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27 Nov 2008
For a club night which has been one big, glorious celebration of the retro soul, funk, psych and freakbeat sounds for eight years now, Modern Lovers has an eye on the future this fortnight. The regular monthly event in Edinburgh is both the eighth…
The best new labels in town. This month: Paragraph Who’s behind it? Slam, aka Stuart MacMillan and Orde Meikle, arguably Scotland’s biggest house and techno export. Who’s on it? Just the Slam boys, recording under the alias Paragraph. They view…
Despite it’s size, the Ivy has big ambitions, and the sheer quality of DJs and events they put on has transcended from pre-club to genuine DJ destination. So it should come as no surprise that they have secured the talents of Tayo (pictured) for their…
Half club half gig, Limbo has been bringing new live music to Edinburgh’s Thursday nights for a year now. For their first birthday (27 Nov) expect live sets from Micachu (pictured) and their avant-pop, twisted disco from A-Lix, Ex-Lion Tamer and Dead…
POST DISCO Although early-80s pioneers of the New York New Wave and post punk sound Liquid Liquid have enjoyed something of a revival in the UK during 2008, they should have been on the radar of Glasgow’s more discerning clubbers for a few years now.
ECLECTICA Belgium’s other premiere DJ duo the Glimmers (Mo and Benoelie) are guesting at Edinburgh’s ever reliable home of mixed musical genres, Headspin. Famed for their no holds barred approach to mixing and siphoning off the cream of any genre…
19 Nov 2008
Edinburgh’s art scene has another new addition. The Bowery on Roxburgh Place in the Southside, opened last Saturday and takes its name from one of the famous city's hippest streets. The venue aims to replicate the quirky and semi mod attitude of the…
13 Nov 2008
Three Scottish clubbing institutions hit big milestones this month: rock club The Cathouse is 18, the Art School’s regular soul night Divine is 18, and Slam’s techno hoedown Pressure is 10. We asked three regular punters just why they love these clubs…
It’s still hard to discuss Edinburgh’s club scene without referencing the Cowgate fire which claimed La Belle Angele and the Gilded Saloon in December 2002. The event, along with the demise of the Venue on Calton Road, was a hammer blow to the city’s…
BLAKE BAXTER Cotton Cake at the Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 21 Nov. Brush up on the history of Detroit techno DJ and producer Blake Baxter for a bit and one of the first adjectives you’ll come across in many of his biographies and career summations is…
Also known as Jens ‘Jence’ Moelle and Ismail ‘Isi’ Tüfekçi. Occupation German purveyors of funky and discordant dancefloor filth. Where are they from? Moelle and Tüfekçi founded Digitalism in 2004 after meeting at a record shop in Hamburg where…
PREVIEW TECHNO & HOUSE Studio 24, Edinburgh, Fri 14 Nov. This fortnight Subculture comes to Edinburgh after Studio 24’s manager, Gill McArthur, witnessed their programming of T in the Park’s Bacardi B-Bar by chance and felt she could make the night…
The Low Christmas Concert Malcolm Middleton doesn’t have the monopoly on miserablist Christmas anthems, you know. This lot have been at it since 1999, and are back on the gloomy festive trail to promote new menace-laden single, ‘Santa is Coming Over’.
It’s dark in the mornings, so why not live nocturnally? As DJs get into training for Hogmanay – the biggest night in the clubbing calendar – Jasper Hamill and Kirstin Innes round up the best-lookin’ Christmas parties Glasgow A merry little…
What are your favourite Christmas hits? My favourite is the Phil Spector Christmas album, which I think is wonderful and romantic. Of course, there are also the classics, like ‘Little Drummer Boy’ and ‘I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus’, which is about…
One of Glasgow’s most eclectic club nights rolls on with guest appearances from England’s Darkstar, with an oddly upbeat kind of instrumental grime, and Mweslee and Bflecha (pictured). The latter pair are from Spain, and offset each other perfectly…
Hailing from Montreal, the Ninja Tune-signed Poirier has worked with the likes of Beans (Warp) and DJ /rupture (Tigerbeat6). He’s playing two disparate Art School dates this fortnight which both somehow seem to encompass his style – a broad church which…
● Cathouse 18th Birthday Weekender Bands, DJs and much more help celebrate Glasgow’s finest rock club. Cathouse, Glasgow, Fri 14 & Sat 15 Nov . ● Fantasylands Twelve hours of rave, trance and hardcore, with headliner Ferry Corsten. Royal Highland…
30 Oct 2008
'I never made house music, mate! You've got the wrong bloke.' He's got a point actually, maybe I have. Is this the same Jazzie B whose band Soul II Soul produced a genre defining album entitled Club Classics Vol. 1 just as house music was breaking…
It's been to Barcelona, to Shoreditch and even to Brazil, but Rebel Waltz co-founder Murray Richardson finds much amusement in the fact that his club, which celebrates its tenth anniversary here, will be happening on the very same street on which it was…
Telefunken is a proper house night. Its music jacks in all the right places, its residents know how to mix without molestation and its guests are great. You can tell residents Alan Gray and Nick Wilson come from the right sort of background because…
A Colours night is typically huge at the best of times, but this collision with big name commercial house and techno labels Hed Kandi and Toolroom will go one step further. First on the proverbial red carpet is Dave Spoon (pictured), by now an…
Not since the days of Taste's prime has Edinburgh managed to gather itself a successful Sunday night scene, and the weekly Scottish Hobo Society, as was, certainly didn't change that. Yet the now-rechristened Hobo is now under new management, and the…
Name Umek Also known as Uros Umek Occupation The biggest name in Slovenian techno, whose reputation is growing around Europe and even further afield. Where is he from? Ljubljana, where he was born 32 years ago. A teenage devotee of the…
16 Oct 2008
First up, annual Optimo (Espookio) , one of Glasgow’s most enduring terror-filled dress-up nights, which is appearing on both coasts this month, commandeering Cabaret Voltaire for its first Edinburgh fright fest (Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Sat 25 Oct…
Half grimy techno maverick, half supervillain Drums of Death (aka Colin Bailey) is on the brink of becoming Scotland’s latest electronica superstar. Perhaps too warped to storm the charts like Mylo or Calvin Harris, having growing up on a diet of…
‘It’s great how fast dubstep has grown in the last couple of years,’ says Arthur ‘Artwork’ Smith, ‘but people don’t realise that it’s been going since 2001, and that lots of people have been making this music for that long. Every so often someone will…
TECHNO Inspired by Glasgow’s notorious Test, and galvanised by the closure of The Venue and the final Dogma parties, Adam Richardson saw an opportunity to start a new night that would fill a gap in Edinburgh’s depleted clubbing diary. Over the past…
HOUSE ‘We had 500 people in for Joey Negro on Saturday,’ beams Ultragroove’s promoter and resident DJ Gareth Sommerville, ‘which made it the biggest club in town by some way.’ He’s justifiably proud, because Ultragroove has become one of Scotland’s…
Delude yourself into thinking that there was actually a summer this year with the sun-drenched programme of this year's Hispanic Festival. Sweaty samba clubs, civilised poetry readings and a chance to learn flamenco. Various venues in Edinburgh, Thu…
It’s a big Halloween party at trance and hard house night Inside Out this month, featuring Super8 & Tab, Kamui, Frase and Marcus Schossow, who is currently making a name for himself with the XXX-rated, porn movie sampling ‘Girls Suckcces’, an…
HOUSE It seems that scarcely a day goes by without news of a merger or takeover bid screaming across the screens of 24-hour news channels. Stereotype and Musika have obviously been watching the markets to discern which way the wind is blowing…
2 Oct 2008
Ten years is considered pretty damn successful in this game and not many clubs have lasted anywhere near as long as Scotland’s own superclub Colours as they celebrate Streetrave’s 19th birthday. Starting way back in 1989 there’s plenty of reason to…
‘Alex James demanded a microphone, played twenty seconds of Blur’s ‘Popscene’, pulled it off, shouted “that’s bollocks” and put on Chic instead. Brett Anderson told us people were following him into the toilets to try and look at his bits and I once…
Name: Orlando Voorn Occupation: Pioneer of Dutch techno, whose early obsessions with electro and hip hop turned into a love affair with the Detroit sound at the end of the 80s. The Detroit sound? So we aren’t talking your stereotypical ‘tops…
HIP HOP Random Aspekts are Scotland’s pre-eminent breakdance outfit having in seven short years forged a path from keen enthusiasts to career dancers, learning a thing or two about what their art owes to its aural inspiration along the way. So after…
It’s funny how guests at Headspin quickly become regulars, (names like The Psychonauts and DJ Yoda instantly spring to mind). Must be the attention to good music, a top crowd and an open mind. No wonder Tom Middleton feels so at home and is back for…
DRUM & BASS/DUBSTEP There will be times in your life when you’ll meet relatives with whom you have a strange relationship – second cousins, suspect uncles, your gran’s new boyfriend – you know that there’s a connection, but you struggle to figure out…
18 Sep 2008
TECHNO ‘The reason I stretch out into making music through many different avenues’, says Chilean-born, England-raised techno polymath Cristian Vogel, ‘is that fundamentally I’m not a DJ. Of course, DJing’s the quickest way of paying the bills, but…
HOUSE ‘It’s a really exciting time for us right now,’ says Tokyoblu founder and DJ John Hutchison. ‘After six years of constant, hard-at-it aiming to get somewhere, we’re only now starting to approximate what our plans were back then.’ Tokyoblu…
You’d be hard pushed to find a DJ bigger than Andy C; in this business he’s the boss, the CEO, of D&B. ‘In my eyes there is no other DJ in the drum & bass industry with the profile that Andy C has,’ explains Street Knowledge DJ/promoter DJ Kid. ‘His…
With releases on Mute, Lo Recordings, Noodles and Seed special guest Cursor Miner (aka Rob Tubb) should fit in nicely at Substance. Dishing out a throbbing electro groove with an accessible pop sensibility and deep dark twisted edges. It’s an…
Over a year ago, Byblos planned their big launch party, with the DJs Junior Jack (pictured) and Kid Crème in place, but due to circumstances beyond their control the venue wasn’t ready, so JJ and KC never even saw the decks and spent the night cooped up…
Name: Armin van Buuren Occupation: The reigning number one DJ in the world, if you believe the readers of DJ magazine. But of course, you don’t get to such a pinnacle of global popularity these days without playing trance somewhere in your set, and…
15 Sep 2008
David Pollock selects the top ten club nights you cannot afford to miss. Residents Hobbes and Erik D’Viking DJ all over town, but the eclectic party night Trouble is still their biggest deal. Diversity is key; since the start of 2007, Rob Da Bank…
David Pollock selects the top ten club nights you cannot afford to miss. OPTIMO Riding the crest of a wave for the best part of a decade now, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes’ Optimo (Espacio), which borrows the aesthetic of early 80s New York nightlife and…
4 Sep 2008
‘We call it a punk night,’ says Christopher Fast, ‘but it’s more about a punk attitude to music. From rockabilly, 60s soul, garage and hip hop to disco and electro, we set out to make different genres work together in an interesting way.’ For five…
‘Last month, a guy from London came up to us and said, “this is exactly what I remember the old Basement Jaxx parties being like”,’ says Teamy, co-promoter and DJ at Sleazy’s finest basement party since it won itself a late licence. ‘That’s just what…
Famed for his soundtrack work on the likes of Ocean’s 13 and Out of Sight and his ever eclectic approach to DJing, David Holmes is one of the world’s most consistently excellent and interesting DJs. Veering from techno through funk and punk rock you…
Credited with inventing acid house with the release of their Acid Tracks EP back in 1987, Phuture (or Phuture 303 as they are known these days) helped shape dance music as we know it today. The three man team of DJ Pierre, Spanky and Herb J added the…
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