- Sometimes everything is just right. Sound, people, music, feeling. And maybe a little bit of magic. At the first Sud Electronic get-together of 2010, all the elements were in place. The party is heading towards its tenth year of hosting underground events, and is now fully established as one of London's essential nights out. On paper, the line-up was one of the tastiest so far—Panorama Bar tag team Prosumer and Tama Sumo, alongside Chicago producer Tevo Howard, and of course Sud resident and promoter Lakuti.
It's been a long time since London house heads in their 20s have outnumbered the seasoned 30-somethings at a party. Yet that's how it is at Sud, ensuring there's both knowledge and energy on the dance floor. What helped was a spruced up basement under The CAMP, complete with new bar and the best sound we've heard in the space yet. Warm and refreshed, it suited the night's groove and filled the room with enough rumble without distorting—not easy in an odd-shaped concrete basement.
Although the dance floor was at times rammed and hot, if you'd left before Tevo Howard came on you'd still have had a great night. When the producer stepped up for a live set sometime after 4 AM, the light was already beginning to filter through the glass tiles to the street above. But any signal to leave was immediately erased by Howard's set of layered, pure jackin sounds over ancient drum-machine rhythms. It was impossible to leave the floor, but there was no need to anyway: The Basement's extended opening hours are already seeing this space evolve into one of London's most reliable.