Xplicit
- Telephone: 0131 558 8844
Drum & bass, dubstep and other bassy beats.
Performance times
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh
Fri 21 Jun
£4 before midnight; £6 after / 0131 558 8844
Residents special.
- 23:00 – 03:00 Xplicit The Bongo Club
Fri 12 Jul
£4 before midnight; £6 after / 0131 558 8844
Residents summer special.
- 23:00 – 03:00 Xplicit The Bongo Club
Reviews & features
Iconic Edinburgh venue The Bongo Club relocates to Cowgate
12 Dec 2012
Memories of the club in its Moray House home
As the Bongo Club prepares to pack up and leave their Moray House venue, Henry Northmore catches up with the club and various residents about the past and the future. Why will you miss the Bongo Club at Moray House? Andrew Nation (Assistant Venue…
Clubbers' Decktionary: Liquid Funk
2 Feb 2012
Drum & bass sub-genre originated by Fabio and LTJ Bukem
Liquid funk aka Liquid drum & bass or just plain Liquid, proper noun: drum & bass sub-genre, so generally very much up-tempo (160-180 bpm), taking influences from soca, Latin, disco and jazz as well as funk, featuring more live instrumental parts and…
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…
5 Questions - Xplicit
13 Aug 2010
Xplict are Scotland’s prime purveyors of hard drum & bass and they don’t disappoint with their Festival date as they are joined by Shy FX, who helped to transform early hardcore into the drum & bass we know today with tracks such as ‘Jungle Love’ back…
DJ Marky
21 Aug 2008
Think of Brazil and you think of music. It’s a country that lives and breathes to its own unique rhythm, a rhythm which DJ Marky has followed to the top of his profession. Inspired by the Sao Paulo clubs he partied in as a teenager, Marky started out…
Clubs - List picks
17 Jul 2008How’s Your Party? Filthy and minimal from Detroit’s maverick ghetto-tech genius DJ Assault. Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 18 Jul. Andy Smith The documentarian and some-time Portishead collaborator Mr Smith drops a slick, eclectic funky mix. Voodoo Rooms…
Noisia
17 Jan 2008
Expect techno-inflected drum & bass as Dutch production trio Noisia (Vision) descend on Xplicit for their third birthday. Not forgetting Shy-FX and Sub Focus (Ram), an impressive roster of the best drum & bass from past and present. Xplicit…
Xplicit
23 Aug 2007
Drum & bass
By the end of August the residents of Edinburgh will have endured almost a month of living and working in the midst of the International Festival. Those embracing the mayhem have been out and about soaking up the atmosphere and ensuring the 5am licenses…
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