Glasgow producer JD Twitch teams up with Berlin-based counterpart to create a intoxicatingly unpredictable twist of synth drone with a house twist. I'd grown up listening to these pumped up rappers, theatrical rock stars and cliched punks, and I'd never realised what I was actually looking for from music was a deep human connection.

Rod has always identified as Scottish by heritage so should clearly be included and to exclude him on the grounds he wasn’t born there is, well , racist to put it frankly as only racists define nationality in such strict terms. This standout is an instantly catchy earworm that is the closest the avant garde artist will come to electro pop. His unearthly vocals soar above it all, seemingly infused (if you’ll forgive the trite narrative) with the pain that would ultimately lead him to take his own life. My life has changed so much over the last few years – for better and for worse – and there is a lot of that in this record," he says. Built around a sample from one of Dave Maclean’s spoken word records then plushly upholstered with Moog synths and drum loops, it is one to play again-and-again-and-again.

Some you’ll know off by heart, and more than a few might be new to you, but all have helped shape modern music into what it is today. Indie-pop is another one of Scotland’s perennially great inventions like the TV, telephone and penicillin, but when it comes to quality Pop we have to dig up the past. The Glasgow combo's first of two 2020 albums Over and Over was a delightfully unconventional mash up of different styles from doo-wop, goth, rockabilly and even elements of hip-hop, which should be wrong but is so right. Paolo's Pencil Full of Lead perfectly captures that energy you only get from a great day when nothing can stop you. The chart-topping hit “Give a Little Love” is by the famous Scottish pop-rock band Bay City Rollers.

Or maybe that was the following year; there were three consecutive trips, and it was all quite a while ago, now. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.The text is written in colloquial Scottish, referring to ‘bonnie braes’ (beautiful banks [of the loch]) and ‘wee birdies’ (small birds). That rare moment when you’re in love and life is great, played on loop for three and a half minutes. It was held in Mulate's — another music heritage spot in Louisiana — a renowned Cajun restaurant and dance hall. A rabid lo-fi infectious screaming riffola beast made to melt eardrums and make moshpits [should they ever exist again] explode from the Glasgow-based experimental-metallers' barnstorming debut album No Breeze In Hell. Reportedly, the lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Robert Tannahill (1774 - 1810) and Robert Archibald Smith (1780 - 1829).

If you thought the sophistipop legends were a relic of the past, that they could never capture the emotional pull of a Dignity, then rethink. I met remarkable Gwich'in people, whose Athabascan fiddle traditions were acquired from 19th century Scottish, Irish and French Canadian fur traders. Afraid to Feel” topped the UK Singles Chart and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. CD 1 A rousing CD of Anthems including, A Scottish Soldier, Scotland The Brave, Highland Cathedral, The Dark Island and many more.Don't worry though, the classics such as Deacon Blue, Runrig and of course, the Proclaimers are all represented.