Crystal Fighters + Pull Tiger Tail + Streetlife DJs + Baobinga + Captain Magic + The Beat!

When:
20:00 Fri Aug 7

Where:
The Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AN

We’ll spare you the boasts about our late-night monthly freebies. You’ll get only silence about how they fuse together new live music and DJ talent so good they end up say, bagging a US tour with Peaches (Drums Of Death), or, maybe getting hot and steamy with Holly Valance (Frankmusik). But here’s the extra tip-top DJ line-up that’ll be making you bounce after the likes of Baroque poppers Crystal Fighters and Pull Tiger Tail (yes, they're back!) have performed live upstairs. Oh, okay, it's so shit-hot, it burns.

Streetlife DJs
Strap on the dancing pumps and prepare to hit the floor running to London’s answer to cut ’n’ paste, rock ’n’ rave kings 2ManyDJs. Stewart Rowell and Louis Gaston’s full-tilt turntablism hurtles between Larry Levan-era disco, Afrika Bambaataa’s pioneering hip hop/electro cuts, and acid house soaked classics from Alfredo and chums. Oh, and Parisian cool cats Kitsuné and Radio 1 are fans. Phew.

Baobinga
Manchester’s bass scene is scorching (we’ve already put on HeavyFeet and Natalie Esquire) but Baobinga is at its flame-grilled core. You may know him as part of a breaksy techno side project with ID, but Sam Simpson is firing on all cylinders with his exceptional mixes for Diplo’s label Mad Decent and releases on Trouble & Bass that dig through ‘raggastep’, driving dubstep, drum ’n’ bass, garage, jackin’ ghettotech and, yes, a smattering of fidget. DJ Pinch, Freq Nasty, Drop The Lime and Friction love him , and tastemakers from Fabric to Soul Jazz are all over him like fake tan on the ‘Hollyoaks’ cast.

Captain Magic (Peanut Butter Jelly Time)
We first went a little bit nutty over Captain Magic on New Year’s Eve last year, despite it being quite empty. But now Zara Truss Giles’s PBJT night is BIG! Her lot involves regular slots at the Lock Tavern, guest DJ appearances at Adventures In The Beetroot Field, and an unofficial Field Day party at Cargo (Sat) with a loin-stirring line-up of Zombie Disco Squad and The Ragga Twins. Proper dope.

The Beat!
On The Up’s steely residents, The Beat!, are the best. Really. They started life at their monthly night at The Hideaway in Archway (as well as the odd guest set at Club NME), but now they’re taking their alterno-disco darker at Kingsland Road’s notorious late-night rave den, The Russian. At new night Defunkt this Friday, their ‘revolutionary’ post-punk-funk to drum-heavy krautrock and Italo disco to proto-house mix will inspire the bleary-eyed passing crowds. And anyone with ears.