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Drugs! Drugs! Drugs! Got your attention? Good. Here's a scoop for those presently taking baths in the new fave chemie on the block, GHB. Due to a media splash, which I can be considered party to, biker gangs have caught drift of something fresh to push. The result, as with any substance that goes from micro dealers to macro money-makers, is that the supposedly "clean" drug--which many users claim gives them an short, "easy" euphoric feeling--is about to become dirty. A source, who has covered gang activity for several Quebec papers and who wishes to remain anonymous, told me that bikers intend to take on GHB this year with the same resolve with which they muscled into the ecstasy market over two years ago. "They will cut it with other substances," said the source. "GHB will no longer be GHB." One would think that the bikers would be smarter. The reason loads of clubbers switched from ecstasy to GHB is that biker-dealt ecstasy, cut with PCP and other garbage, led to too many nightmare nights out. The same reaction will eventually fall on the gangs' new chemical prodigy, if they do indeed tamper with its makeup. At any rate, the gangs haven't made any moves yet. * * * VITAL DJ NEWS: Groove Society resident Alain Vinet played his last Saturday at the club last weekend to a cheering crowd. The DJ is busy with studio work and upcoming clubland projects * DJ Tiga's first "international techno" Friday at Sona (April 11) was packed to the ceiling, with Swedish DJ Adam Bayer spinning. Keep an eye out for next month's exotic guest * Montreal junglists Double "A" and Twist, who produce under the alias Dune, have had one of their records charted at #3 by UK drum & bass lord Fabio in this month's Eternity magazine. They are the first Canadian act ever to be on the revered DJ's top 10 * The masked DJ featured with Beck at his April 2 show at Metropolis was not, as I speculated last issue, DJ Shadow. "It was DJ Swamp, a DMC champion," Ninja Tune's DJ Wig informed me. "The reason he was masked is because he's a bit of a freak. He was still wearing the thing when he boarded the tour bus." |