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Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
24 May 2013
A track by track breakdown of the heavily hyped, mixed-bag of a disco-synth album
It’s the most anticipated album of the year, but it’s only partly been worth the wait. While Tron-helmeted duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s commitment to using real live musicians and an eclectic pool of guests to recreate the…
Conquering Animal Sound - Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Fri 29 Mar 2013
16 Apr 2013
A late album launch from the divine bedroom experimenters turned revered live act
Kinning Park Complex doesn’t get enough recognition on account of its versatility and slightly tattered charm. As much the ideal setting for dance classes and community meetings as it is for grassroots punk shows, and intimate musical experiences off…
Public Service Broadcasting - ABC2, Glasgow, Wed 8 May 2013
23 May 2013
An overwhelming visual spectacle outshines the electronic duo's music
Despite having only released their debut album Inform-Educate-Entertain two days prior to this gig, the London based duo have already started to gather a steady cult following due to a slew of well received EPs and heavy exposure on BBC 6 Music. The…
Matias Aguayo set for Electric Frog 2013 set
17 May 2013
DJ and producer whose live sets make use his voice as singing and percussive instrument
‘Travelling to different countries and meeting people who speak other languages and have different codes of behaviour, has made me more flexible in the way I communicate and act towards others; I think this is somehow, unintentionally reflected in the…
Doldrums - Lesser Evil
12 Mar 2013
Incredibly busy electro indie-pop album from Grimes cohort Airick Woodhead
Airick Woodhead is the latest artist to come out of the buzzing Montreal music scene. Woodhead, formerly of Spiral Beach and best friend of Claire Boucher (aka Grimes), is releasing Lesser Evil, his debut LP with his new project Doldrums and the DIY…
Interview: Terre Thaemlitz to perform at Arika Episode 4/5
18 Apr 2013
Politically-engaged DJ and producer set for gender-themed Arika event in Glasgow
There’s a story Terre Thaemlitz, aka DJ Sprinkles, tells in a footnote to a recent address she gave at Tate Modern. Now published on Thaemlitz’ website, it recalls her DJ-ing a deep house set at the closing party of a queer and transgender cultural…
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
14 Mar 2013
98-minutes of new music from Swedish pioneers is a mighty piece of work
(Rabid) Dear God, where to start? How about with congratulations, not just for taking their time to get it right and unleashing a 98-minute double CD/triple vinyl monster upon us seven years after Silent Shout’s breakthrough success, but for…
Ulrich Schnauss - Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Sun 17 Mar 2013
26 Mar 2013
A panoramic and emotionally driven electronica set from the ambient techno artist
The first time Ulrich Schnauss appeared in Edinburgh, back on Easter Sunday, in 2008 at the Voodoo Rooms, there wasn't a still body in the room, such was the infectiousness of Schnauss' laptop-generated electronica that has since defined a mashed-up…
Glasgow-based LuckyMe protégée S-Type set for live shows
15 Mar 2013
Remix schedule includes work for Aluna George, Jamie Lidell and Lianne La Havas
LuckyMe protégée S-Type, aka Bobby Perman, has been necking a combo of sick hip hop stimulants. ‘I’ve just had a bowl of porridge and a cup of tea,’ admits the ingenious electronic producer, warming up in his Glasgow studio. ‘I’ve only recently started…
Toro Y Moi set for 2013 UK tour with third album Anything in Return
15 May 2013
South Carolina's Toro Y Moi on his musical influences and latest album Anything in Return
‘I want to make music that people should hear, not what they want to hear,’ says Chazwick ‘Chaz’ Bundick, the South Carolina native who records a selection of boundary-pressing intelligent dance tracks under the alias Toro Y Moi, amongst many others.
Optimo: The Underground Sound of Glasgow
15 May 2013
Tracks from Golden Teacher, Auntie Flo and Debukas feature on mix compilation showcasing the city
(Glasgow Underground) The mouth waters and the ears tingle at the thought of this, the first in a series of compilations showcasing the sound of a city by someone who knows it well. The producers have chosen well here, for they could have no more…
Interview: Todd Edwards set for Electric Frog Easter Weekender 2013
19 Mar 2013
Line-up features Simian Mobile Disco, Andrew Weatherall, Todd Terje and Pan-Pot
Easter and resurrections go together, in which case Glasgow’s finest serious clubber’s weekender has chosen the right time to stage a comeback. Just when it looked like the two-day Electric Frog event as was had given up the ghost in the face of…
The Weeknd set for UK tour
15 Mar 2013
Soulfully-voiced Toronto Canadian eschews rap's chiches
All the familiar tropes of hip-hop’s seedy side – narcotics, booze, girls very much in the plural – lurk in the shadows of The Weeknd’s spacey, chilly synthscapes, as nights typically become day and then night again. But if there’s a marked contrast…
Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald - Borderland
15 May 2013
Engaging, if slightly underwhelming release from two of techno’s most iconic figures
It’s something of an event when two of techno’s most iconic figures, Juan Atkins and Moritz Von Oswald, join forces in the studio. Intriguingly, they’ve offered scant information regarding their motivations behind Borderland. Perhaps we shouldn’t be…
Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
26 Apr 2013
Diverse album a return to form for duo specialising in high-concept fun
For two decades now, Matmos have making music that goes way beyond sticking microphones in inappropriate places and making glitchy techno from the results. Originally emerging during the post-rock wave of cerebral electronic experimentalists that…
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
19 Apr 2013
Post-breakthrough return is brash, unapologetic, full of pomp and self-assured tunes
(Atlantic) Bankrupt! begins with the brilliant bravura of ‘Entertainment’, a blitzkrieg of uptempo synths and guitars. It’s the kind of epic, contemporary new wave swagger that goes down just swell when performed in front of huge summer festival crowds.
Exposure: Roman Nose
16 Apr 2013
Glasgow's enigmatic, beepy, dark electro trio talk masks and Satan, among other things
Roman Nose are generally to be found decked out in black hooded tops and intimidating masks, paying little respect to eardrums or graffiti laws [their press release claims they 'scream and kick ears for sadomasochistic pleasure], the Glasgow trio's sets…
S-Type - King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Sat 30 Mar 2013
16 Apr 2013
The LuckyMe-signed producer shows why US hip hop labels are after him
The Blessings’ Martyn Flyn and Dominic Flanagan and the acts on their LuckyMe label are more familiar with organising and playing at club nights, so it’s something of a surprise to find the duo hosting a gig at King Tuts, a venue better known for…
Five reasons to head to Electric Circus' Big Day In
16 Apr 2013
Dutch Uncles, Discopolis, Dems, Jonnie Common and more head up the indoor mini-festival
1. It’s in, not out Worried about the shameful 'spring' weather we’ve been having? Wishing you could get away from it with some antipodean (autumn) sunshine and a bunch of bands in a field? Well, tough. But if you couldn’t afford the flight to Oz and…
James Blake - The Arches, Glasgow, Thu 9 Apr 2013
11 Apr 2013
The electronica producer delivers a memorable performance with material from second album, Overgrown
Having notched up five Glasgow appearances in three years, it certainly seems as though James Blake has a fondness for the place, or at the very least the enthusiastic reception he receives here; tonight’s relaxed turns at chat, including a jokey…
James Blake - Overgrown
3 Apr 2013
Troubadour for the Burial generation revisits fey, enigmatic stylings on second album
James Blake provokes that kind of feverish excitement you’d mostly associate with the giddy hormonal urges of Beliebers, but instead he enchants the coolly-detached habitués of Boiler Room. It’s understandable. He is after all, an impossibly zeitgeisty…
New announcements for RockNess 2013 include Lianne la Havas, Rolando and Kerri Chandler
28 Mar 2013
Reverend & The Makers, Dog is Dead, Henrik Schwarz and more join the line up
The latest additions to 2013’s RockNess festival include soul singer Lianne la Havas; upbeat indie poppers Dog is Dead; Sheffield’s Reverend & The Makers fronted by the outspoken Jon McClure; Detroit techno master Rolando (Underground Resistance/Soma…
French producer Vitalic takes live band on road for UK tour
19 Mar 2013
Latest album Rave Age fuses disco with rock
In the near two decades since he started making and playing music, Pascal Arbez has managed to surf the waves of taste without being trapped in the hole of typecasting to any particular scene or genre. Discovered by Michael Amato, aka The Hacker, and…
Exposure: Glasgow act Golden Teacher take their live dance music to club nights
18 Mar 2013
Bells From the Deep End EP out on Optimo Music
Another winner has emerged from the Optimo Music stables, with the sleazy Dinosaur L-isms of Glasgow’s Golden Teacher. One of the greatest things to have hit the city’s dancefloors in memory, the ad hoc assembly are a collaboration between members of…
Minimal: Steve Reich in Glasgow - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sat 8 Mar 2013
18 Mar 2013
Programme includes Radio Rewrite and older pieces mixes beauty with technical
This celebration of a modern icon doesn’t start well, with an IT failure causing a sizeable delay, during which the crowd perform a spontaneous, good-natured crowd version of Reich’s ‘Clapping Music’. Once things get going, the first…
