October (Week 1) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee

Featured Club of the Week: Monox

Venue: Sub Club

Date: Friday 1st October

Monox go out with a bang on their 10th birthday, the last ever Monox party to rumble Glasgow. Ghetto-tech connoisseur and Chicago House legend DJ Funk conducts your booties for the Monox send-off; a fitting goodbye would be all punters rhythmically squeezing their behinds and punching their arms like an efficient engine, pulsing in time to Funk rhythms as they pulse down your veins!

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11pm-3am, £10+bf

Edinburgh

Club: Volume!
Venue: Sneaky Pete's
Date: Saturday 2nd October

Volume! returns for another free night of dubstep, UK funky, Baile, grime and more from residents Termite G-Mac, Paranoise and Brian D’Souza with a special appearance from Kidill. Ratio of tunes to £s couldn’t be better!

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11pm-3am, £0

Club: Fuse
Venue: Lane Nightclub
Date: Friday 1st October

Energy-infused electro-house bod Kissy Sell Out headlines Fuse with hip-hop / rave mix-up crew The Squatters, and support from Decibel and Eats Everything.

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9pm-3am, £12

Club: Xplicit
Venue: Potterrow
Date: Friday 1st October

In an ever-so-slight dnb departure, Xplicit present a dubstep special with Emalkay and fresh dubs courtesy of DJ Marky, with Stamina MC delivering the vocals. Potterrow nights are always big for Xplicit - kick off your month in super-sized fashion.

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10pm-3am, £10

Club: Ultragroove
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 2nd October

The Cab Vol Alternative Freshers Week drwas to a close with a special appearance from Joey Negro and Ultragroove resident Gareth Sommerville. House and disco legend Negro (and Top 100 DJ) was producing while Lo-Quality was browsing for their first primary school uniform, and he’s in town to spin circles round the new crews in town. LuckyMe Collective’s The Blessings host the back room.

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11pm-3am, £10 / £7 before midnight / £5 student

Glasgow


Club: Pressure
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 1st October

There’s a special Drumcode Party with Adam Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick and Slam - on the same night as DJ Funk - so make your decisions carefully. It’s Swedish techno at its best, brought to you by the label master and a rising star from the 4/4 stables.

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11pm-3am, £14+bf

Club: Slabs of Tabernacle
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 2nd October

Slabs host an Abstract Forms label night, with founder Deixis, and label mates Morphology and Arne Weinberg for electro-bending techno and a touch of ambient to stimulate the neurons and knees.

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10pm-3am, £8

Aberdeen

Club: Mothership
Venue: Snafu
Date: Saturday 2nd October

The Italoboyz continue their journey around Scotland, hitting Aberdeen’s Mothership for more tech-house beat-downs.

11pm-3am, £7 adv / £5 members

Dundee

Club: Optimo
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Saturday 2nd October

Optimo return with their sleazy electronic spin-off in Dundee, their first time back since a degree show in May, to experience the mash-up greatness of Glasgow’s finest.

10.30pm-2.30am, £10

More info: Optimo continue their newest club, Hung Up, at the Sub Club in Glasgow on Sunday 3rd October with special guest Jackmaster (11pm-3am, £7 / £5 before midnight).

Vinyl and Digital Reviews: Terrence Fixmer and Benna & Kid.Chic

Terrence Fixmer - Comedy Of Menace (Electric Deluxe)
... totally 'trending'

Electric Deluxe's first artist album is dark hanging notes, impatient 808 tapping and techno through an ever-moving aperture. Fixmer travels through deep, melodious beats, jitters into LFO taps, and achieves an ill at ease yet hypnotic tome. As the twitterers would say, this is 'trending'.

Release date: 28 September 2010

Benna & Kid.Chic - Harry Klein Records 002 (Harry Klein Records)
... deep, trippy house

Benna's '24/7' Herb Abuse is not so much Jah Rastafari as trippy chants, head-twisting deep house and hissing snares, or is that snaring hisses? By comparison, Kid.Chic's 'Untitled' is a sunlit bar groove; chilled tech-house with spoon and jar percussion and decorated with bird chirps.

Release date: September 2010

September (Week 4) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee

 

Featured Club of the Week: Snafu
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 24th-Sunday 26th September

To celebrate their 6th birthday Snafu is holding a succession of nights to illustrate their buffet platter of styles, starting with Mixtape on the 24th with Bigfoot’s Tea Party, Faux Pas, Marmalade Man and Redux (11pm-3am, £6 / £3 before 12am). The Mothership descends on the 25th for a special house and techno birthday edition (11pm-3am, £6 / £3 before 12am), and the weekend is rounded off with a Snafu Sunday Special with Optimo legend JG Wilkes for a mash-up so varied you’ll need to forget the concept of ‘genres’ for the evening (9pm-2am, £8).

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Edinburgh

Club: Scream!
Venue: The Liquidroom
Date: Thursday 23rd September

The Stanton Warriors mark the second Scream! event with prime breakbeat cuts and slices - grab a taste on their Soundcloud profile which includes over 21 DJ sets dating back 10 years. More house, techno, electro and dubstep will be blasted by G*Mac and Believe.

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10.30pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 24th September

Sugarbeat put on a special Freshers Week edition, bringing in fresh faces with club re-edits and remixes courtesy of equally fresh-faced Foamo, and tasty electro and house from The Living Graham Bond.

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11pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 25th September

The second Freshers’ installment of Cabaret Voltaire sees a house and techno special guest for Karnival’s Alternative Party, with Paul Woolford. Resident DJs Mike Pinkerton, Matt Edwards and Ryan Ellis will be on support, while hosts, hostesses and dancers bring a Latin ambience - there’s even magicians to boggle drunken students’ minds!

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11pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Rise 
Venue: Opal Lounge
Date: Sunday 26th September

Ministry of Sounds’ Cut Up Boys deliver a special Sunday night fresh on the back of their Mash-up 2010 mix CD. Rise resident Johnny Frenetic, recently signed as remixer to AV8 Records, will be on support.

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10pm–3am, £8 / £6

Glasgow

Club: How's Your Party?
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 24th September

He may have cancelled in February, but electro-twiddler Toddla T keeps his promise for a return to the Sub Club, and has managed to get himself signed to Ninja Tune in the meantime! HYP? are also touting their ravey guest Hot City as the next thing to party to, and resident Point To C will deftly warm those decks.

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11pm-3am, £10 adv.

Club: Death Disco
Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 25th September

Death Disco www.deathdisco.info take a dark pop leaning in September, with headliners MNDR (live) and Don Rimini performing industrial pop electro, splashes of techno, and some more electro!

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11pm–3am, £14 / £7 half price pass

Dundee

Club: Devil Disco Club
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Saturday 25th September

The Devil Disco Club Dundee spin-off has arrived! The Trouble crew couldn’t confine their new coolisch club template to just the capital and launch their new monthly residency this weekend. Edinburgh group RBRBR will perform their energy-packed and sometimes oddball electro-indie live set, hopefully with lots of tasty tracks from their Euphonios Records EP. Resident DJs Hobbes and Erik Da Viking will ably take you on a journey through the classics and fresh cuts of italo, disco, funk, house and more!

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10.30pm-2.30am, £7 / £5 before 12am

September (Week 3) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee

Benga

Featured Club of the Week: Scream!
Venue: Liquidroom, Edinburgh
Date: Thursday 16th September

Back in regular business, the Liquidroom launches new club Scream!, a venue for house, electro, dubstep, and techno, fittingly headlined by dubstep king and Afro Warrior, Benga, with hosting skills by MC Youngman. Keep an eye on Scream’s forthcoming line-ups of top guests like the Stanton Warriors, each scheduled with an eye-wateringly tight 7 days inbetween. Make your recoveries quick!

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10pm-3am, £10 / £8 first come first served (limited to 250 people)

More info: Benga appears in Glasgow at the Art School’s Mixed Bizness with host MC Youngman and support from Boom Monk Ben and Point to C. It’s Benga’s first DJ set in Glasgow for 2 years, so don’t miss out. There’s even more from Benga and Mixed Bizness later in the year when Magnetic Man (Benga, Skream and Artwork) descend on the eve of halloween. 11pm-3am, £10 adv.

Edinburgh

Club: Compakt
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 17th September

Compakt celebrate their 2nd birthday with DJs Bruno FK, AnarKid, Daoijia, and Phrase, spinning house, electro, bassline and techno for 730 days on the go. Gary Beck (M_nus) makes a special appearance with deep vibes to show the Edinburgh crowd just how Glasgow takes its techno.

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11pm-3am, £5 / £3 before midnight

Club: Xplicit
Venue: The Bongo Club
Date: Friday 17th September

Xplicit welcome Camo and Krooked www.myspace.com/camokrooked (Hospital / Viper) on the back of their blistering Above and Beyond LP. Support in the main room comes from Eno, The General, hosted by MC BZ while Jungledub take the upstairs room with a mix of reggae dub and jungle.

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11pm-3am, £8 adv.

Glasgow

Club: Hotbox
Venue: The Universal
Date: Friday 17th September

Not so much Italo as just Boyz from Italy, the Italoboyz duo bring their interesting take on house and techno to Hotbox’s first birthday, blending in genres and flavours like a fine pasta sauce.

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11pm-3am, £10

Club: Mungo's Hi Fi Sound System
Venue: Glasgow School of Art
Date: Saturday 18th September 2010

Mungo's Hi Fi Sound System return from the summer haze to meet YT and Mr Williamz (UK Reggae Performer of the Year 2008) for more dub and reggae action. The Mungo’s crew might be touring their sound worldwide but Glasgow retains a special place in their hearts!

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11pm-3am, £8 / £5 adv.

Aberdeen

Club: Let it Bleed
Venue: The Forum
Date: Friday 17th September

It will be like something 4 porno when the delicious Felix Da Housecat rolls into the North, his only Scottish date of the month. Are you feelin’ the Chicago electro?

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10pm-3am, £tbc

Dundee

Club: Glitch
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 17th September

Glasgow’s Milton Jackson takes over Glitch with his ghostly machines and deep house.

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10.30pm-2.30am, £5

September 2010 (Week 2) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee

James Zabiela

Featured Club of the Week: Musika 

Venue: Liquidroom
Date: 11th September 2010

As part of the Renaissance Masters ‘Life’ World Tour, and a rescheduled appearance from Hogmanay, Jamies Zabiela tempts in the crowds with a free copy of his Renaissance Masters compilation LP for every punter. DJs Alan Dobson, Derek Martin, and Jamie McKenzie sound out the house and breakbeat support.

10pm – 3am, £15 adv.


Edinburgh

Club: Telefunken
Venue: The GRV
Date: 10th September 2010

Telefunken takes its turn under a new roof, setting up the decks at their new home of the GRV with Alan Gray, Nick Wilson, Martin Valentine, Mikey Inglis, and Ken Swift playing underground house, funk, disco and hip-hop.

11pm-3am, Free before midnight, more on the door

Radioactive Man

Club: Jackhammer
Venue: Wee Red Bar
Date: 10th September 2010

Radioactive Man and Stephen bring the techno and electro to an intimate venue - prepare to get sweaty and familiar with strangers to the tunes of Tenniswood.

10:30pm-3am, £10 / £8

Club: Punch the Clown
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: 10th September 2010

DJ Pyz, know as one of the men behind Split and Access is takin the plunge and heading to Australia, and to help kick him out the country his electro and techno DJ pals from Compakt, Split, Dogma, We Are... Electric and Pure are putting on a party!

11pm–3am, £3

Dead Boy Robotics

Club: Wonky
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: 10th September 2010

This is a one-off club night from the men who brought you Trouble for some extra bass and beats and a special live and wonky electro and new wave performance from Dead Boy Robotics. DJs Hobbes & Erik d'Viking (Trouble DJs) and Wolfjazz (Stepback) play dancehall, UK funky, electro, hip-hop and more.

11pm-3am, £5 / £3 before midnight


Glasgow

Club: Return to Mono
Venue: Sub Club
Date: 10th September 2010

House and techno stalwarts Slam entertain the Mono crowds with a four hour set.

11pm–3am, £7

B-Movie Junkies

Club: Radio Magnetic Party
Venue: The Admiral
Date: 10th September 2010

The boys from the Phuturelabs blog (and Radio Magnetic podcast) and soulful disco punkers B-Movie Junkies headline the Radio Magnetic party at The Admiral for future-nodding electronic music.

11pm-3am, £4

Club: Jilted
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: 11th September 2010

New club night alert at the Soundhaus, with techno, house and electro from DJs Frostfire, Captiv8, Rikki McKee and Malcolm Bennett.

10pm-3am, £7 / £5

Booka Shade

Aberdeen

Club: Mothership
Venue: Snafu
Date: 11th September 2010

Get Physical co-founders Booka Shade brighten the ‘deen with electro-house stylings on the Mothership with a DJ set.

11pm-3am, £15


Dundee

Club: Mixed Bizness
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: 11th September 2010

Boom Monk Ben and Point to C play their Dundee spin-off of Mixed Bizness with hip-hop, electro, house and plenty excuses to dance.

10.30pm-2.30am, £5

September 2010 (Week 1) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee

Actress

 Featured Club of the Week: Numbers

Venue: Sub Club

Date: 3rd September

Actress joins Numbers’ Redinho and Spencer for a present-day flashback: the Thriller Boss appeared at the first ever Numbers event and returns with his latest album Splazsh, a cocktail of dubstep, techno, house and the undefined. Redinho celebrates success of his own, after his debut EP Bare Blips rapidly sold out - he returns to Glasgow for blistering, blippy live set.

11pm-3am, £8 / £6. Click here to register for £6 entry.


Edinburgh

Club: Fuse
Venue: Lane Nightclub
Date: 3rd September

Fuse celebrate their 2nd birthday down the lane with electro-house king Herve (checks over shoulder for Sinden - nope, he’s solo!). Check out the List’s recent interview ahead of the event. Hip Hip Herve!

11pm-5am, £10

Club: Dirt
Venue: The GRV
Date: 3rd September

Techno, breaks, house from the Dirt Crew, featuring sets from Ingen (Carbon Logic), The Setup (Nerve Breaks) and Andrew Neale. Residents Cobi, Maestro and DD back up the vinyl with their ‘friendly boooze and cheap banter’.

11pm-3am, £4 / £3 before midnight

Tokyoblu band

Club: Tokyoblu
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: 3rd September

Hard to believe it’s that time already - Tokyoblu’s 8th birthday has swung round fast and to celebrate the Tokyoblu live band will play a special reunion gig. The Tokyoblu DJs will warm up the crowds with live percussion from David McGeorge, and room 2 features Niall & Denis McKervey, the We Play House DJs (simultaneously broadcast on We Play House radio)and DJ No Bad for sexy disco funk. Room 3 features the Tokyoblu DJ Academy competition winners with their very own slot of 4 sets. Slam the birthday bumps with influences from Chicago, Latin, Africa, and plenty powerful vocals!

11pm-5am, £8 / £5 guestlist

More info: The Tokyoblu band have just released 3 new singles on the Tokyoblu digital label for the 8th birthday gig; check out Call Me, Groove Tonight 2010 and Running For the Money.

Club: Ultragroove
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: 4th September

It’s the last instalment of Ultragroove’s 2010 Festival Parties, featuring Stuart Patterson (East Village / Faith), Kirk Douglas (Souloco) and Gareth Sommerville rock the house, disco and techno for a 5am party.

11pm-5am, £8 / £5 before midnight

Epic 26

Club: Devil Disco Club
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: 4th September

Following a new move to monthly Saturdays, Devil Disco Club kick off the new rotation with a live set from new wave artists Epic 26. Locate your boogie shows for off-kilter electro, italo, disco and house courtesy of Hobbes & Erik d’Viking, Kris Wasabi and Simononononotron (I never know where to end it).

11pm-3am, £5 / £4 before midnight

More info: Devil Disco Club launch a spin-off in Dundee later this month, keep checking the blog for details.

Glasgow


Club: Feel My Bicep
Venue: Flat 0/1
Date: 2nd September

I want to mention this for just the club name! They promise 80s sleaze, house and disco and I can think of nothing better to accompany a greased muscle.

11pm-3am, free


Club: Symbiosis
Venue: The Soundhaus
Date: 3rd September

The lesser-spotted dnb genre will appear in Glasgow this weekend, where Symbiosis hold the fort on tumbling bass-lines and hyper synths. DJ Tez (Jungle Nation), DJ Hex, Alcane, Calaco Jack and Yellow Benzene squeeze the goodness out the bass, all in support of the Anthony Nolan Trust.

10.30pm-3am, £5

Soul Clap

Club: Subculture
Venue: Sub Club
Date: 4th September

Put your hands together for Soul Clap who jettison into Subculture on Sun-Ra Airlines for worldly-wise music, re-edits and ‘E-Funk’ sounds!

11pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Highlife
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: 4th September

Slabs of the Tabernacle join forces with Huntleys and Palmer for a tres grande mish-mash of electronic styles to raise the roof, all under the alter-ego of Highlife. Bamboo Palace guests live with a Matias Aguayo-inspired sound, and is currently working on an acidic, electro afro and tropical beast of a set! Brian d’Souza and Andy T crank the future afro-beat.

11pm-3am, £5

Todd Terje

Club: Melting Pot
Venue: The Admiral
Date: 4th September

After a brief summer hiatus the Melting Pot crew return with Todd Terje in tow - they’ve been eyeing up the disco and remix duke for years and have finally snared his Belgian Balearic prowess!

11pm–3am, £10 on the door

More info: As always, get down to the free pre-club at The Admiral from 9pm, where a limited number of £5 passes are available from the bar.

Dundee


Club: Headway
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: 3rd September

Silicone Soul headlines the only decent night out in Dundee this weekend; Headway deliver the house and techno for taste-driven punters.

10.30pm-2.30am, £tbc