Posted by Budgie at June 6, 2005 02:42 AM

We Salute You...The Select Few...The Brunswick Crew...

The Flid done it.

He put a night on in Glasgow.

Correction, He put a good night on in Glasgow.

Hassles aside (learning curve and all that), he better do another one...

Yup, Jimmy The Flid became night club promoter and set up his Looshkin night for all those that were interested in having their ears massaged and then pummeled by the overall experimental sonic glory of it all.

Set in the minimalist, pulsating basement of the Brunswick Hotel, in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant City, Jimmy rounded up a crew of artists who would define the Looshkin sound, a sound that was to jump to the left (not like "the timewarp") and lay down the blueprints for what will hopefully become more Looshkin nights.

Unfortunately the headline act, MDK, pulled out at the last minute. But, to give Jimmy his due he managed to source Scotland's own Frog Pocket as a replacement.

So first up to bat for Team Looshkin was me, the CheekyWeeBudgieBoy. Now, to my dismay, my hour long set was interrupted and eventually cut short due to the other artists needing to soundcheck, but hey, shit happens, and who am I to complain? All I do is bung bits of vinyl onto turntables... At the end of the day, I managed to adapt and re-arrange without too much panic and hopefully strung out a selection of tunes that set the mood for the night ahead (see below).

After my DJ set, Solipsism took to the helm with his laptop and unleashed a great, beat laden, densely intricate and complex ambient sound that ended up with an extremely wonky take on the "Rainbow" theme tune.

I was then lucky enough to be let loose on the turntables once again and had enough time to drop an Apparat track before SCART Thug took over with a Laptop set. SCART Thug played an excellent selection of his own incredibly polished productions and he seemlessly flowed from Ambient through to speaker bursting Drum And Bass with ease.

Then Frog Pocket, who in terms of personality was the quietest guy of the night, took to the stage with his array of electronic gubbins and showed every one that it's the quiet ones you need to keep an eye on. Armed with a Fiddle and a Guitar, Frog Pocket improvised over the top of a selection of skittery, glitchy and bone shaking beats to the point that most tracks ended up peaking with loops of feedback from his instruments over the chaos of the backing track.

Granted those were the loud tracks. There were quiet points in his set that were up there with Godspeed You Black Emperor! (it was the strings that made me think so...) and Ulrich Schnauss (it was the beautiful feedbacking guitar...) but the strange thing was that he wasn't feeding his stuff through a laptop like the previous acts. He had his equipment scattered across the floor and at any given opportunity he was poking and punching it and towards the end he was bashing his guitar against it. Our friend Bawbag summed it up perfectly, "I don't know how the hell he is doing it, but it's fucking brilliant!".

I doff my cap to Jimmy for getting a replacement at the last minute and dare I say it, as much as I like MDK, Frog Pocket was a perfect headliner for a great night and hopefully Jimmy will book him for another Looshkin.

As I said at the start of this post, my planned hour long set was cut short. Below is what I had planned to play and you can download some of the tracks too. The ones marked with an asterisk unfortunately had to be dropped. But don't let that put you off downloading the ones marked so. The Timewriter track is a killer, it's just a shame I never got to play it and hear it on a good system....

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" CheekyWeeBudgieBoy Presents A Selection Of Records Played For Your Enjoyment "

Mia Doi Todd - I Gave You My Home
Twine - Plectrum
Lucky Pierre - Blank For Your Own Message
Drome - Squirrel
Seefeel - Time To Find Me (Come Inside)
Lillenthal - King Of Information
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Pink Sticks *
The Ecstacy Of Saint Theresa - Interstellar Overdose
Drome - Hinterland, Kassler Kessel
Funki Porcini - The Great Drive By *
no-man - Back To The Burning Shed
no-man - Days In The Trees (Reich)
F.U.S.E - Nitedrive
Apparat - Back To The Krib
The Timewriter - Lost In Lyrix *
Doctor Rockit - Cameras And Rocks *
Panash - Unicorn *

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Go Visit : Solipsism
Go Visit : SCART Thug @ Barking Spider Electronics
Go Visit : Frog Pocket @ MouthMoth Records

Feel free to leave a comment about these tracks in The Pipe section of the forum

Ta,
Budgie