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RockNess Get out the city and head up north for three days of fresh air, Nessie spotting, DJs, electronica and guitar sounds. Too many highlights to mention but the prospect of DJ Shadow, The Chemical Brothers, Andrew Weatherall, Modeselektor (pictured), Jamie xx and Fake Blood is getting us excited. Dores, near Loch Ness, Fri 10–Sun 12 Jun.
Swedish House Mafia All three members – Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso – DJing at the Arches’ Colours-assisted aftershow. Barrowlands, Glasgow and Arches, Glasgow, both Thu 26 May.
Coloursfest Tenth anniversary for Scotland’s biggest, bangingest dance festival. Ferry Corsten, Eddie Halliwell, Headhunterz and Martin Solveig (pictured) lead the charge. Braehead Arena, Glasgow, Sat 4 Jun. Art School Closing Dates Den Haan at Menergy (28 May); Slum Village at Knock Knock (1 Jun); Divine (4 Jun); DJ Food at Mixed Bizness (9 Jun); Degree Show Party (10 Jun). Art School, Glasgow, 28 May–10 Jun.
Trauma So what are your plans this bank holiday? Spending 12 hours in the company of the wonky house and techno world of Butch, Thomas Schumacher and Davide Squillace sounds like a plan to us. HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Sun 29 May. Summer Revel It’s officially summer, and how do we know? Because the Wee Red’s Revel is back, featuring Randan Discotheque, Snide Rhythms, Machine Room and more with an Underwater theme. Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, Fri 10 Jun.
Substance Celebrating the release of their collaboration with tentracks.co.uk we have a triple bill of live acts who all feature on the compilation with techno and electronica from Subhead, Dave Paton and Stick 430. The Store, Edinburgh, Sat 4 Jun.
Fortified Following the demise of the Art School, this Glasgow dubstep party will be winding down to occasional parties in different venues. For this first event they’ll be welcoming Africa Hitech. Stereo, Glasgow, Fri 10 Jun.
Dominique Young Unique The 19-year-old Tampa Bay electro-rapper fits in a late evening live set, which feeds straight into cub night I AM, between her sets at Sonar and Glastonbury this month. I AM at Sub Club, Glasgow, Tue 21 Jun.
Heavy Gossip Relaunching and relocating HG moves across town to H+H’s new improved club space. And welcoming them to their new home is the quirky house sounds of Baltimore’s Maurice Fulton. Hawke + Hunter, Edinburgh, Sat 28 May.
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Ahead of his DJ date at RockNess, Glasgow’s DAVID BARBAROSSA gives us five of the best.
Fern Kinney ‘Baby Let Me Kiss You’ (WEA) lurks on the B-side of ‘Together We Are Beautiful’, and it’s a slow, sleazy electronic killer. Right from the impassioned moan that introduces the track this is porno-disco of the highest order. Very much part of the dream- pop/chillwave scene, Teengirl Fantasy ‘Cheaters’ (Hivern Discs) is something else entirely, shimmering synths attached to a heavy Chicago house rhythm to create an enormous club smash.
Talking of Chicago House, Gene
Hunt Chicago Dance Tracks Part 1 (Rush Hour Recordings) is the real deal. Dating from 1982- 1989, these selections sound fresher than most modern dance music. The whole package is special, with interviews, original club flyers and photos from the day, but it’s not just a history lesson: this is music for dancing in dark rooms with sweat dripping off the walls. Xander Harris ‘Urban Gothic’
(Not Not Fun), meanwhile, is music for running down dark corridors with blood dripping off the walls. New synth sounds from the John Carpenter school of thrills, it sounds like the soundtrack to an 80s straight-to-video nasty. Tobias Keeler’s a good friend of mine. From time to time he sends me missives from his native Sweden in the form of some truly beautiful psychedelic sonics. I’d never considered starting a record label before, but I’m hoping to release Tobias Keeler Various (Wild Combination Records, hopefully) on vinyl later this year. Check him out at halfawakeandhalfasleep. tumblr.com. (David Pollock) ■ David Barbarossa runs David Barbarossa’s Thing, Fri 3 Jun; Wild Combination, Tue 21 Jun, both at Nice’n’Sleazy, Glasgow. He also plays RockNess, Sub Club Arena, Sun 12 Jun (see feature, page 36)
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