TenTracks.co.uk are holding an eclectic range of events at the Teviot Bar (Edinburgh University) as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival starting from Thursday 16th of June and running until the 24th of June. All events run from 11pm until 3am with tickets costing from £9 to £5. On Tuesday the 21st of June they are holding the "Unique Beats Live" event featuring Frogpocket, Asthmatic Astronaut, Sink, Lamplight and visuals from the Somnie Collective. Check out www.tentracks.co.uk and www.uniquebeats.co.uk for more details. We've bought Ten Tracks head honcho Ed Stack into the Unique Beats HQ to tell us more about the events and play some tracks from the artists performing at Unique Beats Live. Get your tickets from edfilmfest.org.uk or call the booking office on 0131 623 8030. This event is not to be missed!

We're finally back and we've got a Christmas treat for you with a podcast direct from the studios of Alex Tronic Records in Edinburgh. With some chat from Paul and Rebecca Croan and a tasty selection of tracks frpm the ATR back catalogue we hope we've more than made up for our absence. Be sure to check out www.alextronicrecords.co.uk Tracklisting: Roy's Iron DNA - "Brumer"//////Pandacetamol - "Flashpan"//////Becky Bardot - "Essence"//////Pixlface - "Inarticulate"//////Snakestyle - "Side to Side" featuring Mini Rogers//////Cosway - "Deluxe"//////Psychedlic Manifesto - "Forever"//////ASA - "Fated Stars"//////Forward Play - "Frozen"//////Alex Tronic - "Palpatations"

Red Dog Music presents... Unique Beats v2.0 - Festival of Electronica *** To get your early bird tickets for just £7, go to http://uniquebeats2.eventbrite.com/ *** Taking place over 3 floors of a converted church, Unique Beats v2.0 is a day-long festival dedicated to promoting all forms of electronic music-making. Clinics will be running throughout the day, with manufacturers of cutting-edge products demonstrating their wares via interactive displays, combined with live appearances throughout the day and evening from over 30 local, national and international live electronic music artists. Exhibitors confirmed so far include: * ABLETON * AKAI * ALESIS * BOSS * CAKEWALK * DIGIDESIGN * KORG * M-AUDIO * MOOG * NORD * NOVATION * NUMARK * PRESONUS * PROPELLERHEAD (REASON) * ROLAND * UNIVERSAL AUDIO * YAMAHA A selection of prizes worth over £2000 will be available to be won over the course of the day, including a Moog Theremin, a copy of Ableton Live, a Novation Launchpad, a complete Cakewalk home studio package and MORE! Exclusive discounts will also be available throughout the day from Red Dog Music. Our downstairs stages will be running performances from midday until 1am with the main hall being transformed into the main stage at 6.30pm until 1am...yes that's 3 stages of live music! Makes sense really when we've got over 30 live electronica acts performing, including... Unique Beats (hall) stage: Anchorsong (live) Engine 7 (live) Bit basic (live) LeKtroiD (live) Alex Tronic (live) Melvitronica (live) noi! Input (multimedia live show) Ten Tracks stage: Frog Pocket (live) Lamplighter (live) Asthmatic Astronaut (live) Monosynth Orchestra (live) Chief Of Belize (live) Ibitron (live) Cracked World Foundation (live) Deaf Professor (live) Anklefink (live) Federology (live) Laptop Lounge vs Vinyl CLub Stage: Guga Project Dataline Anonymi 3rd Mountain Phiktion Plan29 Spectralisis Psience Swede + LL vjs. Slo Mo DJ's Pulse DJ's (Darrell Harding/Andy Hay/John Gerard) Dee-Mond James Carroll + more to be announced... Laptop Lounge vs. The Vinyl Club stage brings together two of Edinburgh's most highly respected promoters of all things electronica for 13 hours of electro chaos. ...and there's MORE! What else? *IDMforums.com user videos *Live Festival podcasts *Live performance video feeds *"Plug and Play" laptop open mic session and loads more... Price: £7 in advance for an all day pass with complete access to all workshops, performances and demo stations in the main hall and downstairs. It'll be £10 on the door, so book early... Tickets are available from Red Dog Music (1 Grassmarket, Edinburgh) and online at http://uniquebeats2.eventbrite.com. See you there! :o)

After a long time away we're back and joined by special guest Deaf Professor (a.k.a. Dave Melville) showcasing 2 brand new tracks as well as a 40 minute live set from Unique Beats' very own Melvitronica. Join Andy Farina and Chief of Belize for an hour of electronic shenanigans, stupid ill-informed banter and some cracking tunes. Tracklisting: Deaf Professor - "Kick The Dog" (www.myspace.com/deafprofessor) Lotus Project - "It's Love That Bought You Here" Courtroom Doll - "Redlight" MELVITRONICA LIVE SET (www.MELVITRONICA.com) Deaf Professor - "Little Animal"  

Unique Beats Podcast 6 - “Beat Rule Everything Around Me!” We're back with a mind melting mix of everything electronica from around the globe. Andy Farina and The Chief of Belize take you on a trippy bleepy digital manipulating mind squelching brain fizzing hour long journey through the eclectic world of electronica. Enjoy. Tracklisting: *8 Track Productions - “15 till 2” ( www.root70lounge.com/8TRAKPRODUCTIONS  ) *Adams Electro - “Tech Funk” ( http://www.myspace.com/adamselectro ) *Allen Dawson - “The Stroll” ( http://ajrecords.co.cc/ ) *Chimo 25 - “Klipper” ( http://www.myspace.com/chimo25 ) *Craig Massie - “Vanity Fayre” *NarcoFunk - “Get Closer, Honeydope” ( http://soundcloud.com/narcofunk ) *Ingen - “Running” ( http://soundcloud.com/ingen ) *Konic Polny (incorrectly said Joprec on the podcast...sorry Konic! - “Fin al Cut” ( http://joprec.org/ ) Remember to send your submissions, including info on yourself and what hardware and software you use to make your tracks, links to your website and anything else you want us to know (!) to: [email protected]