Following the controversial closure of London’s renowned Fabric nightclub, Paul Rose – better known to the world as techno maverick Scuba – mixed “fabric 90”. It’s the latest installment in the long-running series that arrives in the wake of the club losing its license. Scuba was the last artist to play at the club, on August 6th 2016, and he will donate all proceeds from the mix to the #savefabric fundraising campaign that plans to fight the closure. To celebrate the release, Scuba has embarked on a world tour and will be landing in Beijing on December 9 for a killer show at Dada.

Since 2003, Scuba and his imprint on record label Hotflush have shaped the direction of the electronic scene’s bass-heavy landscape more than most.

A musical contrarian, Scuba has deliberately pushed against dance music currents, changing course when it suits him. After the melancholic statement that comprised his 2008 debut LP, A Mutual Apathy, he released 2010’s Triangulation, a widely acclaimed opus steeped in shadowy cross-genre electronics. That was swiftly followed by excursions into deep 4/4 rhythms under the pseudonym SCB and then, almost out of nowhere, the release of 2011’s Adrenalin EP which paved the way for the following year’s jubilant ’90s house-inflected Personality album.

Scuba’s label Hotflush started with the underground garage sound that became dubstep, and gradually teasing its dark, bass-heavy sonics through abstract electronica, jacking house, and cavernous techno, they are the underground tastemakers behind era-defining club smashes like Joy Orbison’s “Hyph Myngo” and 2013’s “Untitled”, the ubiquitous piano house banger by Paul Woolford. After a period where album projects were the norm on the label, the recent direction has been towards, as he puts it, “the grassroots nitty-gritty dance-scene stuff”.

Support DJs: Mickey Zhang, Sun Meng, Zhiqi

Door Cover: tbd