Five for the Funk: Flux Pavillion (Circus Records)

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In the world of bass music at it's most visceral, the name Flux Pavilion has become a barometer for what the full force of the genre can mean. Dark, speaker shredding sounds that blow your proverbials right off, he and his record label Circus recordings are rightly held as genre leaders within the sound.

Both head to Ministry of Sound on Saturday 25th April, where Flux will be joined by Doctor P, Diskord and a a back to back set from Funtcase and Cookie Monsta, bringing some rowdy swagger to the Elephant & Castle superclub.

Ahead of the show we caught up with the imprint's main man to find out the five biggest bangers in his record box at the minute.

Yellow Claw 'Lick Dat'

Since the early days of Flux I have always hunted for the records that stand out as oddities, tracks that don't necessarily conform to what is happening elsewhere. This is one of the those tracks; simple but incredibly effective at pumping you full of energy. Yellow Claw have quickly become one of my favourites due to tracks like this, which is in a world of its own.  

Mefjus 'Dissuade'

Drum and bass is what I grew up listening too and I have definitely had my ups and downs with the level of creativity in the scene. Right now though I feel like we have begun entering into a new golden age of drum and bass and it's thanks to forward thinkers like Mefjus (to only name one of a hundred).

When I first heard this it was played by a local support DJ at a show I played at, I had to go and ask him what it was because I had never heard anything like it. 

Dillon Francis 'Not Butter'

For me the best four to the floor music is made to dance to, not to jump to. A simple groove that you can't help but move around when it comes on, not a million sound effects designed to batter you into some kind of raving fit.

Dillon is amazing at creating grooves that punch you in the stomach and not the face and this track is no exception, I feel like Gesstafelstein when I play it... I need to buy a suit. 

Flux Pavilion 'Exostomp (Diskord Remix)'

My excitement for the trap sound kind of came and went, It was too easy for people make it badly (there is still amazing stuff but its like a needle in a haystack) and before I knew my inbox was filled with millions of identical tracks.

Luckily there is a new breed of producers taking the sound somewhere that feels as fresh as Baauer, Floss and Diplo but stepping it in more of a club direction. Yellowclaw, Brillz, Laxx, Snails and Circus Recordings' Diskord are flying the flag for the dancefloor and I can't get enough of it. 

Laxx 'Semi Auto'

Something happened over new year and Dubstep has come back on the cards somehow. I have been playing more and more of it again due to the supreme quality of records that people are making.

Laxx has been smashing it recently with his trappier stuff but this tune blew me away. I haven't heard anything so outwardly visceral and violent in a long time, it fell straight into heavy rotation and I love to play it out.

Catch Flux Pavillion at Circus Records @ Ministry of Sound on Saturday 25th April