After two years of talks, designs and speculation, the secrets of the UK’s most anticipated nightclub in a decade are finally revealed!!

MATTER, inside the O2 areana (formally the Millenium Dome), is a multimillion pound, custom-built nightclub, designed, funded and managed by th masterminds behind Fabric.  MATTER is a three-floored club, with 2,600 capacity.  Its colloseum-like main room is surrounded by 2 floors of balconies overlooking the main stage.  Under the dance floor, a BodyKinetic system transmits bass frequencies via 80 transducers through the floor into your body, allowing you to actually feel the beats, as well as hearing them.  Eight projectors on robotic arms and a horizontal projection screen above the dancefloor reate a 360-degree immersive environment on the computer-ampped walls.

Upstairs, the 450-capacity room has LEDs set behind its sheet steel walls.  VIPs on the floor above get to walk over the crowds below the main dancefloor bia a sky bridge.  Their private booths have their own lighting and volume controls.

MATTER have developed a state-of-the-art cloakroom system which scans tickets so your coats will be waiting for you when you get to the front of the queue.  They have aso arranged a deal with Thames Clippers to baot people via the river to and from two drop offs, 15 mins away in central London.

The 24-hour license means opening hours are at the discretion of the venue, though I’ve heard that club nights will probably run until 8am.

The type of acts appear this month are: Carl Cox, Yousef, and Arno Cost, whilst John Digweed, Mark Ronson, Armand van Helden and some of the Ed Banger Crew will lead us into the next month…!!

A Minneapolis-based design company can transform your dull, black or silver DJ gadgets into high quality, colourful pieces of art. Their website, www.styleflip.com allows users to customise their gear by creating their own unique skins from a CDJ to an MP3 player

The latest proposal for a wacky and insanely costly building in downtown Dubai by David Fisher is said to “rotate, move” and “change shape”.

The tower, set to be 420 metres high, will house 80 flats which will sell between £2m and £20m. The building will turn on a central axis, giving the residents 360 degree views of Dubai’s sites. The power to spin the flats around, like some sort of architectural roller-coaster, will not be generated by burning Saudi oil, but by the wind-driven turbines that will be set between each floor. Fisher claims that the building will never look the same twice, “not once in a lifetime”.

But will this Dynamic Tower ever really happen? I’d like to think not - the residents will get dizzy, people looking up at it will get neck cramp, and who will look after this mechanical wonder when it falls from fashion and no one can be bothered to keep it turning?!

Yet hunger for architectural novelty is growing, so I can imagine that the Tower will be going ahead. That is, so long as the developers don’t get themselves **into a twist** over the practicalities beforehand, and - inshallah - Dubai’s prevailing sandstorms can be held at bay.

SO ME, The artist Producer and Graphist of the Ed Banger Crew has displayed his art at the French gallery the Lazy Dog, back in January 2008 “blinded by the light” .

Here are some preview of the event.