7.12 fabric XX with Ricardo Villalobos & Craig Richards

For 20 years, fabric has played an integral role in shaping not just the UK club landscape, but also clubbing culture globally. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, they bring their XX tour to Melbourne for their first Australian outing, inviting a clutch of ambassadors who have made a significant impact on the club’s enduring impact and legacy.

Ricardo Villalobos has famously played a crucial part in fabric’s story. In 2002 he visited the club for the first time, helping to introduce the London audience to a new European style alongside resident Craig Richards. He’s famously returned to the same spot on a quarterly rotation for the last 17 years, crafting mind-bending sonic trips that traverse house, techno and minimal via electronic music’s deepest corners. His landmark album fabric 36 was heralded as a masterpiece, capturing his stripped-back percussive style that’s since inspired a generation of artists.

In keeping with the Farringdon club’s traditional extended Sunday morning sessions, Villalobos is joined by longstanding fabric resident Craig Richards. Widely regarded as the face of the London institution, Richards has been instrumental in shaping the club’s musical identity.

Over the last 20 years he’s become one of the world’s most versatile DJs, honing a rich sound that takes in dub techno, deep house, glitchy electro, stripped-back minimal left-field disco, and more. An artist in the truest sense, outside of DJing his other creative endeavours include his killer studio productions, running beloved label The Nothing Special and curating the Houghton Festival.

Mathew Jonson also performs live. The Canadian artist’s melodic anthems embody a truly singular approach to techno, a sound he’s long showcased in his destructive live sets at fabric, while one of the London club’s freshest residents, Bobby. completes the bill.

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