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Name Riff R it
When & where?Thursdays (99 Bamboo
Music policy There‘s surely something for every pauper in this three-room extravaganza of R&B, hip hop. electro, rock-pop and eclectic lounging.
Name Spank
When & where? Sundays @ the Calhouse
Music policy The weekend ain't over till the fat lady screams. Here you can mosh and join the dots between alternative. punk, classic rock. hip hop, metal and all your favourite crossover industrial.
Name | & I Sounds
When a. where? Tuesdays @ Bar Bloc
Music policy Kick back and chillax for free at this Jamaican mash~up boasting roots, rocksteady and dub for all the hard up rudebuoys and girrlz.
Name Split
When & where? Tuesdays @ Cabaret Voltaire
Music policy This burgeoning Edinburgh institution knocks out drum & bass and breaks with techno and electro out back for a heavy duty, no nonsense night of battling DJs and thrashing limbs.
Name Swingbeats
When 8: Where Tuesdays @ the Bongo Club
Music policy The onus is on unpretentious good times in music and attitude at this nascent Tuesday social. Expect to find contemporary beats amongst the jazz. soul. funk and reggae.
Name We Are . . . Electric When & where Wednesdays @ Cabaret Voltaire
Music policy What are all these hundreds of people doing out on a Wednesday in Edinburgh? 'Digital funk and analogue punk' is the answer. Be sure to arrive early for this mac- daddy of midweek electronica. (Mark Edmundson)
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The press release bills it as ‘the biggest event of its kind in over a decade’, and there’s no denying that something very large and scary is heading Braehead’s way. The latest Fantazia party has ‘over 20 DJs making sure that all your old skool memories are relived' along with a host of live acts from back in the day, and a smattering of contemporary spinners, illustrating the pride that those behind this event have in the past, present and future of their music.
After all, this is their music. All through the much- reported decrement in club culture and punter numbers, the non-studenty end of the market has kept its pecker up, with clubs like Colours and Inside Out still packing them in date after date. These are the people who were filling the clubs 15—20 years ago, and Colours/Fantazia svengali Ricky MacGowan is
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Arches, Glasgow, Sat 20 Jan.
With a music policy. say the Arches. 'as broad as your mind", this brand new night offers ‘no formula. no regulars and no ruts'. lhat's ail xer‘, good.
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‘l've not actually given it a name] says the Arches' new music programmer. Joe Splain. who masterminded ’2. 'But some people are calling it Question Mark. while others are calling it "V‘r’liat’z‘!" lhe liesl ot suiiiming it up is that it Just has a really hroad music l)()ll(2\,_ lheie are a lot of nights in Glasgow based around the same style of music. hut there are certainly enough open minded people in the city to accommodate a night
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Splain says the headline act Will he the locus of each lll()l‘.Ill|\ event. 'There'll he a changing llow of DJs and hosts. from commercial soul and reggae. or grime and house. to Bra/ilian hip hop and latino drum 8» l); ss.‘ he explains. ‘Not the hog standard stult hut something ‘.'.’|Ill a real edge. Then there'll he a chance for less estahlished local l).Js to play because one ol the things that surprised me about this ioh was how tec. llllX tapes I
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characteristically forthright about who he sees as the target audience this time around. ‘lt’s for those people who were there the first time around, those who want to go and enjoy the music that their generation made into a phenomenon,’ he says. MacGowan also gives lie to the notion that Fantazia is exclusively about hardcore or hard trance music. ‘We are working closely with the people behind the original Fantazia events. We have added the funky house room, because that has always been a huge part of the Fantazia ideology. Their 005, which sold over three million copies, were full of that kind of music.’
Indeed, the line-up is varied, with N-Joi, the Rhythmic State, Graeme Park, Brandon Block, Jon Mancini, Lisa Littlewood, Joe Deacon, George Bowie and Marc Smith augmenting it. It’s clubbing in the early 90$ mould, but with 2000 tickets sold at the time of going to print, it seems that calling Fantazia an anachronism might be taking a little for granted. (John Regan)
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