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Glasgow Sub Club

Tasty sub - Glasgow Sub Club honoured in Resident Advisor poll

7 Aug 2008

Glasgow clubbing institution the Sub Club has been honoured with a place in respected dance magazine Resident Advisor’s Top 10 list. The Sub Club was placed inside the worldwide Top 10 in three out of four categories, including Atmosphere, Programming…

Dave Clarke

Dave Clarke - The eloquent rebel

17 Jul 2008

The last true generation of musical mavericks in Britain weren't indie kids or punks or rockers, but DJs. They blazed a trail, setting heads alight with a singular style and fevered musical vision. Among those deserving of such praise are Kirk…

Numbers 5th Birthday

Numbers 5th Birthday

3 Jul 2008

TECHNO The Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 4 Jul; Club 69, Paisley, Sat 12 Jul. As they say, there’s strength in numbers. After all, there’s a small army of people involved with genre-straddling Glasgow club promoters Numbers, including Richard Chater, Adam…

DMX Krew

DMX Krew

3 Jul 2008

Inner City Acid continues to forge new roads into cutting edge electronica with a guest slot from DMX Krew. This particular Krew is in fact one-man bass pioneer Ed DMX, who crafts synth grooves, techno and electro on vintage equipment. Releasing early…

Mark Mendes

Mark Mendes

3 Jul 2008

Musika brings yet another Scottish debut as they are joined by Canada’s rising tech-house star Mark Mendes. Picking up his first set of decks at the age of 16 and inspired by his uncle, Matteo di Marr (aka M1), Mendes moved into production releasing a…

Profile - Marco Bailey

Profile - Marco Bailey & Percy X

19 Jun 2008

Names Marco Bailey & Percy X Who that? Bailey is Belgium’s premier techno DJ/producer and CEO of record label MB Selektions. Percy X is Glasgow’s own Soma stalwart, also a DJ/producer, again fronting his own label edit-select. What’s the story?

Profile - Marco Bailey and Percy X

19 Jun 2008

Names Marco Bailey & Percy X Who that? Bailey is Belgium’s premier techno DJ/producer and CEO of record label MB Selektions. Percy X is Glasgow’s own Soma stalwart, also a DJ/producer, again fronting his own label edit-select. What’s the story?

Fabrikken

Introducing . . . Fabrikken

5 Jun 2008

Residents Steve Glencross of Stavia fame and Ryan McDonald from Irdium/Stick 430. Guests ‘We have a few guests we’re planning on putting on after this first date with Martin Mackay from RubADub,’ explains Glencross. ‘The next date will be with Dave…

The Exploited

Studio 24’s 13th Birthday Weekender

5 Jun 2008

TECHNO/METAL Studio 24, Edinburgh, Fri 13 & Sat 14 Jun ‘We don’t usually celebrate birthdays here,’ says Studio 24’s manager Gill McArthur, ‘but I’m superstitious, so I couldn’t ignore our 13th.’ She would do well not to invite any more bad luck…

Dopplereffekt

Dopplereffekt

5 Jun 2008

TECHNO/ELECTRO Numbers at the Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 6 Jun It seems curiously prophetic that a track named ‘Alleys of Your Mind’ would inspire the young James Stinson and Gerald Donald to form Drexciya, who would eventually become recognised as one…

Supermayer

Supermayer

22 May 2008

TECHNO The Black Rabbit Whorehouse, The Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 23 May Michael Mayer and Aksel Schaufler have both achieved more over the past decade than most producers and DJs will in their entire career. Mayer’s Kompakt Records has become one of the…

Damian Lazarus

Pressure

22 May 2008

It’s almost not worth pointing out that Pressure is one of the leading lights when it comes techno and house in Glasgow. As per usual Slam hosts an enviable line-up with Derrick Carter, Len Faki, Damian Lazarus (pictured), Tom Middleton, Marc Ashken…

Gabriel Ananda

Cotton Cake

8 May 2008

TECHNO The Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 16 May Although it’s been a fixture of the Glasgow scene for three years now, Cotton Cake has only recently discovered what it wants to be. Launched at the Glasgow School of Art by Mehdi Dadrass and Jamie Young as a…

Profile - Cajmere

8 May 2008

Name Cajmere Also known as Green Velvet, Curtis Jones (his real name), many others. Occupation Godfather of what broadly, briefly, became the electroclash sound, alongside Felix Da Housecat, Fischerspooner, Larry Tee, etc. Recently rediscovered…

Jay Haze - Love

Jay Haze - Love & Beyond

(3 stars)8 May 2008

TECHNO SOUL (TurningSpork Records) Jay Haze aka Fuckpony is one of few producers providing something unique in the minimal scene besides Ricardo Villalobos. Love focuses on the sci-fi house sound ‘of the now’. The standouts on the double vinyl version…

Radioactive Man

Radioactive Man

8 May 2008

Another high quality guest at Inner City Acid as Radioactive Man puts in a live set of wonky techno and freaked-out electro showcasing his new album, Growl. As one half of Two Lone Swordsmen (alongside Andrew Weatherall) he knows his way round a…

High Tech Soul

High Tech Soul

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

DOCUMENTARY (E) 64 min Subtitled the ‘Creation of Techno Music’ this documentary sets out to detail just that very subject, going back to the roots of the Detroit scene, the birthplace of techno as we know it today. The film aims to position the…

Tobias Schmidt

Substance

10 Apr 2008

TECHNO Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, Sat 12 Apr Perhaps the greatest thing about electronica is that it’s a forward thinking genre that reaches for the future, combining man and machine into new forms of sound. Techno in particular has always looked…

Wighnomy Brothers

Wighnomy Brothers

10 Apr 2008

Robag Wruhme and Monkey Maffia (aka the Wighnmoy Brothers) guest at Sensu with their own brand of minimal techno aimed at the dancefloor, or as they call it ‘raving with a reason’. Hooking up in 1989 in their native Germany they went on to launch their…

Dave Angel

Dave Angel

27 Mar 2008

A perennial favourite on the UK techno scene, Dave Angel guests at Glasgow’s techno bastion the Soundhaus. ‘Hard, funky techno, that’s the way I’d put it,’ explains Angel of his formidable mixing style. ‘Techno is all about experimenting with music…

DJ Hell

DJ Hell

13 Mar 2008

TECHNO/ELECTRO/HOUSE Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Fri 14 Mar DJ Hell will perhaps always be associated with the electroclash scene, after his International DeeJay Gigolos label spearheaded the sound that changed UK clubbing in the late 90s. However…

Nathan Fake

Nathan Fake

28 Feb 2008

TECHNO Kapital and the Caves, Edinburgh, Sat 1 Mar Kapital’s headliner at this Border Community (James Holden’s rather fantastic record label) special is none other than Nathan Fake, a 25-year-old producer who makes stripped down techno tracks bathed…

Steve Angelo

SoCo Social Mardis Gras

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…

Derrick May

Derrick May

17 Jan 2008

TECHNO Pressure at the Arches, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jan ‘Trying to save the world from bad music.’ That’s the motto Derrick May lives by these days. Arguably he’s already done that though, given that, alongside his old Belleville, Detroit high school…

Rob Acid

Rob Acid

17 Jan 2008

Starting his career under the moniker Acid Warrior, making his live debut at Sven Vath’s legendary Omen club in Frankfurt, you kind of know what you’re letting yourself in for at Cotton Cake as Rob Acid (aka Robert Babicz) puts in a two-hour live set.

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