This Thursday RUBIX returns to Glasgow with two of their favourite local selectors. Fergus Clark & Ruaidhri McGhee known for playing together at nights such as 12th Isle and So Weit So Gut, amongst others.
The duo are known to take listeners on a journey through a melting pot of music styles, so, ahead of the night, Rubix asked the boys to pick out 5 tracks each which best represented the diversity of their DJ sets and to explain a little why those particular records stand out for them…
Fergus:
This is on a 1975 french lp that could be considered prog rock but for this particular track I guess we can settle with the term ‘ambient’. It’s a very lovely piece of synth music and one that I actually uploaded to youtube about a year and a bit ago after discovering it was missing.
Short vocal version of Chicago classic ‘Make Me Want You’ – no messing about house music. Not really much more to say than that, other than that I think this one works better than the extended club mix.
Tail end of the 70’s dub wizardry from the legendary Joe Gibbs. The sort of dub you can play a little into the night just before taking it in a more house or disco orientated direction.
Carla Bley is an extremely well known jazz composer, and this album was released in the UK by Virgin in the 70’s (seems I have a thing for that decade) and can often be seen in secondhand record shops. The last time I was in London I spotted two copies. The full thing is a good listen but this opener with Gato Barbieri on sax and percussion is the definite stand out, a big jazz fav.
Some musique concrete from French musician Jean Schwarz, who did some stuff on INA GRM and the Chant Du Monde Percussion series. This is the really stripped back and rhythmical concrete sort of sound that I’d love to hear in a club on a giant soundsystem. Very rare to find on record this one.
Ruaidhri:
An amazing track off of an amazing album, with a pretty crazy group of people that worked on it (Alvin curran plays the synthesizer on this song for example.) Don’t really know what genre you would call this, maybe prog folk, but that sounds really shit…
Been listening to this track loads recently. Another fairly minimal track that’s strangely hypnotic, drum machine on this does it for me completely but her voice tops it off perfectly.
up there as one of the best vocal samples in a house track for me. Bring vogue-ing back to dancefloors, for real.
My kind of disco right here. Simple, with not that much going on but mad hypnotic. I’d lose my shit if i heard this in a club.
UK techno at its’ finest.
Catch them down at Sub Club this Thursday February 12th.
£4 Door Tax All Night. Full event info over on Facebook.