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• Where: Tiki Bar and Beach Terrace
• When: Friday 02.07. at 16:30-18:30

With their vibrant club night Kill Em All, the Filthy Dukes have made an individual and indelible impact on the nightlife landscape of London. True pioneers in their own right, Kill Em All first struck a chord at Camden’s unassuming Barfly in 2001, after the pair recognised a thirst amongst a public raised on both guitars and electronic music. Bored of the dull notion that the two scenes should be kept separate, the Filthy Dukes (Olly Dixon and Tim Lawton) decided to unite dancefloor-geared DJs with hard-edged scuzzy rockers, and went on a quest for artists that embraced both disciplines.
As Kill Em All grew, the lovechild of indie and electronic music matured hand in hand, and before long the Filthy Dukes found themselves and their night Kill Em All hosting a room at fabric. “Within the gloriously grotty Barfly, Kill Em All began to earn a reputation for putting on a great night and spotting talent early. We couldn't quite believe it when fabric invited Kill Em All to move into their club and no one was quite sure if it would work. Three years on and having had the likes of Justice, Erol Alkan, Chemical Brothers, Boys Noize, Crystal Castles, Cut Copy, Digitalism, Zombie Nation, Brodinski, James Murphy, Jackson & His Computer Band, Metronomy, Maccabees, In Flagranti, Santigold, Who Made Who and loads more, it seems like it worked and Kill Em All has established itself.” – Filthy Dukes

With Kill Em All lineups packing out fabric without need for distinction or segragation between dance, indie, electro, pop – it seems the general public is open to accepting that good music is good music, regardless of the tag (or its correlating “scene”)…and the Filthy Dukes proudly occupy the murky waters where all their streams merge. After years spent conquering the London club world and mastering the DJ booth, their attentions recently turned to the studio, where Tim and Olly were joined by third band member Mark Ralph. This year’s ‘Nonsense in the Dark’ was the result: their debut artist album on fiction records. Disco pop plucked from the top drawer, it takes its lead from the Gallic electronica of Daft Punk, Justice et al and the 80s synth-genius of the likes of Depeche Mode – but is truly a sum of all the parts that make Filthy Dukes.

And it’s back to what they know best on FABRICLIVE 48: uproarious, incendiary DJ sets that sizzle through a smorgasboard of genres, not so much traverse boundaries as obliterate them, coupling pulsating kick drums, with dreamy melodies and song-writing sensibilities with an ability to turn a dancefloor upside down. The mix ducks and dives through styles and sounds without a moment’s respite – setting the pace from the off with their own gloriously synth-laden stomper ‘This Rhythm’, they move through ‘Beat The Clock’ by the legendary Sparks, Aeroplane’s disgustingly brilliant Italo remix of Sebastian Tellier – straight out of the Gospel of Daft Punk, and even manage to drift in and out of Aphex Twin’s classic ‘Windowlicker’ before the close. This is care-free, it’s joyous, it’s the sound of two mates, who know their music inside out, throwing their favourite records around the room. Throw down your preconceptions and discard your notions of the sounds of a fabric main room, this is Filthy Dukes, and this is how they Kill Em All.

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