With Slam's Stuart McMillan, Optimo's JD Twitch, and Numbers' Jackmaster we interview three main protagonists of Glasgow's burgeoning electronic music scene in this week's edition of our City Focus podcast.
It's not by accident that Glasgow has been likened to Detroit in regards to its music scene. Journalists might have had Detroit's Motown era and Glasgow's plethora of famous indie bands - from Primal Scream to Franz Ferdinand - in mind, but also in respect to its immense output of electronic music Glasgow has been one of the British isles' cultural epicentres for the past two decades. If there is a common thread running through electronic music emanating from Glasgow it might well be its knowledge of and reverence for the genre's history - something which doesn't seem to get in the way of musical innovation however. Where Slam's early techno productions paid homage to Detroit techno, today young artists like Rustie and Hudson Mohawke build their ingeniously inventive music on the foundations of Detroit electro and funk music. |
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 photo: gr0uch0 / flickr Our first guest this week is Stuart McMilan of Glasgow's pioneering techno group Slam. From the early 1990s on McMilan and partner Orde Meikle paved the way for the local electronic music revolution, by starting their own label, Soma Quality Recordings, hosting their own club nights at Glasgow's famous Sub Club, and of course with their highly prolific production work, recently appearing mostly on their newly founded imprint, Paragraph. Another driving force in Glasgow's scene is Optimo, the DJ and production unit of JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes. For the past 12 years the duo has been pioneering the open-minded mash-up of dance music styles with their weekly club nights, their edit and remix work, and their insanely popular DJ mixes. JD Twitch has further launched his own Optimo Music imprint recently, which is just as eclectic, releasing neo-disco by New York's Den Haan next to re-issues of classic works by Trobbing Gristle's Chris Carter. Our final guest is Jack Revill a.k.a. Jackmaster, representing Glasgow's latest wave of electronic music artists. Revill started to work in Glasgow's well known Rubadub record store when he was just 14 and launched his first label Point.One Recordings in 2005 with classic electro by artists like Gosub and Voltaic (a.k.a. Martin Patton and Rustie). The label was followed up by Wireblock and ultimately Numbers, uniting several labels under one roof. Also a popular club night, Numbers represents cutting edge bass music without genre blinders.
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Deadboy, LuckyMe, Soma, Process Recordings, Untold, Slam, The Black Dog, Glasgow, Space System, Pest Control, Alex Smoke, Hum+Haw, Planet Mu, Warp Records, Rudi Zygadlo, Roska, Hudson Mohawke, American Men, Optimo Music, Martin Patton, Colder, Numbers, Optimo (Espacio), Techno, Disco, House, 2 Step & Grime, HipHop, Dubstep
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