Earstorm - Pendulum, Sub Focus and Noisia
Earstorm saw Pendulum, Sub Focus and Noisia perform at Matter in London
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Friday, 29, Jan 2010 09:58
inthenews.co.uk headed to London's Matter to hear Pendulum preview some new album tracks at their very own night, Earstorm.
It's been quite some time since inthenews.co.uk made a trip to Matter, but when a super club with one of the beefiest sound systems in Europe puts on a night called Earstorm you can be sure it's worth heading along to.
The men behind Earstorm are Australian drum and bass superstars Pendulum and tonight they are previewing tracks from their new album Immersion set to drop within the next few months.
Pendulum have been on a rocket-like ascendancy since their debut album Hold Your Colour came out in 2005 and their transformation into a live drum and bass act has taken them to even greater heights since.
Their success as a crossover act may go some way to explaining tonight's line-up which is anything but a straight ahead drum and bass night and more of a low-end electronic love-in.
Alongside Pendulum tonight are Herve, Sinden, the Glitch Mob, Zane Lowe, Sub Focus and Noisia and there is an equally eclectic crowd gathered as well.
Despite playing as a DJ trio tonight, Pendulum seem to have brought along their live band fans who seem intent on causing a riot from the off and as soon as Zane Lowe's indie-breaks set subsides the dance floor explodes.
Obscured behind a panelled screen Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul Harding launch into a thundering set that instantly transforms the lower floor of Matter into a seething pit of bodies and while this may not be the rave behaviour some might expect you can't help but be impressed by the sheer power.
The set includes most of Pendulum's classic tracks from the Hold Your Colour and In Silico but a few new tracks are aired and are lapped greedily up by the sweaty flailing mob who seem to explode with ecstasy with every chest-thudding tune that drops.
After a good hour or so of their anthemic 'rock and bass' rowdiness Pendulum eventually hand the reigns to Sub Focus who having just released an iTunes chart-scaling single is eager to make his mark on tonight.
His set kicks off with the grand fanfare of Let the Story Begin and takes in everything from crushing dub step, warping electro and his own futuristic drum and bass sound and the audience are right behind him on every track.
The crowd has thinned out somewhat for Noisia's set but this doesn't put the Dutch lads off their game one bit and as 6AM looms these guys are still unleashing track after track of pounding drum and bass that really shows what Matter's sound system can do and the few hundred people that are left know it was worth the wait.
Ross McTaggart