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Body snatching, body shaking at Ruby Lounge

Baobinga from The Body Snatchers

CHORLTON-based producer Baobinga aka Sam Simpson is something of a phenomenon according to the global breaks community.

His bass-heavy techno sound has won him fans all over the world and allowed him a string of collaborations with a selection of producers that have meant his records are at the front of the box of many of the world’s most respected DJs.

Whether recording with ID or Tayo his sound slips in and out of genres creating a rump-shaking rhythm that takes in house, hip-hop, breaks, ragga and bashment.

This Friday though he hooks up with fellow producer 30hz under the name The Body Snatchers to play a live show in Manchester at Steve Thorpe’s Carry On night at The Ruby Lounge.

It’s the perfect chance for the duo to rock an established breaks club night with their own Acid Crunk influenced house sound.

“The dividing lines have been coming down in club music for a while now,” say Sam to CityLife.

Open-minded

“The upside is that DJs and audiences are becoming more open-minded, the downside is that a lot of DJs are losing their subtlety as the play only the biggest tracks of the moment from different musical genres.”

The Body Snatchers, whose debut album Feeling Good, Looking Nice, Smelling Right is out imminently takes in a surprising number of these elements and crafts them into a cohesive whole with the help of a selection of UK and US MC talent drawn from cities as diverse as Atlanta and Bristol.

The album has a real hip-hop vibe complete with interludes and skits but holds enough bottom end and crisp production to destroy all but the sturdiest soundsystem.

In other words Friday’s gig at Carry On should be a treat even for the biggest breaks purist.

“I record some of my material in Manchester and some in Bristol,” he says, "which gives me a camp in two very different cities. I’m not very good at networking in the city so I just keep doing what I’m doing which is why it sounds like it does.”

This weekend’s live show pulls in MC Frilla from Bristol on vocal duties as Baobinga and 30hz play tracks from their debut album.

Then as part of a credit crunching exercise on behalf of the promoters the two producers will be playing a separate DJ set each drawing away from the hip-hop sound and towards more breaks, techno and bashment.

“It’s a little removed from your average Carry On party,” states promoter Steve Thorpe to CityLife, “but there’s no point in exploring the same sounds every month is there. Where’s the fun in that?”

Carry On takes place at The Ruby Lounge on Friday, February 13.