News / / 04.09.13

Boiler Room: Fort Romeau, Clouds, Blue Hawaii + Lone

Boiler Room, London | August 29th 

Boiler Room is a peculiarly fabulous concept that needs no introduction, what it does require however, is upholding praise. With a strictly not-open-to-the-public guestlist mantra and a host of security manning its gated entrance underneath a Hackney arch, not to mention the numerous YouTube commenters that cry to each other about stand-still crowds, it is easy to (wrongly) assume pretence before even attending. Straight off the bat, Boiler Room London is much smaller than it presents itself digitally, not to mention hot to lava-like proportions which – thanks to a weighty line-up of Montreal-based Blue Hawaii, Fort Romeau, Clouds and Lone – is only extended furthermore on this occasion.

Opening up the evening’s proceedings, Fort Romeau fuses merges of his own material pristinely with timeless anthems – take his insertion of Vacuum Boogie for example. Following on and cranking up the sweat levels, Clouds bring gritty, dirty techno from the core during their debut live set before Montreal-based Blue Hawaii twist the vibes into a hypnotising yet fixating energetic journey of bobbing, light electronica topped off with beautiful waif-like vocals and a cheeky Joy O Donell Jones edit. Then there is Lone, the R&S heavyweight who, guaranteed to bring the goods and throw out the rule book along the way, launches out the big guns with the summer-soaked drop of Airglow Fires daringly early, causing the audience and organisers to erupt two-stepping inside the sweat-soaked cavern. Boiler Room, we salute you.

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Words: Leah Connolly

 

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