Rhigol @ The Scene, Swansea
Fri 10 Mar
The second Welsh-monikered promoter this issue, and no Clwb Ifor Bach in sight! Rhigol (groove) is a regular party for Swansea’s lovers of house, garage, disco and the deeper sides of dance music. Previous guests include some of South Wales’ hardest working house heads, including veteran DJs, producers and label owners like Owain 124 of 124 Recordings, Graft boss and producer The Organ Grinder and Delete resident Marc Parsons – as well as newer producer and DJ Van Pelt, who’s involved with Cardiff’s Rotary Club parties. There have also been appearances from Dutch house’n’garage dude Joel Hemmen, Italian Londoner and L.I.E.S affiiate Fabio Monesi and Huddersfield’s deep tech-house guy Zare.
Possible shisha user Smokey Bubblin B is travelling from South London to take Rhigol into a different direction this year, further from house and well into the realms of the original 4/4 garage and early 2-step sound. His inspirations are the likes of Grant Nelson and Nu-Birth, and he is a dab hand at rolling out the real “rhigol” – check his El-B styled 2-step remix of Novelist and Mumdance’s modern grime anthem 1 Sec. He’s still a truly underground force, with many of his best tracks unavailable to the public and best heard on his regular Flex FM show or on his Soundcloud page, so more power to the Rhigol crew for making this booking.
Tickets: £5. Info: [email protected]