Eclectica

The Glimmers

27 Nov 2008

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…

Various - Defected Presents Charles Webster

24 Apr 2008

ECLECTICA (Defected) If Charles Webster doesn’t sound like a typical superstar DJ, well that’s because he isn’t. He is a true cult hero of dance music and this triple CD package gives us a considered showcase of the breadth of work Webster programmes…

Tom Middleton

Headspin at The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sat 21 Apr

9 Apr 2007

HOUSE/ECLECTIC To read Tom Middleton’s wilfully genre-dropping biography is to understand how much he makes a feature of his eclectic nature. Growing up as a surfing and street sports enthusiast who loved The Police and Prince in Cornwall, the…

Various - Get While the Getting’s Good - album review

Various

29 Jan 2007

CHEERY SCOTTISH ECLECTICA If this is the future of Scottish music, then it has a big broad smile on its face. Often it may be a broken one (such as in Jock Scot’s barroom brogue of ‘Barcelona’), sometimes it’s the scary kind with the thousand yard…

Various - Yourcodenameis:Milo Presents - album review

Various

11 Nov 2006

ECLECTIC Cypress Hill producer and general mastermind (he was obviously the one who did the skinning up rather than smoking) DJ Muggs released a series of albums in the early 90s where he enlisted collaborations from his favourite rappers. The result…

Aim

Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Thu 26 Oct; King Tut’s, Gl

12 Oct 2006

ECLECTIC Having cut ties with the now defunct Manchester hip hop label Grand Central, Andy Turner as Aim has found a new creative freedom on his own ATIC Records. His new album Flight 602 furthers a journey into excitable syncopation and lush…

Various (Splendour and Misery) - album review

Various

10 Oct 2006

ECLECTICA Straddling the darker genres, this compilation of tracks by the myriad of new and established artists affiliated with London based independent TV records holds together well. Ari, of label founders Breathless, opens and closes with some…