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■ Bubblegum at the Hive. Weekly 9pm–2am. Free before 11pm; £4 after. A student friendly chewed up mix of electro, pop, dance, disco, soul and indie.
✽✽ Devil Disco Club at the Bongo Club. 6 Aug, 11pm–5am. £5 before
midnight; £7 (£6) after. No wave, vintage disco, electro funk, proto house and New York classics from the Trouble DJs and Giles Walker. Featuring deep electronic sounds from live guest Lord of the Isles. ■ Filth at Sin. Weekly 10pm–2am. £5. Mash-ups from Richie Ruftone and DJ Babes. ■ Late, Live & Loud at Electric Circus. Weekly 11pm–5am. £7 (£6). See Thu. ■ Late’n’Live at the Jazz Bar. Weekly 2–5am. £5 (£3). Late night jazz and funk acts and DJs featuring Paul Mills Funk Band. ✽✽ Musika at the Liquid Room. 6 Aug, 10.30pm–5am. early bird £16.50. Edgy house and electro night Expect a masterclass in house from the one and only Sasha, with live support from Guy Gerber (live). ■ Rendezvous at the Green Room. 6 Aug, 10pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £8 after. Mixing up fresh house and techno from the residents and guests. ■ Shakedown at the One Below. Weekly 10pm–2am. £5. Funky music at this new night inspired by the lounge club scene in New York, Paris and Los Angeles. ■ Studio 24 Rawks at Studio 24. Weekly 10.30pm–5am. £5 (£4). Studio 24’s re-rebranded rock night with DJs Soo and Matt27. ■ Substance at the Store. 6 Aug, 10.30pm–5am. £8 (£7). Edinburgh’s leading underground techno party. Expansive analogue techno/electro from one half of Instra:mental as Boddika puts in a live set. ■ Tease Age at Citrus Club. Weekly 10.30pm–2am. Free before 11pm; £6 after. This indie stalwart dishes up everything from swinging 60s hits to baggy Manchester faves as well as a host of current ‘NME’ chart botherers with DJ Monkee Mickee. Edinburgh’s longest continually running indie night. ■ The Opal Experience at Opal Lounge. Weekly 9pm–2am. £tbc. Glamorous vocal house and ice-cool electro with a hint of R&B. ✽✽ Ultragroove at Cabaret Voltaire. 6 midnight; £8 (£5 students) after. Deep soulful house with a dash of disco from Gareth Sommerville. Presenting a ‘House City Coalition’ with guest sets from Bruce Nicholson (Moovn), Melvyn Dillon (Soulful Beats) and Stephen Rodgers (Elements of Soul). ✽✽ White Mink at the Voodoo Rooms. Thu, featuring The Correspondents, The Twilight Players, Ed Muir and DJ Nick Hollywood (6 Aug). FREE Wired For Sound at the Village. 6 Aug, 9pm–1am. Funky mix spanning the decades as Allan Dunbar (Headspin) and Steven Wanless (Taste/Frisco Disco) dig deep into the vaults. A Balearic special with special guest Martin Valentine. Weekly 11.59pm–3am. £10. See
Aug, 11pm–5am. Free before
Chart & Party ■ Love Groove at Stereo. Weekly 10.30pm–2am. £5 (£2) before midnight; £6 (£3) after. Mix of chart anthems, disco and classic dance tunes. ■ Musicology at Shanghai. Weekly 10pm–2am. £8 (students £5). Funk, dance, chart hits and classics accompanied by their appropriate videos from VJ Scott Granger. ■ Saturdays at Karma Nights. Weekly 10pm–2am. £tbc. Party night of chart, dance and R&B. ‘If you can’t sing it, we won’t play it’. ■ Social Network at City Nightclub. Weekly 10.30pm–2am. £10 (VIP £15). Big house, chart and R&B anthems with a live facebook feed broadcast on screens across the club.
Crate DIGGING NICK HOLLYWOOD created the White Mink: Black Cotton compilation album, which gave birth to the White Mink Electro Swing Speakeasy events. Now Hollywood lets us know what to expect from his set.
Just out on my own label is the latest from Jem Stone ‘Be-Bop 2 Hip Hop’ (Freshly Squeezed). One of the founders of Finger Lickin’ Records, arguably the world’s best known breakbeat label, he also designed all their distinctive artwork, he has a uniquely personal and complete vision for what he does
The Correspondents What’s Happened To Soho? (Freshly Squeezed) points to exciting new possibilities away from electro-swing, but these guys are all about the live show. They will be joining us for the opening weekend of White Mink and should not be missed.
Drop The Lime ‘Hot as Hell’ (Ministry of Sound) is a strange one. There’s something that really shouldn’t work about rockabilly mixed with house and yet somehow this maverick record is just very, very cool. And very, very wrong all at the same time.
Next Caro Emerald ‘That Man’ (Dramatico), we’ve licensed one of her tracks for the upcoming Vol 3 of White Mink several months ago. It was just as well we got in there when we did as the album has now gone Platinum. ‘That Man’ isn’t the tune we’ve licensed (all will be revealed soon enough) but it is wonderful to see an artist break into the mainstream purely on the strength of their material and word of mouth.
Last but by no means least, The Movits! ‘Fel del av gården’ (BD Music) (meaning ‘Wrong Side of the Yard’) has hardly left my DJ set since I first heard it early last year. They’re a trio of musicians who rap in their native Swedish over a wonderful blend of live swing and hip hop. A brilliantly fresh-sounding record. ■ Nick Hollywood DJs at White Mink, Voodoo Rooms, 226 0000, Thu 4–Sat 6 Aug, 11.59pm–3am, £10.
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PREVIEW HOUSE DJ SNEAK Telefunken at The Store, Edinburgh, Fri 5 Aug.
DJ Sneak loves house music. In fact he’s kinda protective of the genre. ‘The word “house” has been murdered by the media and people like Swedish “blank” Mafia, which clearly know nothing about house music. Underground house will always keep the spirit of real house music alive, and as long as I live I will too. Hell, even after I’m gone my music will live forever.’
Sneak’s DJing pedigree is second to none, specialising in ‘real rough
rugged underground house music from the source of it all, Chicago.’ He was one of the second wave of producers to come out of the Windy City, moving to Chicago as a teenager, his music flavoured by the Latin rhythms of his birth place, Puerto Rico, and directly influenced by the founding fathers Farley Jackmaster Funk, Frankie Knuckles and Marshall Jefferson. ‘There were no rules, no fame, no gimmicks. Just real people making beats and playing music from the heart,’ says Sneak. ‘These days things are much different and people are all about the fame in a mindless game.’ His disco filtered house sounds, smooth mix skills and tribal beats should easily fulfil his promise and deliver ‘whatever your little ears desire, I will come ready to make them booties shake and feet get tired from dancin’, I am the real deal, a true house gangster.’ (Henry Northmore) ■ The Store, 220 2987, Fri 5 Aug, 10.30pm–5am, £12 in advance (more on the door).
FREE The Rock Bomb at Opium. Weekly 10pm–2am. The best rock and metal from across the years. ■ This is Music at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 10.30pm–5am. £3 (members free). Indie-electro night hosted by the Sick Note DJs. ✽✽ White Mink at the Voodoo Rooms. Thu, featuring The Correspondents, The Twilight Players, Ed Muir and DJ Nick Hollywood (5 Aug). Weekly 11.59pm–3am. £10. See
Chart & Party ■ Boogie at Lava Ignite. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5.50. Old school disco and chart classics. ■ Broke at City Nightclub. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £2. DJ Gentleman Johnny mashes-up chart indie, hip hop, dance anthems and drinks promos. ■ Entice at Shanghai. Weekly 10pm–3am. £8. Floorfilling anthems. FREE Espionage at Espionage. Weekly 11pm–3am. Five bars over five floors, playing everything from R&B to mainstream chart action with plenty of dark corners for copping off in. ■ Fridays at Karma Nights. Weekly 10pm–3am. £tbc. A commercial mix of chart, dance and R&B from the 80s to cureent hits.
■ Hot & Gold at Stereo. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before midnight; £4 (£2) after. Disco, dance and raunchy R&B on the mainfloor while upstairs you get 80s classics. Edinburgh Saturday
Clubs ■ Bass Syndicate at Sneaky Pete’s. 6 Aug, 11pm–5am. £3 (members free). Bass Syndicate returns with a mix of bass heavy breaks, beats, electro and house from G-Mac, Believe and Silver Storic (watch out for their birthday featuring the Plump DJs, 13 Aug). ■ Beat Control at the HMV Picture House. Weekly 11pm–2am. £1 before midnight; £5 (£3) after. The Evol DJs dish out the best in twisted pop, indie and alternative beats as clubbing returns to the Picture House. ■ Beep Beep, Yeah! at Cabaret Voltaire. 6 Aug, 11pm–5am. £3. Taking over the Speakeasy with a staunchly retro soundtrack of 50s rock, 60s grooves and 70s psychedelia. ■ Boutique at GHQ. Weekly 10pm–2am. Free before 11pm; £5 after. Electro and house from DJ Dowzer while DJ Darren plays mainstream chart, disco and cheese.