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June: Frank Martinique, Abi Wingate, The
Unknown Wanderer and Dougal Perman
Cologne’s Frank Martiniq makes
his welcome return to the Sub Club after ripping it up
only last September. The deal was done on the spot; his
second bite assured. Since that time he’s released
another album on Boxer Sport, remixes from
Robag Wuhm and a fantastic EP on Berlin’s excellent
Sender Records.
We believe that Martiniq’s music embodies all the
finest elements in dance music today: fractured but funky,
glitchy but grooving, dirty but dancy.
Before Frank stuns us again we have a couple of treats
on the Afro Comb stage.
The Afro Comb Stage:
The Unknown Wanderer:
First up is The Unknown Wanderer, Radio Magnetic's very
own late night artist extrordinaire, the Unknown Wanderer,
brings his computerized sub-aquatic andro-rhythms to the
Comb for a unique Sub Club dancefloor experience. This
should shake your soles and wake your soul. To check out
Ultramagnetic, the Unknown Wanderer's Radio Magnetic show,
go to Radio Magnetic's archive.
A legend in his own lifetime who needs to be seen to believed.
The Wanderer will be playing live on the stage but expect
no warning of what he’ll purvey. This man was born
against the grain and words would be at a loss.
Abi Wingate:
Second up we present Abi Wingate who’ll be assisted
by Dougal Perman (your host and resident Kinkdog) at the
controls, Abi takes part of her Confidential nightclub
experience to the Afro Comb. She'll be combining a DJ
set (with old fashioned turntables) with triggered loops
and noises and live saxophone to build electro, breakbeat,
house and techno grooves.
Confidential ran for years in unconventional venues in
Oxford combining exciting live music with brilliant DJs,
much like Kinky Afro. Abi's now based in Edinburgh and
makes her debut at the Sub Club in June.
Get down early for discounted entry, to soak up the vibe,
replete with surreal yet somehow comforting Comb music
from Dougal, and catch two more live acts not to be missed.
May:
Tom Churchill, Brian Murnin, Weird Attractors
and Fancy & Spook
Glasgow's tallest DJs Tom Churchill (Emoticon/Headspace
Records) and Brian Murnin (Clash
Magazine) join forces to rattle the bass at the Sub
Club at May's Kinky Afro.
Fancy & Spook make music for rusted robots. The chrome
plating has long since fallen off their electro-bimmer,
revealing bodywork made from spare-part sonic surgery:
part Kraftwerk, part Motorhead, tagged by Timbaland &
Wiley, welded together with dub & acid: an all-analogue
automobile.
Seen shuddering & clanking at their own 'Krank' nights
at the 13th Note, the classic 'Shake the Disease' history
lessons at the Soundhaus & Arches, and recently the
Subplate live sessions at the Halt bar.
Fancy & Spook are joined tonight in the Afro Comb
by their own ghost in the machine, Mia 9, who will be
synthesizing some soul to add to the mainframe.
The Weird
Attractors were originally a large percussion crew
performing high energy beats at clubs and festivals. The
band has developed into a smaller collective, adding electronica
and brass to the mix, producing live dnb and breaks with
inimitable style, a mutant mix of beats and pieces which
feed mind and feet alike.
Weird Attractors’ cutting edge blend of live percussion
and electronica had audiences jumping at festivals across
the UK during 2004, including the Highland Festival, Brighton
Festival, T in the Park, Knockengorroch and Glasgow’s
Merchant City Festival. In July the band made their first
voyage to Europe, where eager crowds packed out clubs
in Berlin, Hamburg and Toulouse to experience one of the
most exciting and innovative bands to emerge from the
UK’s thriving carnival scene.
With six years’ experience of noising up club crowds
in their hometown, Weird Attractors are
old favourites amongst Edinburgh partygoers and have achieved
something akin to cult status
on the city’s underground circuit.
Mafro has gone loco for this May
month taking care of business in the Balkans but the Kinkdog,
Dougal,
will be feeding
the start of the night with blissful beats and salacious
songs. He'll also be behind the scenes
as usual ensuring everything runs smoothly, kind of like
Davros
but a bit better looking.
April: Triptych Special with Luke
Vibert, Found and Magic Daddy
Techno as Vibert, Disco as Kerrier District, ground breaking
Drum and Bass as Plug, Ninja beats as Wagon Christ and
low down dirty dance song-smithery as Amen Andrews.
Dance music’s most magical and dextrous son - Luke
Vibert - is coming to play and he wants you out of your
house and out of your mind.
Vibert has the enviable achievement of releasing a seriously
long string of releases on Warp, Rephlex, Ninja Tune and
Mo’ Wax. This ‘axis of electro’ (Bush
2005) satisfactorily forms the four corners of quality
British musical output.
Vibert will be playing an Exclusive Club Set at The ‘Fro
mashing up his styles and boundaries, he will be throwing
everything into the fray from frazzled loops and filthy
breakbeats to broken electronics and his trademark of
searing sounds.
Whereas on the Sunday at the Tramway Luke will be playing
out a ‘library’ set of old BMG movie sound
tracks, the Friday night at the Sub Club will be the only
place to catch him in the city in his natural habitat
of fuck*d up and freaked out dance rhythms.
Vibert’s sets involve decks, fx and a more than
healthy drop of lap top action as he fuses styles with
his highly regarded, result delivering technical skills
which have placed him so dextrously as one of Britain’s
most talented and unpredictable producers.
Magic Daddy, AKA Greg Hurst, is a keen electronic producer
who's been creating studio productions and live performances
for years on the Glasgow scene. Working with Stuff Records,
O.S.C.A.R.R. and various other outfits from electronica
recording labels to abstract performance art institutions,
Magic Daddy makes music that is at the same time intricate
and intriguing while keeping an eye on the dance floor.
By day Greg designs and builds state of the art radio
studio software. By night he creates the full spectrum
of sonic soundscapes. This man is a father of future broadcast
techniques for the electronically enlightened, sure to
bless The Afro Comb with enough Magic for everyone to
enjoy.
Found blew everyone away with their debut club performance
at the inaugural Comb in January. Tommy, Ziggy and Kev
create music from sounds they find lying around. They
tour the UK picking up pieces of audio from people they
meet and places they stay. Found use these found sounds
on stage along with beats and breaks made and played on
three laptops and an MPC, live sounds from guitar, bass,
banjo, blow piano (or melodica but we like the concept
of a blow piano), squeeze box, vocals and various other
acoustic and electronic noise making machines. Oboe and
tuba have featured, via guest musicians, in the past in
some of Found's RSA art shows, perhaps they will again
at the Comb...
Found play music that moves from mellow jazz to acid electro
which welcomes the influence of the blues, hip hop and
techno in equal measure. Found's sounds go equally well
in the cerebral beauty of an art gallery or underground
grittiness of a rave. The RSA performance art people described
them as the most exciting collective to come out of Scotland
in recent years. We won't argue. The trio are so excited
to be playing on the same bill as Luke Vibert that they've
named a tune after him.
Dougal Perman has long been a fan of Luke Vibert since
his early releases on Mo Wax, excursions into beats and
acid rave on Ninja Tune and acid hip hop on Warp. He is
equally excited about live performances by the curiously
creative Magic Daddy and the ever-inventive Found and
will morph between two of his DJ personas, from Dougal's
dedication to exposing truly inspiration tunes from the
Radio Magnetic playlists to the Kinkdog's bowl of ditry
electronic acid funk.
March: Mangomad,
Hoboken,
Mr. Mafro & The Kinkdog
Friday 25 March 2005
The
third Afro Comb will transform Kinky Afro into a sleazy
cabaret club. Mangomad
will lull you into a false sense of security with deep,
lushous, but not too serious, laid-back breaks featuring
live keys, guitar, bass and percussion. Four Piece live
band Hoboken
will then soak the atmosphere in love, sex, romance and
death combining crooner vocals and Berlin-style electro.
The Kinkdog (aka Radio
Magnetic's Dougal
Perman) fills his bowl with beautiful, enticing if
unsetteling songs and strange tunes.
When Dougal, who would love to be an old crooner in the
future, has set the mood of this salacious cabaret and
Mangomad and Hoboken have blown you away, Mr Mafro will
treat you to a three hour set of dusky electro with his
own brand of dirty disco, Kinky Afro style.
February: Mellow
Submachine,
Dirty Hospital and Jim Hutchison
Friday 25 February 2005
Following
the tear away success of the first Afro Comb, we are pleased
to present emergent electronic beats outfit Mellow Submachine
who have just released their first single on GDANSK
records. Joining them will be the creators of Rottenrow
Records, Dirty
Hospital, with their infectuous electro punk. Radio
Magnetic's Dougal Perman hosts the Afro Comb with
a blend of the most interesting upfront electronic music.
Soma
Records's electro pioneer Jim Hutchison returns to
Kinky Afro to join Mr Mafro for a night oof exstatic dancefloor
beats.
The Afro Comb opens at 9pm with the first band on around
10. Come down early for half price entry and drinks promotions.
Great atmosphere, great music, great fun.
January:
Kinky
Afro presents Afro Comb
Friday 28 January 2005
To
kick off the new year we bring you a reason to come down
to the club early: The Afro Comb. A pre-club in the club
showcasing the most exciting live music, all recorded
for future broadcast on Radio
Magnetic. January's inagural Comb features eexcellent
experimental Edinburgh electronica trio Found and electro
hip hoppers Monkey Tribe. Laurent Pastor from Astro Lab
records in Paris will also be playing alongside Comb resident
and host Dougal Perman (aka the Kinkdog, the guy who's
been behind the sound desk for the past five and a bit
years controlling the sound for the drummers). Joining
main man Mr Mafro will be Dirty Larry with his grubby
blend of electro, techno and house.
November:
Monkey Cum
Friday 26 November 2004
Friday
26 November sees our last date of 2004 in the Sub Club.
The Monkey Cum Sessions rolls into town again with DJ
Prime8 and Mr Mafro getting mashed up and messy over 4
decks in a guerrilla gig journey swinging through the
best dub, electronica, hip hop, house, techno, electro
and everything in between.
If you want to hear the latest Micro-chimp mix please
go to our mixes page.
October: Fifth Birthday featuring
Kiki
Thanks to everyone who came down to Kinkers for our fifth
birthday and were instrumental in making it possibly our
best night ever. Kiki was amazing and for those who want
another butchers you'll have to wait till next year when
he'll be making his return trip to Scotland.
Kiki laid down a phenomenal set on a tip top evening which
was fitting of five years. Laurence Hughes also pushed
his musical boat out to the usual length; demonstrating
why he is one of Glasgow's most dextrous party DJs.
September: Frank Martiniq
This young German became an honorary Glaswegian in the
24 hours in which he was here. He tuned into the Subbie
in no time and proceeded to lay down a remarkably broken,
funky and melodic groove which simply screamed the fact
that he is the new voice to be heard on the Cologne techno
scene.
Martiniq has predominately been releasing on Boxer Sports
records in Cologne however recently he released his first
devastating material on Berlin's fast impressing Sender
Records. He's sure to be a figure to look out for over
the next few years and will be back in 2005 with a fresh
bundle of records for your ears and feet.
Please check our mixes page to hear his admirable efforts.
Kinky
Afro: a fusion of African percussion and house music mixed
live on the last Friday of every month
At
Kinky Afro we will be showcasing talented percussionists
and live acts alongside exciting underground DJs to collaborate
with African drummming troop Ayawara and resident DJ Matthew
Bennett.
Our tried and tested resident band of drummers Ayawara
will be fuelling the dance with their Djembe drum funk,
blistering live performance and a plethora of West African
percussive breaks played over and around the funkiest
house, tribal techno, afro-electro with various indefinable
moments in between. This format will fuse every five weeks
with international guests to form a unique and cohesive
blend of musicians, DJs and visual artists combining to
create a truly rare and raw musical experience. |
