It’s been three years and one covid pandemic since we last witnessed Crucast within the walls of Printworks. The DnB label has had us bouncing up and down across country over the past month with their four-part UK tour, and it wouldn’t be complete without a stop off at London’s most legendary EDM site for their famous all-day festival.
Last Saturday, the notorious lineup of drum and bass DJs took to the decks ready to rile up ravers in what would sadly be the crew’s final visit to the venue before its 2023 close date. Darkzy, Kanine, Skepsis and other leading names didn’t disappoint, delivering eleven solid hours of ground-shaking drops to dancers, bidding the site a bassy goodbye.
Split across two of the venue’s arguably most iconic spaces, the sold-out event saw artists including Sub Zero, Jamie Duggan, Jade Louise and Cajama take to the caged stage of the intimate Inkwells room.
Meanwhile, over in the main room, or ‘Press Halls’, Crucast players Problem Central and Macky Gee, to name a couple, sent dancers into the drum and bass dimension within the iconic strip of strobe-lit space, that most of you reading this will have spent at least one Saturday night raving in.
Early birds, gracing the concrete grounds of the venue at the festival’s 12pm start time, set to savour every second of the sesh and get their gun fingers going, were invited in by the sounds of Sam-E and D3Bone followed by Charlie Tee and Gentlemans Club.
Over in Inkwells, as attendees began to pile in, heat rose, and the classic pressure cooker environment reached boiling point. Ravers rushed forward, eager to get their ears as close as possible to the endless flow of basslines booming from behind the barrier, brains buzzing and bodies bobbing.
Back in the Press Halls following performances from Laz Cru and Silky, Voltage took to the stage, staying true to his name and electrifying the ever-growing audience as more DnB fans pilled into the area, before Problem Central poured a dose of dopamine over dancers with his classic remixes and a DnB-ified addition of ‘In For The Kill”.
Next up, Crucast’s fan-favourite duo took to the decks as Darkzy dropped remixes of Fred Again’s ‘Turn Down The Lights’ and ‘I’m Blue’ with Window Kid in tow (who’d later deliver his own set over in the Inkwell room).
Dropping unreleased material, Skepsis, backed by P Money, riled up the six thousand ravers with new beats, sending fingers flying into the air, and as you can probably imagine, the bass faces were out in full force.
In a smooth transition, as remixes rippled through the room, Kanine took over from Skepsis, cutting through the anticipation of his arrival with a heavy, euphoria-inducing assortment of rhythms, before handing over the decks to Macky Gee for one final set to close the festival.
If there’s one thing that’ll we’ll remember about Printworks, it’s that Crucast sent it out with a drum and bass bang. Tickets for the remaining tour dates are available to purchase here.