After giving the gritty warehouse venue Halo a more than fitting set off at its sold-out New Year’s Eve event, Closer returns for its first party of 2008. Bringing London the classic, traditional sound of techno music that it is all too often lacking, the first year of Closer parties saw the likes of Kevin Saunderson, Luke Slater, James Ruskin, Colin Dale and Carl Cox’s right-hand-man Jon Rundell tear it up in some of London’s finest underground spaces – firmly planting it on the map of the capital’s electronic music scene.

The upcoming Closer is being headlined by Detroit techno legend ROLANDO and FABRICE LIG.

Here our resident techno commander STEVE STRAWBERRY speaks to Fabrice to get the low down..

Belgian talent Fabrice Lig is considered by his peers and techno fans around the globe as a world class producer. He is well known for his particularly funky use of Roland’s SH101 analog synth, and for his particularly emotional and personal melodies and harmonies which have seen him release tracks of scene-leading labels like KMS, F-Communications, 7th City Records and Playhouse Records. His considerable talents have seen him play at some of the world’s most prestigious clubs and festivals – from Fabric in London to Sonar in Barcelona, to Sub Club in Glasgow, to The Montreux Jazz Festival, to The Fuse-In Festival in Detroit (where his set was voted as the best of the entire festival). He has worked with legends of electronic music like Laurent Garnier and Jean Michel Jarre, and is a prestigious addition to the line-up.

What have you been up to recently?

[Fabrice Lig] Worked a lot to prepare the Live act and the new album of « Soul Designer » on Third Ear, to come in may…also worked on some new projects for Versatile rec…Purple raw Trilogy is on his way, first one for late march…

Played any good gigs?

[Fabrice Lig] Yeah, always ;-). Coming back from a 4 live gigs tour in Brazil, was really great ! Brazil crow is really nice ! Clubs too.
Played at Air in Tokyo too, one of the coolest place to play in the World…Was playing with Ken Ishii, we played a track live together, was huge ;-).

Do you like playing in London?

[Fabrice Lig] Oh yes !!! anytime, UKers are the best electronic music conaisseurs with japanese people, and they like to party ! UK has a huge background, and you can feel that really deep in London ! Specialy Tilted disco parties and really looking forward to the Closer party, really music lovers and great crowd !

Are you looking forward to the Closer event (Tilted Disco co-promotion) on April 11th?

[Fabrice Lig] Oh Yes, tilted disco parties are always important for, me and , I know, it will always be a great gig, so I’m always expecting these gigs !!!!!!! Can’t wait !!!!

We will be hosting the party in a warehouse, do you like playing at different locations + what has been your strangest venue so far?

[Fabrice Lig] Oh, yes, I have to say than, thats what I like the most into playing as DJ/Live act, discovering special places, unusual places, strange, waird, beautifull, outside…Everything different than usual club atmosphere. (Even if I love to play into the clubs too), but its good to play in some other places too ! Warehouse parties are so great, always reminds me my early clubbers nights…When I wasn’t a dj yet ;-). Strangest venue ??? hmmm, I have to say, I played once for a kind of musical dinner into a castle in France, With Jean-Michel Jarre…for 100 people…was really strange, but I think was strange for him too to play in front of 100 people…its usually the number of people of his staff, ah ! ah !

CLOSER - FRIDAY 11TH APRIL - TECHNO IN A WAREHOUSE!

Rolando (Underground Resistance /DETROIT)
Fabrice Lig (F-Communications / BELGIUM)
Steve Strawberry (Closer / Tilted Disco)
Paula Coughlan (Tilted Disco)

MiMo & R U Dirty? DJs: Filth & Splendour, Williams & Dubois, Ms. Mortimer, Chris Jones, Plastic Disco, Ben Gomori.

Location to be revealed shortly before event
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