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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Interviews
Robert Owens: Vocalising
SF: For the fifth instalment of our Bacardi Profile series, we get soulful with the legendary Chicago house vocalist, Robert Owens.
PQ: ""I think you have to keep going on everything, trying to keep giving from your soul as long as you are able to"" Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Highlights
House Of Techno Highlights - December
A quick grope of Kinky Afro's offering suggests something very, very big, with Soma main-man Jim Hutchinson spinning alongside Rustie, Alex Smoke and what feels like London's very finest Dubstep producer Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Reviews
V/A Mixed by Steve Bug - Fabric37
The album finishes with some synth-heavy, futuristic beats just as the 5am feeling takes over Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Reviews
V/A - Foresight
Casual Records' inability to find a balance is their only flaw for what is to be an exciting future brand of music Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ReviewsExample - What We Made
There's an obvious hunger at work here, both to succeed and to get the point across Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ReviewsDonnacha Costello - Colorseries
Colorseries sounds fresh and vital; the kind of emotive and intoxicating techno that Supermayer should have been Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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Interviews
Jae P: Coming Up
SF: The Skinny gathers good tidings from Glasgow's rising hip-hop artist, Jae P.
PQ: ""I remember I went to see Kanye West about two years ago at the Carling Academy. To think I was in the crowd at and then part of his only support act..."" Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ReviewsBurial - Untrue
Found sounds that recall broken lighters, twisted rizlas and guttering match flames evoke a wasted smoker's paradise: a beautifully stoned, 4am bliss. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Reviews
Satellite Dub - London Has More Lights
If Moby or the Chemical Brothers had recorded this, they'd be able to buy their own continent Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Highlights
Slam, Audion (live), JD Twitch and JG Wilkes (Optimo), Funk D'Void, Pressure, The Arches, Glasgow, 28 Dec
Be sure to put aside some pennies for what promises to be a fantastic night Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Reviews
Rival Consoles - The Decadent EP
Hardly the sexy, decadent experience we were expecting Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Highlights
Full Phat, Siren, The Hive, Edinburgh, 22 Nov
Full Phat's unique take on classic house and techno promises a night full of pounding party tracks Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Interviews
for addition to electro feature in separate box
Contentious, thought-provoking, and down-right argument-causing: this was the situation the Beats writers faced when trying to summarise the greatest electro tracks to be reckoned with. We veered down genre off-shoots and even consulted various movies on the topic, such as Darkbeat: An Electro World Voyage (http://www.darkbeatmovie.com). But that didn't stop the ranting and raving. We turn the argument over to our readers now! Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Interviews
Ali Love: The ups and downs and ins and outs
SF: The Skinny gets up close with Ali Love and finds out what he has to give.
PQ: ""I wanna perfect my art the same way as a martial artist, you wanna be able to do the one inch punch of death technique but with music!"" Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Reviews
Rob Reng, Az-Tech, The Caves, Edinburgh, 12 Oct
The music is unbelievably funky all night Read more »| 07 Nov 2007