Clubs :: Feature 02 Dec 2008
Chris Duncan: The Dear Green Place sees its already busy club night calendar become positively rammed towards the end of December, with all manner of Christmas and New Year debauchery taking place across the city. In the seasonal spirit of goodwill, Chakra (11pm-3am...
Clubs :: Feature 01 Dec 2008
Emma Kilday: The saying goes that 'two heads are better than one'. People in music sometimes find they can work better in pairs - why go it alone when you can collaborate and (fingers crossed) be twice as good? Maybe this is why there are so many successful duos in...
Clubs :: Feature 26 Nov 2008
Chris Duncan: November 28 marks the tenth birthday of Pressure, one of Scotland’s longest running club nights. After a decade of filling the Arches with all manner of noise the night shows no sign of slowing down and to celebrate, Slam DJs Stuart McMillan and ...
Clubs :: Feature 24 Nov 2008
Chris Duncan: David Gillespie, club promoter for the Glasgow Barfly, has a concern. “For quite a while now the Barfly has been seen as just a rock and metal venue. It’s been forgotten slightly. We’re looking to change that with the Cancelled night,...
Clubs :: Feature 15 Nov 2008
Omar Jenning: Legend, pioneer, trendsetter. A few words used to describe UK hip-hop goliath Blak Twang, aka Tony Rotton. With a string of five albums dating back to 1995, you would be hard pressed to find another UK hip-hop artist with as much longevity and relevanc...
Clubs :: Feature 07 Nov 2008
Chris Duncan: RAH Band - Electric Fling (Ebony) An early doors instrumental Curious Curious classic. Girls dance, boys want to know what it is. Listen out for it on the new Curious Curious compilation, out soon. Who's Who - Hypno Dance (OUT) Eastern flavored hypnot...
Clubs :: Feature 25 Oct 2008
Chris Duncan: It has been over two years since Glasgow’s Classic Grand opened its doors to the public, hosting a week long series of free events to celebrate its arrival. After recently coming under new ownership the venue is looking to re-establish itself as ...
Clubs :: Feature 10 Oct 2008
Emma Kilday: You reach an age where knocking on old ladies’ doors and shouting “TRICK OR TREAT!?” stops being cute and starts to run the risk of landing you on Crimewatch. But don’t dismay – there are plenty of other reasons to adorn y...
Clubs :: Feature 09 Oct 2008
Liam Arnold: It would have been all too easy to dismiss Lan Muzic as another Berlin techno label pumping out tracks for the Watergate: 12”s by Touane, Philip Sherburne and label bosses Exercise One offered little more than familiar shuffling rhythms and fract...
Clubs :: Travel :: Feature 05 Oct 2008
Alex Burden: With the highest number of clubs per capita in Europe, Zurich is also rated as having the best standards of living in the world, and continually drives money and resources into cultivating itself further. There is a culture of reclaimed spaces: disused...
Clubs :: Feature 02 Oct 2008
Âme: 1. Tokyo Blackstar - Game Over (Locodice remix) (Innervisions) Fantastic remix from the Locodice/Buttrich camp for our own label Innervisions; it's a journey. 2. Leonid Nevermind - Away (Squonk) Killer record from this new artist out of Valencia, cle...
Clubs :: Feature 29 Sep 2008
Liam Arnold: As British as it is to discuss the weather before launching into more serious topics, it’s bloody well going to be winter soon, and rather than accepting in a Zen manner the inevitable cyclical change, I’m going to sulk. The summer euphoria...
Music :: Clubs :: Feature 26 Sep 2008
Colin Chapman: Marcel Dettmann was born in the Berlin satellite town of Fürstenwaldem, not the most stellar of origins by any means. But the recent release of his debut mix CD, Berghain 2 (which offered a musical snapshot of his residency at the famous German cl...
Clubs :: Feature 20 Sep 2008
Liam Arnold: On 28 June, the Montreal community was rocked by the sudden death of Francois Dumouchel, known by the wider music community as Euterke. In the early hours of the morning, while waiting at a red light on his scooter, he was tragically hit by a local bus...
Clubs :: Feature 19 Sep 2008
Colin Chapman: The oft-repeated tale of Matthew ‘Recloose’ Chicoine’s unusual ‘demo-on-rye’ entry into the music business has now become part of techno folklore. Suffice to say, on that fateful day in spring 1997, legendary Detroit produ...
Clubs :: Feature 10 Sep 2008
Liam Arnold, Steve Glencross: Picking the right music for a bar or cafe is a surprisingly tough job. It would seem obvious that trendy cocktail bars deserve some chic electro or house, or that you can't really have Robert Hood in quiet little tea room. Then again, life can still su...
Heads Up :: Clubs :: Feature 08 Sep 2008
Nicol J. Craig: The Skinny has been slowly penetrating the north: first Dundee, and now the Granite City of Aberdeen, where one subterranean nightclub paradoxically stands above the rest - Snafu. Celebrating its fourth birthday this September, club owners Mo and Aman...
Clubs :: Feature 03 Sep 2008
Liam Arnold: For a man who’s toured the world, lived in squats for a year, released five albums and set up his own record label, Kristian Robertson is surprisingly mild-mannered. He was first signed to Planet Mu after a friend handed his demo to Mike Parandin...
Clubs :: Feature 29 Aug 2008
Don McVinnie: One of the DJs hasn’t shown up 'cause she spent the entire day getting pissed in the park, and some guy’s just been arrested on the dancefloor: one year ago Ballers Social Club celebrated their opening night at The Ivy in true style with th...
Lady K: Kicking off September in true style is Trade Union (Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Mon 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 Sep, 11pm-3am, £0/£1): residents Wolfjazz & DJ Beefy always play a healthy dose of hip-hop to get your bootys shaking first thing ...
