Clubs
The Skinny guide to clubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and across Scotland. Discover the best club nights in Scotland with our monthly highlights; find great new music with our DJ charts and playlists; and hear from some of electronic music's best new producers in our regular interviews.
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Dj Charts
Freq Residents DJ Chart
The Freq residents Brian and Murray kick off the first of twelve new DJ charts for the year with their top five favourite tracks of 2007. Freq looks set to return to the Sub Club in Feb 2008 so contain your excitement and hunger for house and techno until then! Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Ripping Up Fabric - Caspa & Rusko
SF: Think you know dubstep? Not until you've heard the in-your-face drops and mutant subs of Caspa & Rusko...
PQ: ""In Edinburgh they were HAVIN' IT! There was some moshing, someone got headbutted outside, there was beer all over the decks..."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
ReviewsRobert Owens - Night Time Stories
Perhaps due to his impressive canon of past collaborations it was always going to be tough to deliver comparable efforts Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Shy FX, Noisia & more, Xplicit's 3rd Birthday, Potterrow, Edinburgh, 25 Jan
For what stratosphere are they next destined? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Marshall Jefferson: The Stuff of Legends (print version)
SF: For the last DJ profile in our Bacardi series, we end on a definite high - an interview with the godfather of house as we know it, Marshall Jefferson. Read on to find out how a pushy salesman sparked production, what genre clubs are doing for dance music and where the industry goes from here.
PQ: ""You always think that you can step in and shake things up a bit, I think that was my intention."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
LTJ Bukem: Logical Productions
SF: The Skinny tracks down LTJ Bukem amidst increasing production work and gigs across the world to talk about his new mix album and DVD.
PQ: 'It's just going back to the way it was before, putting out lots of new stuff for people to hear on 12"".' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Interviews
2008 in Yon Scrying Bowl
SF: Looking to the future and flourishing of ideas, we've received many tips for greatness this year and formulated a few of our own from the grapevine and good ol' fashioned critique. Read on for our 2008 predictions!
PQ: ""All that music seems to have subconsciously amalgamated into a giant electronic music wad from which bits get extracted when it comes time to add rhythm"" - Let's Go Outside Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Ghost - It's All Love
This double-A side has coupled It's All Love, a more soulful and funky number with very little hip-hop feel to it, with Ying Yang, a rolling atmospheric instrumental that would fit perfectly as part of a film score Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Basic Soul Unit - Tunnels EP
This release, although very minimal at times, has a lot of soul and depth; it should please any electronica fan Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Weak At The Knees, Basura Blanca, The Brunswick, Glasgow, 26 Jan
Weak at the Knees launches its second UK residency this month at The Brunswick Hotel's Basura Blanca venue Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
V/A - The Hacienda Classics
A testament to (arguably) the best club the UK ever produced. Wish you were there? I guess that's the point Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
V/A - Universal Vibes Compilation
With tracks with names such as Slow Burner and Latin Shades, it seems obvious what to expect with this release - deep, smooth and jazz-like grooves Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Jay-Z - American Gangster
This album has resurrected Hova's faltering voice in hip-hop Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Kronos Devices, Inner City Acid, Soundhaus, Glasgow, 12 Jan
For techno enthusiasts this is a rare opportunity to see some of the scene's finest under one roof so get your dancing shoes at the ready Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Lory D (live), Automat & Davey Red, Numbers vs Monox, Sub Club, Glasgow, 4 Jan
Admired by everyone from Richard D James to the Skam posse thanks to his dark blend of electroid tweaking and old skool percussion, the prince of Italian acid delivers killer dancefloor moves in the darkest possible way Read more »| 06 Jan 2008