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  • Renaissance presents Sasha

  • Sat Dec 15 2007
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  • Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt St, London, SE1 6DP
  • Ministry of Sound

  • By Dave Swindells

    Posted: Mon Dec 10 2007

  • A five-hour set from the progressive house master Sasha looks like becoming an annual pre-Christmas treat. Last year it was in a Shoreditch warehouse which ‘would have been fine in summer, but it was fucking freezing,’ he recalls. ‘Everybody was huddled on the dancefloor, raving with their coats on.’ So this year he’s happy to be heading indoors to play on the stonking new soundsystem at the Ministry of Sound, a venue where he and Renaissance haven’t been for a decade. ‘I’ve been doing one-off events like TDK, SW4 and Wild In The Country,’ he says down the line from New York, ‘but those were festival sets so it’ll be great to play a full-on, late-night club set again. I’m really charged up for it actually. A lot of my friends have been calling me from London quite excited about it and most people have got the same answer when I say I’m playing there: “God, I haven’t been there for ages”, so we’ll see.’

    He reckons it’s been ‘an amazing year for dance music, with a lot of beautiful tracks influenced by what’s been happening in Berlin, a lot of funky, melodic music, which I guess is what progressive house has always been about really.’ His enthusiasm reflects the fact that after a two-year hiatus he’s back making music again, having teamed up with Charlie May, Duncan Forbes and Barry Jamieson to form Coma. ‘We’re like a band in the way we work together,’ he says. They’ve already made six tracks for his new label, EmFire. Of those, the intensely atmospheric ‘Coma’ and the more minimal ‘Park It In The Shade,’ have been released, and the upcoming Coma tracks are sure to get an airing on Saturday night. ‘Let’s hope it goes well so I can come back,’ laughs Sasha. Yeah, right.

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