Wiggle bring their tech-house touch to Ibiza

Wiggle bring their tech-house touch to Ibiza

12 August, 2008 | 2.56PM

• Written by: Lee Smith
• Filed under: Music News: let it play, the zoo, wiggle

Tech house is one of the most widespread forms of dance music now, but Nathan Coles and Terry Francis have been instrumental in pioneering the sound through their legendary Wiggle parties since the early ‘90s.

Now, for the first time, Wiggle are teaming up with Let It Play to hit Ibiza for a party at one of the island’s most talked-about venues this season - The Zoo.

Emerging form the same South London scene that spawned the well-loved record shop Swag, Terry and Nathan had already cut their teeth as DJs during the acid house explosion of the late 80s, playing alongside the likes of Mr C, Colin Faver and ‘Evil’ Eddie Richards across the capital’s underground clubs.

At a time when the UK dance scene had become fractured into very separate scenes for house, techno, garage and hardcore, Wiggle honed a style that blended sounds from Chicago, New York, Detroit and London, defining the spacey, groovy style that would eventually become known as tech-house.

The pair enlisted unsung godfather of British house Eddie Richards as a resident, and Wiggle quickly became the centre of a vibrant scene that also spawned the likes of Layo & Bushwacka!, Grant Dell, Asad Rizvi and many more.

Although it may sound like a cliche these days, Wiggle’s notoriously hedonistic crowd came from just about every background conceivable - a typical party would see a mix of skinhead ex-soccer hooligans, trendy media types, wide eyed teenagers and acid granddads losing themselves under one relentless tech-house groove.

The media soon caught on, and in 1997 the UK’s Muzik magazine named Terry Francis as ‘Best New DJ’, leading to the Wiggle residents’ emergence as worldwide ambassadors for the sound.

Such was their influence, that when Fabric opened at the end of the decade, it enlisted Francis alongside Craig Richards as weekly resident, and Wiggle still holds a monthly party at the venue to this day.

Fast forward to 2008, and the current resurgence of wholesome, chunky electronic house means it’s an ideal time for the Wiggle crew to hit dance music’s most famous island.

‘Wildlife On One’ takes place on Wednesday 24th September at Gala Nights (The Old Zoo) Benimussa, and features Nathan Coles, Fred Everywhere, Carl Grant (aka LA Synthesis), Evil Eddie Richards, Terry Francis, Callum Wordsworth, Jeremy Newall, Bekka Rawkins, Liz Edwards and Little Mike.

Check the link below for further info.

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