The Fear by Röyksopp ←♥♥
Commix – How You Gonna Feel (Pedestrian Remix) by Pedestrian ←♥♥♥♥

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So as the curtain falls on another blinder of an Edinburgh Festival, I head out tonight for my final show – Late ‘N’ Live if you must know. Lost my Silent Disco virginity last night and would highly recommend it to anyone. Also bumped into Jimmy Carr and Bo Burnham on the street and got a photo with them… we were more excited about Bo Burnham to be honest! What a talent.

I think I might only do one more post before I leave for a 3-week long road trip across the USA, but I’ll leave you tonight with 3 songs I can’t stop playing. Oh, and Best Coast‘s ‘Crazy For You’ is a contender for album-of-the-year for me.

Listen ♫: Badly Drawn Boy – Thinking Of You ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Best Coast – Goodbye ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup ←♥♥♥♥♥

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LOTS of emails – mostly shite – but sometimes a wee gem pops up…. like this mash-up. Simple yet effective.

Listen ♫: Jay-Z Vs. Sleigh Bells – Rill Heart Of The City ←♥

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Let’s go out with a BANG!

Late Of The Pier – Best In Class (Soulwax Remix) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Tiga – Mind Dimension 2 (Soulwax Remix) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥

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Sorry that the Evil Nine track is just a clip – but I had to do a post on it! Looks like the 90s is back.

Stay Up (clip) by Evil Nine ←♥♥♥♥
Marathon by erikwikstrom ←♥♥♥
Azari & III – Reckless For Your Love (Tensnake Remix) ←♥♥♥

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So we’re just entering the last week of the Edinburgh Festival and I’ve had a delightful time – whether it’s soaking up sunbeams in the Spiegel Garden (see my pic below) or seeing hilarious comedy acts (Seann Walsh, Obama Mia!, Eleanor the Tour Whore) at various venues including the now-infamous Udderbelly Pasture (a massive upside-down purple cow). I’m also writing up my 1st-year PhD report and it’s hellish – I’m off to work on it now actually – but I’ll leave you with these thrillingly effortless tracks by Andras Fox & Sui Zhen, Pitchfork-featured Tropics, Gilles Peterson-featured Ogris Debris and George Fitzgerald. Go outside.

Andras Fox & Sui Zhen – Petite Mort by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥
Melorr by Tropics ←♥♥♥
Ogris Debris – Miezekatze by Ogris Debris ←♥♥♥♥
Weakness by George FitzGerald ←♥♥♥♥

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The Scots Makar – or Scottish national poet – Edwin Morgan died this week at the age of 90. He was widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th Century. His poem in the Idlewild song below was the inspiration for the name of this blog.

“It isn’t in the mirror
It isn’t on the page
It’s a red-hearted vibration
Pushing through the walls
Of dark imagination
Finding no equation
There’s a Red Road rage
But it’s not road rage
It’s asylum seekers engulfed by a grudge
Scottish Friction
Scottish fiction

It isn’t in the castle
It isn’t in the mist
It’s a calling of the waters
As they break to show
The new Black Death
With reactors aglow
Do you think your security
Can keep you in purity
You will not shake us off above or below
Scottish Friction
Scottish fiction” – Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010)

Listen ♫: Idlewild – In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction ←♥♥♥

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Another glorious day spent lying in the sun – I should really get back to writing my 1st year report :S

With Joyful Lips – Melatonin by With Joyful Lips ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Ken Boothe – Down By The River (Neil Young Cover) ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Derrick Morgan – Stand By Me (Ben E. King Cover) ←♥♥

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Just had a great day sitting in the sunshine in the Spiegel Garden. Bliss.

Listen ♫: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Soulful Shack ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: KC & The Sunshine Band – Queen Of Clubs ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Jackie Wilson – To Be Loved ←♥♥♥

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Just gorgeous beat-orientated music now…

Snow & Taxis by Gold Panda ←♥♥♥
Mock & Toof – Farewell To Wendo by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥

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