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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V/A - 'Split EP3'
Terse, twisted and terrific, this checks all the boxes needed for an electro EP. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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My Robot Friend - Rapture
The man who has more than a flirtation with the idea of being a robot is back, disassembling Rapture by cutting-edge pop meisters Blondie and re-composing in the style of robo-disco electro with Chicago house keyboard and painstakingly constructed 'dictionaraoke' vocals. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Lee Van Dowski & Quenum - Ultimate Desert Ambassador
Taken from their LP 'As Told On The Eve Of…', Ultimate Desert Ambassador is the product of two weeks in the remote Swiss alps, pulsing along with blunt and echoed stabs of sound; tinged with Hakan Lidbo and Hawtin's Closer To The Edit. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Avitas - Remixes Vol 1
A collection of energetic tech and vocal house, Balearic sun-kissed beats and funk flavours Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Still clappin, after all these years...(well, just the one) Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Rock Against Racism @ The Cougar Lounge
The thugs and their dads were united by the lyric ""I'm in love, I'm in love, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.""
Read more »| 11 Jan 2007
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Neurosonic - Drama Queen
Like Linkin Park hooking up with The Backstreet Boys but even more unpalatable Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Mudbone - Fresh Mud
veering from dirty blues to the sort of rock synth that the 80s wants back Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Little Man Tate - About What You Know (Yellow Van) (WEB REVIEW)
would be easy to label them as also rans before they've even began, but on this evidence the future is looking pretty good Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Panda Bear - Bros
A lovely sprawling twelve minutes of magic from Panda Bear
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Mukul - You Don't Know Me
A lurching, catchy sex monster. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Skinnyman, Soul Biscuits, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Jan 19
Soul Biscuits' comeback is guaranteed to be a funkalicious night, just as it is a certainty that Nasty P and Skinnyman will have something special in store for the mighty return Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Si Begg and Cursor Minor, Inner City Acid, The Soundhaus, Glasgow, 13 Jan
The excellent Inner City Acid night provides some more underground gems to get 2007 into its stride Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Marc Van Linden, Synergy, The Soundhaus, Glasgow, 6 Jan
The launch of a new night at the Soundhaus on the 6th is a bold move, although judging by the interest Synergy seems to have generated, attendance will be no issue Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Dave Clarke, Robert Hood, Tim Middleton and more, Pressure, The Arches, Glasgow, 26 Jan
Pressure provide another list of must-see DJs as they set out their stall for 2007 Read more »| 11 Jan 2007