Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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Quarion (live), Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 4 Apr
This month Trouble gives producer Yanneck Salvo his Quarion UK debut. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Jason Hodges, Telefunken, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 11 Apr
Hodges certainly knows how to work a crowd. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Bass Fiction (aka Kode9 and Spaceape live), Electric Eliminators, The Art School, Glasgow, 18 April
It appears they know no bounds. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicJamie Lidell - Jim
Jim mostly comprises jaunty, up-beat soul-pop that'd perfectly fit on any sunny day-time radio playlist Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Get Wired In - A Wireblock Records label special
The Skinny talks with Neil Morton about why collaboration can often produce the best outcome... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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V/A - No Rave
Little Rock's No Rave sampler is an aural fuck-you to scensterism, glowstick chic and The Klaxons, expressed in the crudest terms. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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V/A by Boys Noize - Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck
Heavy, thumping drums, blippy synth and brilliantly syncopated beats superbly compliment the seamless transitions between the smooth, house sounds and scraping, Justice-style cut ups Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Moby - Last Night
Last Night is a return to the style of his breakthrough album Play, with Moby foregoing his own vocals to rely on guests and samples. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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It's very much an after-hours club disc, to be put on while letting the night slowly seep out of your head. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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It's not terrible, but it begs the question: do we still have a need for this? Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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DJ Yellow & Astrid Suryanto - Intermission
Unlike many female fronted dance acts, Suryanto's vocals do more than just skim the surface of DJ Yellow's deep techno. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Diarmaid O Meara - Anti-Social Behaviour
O Meara's problem is deciding which side of the intelligent-dance dichotomy to pitch his soundsystem in. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Anat Ben-David - Virtual Leisure
Ben-David insists on scratching her nails down the metaphorical blackboard Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Alphabeat - Fascination
Syrupy sweet pop tracks like this one are officially no longer a guilty pleasure. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Acumen - Acumen
A work full of spectacular production, deep bass, twinkling electronica and fragmented beats. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008