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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Merka, Chew The Fat!, The Sub Club, Glasgow, 16 Mar
Taking a hacksaw to rave and electro, then sticking a mighty big Fat! style breakbeat under it, Merka is a producer of the irreverent, wideboy kind Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Deep East, The Cruz (The Shore), Edinburgh, Mar 3
The Shore's latest renovation is The Cruz, complete with a top-level bar and underground nightclub where a former engine room used to reside. The deep rumbles from the machinery have been replaced with decks and speakers, but the tunes are definitely going to keep the deep theme. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Calvin Harris, Club NME, The Arches, Glasgow, 8 Mar
Calvin Harris is an analog-obsessed artist who claims that his music is not for stupid people. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Speaking another language. (print version)
Leader line:
It's time for The Skinny to knock six bells out the phone bill with international interviews with Steve Reid and Kieran Hebden, the masterminds/loons behind The Exchange Sessions, and their newest release, Tongues.
Pull quote: ""I think the planet would have been destroyed if it wasn't for the music over these years. There's no blood on the music, that's all I got to say about that."" Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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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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Music
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