Names Marco Bailey & Percy X Who that? Bailey is Belgium's premier techno DJ/producer and CEO of record label MB Selektions. Percy X is Glasgow’s own Soma stalwart. also a DJ/producer, again fronting his own label edit-select.
What’s the story? Born Marco Beleen. Bailey is one of your international. stadium-worthy crowd-pullers. Rocking huge crowds the world over for the best part of two decades he is generally regarded as the dedicated and enthusiastic grafter of techno. Popular with the big names on the European circuit. his productions first earned him the attentions of Carl Cox’s Intec label (as well as Primate. Zync and Tortured) before he branched out on his own. On top of all that he is partly responsible for Pornographic Records having hooked up and hit it off with Spain’s Christian Varela. He scrubs up pretty well too.
And Percy X? Much the same. Tony Scott. as his mother would have it. ploughed a similar furrow from acid house through to full-on techno and beyond. Starting out as a member of Havana alongside Richard Miller on Limbo records. his celebrated seminal Percy X releases on Soma include debut 'X-Tracks'. “Track 2' and ’-3' with Andy Weatherall. Good with numbers then. On the steels he governed GAIN at the now defunct Alaska and is currently fronting his label branded night at Snafu in Aberdeen.
80 what’s the occasion? Well these two comparable paths will converge this fortnight at Edinburgh’s guest-heavy Jackhammer, with the tattooed Belgian behemoth's penchant for pure techno, electro and minimal coming together with the forward thinking beeps and blips of the toast of Ecosse. The former isn't shy about his appreciation of Boards of Canada either so let's hope there’s a hint of destiny in the offing. (Mark Edmundson) Jackhammer, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Friday 20 Jun
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DISCO HOUSE TODD TERJE After Dark at Stereo, Glasgow, Sat 21 Jun
When the teenage Todd Terje’s big sister said she liked disco, he didn’t really believe her. He thought she was being ironic, because she was hanging round with DJs
on the Oslo scene and had heard them talking about it.
This was the era of Acid Jazz though, and the far cooler (so he thought) Terje’s investigations into the roots of the scene led him to agree with his sis. Now he makes a living re-editing songs by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Madonna - not always officially - into new space-disco incarnations and playing them out live.
‘My favourite edit is probably the one I made of Paul Simon’s “Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes”,’ says
NO-WAVE ELECTRO/ELECTRONIC POP PADDED CELL 8- OUT COPY Optimo, Sub Club, Glasgow, Sun 22 & Sun 29 Jun
If you like going out in Glasgow on a Sunday night and were born Wllll any taste at all, you'll know all about Optiiiio. Do we need to tell you yet again why we love it so? What you really need to be aware of is the pair of live guests that will be playing this fortnight: in Padded Cell (22 June) and Cut Copy (29 Jun), Twitch and Wilkes have secured two of the most exciting
electronic acts of the year.
London duo Padded Cell are Richard Sen (ex-Bronx Dogs) and Neil Higgins (ex-Dirty Beatniks). and they've been around since 2003. This year's Night Must Fall album is where their career has stepped up a level. The pair declare their key influences to be. ‘Goblin. The Velvet Underground, Arthur Russell. Prince. Carl Craig. J Saul Kane. analogue fetishism and creeping psychosis'. We can think of nothing to add to that.
Cut Copy. meanwhile. are one of Australia's most important contemporary bands. Mainstays of the Modular label. the Melbourne trio's two albums to date — 2004‘s Brig/it Like Neon Love and this year's //l Ghost Colours — have proven their credentials as classic pop songwriters in the urbane 80s mould of New Order at their peak. The live show. however. is a house-heavy rampage of extended edits and synthesised passages
which recall everything from Chicago house to electroclasli.
Don’t just listen to what we have to say. though. The fact that they've both been chosen to join the ranks of those who've guested at Optiiiio is
all the recommendation you really need. (David Pollock)
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the real-life Terje Olsen, whose stage name is a nod to Todd Terry and a cause of much annoyance that he has to explain it to every Norwegian journalist he meets. ‘I know that Paul Simon isn’t the most fashionable, but I think people are much more adventurous about what they listen to these days. It’s funny, though, I also have a version of his “Late in the Evening” that seems to get more play. I think it’s because it’s faster.’
Now Terje is at the forefront of an unheralded revival in Norwegian dance music. ‘I don’t think there has always been an Oslo scene,’ he says, ‘but a lot of people have been making music on their own for a while and not believing they could get anywhere with it. Then they saw guys like Lindstrom and Prins Thomas break through — they were an inspiration to all of us’. (David Pollock)
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