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Azari & III - Don't call them house revivalists
21 Oct 2011
Toronto-based act favour Roland drum machines, crisp piano loops and emotional lyrics
Is it too soon for a house music revival? That’s the question The List is mulling over ahead of speaking to self-proclaimed ‘house music aficionados’ Azari & III. The Toronto-based band, comprising producers Dinamo Azari and Alixander III and vocalists…
Bjork - Biophilia / Dirty Projectors & Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca
20 Oct 2011
Embracing innovative on niche experimental curio by a huge artist
(One Little Indian/Domino) It’s clear that Iceland’s premier musical export has no interest in writing another ‘Big Time Sensuality’ or ‘Violently Happy’ to please the casual listener, but these almost simultaneously released new albums demonstrate…
Active Child - You Are All I See
20 Oct 2011
A lovely and welcoming debut of choral shimmers and electro pulses
(Vagrant) Linda Ronstadt; Jon and Vangelis; the Chariots of Fire soundtrack – all this and we’re less than a minute in to Active Child’s debut album (and title track) ‘You Are All I See’. The electro-dreamy conduit of bygone choirboy Patrick…
Rob Hall & Chick Lyall - Blithe Spirit
20 Oct 2011
Melodic compositions combine jazz, classical and folk
(FMR Records) Hall and Lyall are familiar figures on the Scottish jazz scene, and their third duo recording reveals an even greater refinement in their thoughtful, inventive music. Their melodic compositions combine jazz, classical music and a touch…
Music for Airports: An appreciation by John Foxx
19 Oct 2011
The artist, electro pioneer and friend of Brian Eno the now classic work
I first heard Music For Airports in [legendary krautrock producer] Conny Plank’s studio, as Brian was making it. Christa [Fast] and Inge [Zeininger] were assistants at the studio. Brian roped them in to sing. I thought it was a great idea. I thought…
Remember Remember, Miaoux Miaoux - Glasgow Science Centre, Sat 8 Oct 2011
19 Oct 2011
Fantastic electronica double-bill in impressively apt surroundings
It’s a simple enough idea. Two nights of live music (Saturday and Sunday) inside the Glasgow Science Centre planetarium, with the performances broken up by lectures from Simon, the centre’s laser pen-wielding resident stargazer. Simple but brilliant.
Summer Camp - Welcome To Condale
19 Oct 2011
Seeped in nostalgia and one of the smartest synth pop romp of the year
(Apricot Recording Company/Moshi Moshi) Summer Camp’s music is seeped in nostalgia, but the London duo pay homage to the past cleverly; their 1980s’ teen flicks-inspired debut thankfully free of the usual pitfalls of cynical pastiche and straight…
Koreless - Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Sun 9 Oct 2011
19 Oct 2011
The youthful, bright-eyed dubstepper takes centre-stage at Sneaky's
Lewis Roberts may only be just about old enough to attend a club, but judging by this appearance he certainly understands what’s required to keep the customers satisfied. Still in his teens, this Glasgow-based Welshman has patented a form of lazy…
Born to Be Wide - The musician's guide to music videos
18 Oct 2011
Music seminar offers advice for making and promoting music videos
Don’t know your PPL from your VPL? Couldn’t tell your ISRC code from your elbow? Born To Be Wide is here to help. For any musician looking to make the leap from local pub gig to, well, basically anything that will make you any money, a little bit of…
Justice - Audio Video Disco
17 Oct 2011
Highly enjoyable electro-rock from the Parisian duo, if notably less serious than earlier efforts
(Ed Banger/Because) Hip Parisian electro label Ed Banger’s leading lights aren’t the first dance artists to make like rock stars – see The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and fellow French duo Daft Punk among others. But between their wiggly synth…
John Foxx & The Maths - Interplay
12 Oct 2011
Cold synth masterpiece from the electro-pop pioneer
(Metamatic Records) Now a real-life silver Foxx, the pushing-60 electro-pop/clash pioneer and former vocalist with Ultravox before Midge Ure made them rubbish might just have found his time. This retro-future compendium of detached, dystopian…
Profile: Moritz Von Oswald
6 Oct 2011
Rare live show from minimal techno pioneer in association with club night Animal Farm
This Saturday sees one the most important and legendary figures in electronic music, Moritz Von Oswald, play a rare, pre-Subculture live set with Tikiman, organized jointly by Animal Farm and the Sub Club. An established percussionist for the likes of…
Glasgow Science Centre takes a Detour
29 Sep 2011
Ally McRae and David Weaver organise a special event with Remember Remember, Meursault and more
Ever think that science wasn’t cool (despite the well-mannered, be-jumpered protestations of Brian Cox)? Well, Detour Scotland beg to differ. The video makers/radio pesterers/off the wall gig organisers, set up by Radio 1’s Ally McCrae and long-term…
5 Reasons to go to EH1 LIVE
21 Sep 2011
The capital's new one-dayer features The Dykeenies, Jakil, The 10:04s and more
1. Welcome to Edinburgh It’s that time of year again. Students are back, a new bunch of freshers are unleashed upon the bright lights of the big city, and while this new one-day, one-ticket-accesses-everything festival doesn’t cover all of the city’s…
Clubbers' Decktionary: Chiptune
19 Sep 2011
DJ Hobbes guides us through clubbing's myriad genres
Chiptune proper noun. aka 8Bit, Bitpop, Bitcore, Nintendocore Any tempo but generally fast (ie 130-180bpm), the sound of 8-bit and 16-bit micr-chips from classic arcade games from the late 70s and early 80s, hand-held computer games from Nintendo and…
Cabaret Voltaire's Alternative Freshers' Week
19 Sep 2011
A list of reasons to attend the week-long club extravaganza
SBTRKT Welcome to Edinburgh, say Cab Vol, as they introduce nine big student specials in a row. Allow us to take you through who’s appearing, starting with Young Turks-signed London producer Aaron Jerome, aka SBTRKT, playing at Sugarbeat. The…
Eastern Promise brings live music and record fair to Platform, Glasgow
14 Sep 2011
To Rococo Rot, Tarwater and Conquering Animal Sound
The second Eastern Promise builds on the good work of last year’s festival by bringing an admirably eclectic bill of Scottish and international acts to Easterhouse. Underground pop legends The Pastels play their first show in over a year on the Sunday…
Remember Remember - The Quickening
14 Sep 2011
A shimmering and optimistic tour de force from Scottish composer and pop genius
(Rock Action) Once upon a time there was a super electro-prog combo called Multiplies. They came from Glasgow, made like rock miscreants and then they were gone, leaving memories of marvellous live shows and the sense they were always too good to be…
Interview: Gary Numan - First Word
25 Aug 2011
The legendary electronica artist on sausages and ape-populated planets
First record you ever bought A Hank Williams Jr. album for my mum. Last extravagant purchase you made I bought a dirt buggy a couple of years ago. First film you saw that really moved you The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston in it.
Electric Frog September Weekender 2011
25 Aug 2011
Frankie Knuckles, The Fall, Jeff Mills, Mogwai, and Joe Claussell feature in stellar line-up
Whoever chose to carry out some large-scale maintenance at their Eastvale Place business premises on the last weekend of July has inadvertently done Glasgow’s clubbing fraternity a favour. It might have meant the planned Electric Frog Summer Weekender…
Clubbers' Decktionary: Cosmic
25 Aug 2011
DJ Hobbes guides us through clubbing's myriad genres
Cosmic (disco) adj/proper noun. aka Afro Cosmic, also Space Disco. Originally an highly eclectic, mid-tempo (9-105 BPM) style, which nowadays generally exhibits a lot of space, reverb and echo/delay in the production, bubbling synths, delicate keys…
Crate digging: London Elektricity picks 5 top tracks
24 Aug 2011
Hospital Records head returns to Xplicit
From the 1976 Big Terror Movie Themes album, Geoff Love & His Orchestra ‘Three Days of the Condor’ (Music For Pleasure) is an amazing piece of lounge dirty funk. I was Geoff Love’s roadie on his tour of Gibraltar in 1986. Along with the orchestra’s horn…
Soma Records: 20 Years
24 Aug 2011
Three CD celebration pack of hits and resurrections
(Soma) As ‘the UK’s longest-running dance label’, so they tell us and we’re inclined to believe, Soma (the releasing arm of production duo Slam, the guys who pitch that pointy blue tent at T in the Park every year) continue to occupy a place…
Penguin Prison - Penguin Prison
24 Aug 2011
Crisp, revitalising debut album that is both retro and relevant
(Stranger) Penguin Prison have just gone and nailed that curious talent of producing music rooted in retro sound, whilst also making it utterly relevant. This self-titled debut album features swathes of synth flooded in 80s sheen, but there’s enough…
Wesseltoft Schwarz - Duo
24 Aug 2011
Norwegian ‘nu-jazz’ guru and techno producer make ambient jazz-meets-dance
(Jazzland) The combination of piano and laptop computer would once have been pretty much the exclusive preserve of the free improv end of jazz, but Norwegian ‘nu-jazz’ guru Bugge Wesseltoft and techno producer Henrik Schwarz bring their collaboration…
