Great night of music in Glasgow on Saturday. First up was Juan Atkins and Louis Digital at the Arches - Louis warmed up in fine style with a nice mix of Detroit classics and jacking Chicago gear with plenty of his own material thrown in. Juan played a set that for me wasn't too exciting, peppered with classics but also a fair amount of fairly dull looped bangers - but he seemed to rock the crowd well enough.
The fun really started afterwards, however, with a party at the Unit which kicked off around 3.30. First up was a live set from CiM which was my musical highlight of the night, if not the year - building from sublime electronica to some of his more uptempo Emoticon/Headspace releases and some wonderful unreleased tracks. Juan stepped up again for a two hour set of much more interesting music - house tracks from Theo Parrish and Joshua, a few of his own classics and some really nice deep techno. His mixing may be a bit ropey but the tunes make up for it - and hey, he invented techno, we can cut him a little slack :) Louis finished the night off with another rocking set, until Jupiter Jazz with the EQs up finally caused the sound system to collapse and we called it a night at 7am. A proper Glasgow party... Some Glasgow events coming up soon: March 27: Arne Weinberg & Matt Chester April 2: Rhythm & Sound w/ Tikiman April 10: Robert Hood Mail me off-list if anyone wants more info. Kraftwerk tomorrow night! Can't wait... Cheers, Tom
