Friday 30th May, Dunfermline Monty's: Yoshi / Ives / Chameleon Jersey
Yoshi
Remember the noise the Super Nintendo made when you sleighed it against your wall whilst taking a whooping at Mario Cart? If not, please allow us to introduce Fife 8-bit bandits Yoshi. Vintage Beasties beats and distortion doused keytar make for a heady blitz of acid-house, Manga and Mega Drive digi-pop menace.
For a band carrying enough electronic equipment to stock Kraftwerk and the CIA, the Glasgow duo's sound is remarkably warm and, well, human - warm swells of robotic noise subsume the clicks and whirrs normally associated with the genre they operate in. Yes, Ives show that as well as making some pretty good dance music, even machines have soul.
Genre and definition-defying sounds from a Scots-based one-man-electronic orchestra - straddling simultaneously the ambient and experimental genres, Chameleon Jersey also chucks in 'beautiful', 'intriguing' and 'engrossing' into the mix of helpful adjectives. Think the scores of high-quality and slightly arty films, but despite a lack of vocals and lyrics, there are enough nods to 80s electropop, Satie and Underworld to keep the listener rapt with attention throughout the entire film - sorry, gig.