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The best new nights in town. This month: BumFunk
Residents Miss Chris. Marco Smith (both ex-Taste) and Kaupuss (Fever).
Guests Although big-name guests aren't planned for the night. the aim is to corral a selection of established and rising local talent to make an appearance in Cab's back room. Music policy ‘Uplifting. uptempo happy tunes and club anthems. But not pop.‘
What they say ‘Taste had been running for almost fourteen years.‘ says Gordon Band. ex- promoter of the seminal Sunday night gay club (which ended in January) and the man behind this all-new replacement. 'The hardcore crowd which had been coming along every week has grown-up and moved on to different things. so BumFunk is kind of a reinvention for a new crowd. At Taste we were a bit more serious. deeper and more progressive. and this is going to be a much more lighthearted affair. That's what people have been asking for. the majority of clubbers are in their 20s. and they’re looking for something a bit more energetic than what was happening at Taste. Look at all the raves starting up at lngliston. they're playing happy hardcore all over again.‘
What we say Don't let that last comment (or the garisth loaded name) put you off; this isn't about Scooter and TTF, BumFunk is just attempting to marry the school-night hedonism of Taste to the fun-loving colour of the new rave era. The Taste crew will still be putting on Bank Holiday specials under their old name and running their more hard-edged monthly night Fever at Ego. but this new experiment obviously makes concessions to the fact that Edinburgh's Sunday night clubbers are more attracted than ever to mainstream sounds.
(David Pollock)
I BumFunk is at Cabaret Voltaire. Edinburgh, week/y Sundays.
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HUDSON MOHAWKE Twisted Wheel. Glasgow. Fri 28 Mar
As the world of music as we know it continues to fragment and more DIY genres bloom online. the idea that any musician can be defined as truly zeitgeist- grabbing slips further away. If we were to try and imagine such a character. though, perhaps he or she wouldn‘t be a million miles from Hudson Mohawke.
‘I try not to say anything other than that I make hip hop,’ says the 22-year-old Glaswegian boy wonder. ‘I reference a lot of different music. but I make a real conscious effort not to fall into any particular pigeonhole. Being categorised is a real creativity killer for me.’ We‘ll try to help out as much as we can there. while gently hinting to the reader that a Burroughsian
MODERN LOVERS The GRV. Edinburgh. Fri 28 Mar
cut-up experiment involving Timbaland. Kid 606 and Boards of Canada might reasonably be expected by anyone checking his music out. Hud Mo. as he calls himself. is unique and strikingly of his time. recently signing a deal with Warp Records while being booked to play a Method Man aftershow later this month.
Also a part of Glasgow's LuckyMe creative collective and a regular at the School of Art's Ballers Social Club. Mohawke's origin story is a variation on punk‘s ‘three chord’ aesthetic for the 2ist century. ‘I got into making music when the Music game was released on the Playstation.‘ he says, ‘then the follow-up. Music 2000. allowed you to take samples from audio 005. So I started doing this with a lot of early 90$ rave and jungle. and I think that‘s where the random cut and paste element of my music stems from.‘ (David Pollock)
Gerry Love and Norman Blake