The most gracious people are the ones who give something to others on their own birthdays — and Fabric, who’ve just turned ten, are sorting URB readers out well and true with this mix from Filthy Dukes, who are celebrating the sixth anniversary of their Kill ‘Em All residency.
When you really think long and hard about how the last ten years have gone down, and like, just how shit so many things are, you have to give mad propers to anybody holding down a party with love and vision, and Fabric are a brilliant case study in building something out organically and watching it grow into a righteous juggernaut. ‘Hard to believe these guys are 10, and still partying like it’s 1999 — and it’s nice to see something hitting double digits besides unemployment…We’ll be giving away tees and CDs at urb.com/contests when it re-launches and right now here’s a gem of a mix to start your weekend a day early…the link to your weekend party bliss is below, along with the track listing, which constitutes a six-year flashback for Dirty Dukes’ Kill ‘Em All residency…but first, here’s some fun facts culled from their anniversary page, to which I’ll add another fact: when you tally up all the info below and work out the complicated analytics of an interconnected economy, it’s eminently manifest that Fabric’s contribution to the British economy is deserving of some serious, serious respect…Gordon Brown should be sending them a thank you note.
ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT FABRIC…
- Number of hours of music = 18,000, based on about 35 hours a week average.
- Number of fabric couples = That we know of…3 couples that met at fabric and married, countless couples that have hooked up and not remembered the next day.
- Number of people through the doors = over 4,186,029
- Number of slipmats used = 65
- Number of broken needles = about 1600, roughly 3 a week.
- Number of microphones broken by MCs = 53
- Number of cases of beer = about 160,000
- Number of bottles of wine = about 50,000
- Number of shots necked = over 1,300,000 pure shots
- Number of glasses = 312,000
- Number of limes/lemons = 350,000
- Number of tonnes of ice = 1 x glacier
- Number of rewinds = not enough yet.
- Number of tunes played = loads
- Number of bartenders hired = 600
- Number of toilet flushes (rank) = 8,299,200 flushes!!
- Number of people that have got lost in fabric = everyone
- Number of flyers given out = 30,000,000 (yes, thirty million) flyers
- Number of artists = over 20,800 acts between Friday and Saturday night
- Furthest cab ride home = Cardiff
- Number of Joe Beades = 1. Our handyman extraordinaire – the only reason fabric is still standing today.
DOWNLOAD: DIRTY DUKES KILL ‘EM ALL ANNIVERSARY MIX FOR URB
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
Holy Ghost – Hold On
Soulwax – Krack (NiteVersion)
Teenage Bad Girl – Hands of a Stranger
Benjamin Theves – Texas
Justice – Waters of Nazareth
Boys Noize – & Down
Riot In Belguim – The Acid Never Lies
LA Priest – Engine
Zongamin – Serious Trouble
Cut Copy – Lights and Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix)
Radio 4 – Dance To The Underground (The DFA Version)
Zombi – Sapphire (Escort Remix)
Tom Vek – Green Lights
We Have Band – You Came Out (Cage & Avairy Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco – Boatrace
Spektrum – Kinda New (Tiefscwarz Dub)
Tiga – Pleasure from the Bass
Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Remix)
The Rapture – House of the Jealous Lovers
Alex Gopher – Aurora
Thomas Anderson – Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
Brodinski – Bad Runner
Switch – A Bit Patchy
Proxy – Dancer in the Dark
Dusty Kid – The Cat
Christopher and Raphael Just – Popper (Shinichi Osawa Distorsion Disco Edit)
Vitalic – Poney Pt 1
Shitdisco – I Know Kung Fu (James Ford Edit)
Death From Above 1979 – Romantic Rights (Erol’s Love From Below Re – Edit)
White Rose Movement – Love Is A Number
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