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Summer Festivals 2012: Best dance music live shows
25 May 2012
Which of this year's superstar DJs have visuals to match their beats?
Picture the scene. Dusk has fallen on the festival site. Tens of thousands of inebriated and euphoric festivalgoers have assembled at the main stage. They’re waiting for the headliner, whooping and hollering in anticipation. Then it happens: a guy…
Summer Festivals 2012: Clubbers Decktionary - RockNess
25 May 2012
Trouble's DJ Hobbes guides us through the myriad genres of RockNess
Techno Pure electronic dance music (ie no non-electronic samples or vox) with a 4/4 kick. The original, Detroit style incorporates more melody and strings alongside sounds from Roland’s classic 808 and 909 drum machines and, often, the 303 ‘acid…
Techno night Unseen aims to shake up Edinburgh's club scene
22 May 2012
Special guest Adam X to appear in June
One of the first shoots of a clubbing revival in Edinburgh is emerging through a group of old-stagers returning home to one of the city’s most enduring venues. Together, Patrick Walker and Mike Lavin started off promoting a nascent trance night called…
Electro DJ Jimmy Edgar
22 May 2012
Detroit DJ Edgar shares the concept behind fourth album, Majenta
Celebrating his recently released fourth album, Jimmy Edgar’s forthcoming Berkeley Suite show is the finale of Palace Promotions’ recent programme of club events aimed at representing the city’s ‘present and future musical character’. In contrast to the…
Clubbers' Decktionary: Electro Swing
22 May 2012
Trouble's DJ Hobbes gives us a guide to the myriad genres of clubbing
Electro Swing proper noun: varied tempos, mixing 20s, 30s and 40s jazz and swing styles/samples with modern production; has spawned myriad sub-genres, including Swing House, Swing Hop, Ghetto Swing, Swing Tech, Swing Step. Some crossover with Balkan…
Crate Digging: Rebecca Vasmant
22 May 2012
The young Glaswegian DJ is set to play Ministry of Sound & Mixmag's Warehouse Party
I love jazz music, and as much as I love house music too, I don’t think it has the same timelessness. My first choice is one I got about a year ago, it’s PE Hewitt Winter Winds (Now-Again), a three-LP box set of material self-recorded by a 16-year-old…
Auntie Flo - Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Sun 13 May
22 May 2012
Club-friendly house beats with a world music undercurrent
It’s a foul Sunday night and getting late, with the hour moving near to midnight when Glasgow duo Auntie Flo take their place behind a pod of trestle tables loaded down with kit and cables. The flickering projection behind them bears the legend ‘Night…
