Hip-hop Core Highlights
| 05 Feb 2008
Four Corners, kinda like Headspin but with an African/Latin twist, is turning three-years-old next month, turning up the live drums and beats for another Bongo Club shakedown in the capital (15 Feb, 11pm-3am, £3/£5). The club is a fusion of Big Beat and Departure Lounge, bringin' funk, soul, hip-hop and breaks to your ears from residents Astroboy, Simon Hodge, Johnny Cashback and Breadmark. Last month even saw a random punter turn up and ably play percussion all night on stage, so who knows what the grateful crowd will give back to 4C for their birthday!?
Big Toe's Hi-Fi are bringing in the big guns for the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh, starting with Ghislain Poirier (Ninjatune) on 13 Feb (10.30pm-3am, £5), then Toddla T (1965 Records) on 15 Feb (10.30pm-3am, £tbc). Ghislain will darken the bar's soundsystem with grimy hip-hop beats and electronic soca rhythms, while Toddla T will be 2-stepping his way towards the controls for a dancehall glitch-up. Noizteez will be splicing it on 15 Feb (Berlin, Edinburgh, 10pm-3am, £0/£4), mixing up techno guests such as Acid Fairy with J Bostron (ragga/jungle) and Tamobanter in a rarer hip-hop and funk set; keep to room one if you're keeping chilled for the night, as room two and three contain perilous, hardtek, d'n'b, and electro breaks! But if your budget can't even stretch to that, if you act now you can get free advance tickets to see Maurice Fulton, A-Skillz, and Boom Monk Ben on 24 Feb playing the Southern Comfort Mardi Gras party (The Ivy, Glasgow, 8pm-12am, advance tickets from the Ivy bar). There will be free food and drink until it runs out so get funkin' Creole style.
And rounding off this month's highlights we have The Cool Kids and their fresh hip-hop, groovin' beside the punk soul duo, The Carps, when they hit Volume! at Ego in Edinburgh (7pm, £5 adv/£7) on 17 Feb, ten days after their 7 Feb date at How's Your Party the Sub Club (see preview). Finally, there's the dark and emotive, but definitely not just dubstep, Vex'd (live), and Clark at Baller$ 5ocial Club on 8 Feb (Glasgow School of Art, 11pm-3am, £5/£7/£8/£10) with Jackmaster, Spencer, and faithful residents Hudson Mohawke and Rustie on hand. [Struan Abewt]
Big Toe's Hi-Fi are bringing in the big guns for the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh, starting with Ghislain Poirier (Ninjatune) on 13 Feb (10.30pm-3am, £5), then Toddla T (1965 Records) on 15 Feb (10.30pm-3am, £tbc). Ghislain will darken the bar's soundsystem with grimy hip-hop beats and electronic soca rhythms, while Toddla T will be 2-stepping his way towards the controls for a dancehall glitch-up. Noizteez will be splicing it on 15 Feb (Berlin, Edinburgh, 10pm-3am, £0/£4), mixing up techno guests such as Acid Fairy with J Bostron (ragga/jungle) and Tamobanter in a rarer hip-hop and funk set; keep to room one if you're keeping chilled for the night, as room two and three contain perilous, hardtek, d'n'b, and electro breaks! But if your budget can't even stretch to that, if you act now you can get free advance tickets to see Maurice Fulton, A-Skillz, and Boom Monk Ben on 24 Feb playing the Southern Comfort Mardi Gras party (The Ivy, Glasgow, 8pm-12am, advance tickets from the Ivy bar). There will be free food and drink until it runs out so get funkin' Creole style.
And rounding off this month's highlights we have The Cool Kids and their fresh hip-hop, groovin' beside the punk soul duo, The Carps, when they hit Volume! at Ego in Edinburgh (7pm, £5 adv/£7) on 17 Feb, ten days after their 7 Feb date at How's Your Party the Sub Club (see preview). Finally, there's the dark and emotive, but definitely not just dubstep, Vex'd (live), and Clark at Baller$ 5ocial Club on 8 Feb (Glasgow School of Art, 11pm-3am, £5/£7/£8/£10) with Jackmaster, Spencer, and faithful residents Hudson Mohawke and Rustie on hand. [Struan Abewt]