What a line up! Liam Howlett the main man behind breakbeat techno punksters The Prodigy, James Lavelle Mo Wax guru and UNKLE coordinator and Talvin Singh winner of last year mercury Music prize. Fabric itself is a club situated in Farringdon, London. Along with Home it was launched in a blaze of publicity last year and unlike home has consistently hosted the best in ‘underground’ urban dance music. The whole place has the dank dark feel of a under ground cellar, albeit it a huge sprawling labyrinth of a wine cellar. There are three main rooms (or ‘spaces’) loosely connected by the main bar and stairwell and the place gets seriously jammed with people. And tonight it was spectacularly jammed. Lavelle’s set started off with getting the hop hop heads nodding with some juicy choice cuts from the likes of Rawkus hero Mos Def before spinning off into a curious blend of nostalgia meets modern. Soul II Soul to Queen to Run DMC all juiced up with breakbeat rumblings from the likes of DJ Shadow and Lavelle’s own UNKLE project. Ten out of ten for entertainment value but it was Howletts set that really got the party shaking. Heavy breakbeat fury peppered with punked up guitar mayhem. Nirvana crept in toward the end of the night along with The Sex Pistols. Babe Ruth’s The Mexican, Meat Beat Manifesto’s Babylon some strange Altern 8 Style rave choons splattered between the foot stomping bass bombing breakbeats. Whether or not he played any new Prodigy material is anyone’s guess but if he did, it sounded good.