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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Reviews
Basics, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 17 Nov
The sharpness of quality cannot be shaken, even through all the grooves, booze and boogie Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Mutiny, Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 31 Jan
If you were fool enough to miss the last, get your sorry ass down there Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Benga: Exploding into 2008
SF: As part of our predictions for 2008, we turn our focus to Benga, the Croydon-based dubstep producer.
PQ: ""I've always done what I liked, always been creative, and creativity makes me happy."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Hip-hip hop-hop Highlights - January 08
Not cheesy, bouffant, spandex-wearing 80s but so-good-it-hurts choice hip-hop Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Highlights
Headspin 10th Birthday, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 26 Jan
Headspin has managed to hold its own at the Bongo Club, month after month, successful New Year after New Year Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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
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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 -
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