Hot Dub Time Machine - History of Dance Anthems set, Printworks, 2022

In October earlier this year, Aussie party starter Tom Lowndes AKA Hot Dub Time Machine brought his new 1990-2022 dance music hits show ‘Hot Dub Rave Machine’ to the hallowed walls of London’s Printworks, alongside nostalgia-inducing support from Utah Saints and Friendly Fires. To a packed house, he took thousands of partygoers on a two-hour journey through time and sound, opening with an acapella of Loleatta Holloway’s ‘Love Sensation’ – a song which became the centre of a protracted legal dispute after Italian dance trio Black Box sampled her vocal for ‘Ride On Time’. Moving through ‘90s bangers such as Underworld’s ‘Born Slippy’, iconic moments from the 2000s and 2010s like ‘Satisfaction’ by Benny Benassi and Flume’s ‘Never Be Like You’, all up until the current day – the set was as much of an education in dancefloor history as an experience for ravers.