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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Electroconductor - About Time
Strip away the melody for a moment to reveal an Aphex rhythm archetype and more acidic tones to the synths Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Rjd2 - A Time to XL (Web)
Given the disparate critical plaudits piled on top of his first two albums, some might say that it's high time for Ramble John Krohn (AKA RJD2) to make a ser... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Electoyds @ The Wee Red Bar
A trifle detached - but what else do you expect? Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Kristin Hersh - Under The Gun (web)
It always bothered me when my work was described as 'emotional turmoil' Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Pendulum, MC Verse, Mampi Swift & MC IC3, Xplicit's Potterrow Takeover Party!, Potterrow, Edinburgh, Mar 16
It's gonna be a big one… Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Mad Professor, Winter Dub Season, Classic Grand, Glasgow, Mar 31
From his experiments at school that earned him the name Mad Professor, to his beginnings as a service engineer, tweaking and fixing the mixing desks and amps of the music industry, it wasn't long before he had launched his own label Ariwa in 1979 Read more »| 12 Mar 2007
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Jackhammer, Ego, Edinburgh, Fri 16
It was a little unsurprising to see a crowd of only 40-50 people on the night Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Fabio and Grooverider, Xplicit, Art School, Glasgow, Mar 9
Fabio and Grooverider have been setting the standard and breaking the boundaries individually and as a duo for over twenty years Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Unklejam - Love Ya
A trio of men from Hawaii, Northolt and Miami make for a quirky group: dedicated to expressive music and their homage to the Funkadelic's 1979 album, Uncle J... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Luke Slater: From Mute To Mote Evolver
Standfirst/ Luke Slater comes to Access on 16 Mar - in sweaty and feverish anticipation, Omar Kudos takes a look at the career of one of UK techno's founding fathers.
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Slater's approach to production is one of experimentation and exploration, while his DJ sets retain a crowd-pleasing, solid consistency Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
This is perhaps not the strongest track from James Murphy and co's new LP The Silver Room, but it has enough of the familiar DFA cowbell and handclap action to grab your attention. The rest of the LP pushes the envelope, and this revisits past glories without sounding tired. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Mr. Hudson and the Library - Too late, too late
Mr. Hudson's posh autobiographical whine is tough to begin with, but a pleasing eclectic hip hop/reggae groove complemented by soft steel drums soon appears. Reminiscent of such 90's bedroom one-hit wonders as White Town's Your Woman. Hudson and co. are annoyingly catchy enough to win amazing chart success Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Sprit Catcher (Live), Subculture, The Sub Club, Glasgow, Feb 17
Think Metro Area with bigger balls and you're nearly there Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Manga 11th Birthday with DJ Craze, MC Armani, TC & MC Jakes, Edinburgh, Feb 9
DJ Craze was sure to put on a show - and what a show it was Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Loki - Friendly World
He's open as hell about the way he feels about everything, and more importantly, he's a lot better at this rap shizzle than he thinks Read more »| 12 Mar 2007