Plenty of house and techno caters to drifting, lost-in-the-moment dancefloors. Brisbane’s X Club, the ascendant duo of DJs and producers Ben Clarke and Jesse Morath, deal in more immediate thrills.
Hitting their stride in the early pandemic with a series of raw and propulsive releases, including on London-based Australian expat Mall Grab’s Steel City Dance Discs, X Club found a ready audience in Australia and the northern hemisphere. By 2022, with borders opening up again, the duo’s pacy, raucous DJ sets clicked immediately with dancers craving fast tempos and hard kicks.
