Clubs PROFILE
P-MONEY AND DJ MAGIC Where are they from? London. South and West, respectively.
Occupation Not a duo but old team-mates appearing on a double bill here together, the pair unite grime and dubstep styles within their sounds, the former as an MC, the latter as a producer, DJ and label boss. Tell us more P-Money has made a big impression on the London grime scene lately with his track made alongside Sukh Knight, ‘Slang Like This’. Having worked on pirate radio stations and continuing to MC at raves, he’s signed to Magic’s label No Hats No Hoods. He’s also a member of up and coming grime collective OGz.
What about DJ Magic? ‘I haven’t been there from the start of grime,’ he has said, ‘which I think gives me a fresher perspective on the scene.’ One of the younger wave of artists in London, he started DJing on North London pirate station Sweet FM in 2005. Not long after that he started to co-promote Camden grime night Dirty Canvas, and No Hats No Hoods (a common command on entry to club nights round his way) has seen him cement his status as a kind of A&R man to a whole new generation of grime artists in London. Among those featured on his label mixtape No Hats No Hoods Vol.1 are Tempa T, Jammer and Skepta, emphasising the respect for quality which the label deserves. Any other business? The duo will be joined here by the usual Big’n’Bashy team of Tekamine, Deburgh and Decoy Roy, playing reggae, grime, dubstep and jungle. (David Pollock) ■ Big’n’Bashy at the Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sat 3 Jul.
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DUBSTEP/GRIME/ELECTRO NUMBERS Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 2 Jul
Just in case you’ve been away a long time, or in a coma or something, Numbers are a group of Glaswegian promoters, label bosses, DJs and producers who have been largely responsible for positioning Glasgow at the absolute bleeding edge of electronic party music over the past few years.
They’ve built their reputation steadily, moving from basement shows at the Brunswick Hotel to booking acts like Autechre, Squarepusher and Modeselektor in recent years. Along the way they’ve secured a residency at London’s Fabric and appearances at Barcelona’s Sónar festival. Their labels, Stuff Records, Wireblock and Dress 2
Sweat, have been responsible for seminal releases from Rustie, Hudson Mohawke and The Village
Orchestra among others (they have now been amalgamated into a new imprint, simply called Numbers).
Over the years Numbers have developed quite a reputation on the London bass music scene, and enjoy a symbiotic relationship with various movers and shakers down there, such as Alex Bok Bok, who they’ve invited to help celebrate their seventh birthday. ‘Bok Bok is one of our favourite DJs on the planet, his Night Slugs parties have been tearing up the rule book and turning the best of grime, Chicago house, dubstep and UK Funky into total riot music,’ explains Numbers’ Richard Charter. For their birthday he’ll be playing back-to-back with protégé and recent Night Slugs signing Lil Silva, plus there’s the return of Ed Banger’s Feadz and Numbers own Jackmaster so it should be one hell of a party. (Colin McKean)
ELECTRONIC ROCK AMERICAN MEN Cry Parrot at SWG3, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jun
Claude Speeed, guitarist and synth player in Scots ‘Miami- laser-rockers’ American Men is back where it all started for his band: on the beach in Barcelona, trying to decide if he’s fit for the Numbers party at Sonar that evening. ‘It’s lovely here,’ he muses, ‘but can I handle five nights out in a row?’ It’s been three years since American Men were formed, at least nominally, in the same city in which Speeed (‘I like using silly names in bands, it makes us seem a bit more Hollywood’) is sunning himself in now. Having been a member of angular Edinburgh rockers Degrassi as a teenager, Speeed was at Primavera with fellow ex-members of futurist rockers Russia and soon-to-be fellow Americans Alilloyd and Scott Chevrolet (the latter also of
Dananananaykroyd). ‘My girlfriend’s mum lived out here and had a spare flat,’ he recalls, ‘so we thought we’d come over, have a cheap holiday and make some music. It went really well, and we decided to continue it.’ The almost immediate success of Dananananaykroyd and
the fact the trio are split between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester meant things were slow in taking off. Yet what Speeed describes as a cross between Drive Like Jehu, Chavez, Boards of Canada and Hudson Mohawke was to get going after a chance meeting with friend Dominic ‘Dom Sum’ Flannigan of LuckyMe in Edinburgh clothing store Oddities. ‘He asked me what we’d been working on,’ said Speeed, ‘so I gave him a recording and he said we were perfect for the label, he’d like to release something.’ Which brings us back to Barcelona all over again. Lucky them. (David Pollock)
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