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Glittering start to season

THE CITY’S music scene is set to get underway with a dazzling event pumping out big bass lines with Glitter back tomorrow (October 17) at Chi Club at the Lodge.

The first event after Eid will see a line up of DJ Luck and MC Neat, DJ Trix (UK), DJ Bliss, Flex, Rone Jaxx, Flash B and Shero.

DJ Luck and MC Neat told City Times ahead of the event, that Glitter was the place to be this week if you were after the “tight production, charismatic vocals and of course big basslines” synonymous with garage.

Winners of gleaming copies of the Best Garage Act Mobo Award, the pair are well recognised for their role in UK garage.

Since the mid 90s they were at the forefront of the scene and, according to their biography, “Luck and Neat have turned into a two man United Nations of Garage, bridging scenes and showing that the raw and the smooth can co-exist beautifully, wickedly”.

Baseline loving clubs the world over have rocked at a rate of more than 25O appearances a year and this summer they have already been busy across Cyprus, Ibiza, USA, Germany, Amsterdam and Russia. This will be the pair’s first visit to Dubai.

DJ Luck (real name Joel Samuels), picked up his spinning appellation because he was one of those people who seemed to attract good karma. That would explain how he met up with the easygoing and deeply talented MC Neat (real name Michael Rose). Both the lucky one and the-one-who-used-to-say-neatly-whenever-he-agreed-with-someone, were knocking around on the London jungle scene prior to 1995. One day up at pirate station Chicago FM, Neats regular DJ failed to show, leaving the decks free for a young, determined, garage freak, name of DJ Luck.

The partnership of the ruff-chattin, widely schooled, charismatic MC and the focused, tunes master DJ kicked off that day. "The main reason that we fit well is that we are friends", explains Neat. "We look at it like we are just two friends trying to have a laugh in life."

They have just finished a new track called 'Street Life' as well as the new 2007 remixes of 'With a little bit of luck', 'Troublesome', and 'Masterblaster' and said Dubai audiences could expect a good show.

“We are true entertainers and are very versatile. We play to the crowd,” MC Neat said. “Street Life is one new track. It’s got tight vocals with a big bassline.”

They have integrated the northern Baseline that seems to be rocking the UK Garage scene at the moment with the crisp and unique vocals of MC Neat.

Tickets are Dh75 in advance and Dh125 on the door.