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Scuba 'Fabric 90' (Fabric)
Scuba – that most uncompromising, energetic and dedicated of DJs – seems the perfect choice for this emotional instalment of the Fabric series. It’s a labour of love, with edits laid over each other in places like sheets of fine filo pastry. There are officially 19 tracks, but it takes 42 records for Scuba to build them from. Dense & Pika are on suitably dark and twisted form with ‘Crackling’, while Scuba combines techno greats of classic and contemporary vintages by working up Ben Klock’s ‘Point Blank’ with Carl Craig’s ‘Demented Drums’. A final footnote to this snapshot of classic, witching-hour Fabric is that all proceeds go to its fighting fund. Stephen Worthy
9/10
