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Best of 2011: Clubs
19 Dec 2011
The best sets and gigs, including Plastikman, Ivan Smagghe and Bloody Beetroots
Andrew Weatherall & Ivan Smagghe. Karnival’s fifth birthday featured vinyl vs computer hardware in a delicious back-to-back set that meshed in all the right places for a dynamic and unpredictable set that kept both DJs and clubbers guessing. Karnival…
Numbers discuss the club/brand's New Year plans
13 Dec 2011
Hogmanay celebrations in both Edinburgh and Glasgow lie ahead
It’s been another good year for Glasgow’s ever-growing clubbing export Numbers. So big, in fact, that they need a whole three cities to contain their send-off to 2011. First they’ll be warming up with a set at Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s the night before…
Jonnie Common - Mono, Glasgow, Sun 27 Nov 2011
13 Dec 2011
Triumphant show from the skilled electronica musician and friends
In August Jonnie Common, founder of the now defunct trio Down the Tiny Steps, released his debut album Master of None. In real terms, the event passed without a great deal of fanfare and yet critical acclaim was heaped upon Common by those lucky and…
Eat, sleep and breathe: Discopolis
13 Dec 2011
The Edinburgh electronic pop act on their eating habits
What time is breakfast? Usually sometime after lunch... Fergus is an early bird though. Tea or coffee? Laurie can’t do without his green tea, Dave will have an occasional sip of a Darjeeling and Fergus can’t get enough builders’ brew. Smoking or…
Plastikman Live 1.5 - Barrowland, Glasgow, Sat 3 Dec
9 Dec 2011
Spectacular live performance by the techno artist
The abundance of older faces among the Barrowlands crowd suggests that many could well have been present for Richie Hawtin’s first appearance at the venue, a DJ set as part of Pure’s Hogmanay celebrations in 1994. How things have changed. Returning…
DJ Shadow - O2 ABC, Glasgow, Mon 5 Dec
9 Dec 2011
Stunning live show continues to break new ground
For innovation and impact, genre-mashing LA turntablist DJ Shadow, aka Josh Davis, has never bettered his entirely samples-based 1996 debut Endtroducing... But his visually stunning live shows continue to break new ground, and prove DJ sets can be just…
Jonnie Common - Hair of the Dog
8 Dec 2011
Common's debut Master of None yields a just-as-good set of muso-buddy remixes
(Red Deer Club) Jonnie Common’s debut album Master of None: a record so good he actually got two albums out of it. This remix package is more of an appendix to the original than a cohesive new creation in its own right, but its roll call of some of…
Tunng - This is Tunng: Live from the BBC
7 Dec 2011
Warped magic of eccentric east London glitch folk collective
(Full Time Hobby) With a line-up alteration or two, eccentric east London collective Tunng have gone from glitchy cut and pasters to singalong folksters. Their This is Tunng compilation features bouncy numbers (‘Jenny Again’, ‘Bullets’) from 2010’s…
FareWell Poetry / Matthew Collings / Hiva Oa / Opul, The Third Door, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Nov
18 Nov 2011
Carefully crafted multi-media, poetry-meets-noise and guitar assaults
Salsa class is cancelled tonight, according to the blackboard outside what used to be after-hours hippy student dive Medina, but which now looks intent on filling the DIY boho gap that the Roxy Arthouse and The Forest once occupied so randomly. The…
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
16 Nov 2011
The iconic director's latest foray into music has great moments but an overdependence on filler
(Sunday Best) The dark cinema of David Lynch needs no introduction, nor does the music in his films – whether the work of composer Angelo Badalamenti or his use of older pop songs. Who could forget Dean Stockwell lipsyncing Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams…
Little Dragon on UK tour
16 Nov 2011
Swedish electro-pop quartet and Gorillaz collaborators take third album Ritual Union on tour
You’d expect a band to delight in having artists from Gorillaz to DJ Shadow and Big Boi beating their door down to work with them – especially if they’ve hitherto existed in relative obscurity. But while Little Dragon find it ‘super exciting’ to have…
Com Truise - profile
16 Nov 2011
Seth Haley (under his synth-pop pseudonym) gears up to play Sneaky Pete's
Who: No, not the one married to Hatie Kolmes. Com Truise is the alias of Seth Haley, the New Jersey based producer behind this summer’s sublime Galactic Melt; his debut album, and one of this year’s finest, most addictive electronic synth-pop…
Various artists - Songs For Dying
16 Nov 2011
Vibrant collection of tunes exploring noise genres from techno to metal
(Pjorn 72) The local Noiserati and associates’ recent reclaiming of their techno and/or metal roots helped their clan avoid a nihilistic dead end. As this bumper fifteen track compendium of clings, clangs, sci-fi slapstick, sepulchral drones…
Interview: Hudson Mohawke
9 Nov 2011
The electronic producer on big name collaborators and doing his own thing
At last, the world seems to be catching up with Hudson Mohawke. It’s been two years since the Glasgow-bred, London-based producer released his debut album Butter on the mighty Warp Records, largely to recognition only from listeners of a truly…
Richie Hawtin resurrects iconic Plastikman persona for world tour
9 Nov 2011
DJ and producer on the makings of his audio-visual spectacular
Richie Hawtin is one of the most high profile DJs and producers working today, with activities incorporating several record labels, software and hardware products and a globe-spanning tour schedule. Known for distinctive and intense DJ sets, it might…
Interview: Richie Hawtin - Plastikman Live 1.5 tour 2011
8 Nov 2011
Full transcript of interview with minimal techno producer and DJ
Live music concert seems inadequate term to describe your current live show. What exactly is this thing you do now? Well live music exists somewhere between music, theatre and circus right? You're there to entertain and grab the people. I think what…
