Commix a smash

The massive Commix smashed it behind the decks in Rogues on Friday.

Dub Sessions had returned after a long break and DnB fans had obviously wanted a night, as there was a great turn-out for one of their biggest nights of this year.

The line-up was strong with Commix, Hydro, Pressure and Terminal State, all stepped up behind the decks, giving us a night of the deeper, leftfield sound of the genre.

SP:MC returned to the island with his diversity and flow down the mic.

After watching the amusing show of gig-goers trying to haggle their way in for three quid instead of the asked 7, I headed down to the floor in Rogues for the first time in months.

Hydro was spinning tunes when I got there.

As always, he was going in deep. And as well as playing his new collaborative track with French producer Naibu, he threw out some biggies such as Lynx and Kemo's Dangerous.

Even though he was playing a lot more hard-hitting than Commix would later, the crowd loved it.

When he dropped his latest tune with Naibu, 'Data Process,' George of the Commix went ballistic for it, showing that appreciation from big names such as him – Hydro is onto something big.

In all honesty, Hydro smashed it and it was a great way to return to a home crowd.

Commix is currently one of the main attractions in the DnB scene,

mainly because they are producing ground-breaking tunes and have recently released their contribution to the Fabric Live series.

Quite a lot of the tracks featured on that latest release were played in his set on Friday – not a bad thing.

Carrying on from Hydro, George continued to lead you into the groove and proceeded to tactfully and consistently display the different tastings on offer in the scene right now.

He wisely chose to aim for the mind with a selection of intelligently crafted tunage and ultimately effortlessly raised and lowered the energy.

He switched between faster and more easy-going tunes but maintained a solid vibe at all times due to prolific mixing.

It was only his second tune in, but already he had dropped the massive dBridge growling remix of the electro tinged 'Belleview'.

Harder-styled dance floor outings of Alix Perez made an appearance in the set, as did the brutal bass-lines of Data's The Causeway and tracks from Spectrasoul and Calibre.

For me, a Commix set re-energizes DnB every time I see them live.

Friday saw George performing an excellent job on spotlighting the many intriguing facets of the genre, by which I mean that the set was highly diverse, multi-dimensional and was oozing with vivid rhythms, menacing bass-lines and tunes with brilliantly designed sound sculptures.

This night was up there in my top-three favourite Dub Sessions nights.

And for all those supposed 'headz' of the scene who failed to support it, you really missed a night of good music and a great vibe.

Hopefully it was enough to encourage Dub Session organisers to continue.