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Club Classics: Return to the Source @ The Fridge This club night was founded by Chris Decker after a party in Amsterdam on New Years Eve in 1992, which he called Return to the Source. Drawn to London, a regular club night soon evolved, incorporating the spiritual rituals that Chris had experienced from travelling to places like Goa in India. DJs Mark Allen and Tsuyoshi Suzuki became involved and Return to the Source quickly flourished. In 1995, the dream of a club/party all-night dance ritual based not on profit but on spirituality, pagan values and positive energy became reality, as Return to the Source moved to The Fridge in Brixton. In a rather distant memory I remember at the beginning of the night they would energise the dance floor by laying out a labyrinth of crystals before a throng of fluorescent party goers would descend on the vast techni-coloured lit dance floor. Our ears would then be filled with an organic free flowing up tempo psychedelic sound as we danced to trance. There was a lot of positive power that brought about a sense of ‘together as one’. It was all about the god within back then. Now you may be thinking what a load of Goan bollocks – and I don’t blame you - but Return to the Source was a totally tripped out experience. It was more than standing in the middle of a vast dance floor being bombarded with mesmeric music and crazy laser light shows; it was all about stripping everything back, going on a musical journey to the core of club culture – ultimately the Return to the Source. Unfortunately Return to the Source no longer resides at the Fridge, but retains its spiritual home of Brixton by putting on sporadic ‘all nighters’ at the Academy; most recently at Easter. |
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