Mixed Bizness Present Ifan Dafydd
By Laura Forsyth. Published 30 January 2012
Fresh on the scene after only debuting this summer, Ifan Dafydd is fast making a statement in electronic music and his growing fan base includes the likes of Jamie xx...
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Wee Dub Festival @ Various Venues, Edinburgh, 3-5 February
By Neil Murchison. Published 30 January 2012Dub takes over Edinburgh for a second year and, like any good sequel, everything just got a whole lot bigger – to the extent that the ‘Wee’ in the festival’s...
Substance Presents Jeff Mills
By Neil Murchison. Published 30 January 2012That’s right, it’s not a misprint. A few months ago Adam Richardson was celebrating Substance’s 5th birthday by looking back at some of the biggest names to have graced his...
Killer Kitsch: 7th Birthday
By Neil Murchison. Published 30 January 2012All Euan Neilson wanted was a midweek night that wasn’t heavily underground and wasn't a student night. Back in 2005 he felt that nothing like that existed and thus the...
Cabaret Voltaire: Lucky Number 7
By Rosanna Walker. Published 29 January 2012February is usually a dreary month but thankfully this year the esteemed Cabaret Voltaire turns seven and to celebrate the team have lined up a healthy dose of seven hard-hitting...
Heard it Through the Bassline Presents Pangaea @ The Caves, 17 January
By Kenneth Scott. Published 05 January 2012When we heard that Heard it Through the Bassline were soon to stop running their quality midweek nights showcasing some of the hottest DJs around, our immediate reaction, inevitably, was one...
Matthew Herbert
By Neil Murchison. Published 31 December 2011Matthew Herbert is a DJ like no other, an endlessly creative whirlwind of musical energy who eats up the world he inhabits only to spit it out through unique electronic...
Karnival Presents Popof
By Neil Murchison. Published 31 December 2011Karnival celebrates six years of clubbing by introducing the Parisian rave scene escapee Alexander Paounov, otherwise known as Popof, to Edinburgh. The last few years have not been short on...
CODE Presents Lucy
By Ronan Martin. Published 31 December 2011This month’s CODE has deep and dark techno on the menu with Stroboscopic Artefacts’ founder LUCY taking to the turntables. As well as running the label responsible for offerings from Xhin and...
Wee Dub Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 3-5 Feb
By Neil Murchison. Published 31 December 2011The Wee Dub Festival is back: this time it's a whole lot bigger and it has a Mad Professor at the controls
Itch! 2nd Birthday Party
By Calum Sutherland. Published 07 November 2011This month marks Glasgow based genre hopping party smasher Itch!’s second anniversary and, with unadulterated celebratory musings in mind, the eclectic collective have concocted a line up guaranteed to relieve...
Amnesty International: Protect the Human Presents HaHaHa
By Neil Murchison. Published 07 November 2011Dancing to make the world a better place has had pretty mixed results. This is based entirely on research gained from Footloose and while dancing may win the day in...
The Return of Plastikman
By Calum Sutherland. Published 07 November 2011After years in the making Ritchie Hawtin returns with a new award-winning, multidimensional live show, Plastikman version 1.5. The Skinny finds out what developments this latest revision contains...
Killer Kitch Presents: Visions Tour 2011 @ The Buff Club, 29 November
By Kenneth Scott. Published 03 November 2011The European leg of this tour featuring three of the most hotly tipped young DJs, each playing different variants of bass, arrives in Scotland for the first of two dates....
Death Disco Presents Jacques Lu Cont
By Kenneth Scott. Published 03 November 2011The last monthly Death Disco at The Arches will go out on a high with the multiple personalities of Jacques Lu Cont and the offbeat wackiness of The 2 Bears. ...
Derrick Carter & Luke Solomon Classic Records Tour
By Neil Murchison. Published 02 November 2011Back in the mid 90s, Chicago house stalwart Derrick Carter and his English compatriot Luke Solomon, acknowledging that supply and demand were linked when it came to vinyl, decided to take a unique...
Bed Bug presents Jack Beats
By James Corlett. Published 31 October 2011‘Traversing the boundaries of all things electronic’ is the adopted motto from the intriguingly named monthly night, Bedbug. Serendipitously or not, their next guest is a case in point in...
Com Truise
By Ronan Martin. Published 31 October 2011Some artists make their mark with simple raw energy or bold originality. Others are content to show that they are well schooled in existing forms and act as gifted torchbearers,...
Clubbing Highlights – November
By Neil Murchison. Published 31 October 2011After spending the last month gliding around the darkened streets in my strictly imagined 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle listening to the Drive soundtrack on repeat and making a point of avoiding...
Gasoline Dance Machine Presents Mustang
By James Corlett. Published 28 September 2011Belgian duo Mustang can be best surmised as traversing right across the entire electro spectrum. Combining elements of funk, synthy pop and disco invariably entails Crazy P comparisons in terms...
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