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ABOVE AND BEYOND Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, Fri 8 Apr
‘The main themes of the night are cars, sex and narcotics, which have been positive influences on musicians through the ages,‘ explains EJ Evolution (it stands for Electronic Jockey) of his new night, cannin grabbing our attention right away. Such earthly concerns are not the main preserve of a night which promises much in the way of providing something altogether new - those involved will only be trying to create a whole new genre of music in the process.
It's called Archo and it uses French hard-tec as its jumping-off point. ‘We‘ll be playing a whole spectrum of classics from throughout the ages,‘ explains Evolution. ‘Everything from classical music to the likes of Green Velvet’s ‘LaLaLand‘ and Gary Numan’s ‘Cars‘, which we'll be amalgamating with the hard-tec sound. That means lots of really reverberating bass which gives it a distinctive feel. Because it's French, the only way I can distinguish hard-tec is that there‘s a bit more
emotion to the music than what we know as techno or electro, but I wouldn‘t really like to compare what we do to anything else. We're trying to think of Archo as something original, and more of a combination of the ethos behind many genres.‘
Evolution also hopes for a live element to complement his core of relatively unknown Edinburgh- based DJs, although he asserts this will only happen if the A&B team feel it’s up to scratch by the night. They do have a pianist/synth player, violinist, saxophonist and guitarist on board, and the hope is that they will eventually contribute to original recordings on an A&B record label.
So, while Evolution baulks at any suggestion those involved are hatching a trainspotters‘ plot to carve their own genre niche, he firmly asserts that they are truly passionate about the music (all ‘clubbing maniacs‘, as he coins it), and that these plans have been brewing for a while. Will the A&B crew make their mark? Only time — and dancing crowds - will tell. (David Pollock)
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They might be a big noise on the national drum & bass scene, but Future Engineers are very much a talent local to Scotland. The duo make their debut at the next LiveVEvil extravaganza at Glasgow School of Art, alongside residents Morphy, Geco, Paul Reset and MC Gulux.
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llll(‘,()llll)l()llll§3lllt] figures Hegit‘, and Surgeon iornerl forces hack .n 2003. Both Signed to Downwards and. as regulars at the legendary House of God in Birmingham. they sharerl a srrnrlar no holds; barred modernist take on the techno forrnat. Now as; the British lvlurrler Boys; they are presenting a three hour liveDJ set of hrutal OICCIlOlllCES promoting their latest album Father lover; Us,
What first led you to working together? Surgeon We had worked together for ten years; With Downwards etc. but not as a musical project before BMB. It was inevrtahle really.
Regis It would have heen better to work together eight years ago in terms of our sales potential, llOVVO‘JCl' we have never made music for the marketplace, l think you can tell that by the rnusm; we release. Is it a very different creative process?
S Yes. we often have fights in the studio, but that's when most of the best vocal work gets done.
Do you prefer live sets to DJing?
S Hrnmrn . . . I regard DJing as taking prerecorded music. manipulating and recombining it and presenting it to an audience. So what we present as BMB is still DJing to me. But I'll let some other peeple - who really should get Out more — argue that one Out.
R Status Quo are a great live act.
What can we expect on the night?
8 A drunken and abuswe Regis and hopefully some neise.
R The second and third coming Within the space of three hours. Brrtrsh Murder Boys guest at Dogma, Studio 24, Fri 7 Apr.
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