The best new nights in town. This month: Kaput
Residents Colin (aka Kid Twist) Duncan from Dananananaykroyd and Tom of 50pbadgescom.
Guests Regular live guests from the Scottish music scene and beyond will be a feature. Music policy 508 rockabilly, rock’n‘roll. 608 French pop and psyche. 70s Krautrock and punk rock. 80s new wave and no wave. 908 indie schmindie. OOs — whatever makes them giddy.
What they say ‘Kaput! is three childmen pulling shapes on the
DRUM & BASS
XPLICIT
Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Fri 9 Feb; Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Fri 16 Feb
By the age of two most of us were doing well. We could walk, run, talk and generally fend for ourselves. Xplicit, however, have surpassed us all. In their short existence they have become the country’s biggest drum & bass night with monthly events in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. To celebrate their second birthday the club are staging a double whammy shindig for both east and west with headliners aplenty.
First up, the Bongo Club hosts the Edinburgh leg of the party with Shy FX headlining and production duo Chase and Status providing the back up. Shy FX built a name for himself with ‘94’s ragga-jungle anthem, ‘Original Nuttah’. He later flung open the drum & bass doors when ‘Shake Your Body’ - his 2002 collaboration with T-Power - achieved huge crossover success thanks to a lighter, more accessible sound. This trait can be found in many of his current releases on his own Digital Soundboy Recordings.
It’s round two the following Friday when Adam F steps up for Xplicit, Glasgow at the Art School. Infamous in D&B, notorious in hip hop, he’s the
dancefloor to music they love and want to share with others. Kaput! is also three rockabilly robots riding through your town with a bad attitude and hearts aflame with rock'n’roll. Kaput! is
guy behind the sublime ‘Circles’ and the man who set up a 100 piece orchestra and choir to record the epic intro to ‘Smash Sumthin” with Def Jam’s Redman. ‘The past year drum & bass has been about developing new three young friends who believe artists and then DJing their music,’
in the power of stories and explains Mr F. And with the all-
magic.‘ conquering Pendulum and the hotly What we say Kaput! sounds tipped TC both emerging through his like a fantasy date where you influential Breakbeat Kaos label, he’s have a menage a trois with The a man of his word, as well as a DJ Cramps and Devo and end up with some traditional dancefloor spawning a beautiful. be- values. ‘l’m more into old school, quiffed. quality music—loving rolling drum & bass to be honest. I’m a bastard lovechild who goes on bit of a party man in that respect.’
to be the next Elvis or indeed a Just as well really. (Richie Meldrum) member of Can. With these guys’ pedigrees it‘ll be an anything goes happening. Anything else that’s a touch different from other nights? Well, their take on the customary ‘warm up‘ is of note: ‘gentle soundtracks and Iullabies. gospel, guitars and Ivor Cutler. Ambient, outsider music and strange recordings. combined with visuals to (un)settle people as they make their way in.‘
Why else should we part with our hardearned bucks? They promise. ‘a club with a music policy not based on haircuts and remixes. There‘s been some proper crate—digging to ensure that all your soft bits are shaking on our dancefloor to obscurities. new beauties. old faves and lost classics.‘ That’s a good enough reason as any, I’d say. (Sandra Marron)
I Kaput.’ launches downstairs at the Admiral Bar, Glasgow, Sat 3 Feb.
TRANCE INDIGITOUS Studio 24, Edinburgh, Fri 2 Feb
Although trance is more of a niche market these days. in contrast to its Goan heyday in the mid-90s. there's still a dedicated audience for it out there. Those who live in Edinburgh will have been (‘lisappointed of late. however. because the city hasn't held a regular trance night in quite a while.
In which case. these folks might want to take full advantage of this month's lndigitous. the latest in a series of irregular psytrance parties. which will be reaching its fifth anniversary this timeout. Myself and my mate Charlie are students. explains organiser Jake Tl'iomson. 'We used to go out clubbing a lot. heading down to London and European festivals and so on — we're both from down south — and we realised it would be easy to put on a club that was aimed at the student market. All we had to do was hire a room the audience for it was real and tangible. and already there.‘
Having started out at the Venue and moved briefly to the Bongo when the former location closed. Indigitous will now settle in Studio 24 for its at—Ieast—onceaterm parties. This timeout. guests are Henry Seligman (Dragonfly Records). Simon B (Twisted) and Disco Stu from London's Echo Systems. a progressive night which lndigitous are allied to. 'I love the huge community of trance.‘ says Thomson. “almost unlike any other forms of electronic music. It's much more engaging. too. not as repetitive as techno or house. I really do think its pure dance music: it's refused to merge with other styles. unlike almost every other genre.‘ (David Pollock)
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