As a companion piece to the cross-disciplinary, multi-media publication Brewing Folk, this regular gathering is yet another feather in the pluming cap of our good friends Verdant Brewing Co’s extra-curricular activities. Encompassing a podcast, the Beer & Book Club, and regular parties at their Penryn taproom, not to mention their ongoing mission to bridge the worlds of music and beer with a steady flow of collaboration brews.
For anyone who couldn’t make it to Cornwall, Pour Decisions has come to London. Once a month, a carefully curated congregation of guests, ably hosted by resident DJ Doug Shipton, will share their wisdom and their wax, while the bar plays host to a line-up of your favourite hop-forward beers and special guest collaborations.
This month’s DJs
Dexta & Sicknote (Planet Wax)
Proprietors of South London’s singular dance music record shop-cum-bar-cum-broadcaster-cum-night spot Planet Wax, Dexta and Sicknote have established THE premier underground command post for all soldiers of the rave. Having started life as Disc World in the arches on Deptford Market Yard in 2019, their unwavering commitment to the cause (including a while you wait dubplate cutting service) soon put them squarely on the map, before they inevitably outgrew their humble confines and relocated a mile or so up the road to New Cross and expanding their prodigious pocket empire.
Champions of all things electronic, Planet Wax has become an essential stop for any touring DJ and a must-have achievement for any aspiring DJ’s curriculum vitae. Playing host to countless special guests, label takeovers and launch parties, Planet Wax also provides a vital planform for fledgling talent, offering needle time and a fanatical audience with their weekly open deck nights.
When not operating their own broadcast channel on Twitch (meticulously archived on Youtube and Mixcloud) Dexta and Sicknote take turns hosting their own show on the legendary Kool FM (former pirate radio station and the first to champion jungle), whist DJ duties sees them effortlessly swap out hats and record bags to deliver not just the best in the latest, but also the finest vintage, hypnotic house, wavey electro, dubby garage, jungle burners and everything in between.
Doug Shipton - Fundamental Frequencies / Finders Keepers
Not content with scouring the globe unearthing schizoid channel-hopping artifacts from the alternate-annals of pop history for the last twenty years as one half of Finders Keepers Records, Doug Shipton is also the brains behind the fledgling back room record label Fundamental Frequencies. A ‘93/’94 bedroom junglist as a tender teen the call of the drum (and bass) never waned, while the all too familiar condition of moth eaten burnt out pockets and an unquenchable thirst of the hitherto unheard has ensured a steady stream of genre-bending 45rpm 12” electronic dance vinyl records flowing across his turntables ever since - alongside the off-kilter obscure global jams he is otherwise renowned for.
