Interviews
The Skinny brings nightlife out of the dark, shining a light on the hottest local clubs with interviews with DJs, electronic musicians and promoters. Here you can find all the info you need to leave scorch marks on the dance floor.
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Interviews
Big Dada - Ten Years Deep
Well Deep – Ten Years of Big Dada Recordings marks the anniversary of one of the UK's finest hip-hop labels. Will Ashon, the label's founder, talks to The Skinny about how he built a home for the likes of Roots Manuva and Diplo; while his latest signing Cadence Weapon, tells us about bringing hip-hop to the electroclashers.
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DUBSTEP: Skream If You Want To Go Faster
Tempa Records ingénue Skream is a young producer who is going places. As he prepares to drop some serious sub-bass on Edinburgh's Volume!, we ask him how his sound has evolved since he witnessed the birth of dubstep. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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MNX - Aggro and Allegro
Continue to get to know your local labels with our ongoing series of specials: this month it is the Glasgow/Scottish-based label MNX (pronounced Monox), who are fast making a name for themselves in techno circles. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Andrew Weatherall: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll But I Like It
Standfirst: From early creative efforts as a member of the Boys Own collective and his producer/remixer role in the early nineties indie-dance axis, to his seminal club nights, Sabresonic and Bloodsugar, and recordings as Sabres of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsman, Andrew Weatherall has continually stamped his own, maverick approach on proceedings.
PQ: ""Primeval, visceral, poor folk's rebel dance music.""
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Decodance: Dance Your Cares Away
Standfirst: Glasgow has yet another club to boast about, and this time it's Decodance - Classic Grand has added another feather to its cap. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Labels Special: Scotch Bonnet
Standfirst: There seems to be no boundaries to Mungo's Hi-Fi's prolific nature: the Skinny gets up close with their Scotch Bonnet label. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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The Hive: Buzzing With Action
Standfirst: The Honeycomb is under new management for a new era. The Skinny catches up with Kenny Breaks to find out the Hive's buzz.
PQ: ""The Hive should be a much sought-after club contender in Edinburgh.""
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Bridging the gap
SF: He's been nominated for an Ivor Novello award, toured the world, and set alight the charts; The Skinny chats to Nick Bridges from Bodyrox
PQ: ""DJing has always been number one for me. Producing is also great but there's nothing like a buzzing club."" Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Spooky Affair: Haunted House Party
SF: The band trying to prove the stereotypes wrong: meet Haunted House Party.
PQ: ""If you could prolong that feeling and bottle it you could sell it as a very nice drug."" Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
InterviewsOdd Nosdam: Music for the advancement of shoegazing
"I have a lot of emotions inside of me that can get pretty intense, art is the only thing I can do to keep myself sane." Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Hexstatic - Arigato Mr Roboto
Robin Brunson and Stuart Hill are the VJ / DJ legends behind the Zen TV Tours and 2000's classic Rewind LP, but can even Hexstatic save us When Robots Go Bad?
Pull Quote: ""We weren't too concerned about what hardcore Ninja fans were going to think about it."" Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Ny - Finally Some Female Grime!
Rhythm & grime is the latest genre to captured the mind's eye in music media south of the border. Twenty year-old Ny has merged the two elements of music together to create a potent style of her own. Like the 50 Cents of the world, Ny took to mixtapes in order to unleash her sound on the ears of the UK.
Pull Quote: ""If you listen to my CD, you can hear a range of influences... from Beres Hammond, to Peter Tosh, to Blondie, to Simon and Garfunkel - to me it's simply music."" Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Marcus Intalex takes on Fabric
Now, let's not beat about the bush, Fabric is one of, if not the, most talked about and well-respected underground clubs in the UK. Marcus Intalex tells The Skinny how he took on the Fabric challenge.
Pull Quote: ""I'm just going to do exactly what I do without worrying about trying to conform."" Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Aesop Rock - No Story Goes Untold
Leader: Once upon a time in the days of yore, Aesop Rock painted The Skinny a picture of how creativity abounds when you turn your life upside down.
Pull Quote: ""I was trying to capture these different time periods, these moods of somebody from birth to age 30."" Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Back To Bizznizz - Lethal Bizzle - USE THIS VERSION NEW INFO
Lethal Bizzle is no stranger to attention. He's been pushing his talents on the world for years, trying to get us to listen to what he has to say. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007