Issue 90 | United Arab Emirates

So this is our final issue before we break up for Ramadan (yes, sorry folks, but you are not going to be Infused again until after the Eid break. Booo!) and, like the various promoters, venues and DJs around town, we’ve crammed as much into Magazine #90 as is humanely possible. To begin, cover story is obviously Ben Westbeech, a personal favourite new artist of mine (yes, being discovered by Gilles Peterson has its benefits) and he spoke to us ahead of his upcoming gig at Alpha. Cannot wait! But that’s not all, dear Infusionistas, as everyone and their Granny is throwing a party before the Holy Month starts; with The Freestylers (at Alpha …awesome), DJ Fresh (Submarine), Graeme Park (Plan B), Joey Negro and Andy Warburt...

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Issue 93 | United Arab Emirates

Issue 96 | United Arab Emirates

Right so here we go with another slamming issue of Infusion with all the news you need to know about what is hip and happening in this city of hours. Music, People, Life….we cover it all.   From our front cover you can see we looking forward to Chris Lake. The man will be spinning at Chi this month and we have an exclusive interview with him in this issue. We also chat to  CONTACT _Con-3DD3C4581DB c s l Shaun Duvet, one of South Africa’s leading DJs who will be performing at the monthly South African night at, you guessed it, Chi. Sessions also continue with their brand of house and in December their surprise DJ is Defected front man Aaron Ross. We chat to Aaron about his production, music and the Christmas presents...

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Issue 102 | United Arab Emirates

So we’re still hearing of people leaving the country, redundancies, bailouts and speculation that our fair city is in turmoil and under attack from the very same people that lauded it as the quintessential city of the future, we still get stuck in traffic jams, we still queue for cinema tickets and pop-corn (why are there never enough pop-corn sellers on hand?)    As the financial situation becomes less of a crunchy crisis and more a cacophony of confusion and contradiction (ooh, alliteration: fancy!) we are still doing the things that we always have done. And we’re still doing it well;   With Maiden and Motorhead behind us and Deep Purple and Coldplay in front, our night-life certainly seems to have not been ...

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