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Ever since the rise and fall of the vastly overrated “Superstar DJs” clubland has been busy redefining itself. Today’s ultra-modern clubber wants more than just a line-up featuring a smattering of big names. It’s simply not enough to watch an aging Fatboy strut his stuff, Jeff Mills go off on y...

JAMES PRIESTLEY

JAMES PRIESTLEY - The man who gave the Shoreditch scene a musical identity ++ AGE: 28 ++ LIVES: In the east end, of course, where else? ++ PROMOTES: James is a busy boy with many strings to his clubbing bow including top Sunday session Secretsundaze and minimal mash-up All Over My Face. ++ WE L...

GABRIEL MYDDLETON

GABRIEL MYDDLETON - The man who dared to take Caribbean music to the white middle classes! AGE: 25 ++ LIVES: A North London bwoy through-and-through, Gabe resides happily in Stokey. ++ PROMOTES: Popular dancehall and reggaeton sessions, Heatwave with his partner in musical crime, Masta G. Thei...

EROL ALKAN

EROL ALKAN - the man who was brave enough to make Monday night clubbing a reality and clev-er enough to make it work. ++ LIVES: In a bubble somewhere in London ++ PROMOTES: The glam-electrorock fest that is Trash ++ WE LOVE HIM FOR: Giving us all an excuse to carry the weekend on well into Tues...

ELECTRO ELVIS AND LULA

The ultimate clubbing couple ELECTRO ELVIS AND LULA ++ AGES: Electro Elvis is 28 and Lula is 29 ++ LIVE: Wang HQ ++ PROMOTE: The legendary Wang parties - designed as an antidote to the soulless nights that dominated in the wake of the Criminal Justice Bill, they pitch themselves as the "ne...

BEN SMITH AND NICK MATTHEWS - AKA BEST KEPT SECRET

BEN SMITH AND NICK MATTHEWS AKA BEST KEPT SECRET, champions of the Nu-Jazz and Broken Beats scenes from London to South Africa. AGES: Both 28 ++ LIVE: North and West London respectively ++ PROMOTE: What is literally London's Best Kept Secret. Their influence on the sophisticated Broken Beats an...

CIRCLESQUARE - JEREMY SHAW

01 Everyone in the world should take LSD at least once. Seriously. I mean there are other drugs that would have more of an overall mind-blowing, earth-shattering effect and all, but as far as a kind of quick and relatively painless (yet not necessarily easy) glimpse into different way of lookin...