ben Thomson’s mission statement has been to intertwine strands of modern dance music culture that have sometimes threaded together, and sometimes unravelled.
Tickets: £20 (sold out – find Delete Cardiff on Facebook for spare tickets). Info: 029 2039 0939