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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Highlights
/Slashdot., The Hive, Niddry Street, Edinburgh, every Saturday
Resident DJs from nights across the city including Obscene, Bass Syndicate, Manga and Dogma Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Interviews
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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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 -
Reviews
Plus One, Gettoblast, The Bongo Club, 5 Jul
Some jaw-dropping scratching and beat-matching rounded out a set that covered electro, hip-hop, grime and rock. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Krafty Kuts, Sugarbeat in the Gardens, Edinburgh, 13 Jul
After midnight Krafty Kuts appears, with a set displaying both his talents and failings Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Daniel Bell, Freq, Sub Club, Glasgow, 22 June
It's kudos in itself to snare the legendary Daniel Bell for a gig, but Freq accomplish the feat, enticing the fans who remember his valued contribution/invention of minimal techno and house in the early 90s, and those who want a lesson in streamlined funk and beats Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Samon Kawamura - Translations
A smooth, slick trawl through the kind of sonic territory that will be familiar to fans of J Dilla and Madlib Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Hexstatic - When Robots Go Bad
The cut and paste elements are backgrounded in favour of a direct, breakbeat-led attack on the dancefloor Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Gwylo & Micoland - Reinfections
Veering constantly from the Detroit-feeling simplicity of early Warp and Rephlex recordings to the sparse but epically heavy dubstep territory of Digital Mystikz works surprisingly well Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Maths & English is packed with uncompromising tracks like Pussyole and Sirens that take the template of hip-hop and make it heavier, dirtier, louder Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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UNKLE - Burn My Shadow
Demands your undivided attention Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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The Black Seeds - Into The Dojo
A dub-heavy pop gem Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Ocean Terminal Summer Party, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, 28 Jul
The Terminal has another stonkin' line-up for their summer party: Erick Morillo (making his first Edinburgh appearance in over ten years), Dirty South, Derek... Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Marks a strong refinement in Aesop's palette Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Kopparberg: The Skinny Boat Party 2007
As the Access boys thundered to a close, the crowd braved the rain-slicked top deck, staggering now from the influx of free Miller, steadied only by their massive consumption of free Red Bull, they watched an incredible display of fire-juggling Read more »| 09 Aug 2007