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School, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul.
✽ Theo Parrish See preview, left. Art ✽ Numbers with Paul Johnson Birthday celebrations with the Chicago / ghetto house legend, whose tracks helped shape Numbers’ direction as a label. See preview, page 68. Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 18 Jul.
THEO PARRISH: TEDDY’S GET DOWN Detroit producer leaves his comfort zone with new fi ve-piece live band
S ay hello to the Theo Parrish you’ve never met before. Familiar to audiences in Scotland – where he plays regularly – as a techno producer, musician, DJ and innovator active during the fertile 1990s Detroit scene and from the era when he and fellow 3 Chairs project members Moodymann, Rick Wilhite and Marcellus Pittmann were some of the city’s dominant forces, this will be the first time he’s brought his five-piece live band and their Motor City footwork dance crew to these parts. In fact, the Teddy’s Get Down show and tour represents his first live set with a full band for ten years.
‘I started the band to take myself out of my comfort zone and it took me really far out of my comfort zone,’ he explains (via email – he tends to avoid the phone). ‘ A DJ hides behind the selections he makes of pre-recorded material, and it’s easy to forget that at some point a person or group
of people created those sounds in unison, in real time. In modern music there’s less of this phenomenon but when you are put into a position of being human in rhythm, in sync with other humans in public, you really get to face how special and how difficult that is.’ Asked what audiences can expect from a live show which features Parrish and Amp Fiddler (a prolific producer in his own right) squaring off on beats and keys alongside a bassist, drummer and guitarist, he tells us to ‘expect fun, expect musicianship, expect to hear interpretations of some of my pre- recorded songs and expect to see those songs being interpreted in dance. Expect to get down!’ Will we see this set again? ‘We’ll leave that up to the future. But if people keep asking us back, we’ll be back.’ (David Pollock) Art School, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul
✽ Technasia Jackhammer take advantage of a seven-hour special with the long-
standing Parisian techno producer. Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Sat 19 Jul.
✽ David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan The veteran broadcaster and much-revered reggae selector makes a rare appearance, playing reggae, dub, ska and dancehall, with support from Scotland’s proudest dub export, Mungo’s Hi-Fi. The Arches, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jul.
✽ Awesome Tapes From Africa From hip hop to juju, griot to ethiojazz, Brian
Shimkovitz’s choice of tunes are united by their provenance – collected from his travels across the African continent – and their unwavering ability to raise energy levels. See preview, page 66. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul, and Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug.
✽ Shoot Your Shot A new, hi-NRG jolt to the Glasgow scene, celebrating the more
outrageous side of clubbing. See column, page 67. The Poetry Club, Glasgow, Sat 2 Aug.
✽ Ostgut Ton showcase Techno collective Animal Farm present the first
label showcase in Scotland for the Berlin behemoth, extending the dancing hours to fit in a wealth of names including Marcel Dettmann, Function and more. Art School, Glasgow, Sat 2 Aug.
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