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Clubs :: Preview 15 Aug 2008
Michael Slevin: Following on from their tour earlier this year, the release of their awesome new album In Silico, and their triumphant live performance at this year’s T In The Park, Pendulum will be hitting the UK Festival scene once again. Starting off with the...
Clubs :: Preview 13 Aug 2008
Don McVinnie: Monox should be extremely proud to bring one of the greatest legends of Detroit techno to the Soundhaus. As one of the founding members of the influential Underground Resistance label, Hood's reputation has continued to grow following his departure fro...
Clubs :: Preview 12 Aug 2008
Colin Chapman: The How’s Your Party crew throw their second bi-monthly Friday-nighter, welcoming the return of A-Trak and Sinden. The youngest ever DMC world champion at only 15, A-Trak’s cultivated a talent that covers more than just scratching and beat...
Clubs :: Preview 11 Aug 2008
Ema Johnson: This bank holiday sees Dubpressure joining forces with the Electric Eliminators, who've been responsible for some of the west coast's best nights of late. This two-headed monster will be presenting twisted concotions of bass burps, wonky hip hop, jungl...
Clubs :: Preview 08 Aug 2008
Liam Arnold: A d'n'b night with a low carbon footprint? Cracking. It's unlikely to be from an ecological perspective, but Symbiosis continue to present great drum and bass nights, with guests who probably got the bus down. This month sees Dundee's Linden (who's doi...
Clubs :: Preview 07 Aug 2008
Josh Coppersmith-Heaven: Mark Farina trips over to Glasgow all the way from The Bay. Whilst reducing diverse artists to generic terms is always difficult, it wouldn't be too cheeky to describe Farina as dabbling in 'psychedelic and experimental house', with bouncy beats. He us...
Scott Ramage: The Japanese Popstars may actually be from Ireland, but don’t hold that white lie against them. As established DJs in their own right - they hold several residencies at clubs in their home country as well as in Europe - they’ve now decided ...
Clubs :: Feature 06 Aug 2008
Emma Kilday: Electronic dance music: electro, techno, trance, house, minimal, hi-NRG, skacid, ghettotech, breakcore… sometimes it seems like you could fill an entire dictionary just with its sub-genres. Where the music geeks of the past were content enough j...
Clubs :: Feature 01 Aug 2008
Josh Coppersmith-Heaven: Everybody knows that Edinburgh is where the world descends in August, but with all the attention Edinburgh gets this month, I decided to divert my gaze further afield. In the spirit of healthy rivalry, Aberdeen is in fact having a festival of its very ...
Heads Up :: Clubs :: Feature :: Preview 01 Aug 2008
Nicol J. Craig: The Bongo Club Bongo favourites Mutiny and Technical Resistance have come together to present drum and bass duo The Panacea and Limewax for their Scottish debuts (8th, £7). Scamp, Tekamine, Esquire and Naas TSC take up the earlier slots. Upstair...
Clubs :: Feature 30 Jul 2008
Norman Jay: 1. JetTricKs feat. AdeFunke - Free (iTunes)Very Brighton, very British and representative of what's happening on the downtempo tip; experimental and soulful. 2. Bobby D'Ambrosio feet Arif St Michael - Girl You Need A Change of Mind (SoulShine)I've bou...
Clubs :: Feature :: Preview 29 Jul 2008
Lady K: August is always a good month for hip-hop and this year is no different with a great selection of both local and guest artists touching down. Kicking it all off on the west side is a BBQ Bank Holiday special featuring Black Grass touring with new mate...
Clubs :: Preview 29 Jul 2008
Scott Ramage: Aberdeen’s leading house night has managed to attract another top quality guest in the form of Chicago House legend Gene Farris. Since the age of twelve, this producer has been developing his mixing skills, which began with making tapes for frien...
Liam Arnold: The past few months have seen disturbances in the supercontext or collective subconscious, a sociological form of seasonal adjustment disorder, or quite simply a series of bloody great coincidences. As well as my belief that it signifies the apocalypse...
Clubs :: Preview 28 Jul 2008
Colin Chapman: Heads from Monox and Numbers clash this month to help raise funds for children’s charity, Spirit Aid. All profits from this two-room, heavy-weight collision of electro, techno, dubstep and bass will help their efforts to alleviate the suffering o...
Clubs :: Feature :: Preview 28 Jul 2008
Al Majik: With all the attention on the capital at this time of year, it’s sometimes easy to forget about Scotland’s other cities. If you find Edinburgh slightly daunting around festival time, then here’s what’s happening in the rest of c...
Ema Johnson: Baller$ 5ocial Club switch gears this month to bring you Canada's turbo crunksters, Mofomatronix. Prepare to be wowed when duo Philippe Aubin-Dionne and Sebastien Prest-Diamantis hit our shores with their hybrid software/hardware live set. They're usua...
Colin Chapman: Sensu returns with another Scottish exclusive: the first live performance of Joris Voorn and Edwin Oosterwal’s Rejected project. The Dutchmen first met in the mid-90's at a DJing competition, later forming a friendship which saw them become resi...
Al Majik: Before Volume opened its doors last April, genres like dubstep, baile funk and B-more house were relatively unheard of in Edinburgh. Skip to the summer of 2008 and these styles can be heard pulsating through the soundsystem of almost every club in the ...
Clubs :: Preview 24 Jul 2008
Don McVinnie: Sunday August 3rd sees The Ivy host another of its bank holiday BBQ specials, inviting along a number of special guests to join in the games. First up, Black Grass arrives via his Catskills record label to deliver some quality roots, funk, soul and upb...
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