With Fridays and Sundays being moved increasingly west, there’s been a definite shift in Thursday night’s being the East London night of the week. Promoters who’ve seen this coming have adjusted accordingly – among them being A. Child and Free Care, putting a monopoly on how to run label nights.

Not representing any one faction themselves, the Thursday nights they run on a semi-monthly basis are a constant rotation of the undergrounds finest record releasers merging with a like-minded crowd at some of our favorite venues. The latest to be announced for one of these showcase styled nights is Ramp Recordings, coming off the back of a huge year-to-date of releases.

I’ve not seen a press release kicking about (though most likely accidentally deleted it) but the confirmed list of live players and DJs is enough to guarantee this as a not to be missed event.

And while the hype seems to be on about Maxmillion Dunbar giving his first ever UK appearance to launch his Cool Water LP , the strength of the whole night is stunning. Somewhat timely too, with Computer Jay having just released the best side of split 10″ with Dam-Funk, alongside Throwing Snow who’s much deserved hype came off the back of a release on Alex Nut’s Ho-Tep imprint a few months back.

The one that’s secretly headlining (in my mind at least) is Shortstuff – who’s evolution as an electronic artist is a seemingly never-ending series of peaks. The Summer Of Shortstuff series (a brilliantly titled Seinfeld reference) recently closed off with Part 3, the first series in recently memory where every track across multiple releases was a amssive tune individually as well as part of an overall project.

It’s going down at East Village Thursday the 17th, for the pittance cost of £7.
For more details check the Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/RAMP-Recordings/158210859535#!/event.php?eid=144612568918500