About
From Buenos Aires bedrooms to Cape Town raves, traditional dance rhythms from around the world are being fused with modern production to create hybrid party music. Boundaries are melting and genres breed as internet culture allows worlds to collide. FFTANG! FFTANG! is a monthly club night in London set up to champion these genre mutations. Brazilian dubstep crossed with Himalayan mambo? Swedish hip hop over Congolese speed disco? Old meets nueva. Sound-clash meets culture-clash.
Now playing all over London, the night started at Brick Lane’s 93 Feet East, in Spring 09 by Huskiii, whose aim was to take the much maligned phrase ‘world music’ and bring it into the nightclub, injecting it with b-boy beats and bastard bass. Guest DJs brought their own take on global beats, sometimes venturing through classifiable ground (afro-beat, samba, cumbia, balkan…) but rarely staying on any style or continent for too long. The outcome is a genre-mashup soundtrack for the carbon footloose generation.
Since the first night, guest musicians have shared the spotlight with the DJs, creating a carnival atmosphere with unrehearsed freestyling over the records. Captain Trumpet regularly walks amongst the partygoers with his wireless mic, blasting out blistering brass solos and theres been times where Paolos drum kit has had a queue of people waiting their turn to jump on and join the live jam.
fftangfftang.com was launched to promote the kind of global pidjin beats out there that fuel the night and to share mixes from FFTANG! FFTANG!s growing roster of DJs.
