DJ Yoda - Fabriclive 39

Author

Paul Lindsay

Published

Friday 4th April

Fabric have returned with their 39th edition of their Fabriclive series not to be confused with the Fabric Series which they also release. Since 2001 the popular London nightclub has been releasing CDs on a monthly basis of DJs and producers from a across the wide world of dance music putting down their mixes. The 39th edition sees North London cut and paste wizard DJ Yoda at the controls with his vast abilities at being able to mix and cut songs that you wouldn’t ever think would ever work together into a sets of up-front party flavours that have become renowned at moving festivals and parties across the globe.

The concept behind the Fabric live series is the live mix sometimes this is done at the club but it’s definitely recorded live in one take. For your artists that work with a bigger and fatter beat ie your house or tech DJs this doesn’t present a problem but intermittently throughout this release the live element in which this mix was recorded doesn’t do much for the sound quality at times with the hip-hop and soul coming across faint and low in quality. This is a minor infraction on what is one of the best mix CDs that has come out in a very long while. The CD doesn’t claim to be cutting edge nor deeply underground it is just DJ Yoda doing what Yoda does best cutting, pasting, and scratching up beats.

There’s no need to be critical of what Yoda has chosen, that’s not what this is about and never intends to be – this is just a good fun time. The mix contains everything from The Violent Femmes, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Bel Biv Devoe, Salt n’ Peppa, Ice Cube, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Gang Starr to Jean Jaques Perry, Minnie Ripperton, and DJ Zinc. Through his talents Yoda proves that DnB can with disco, electro-pop can work with soul, and grime can work with pop which in itself is no mean feat and something a lot of DJs would love to aspire to. DJ Yoda take a bow!!! Simply good fun.