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
Downlow Music Showcase, Club 69, Paisley, Mar 10
Club 69 is playing host next weekend, yet again, to some kick-ass technotronica, and this time we're being given accomplished Detroit soundsmith Convextion. ... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Kelis - Lil' Star
If this is what happens when artists reveal their 'vulnerable' side they should hold onto a caustic attitude like it's going out of fashion. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Priya Thomas - Motherfucking West
do you remember the songs you sang as a disillusioned 16 year-old in front of the mirror? Those demure, repeated lyrics and voice effects set to 'sultry' remain a common theme in all four tracks. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Calvin Harris - Singles Collection (Colours/The Girls/Acceptable In The 80s) (Fly Eye Records)
Harris aims to create future sounds with retro equipment, shunning a wall of technology to work from, and bringing the live band back to disco Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Merka, Chew The Fat!, The Sub Club, Glasgow, 16 Mar
Taking a hacksaw to rave and electro, then sticking a mighty big Fat! style breakbeat under it, Merka is a producer of the irreverent, wideboy kind Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Deep East, The Cruz (The Shore), Edinburgh, Mar 3
The Shore's latest renovation is The Cruz, complete with a top-level bar and underground nightclub where a former engine room used to reside. The deep rumbles from the machinery have been replaced with decks and speakers, but the tunes are definitely going to keep the deep theme. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007
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Calvin Harris, Club NME, The Arches, Glasgow, 8 Mar
Calvin Harris is an analog-obsessed artist who claims that his music is not for stupid people. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Interviews
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Speaking another language. (print version)
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It's time for The Skinny to knock six bells out the phone bill with international interviews with Steve Reid and Kieran Hebden, the masterminds/loons behind The Exchange Sessions, and their newest release, Tongues.
Pull quote: ""I think the planet would have been destroyed if it wasn't for the music over these years. There's no blood on the music, that's all I got to say about that."" Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Electroconductor - About Time
Strip away the melody for a moment to reveal an Aphex rhythm archetype and more acidic tones to the synths Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Interviews
Rjd2 - A Time to XL (Web)
Given the disparate critical plaudits piled on top of his first two albums, some might say that it's high time for Ramble John Krohn (AKA RJD2) to make a ser... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Pendulum, MC Verse, Mampi Swift & MC IC3, Xplicit's Potterrow Takeover Party!, Potterrow, Edinburgh, Mar 16
It's gonna be a big one… Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Mad Professor, Winter Dub Season, Classic Grand, Glasgow, Mar 31
From his experiments at school that earned him the name Mad Professor, to his beginnings as a service engineer, tweaking and fixing the mixing desks and amps of the music industry, it wasn't long before he had launched his own label Ariwa in 1979 Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Jackhammer, Ego, Edinburgh, Fri 16
It was a little unsurprising to see a crowd of only 40-50 people on the night Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Fabio and Grooverider, Xplicit, Art School, Glasgow, Mar 9
Fabio and Grooverider have been setting the standard and breaking the boundaries individually and as a duo for over twenty years Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Unklejam - Love Ya
A trio of men from Hawaii, Northolt and Miami make for a quirky group: dedicated to expressive music and their homage to the Funkadelic's 1979 album, Uncle J... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007