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18 Sep 2008
ITALO DISCO Heartbreak, where have you been all my life? It seems only fair to point out – before excessive scenester fawning turns the increasingly resurgent Italo disco sound into a mutated make-believe genre of new rave proportions – that this…
4 Sep 2008
‘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…
7 Aug 2008
Over the years the guys behind Headspin have built up an enviable reputation on the Edinburgh club scene. Seamlessly mixing the retro with the futuristic on their no-holds-barred four-deck set-up, which splices hip hop, funk, disco, house and other…
31 Jul 2008
‘Disco music as a genre essentially stopped in the mid-80s and became dance music as we now know it,’ says Andrew Pirie, promoter and DJ at Glasgow’s Melting Pot. ‘Everything happening in dance music today has some sort of roots in disco. Just as disco…
19 Jun 2008
DISCO HOUSE After Dark at Stereo, Glasgow, Sat 21 Jun When the teenage Todd Terje’s big sister said she liked disco, he didn’t really believe her. He thought she was being ironic, because she was hanging round with DJs on the Oslo scene and had heard…
13 Mar 2008
DISCO HOUSE (EMI/DFA) We can only hope that Hercules and Love Affair’s stunning debut single ‘Blind’ doesn’t soak all the attention away from this great record, because otherwise the new last days of disco start here. Neglecting the affecting…
28 Feb 2008
New Orleans-flavoured night of DJ skills and live music. Steve Angello (pictured) mixes up electro, techno and house influences while Henry Ralph mashes hip hop, rock and disco. Plus, there’s a live set from the Hot 8 Brass Band (also playing the Voodoo…
4 Jan 2008
DISCO RARE GROOVE (Seamless) (BBE) Vintage Grooves Disco may sound like the stuff of Sunday tabloid giveaways, but in spite of setting off on a two-disc excursion with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes standard ‘The Love I Lost’ (included here as…
4 Oct 2007
Get your skates at the ready folks as Rollerdisco rolls into town. If the shrieks and screams of people passing their colourful street posters is an indication of the overall excitement, then expect to see many grown-ups taking over Glasgow’s skate…
20 Sep 2007
DISCO HOUSE Ultragroove at Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Sat 22 Sep With a new album recorded and all-but mixed, the artists formerly known as Crazy Penis have toned down to appeal to the popular market. ‘Yeah, the Penis has gone,’ says singer…
12 Feb 2007
John Hutchinson (Tokyoblu) has been in charge at Sophistifunk over the last three years. A party week in week out with its mix of funky house, disco, electro, accessible remixes and mash-ups. However on Saturday 17 February they up the glamour and glitz…
19 Dec 2006
DISCO/FUNK/ELECTRO/HOUSE If you were to walk into Burn at the Buff Club, the first thing you may notice is that it doesn’t seem like you are at a Monday night club and the second thing is the freshness of the night after 12 years of partying. Burn…
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