Clubs
INTRODUCING Floating Points
The best new nights in town. This month: CAB VOL STARS Residents: A rolling selection of Cabaret Voltaire employees from bar staff to cleaners Guests: It will be a different line- up every month but as an example Prof, Dimi and Cunnie host this July date Music policy: It really is a mixed bag, from rock and indie to jungle and house, with such a mixed group of DJs stepping up to the decks it’s the freeflowing nature that keeps things fresh. What they say: ‘We pour your drinks, we cut your limes, we book your gigs, we shake your cocktails, we clean your toilets, we hand out your flyers, we wash your glasses, we haul your rubbish, we guard your jackets while you dance. Come to our fucking night!’
‘An all-encompassing extravaganza of DJs and music all programmed by the people who know their crowd better than anyone . . . your Cab Vol staff. On the first Friday of every month Cab will be passing control to its very own long-suffering workers and letting the many talented DJs amongst them play together on their home turf. We’ll also be calling in some favours, hand- picking our favourite residents from our favourite nights, not just in the Cab but from across the city and beyond. So come down for a massively eclectic mix of people and music done by those who live, work and breath nightlife in Edinburgh.’ What we say: Seeing that the Cab is one of the best clubs in Scotland, music runs though their veins, so we’ve got faith in trusting the staff as they step to the fore and take control of the floor. Also remember various members of staff regularly DJ at nights like Xplicit, Coalition, Witness, This Is Music and JungleDub so they know what they’re doing. (Henry Northmore) ■ Cab Vol Stars is at Cabaret Voltaire, Fri 1 Jul.
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BASS/TECHNO/BEATS NUMBERS Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 1 Jul
We all like to celebrate, but few of us can do it better than the producers, DJs, label bosses and promoters that make up the Glaswegian music collective Numbers, renowned for their sheer foot-grabbing, hands-in-the-air dance-floor dexterity. Propelled by a healthy sense of hedonism, this lot have been pounding gleeful ears with their fast-growing eclecticism far beyond home soil, rising from their basement party origins to a recent takeover at Berlin’s glorious Berghain and a showcase at this year’s Sonar, stretching across the pond for a US tour somewhere in between.
With a fortnightly Rinse FM show and a Fabric mix from their very own Jackmaster to add to that, they’re expanding rapidly. ‘A lot of things have been amazing this year,’ explains Numbers’ Richard Charter. ‘Being able to release the new records was a major thing for
us. Everyone put so much into it and they show what Numbers as a label and a party is about, from the harder techno of Lory D, to Redinho’s talkbox electro- funk, Deadboy’s melancholic house and of course Jamie xx’s steel drums.’ So, what can we expect for their eighth birthday
party? ‘A hefty dose of Numbers favourites, plenty of Prince and Drexciya as well as some upcoming exclusives from the label’. Resident DJ Spencer will be joined by Sam Shepard, aka Floating Points. ‘Last year he did a warm-up slot for us, which blew our minds. The guy was dropping Herbie Hancock records into Souls of Mischief and then played some classic Model 500, which ended up getting rewound by some enthusiastic young ravers. We’ve been wanting him to come back for ages – he comes equipped with his own rotary mixer and is a massive vinyl head whose digging knows no boundaries.’ Expect bass like no other and a ridiculous amount of groove. (Rosanna Walker) ■ See a full transcript of this interview at list.co.uk
TECHNO CRÈME ORGANIZATION LABEL NIGHT La Cheetah, Glasgow, Sat 25 Jun.
It’s not without a sense of mild disappointment that The List finds out half of the original line-up for this show can’t now appear. Once we’ve dried our eyes at the no-shows from Bangkok Impact and Legowelt, however, we’ve still got two sterling signings from Dutch label Crème Organization here: the imprint’s founder and boss DJ TLR, and Glasgow’s own Marco Bernardi.
‘I started the label in 2000,’ says TLR, real name Jeroen van der Star,
from his base in The Hague, ‘because it seemed like the thing to do. There was nobody that really did what I liked to see myself in a label and everything was still very pretentious and up its own arse. That was the tail end of the “strictly techno” years, when every party had eight hours of the same boring music. The glorious 90s. We had our own universe of things and I needed my own platform to express that.’ For a self-proclaimed ‘middle-class white kid from mainland Europe’ who
was into punk and ignored electronic music until jungle came along, his label produces a varied array of sounds, starting from a techno base and foraying into funk-laden electro and even some rich modern disco. What’s Crème’s manifesto, its musical mission? ‘No mission,’ he says. ‘It’s all very personal. A mission sucks, that’s more like something from a corporate environment with targets and shit! If it rocks – we run it.’ (David Pollock)
TLR