Edinburgh
Club: Scream!
Venue: The Liquidroom
Date: Thursday 14th October
Jakwob the dubstep wunderkind - fresh out of uni and straight into graduate DJ schedules - visits Scream! to dabble in dub, ghetto, breaks, hip-hop and dnb. Catch him before his debut LP drops on Boom Ting Recordings.
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10.30pm-3am, £8
Club: Numbers
Venue: Sneaky Pete’s
Date: Friday 15th October
Numbers crosses the East-West border (aka the M8) to bring the club to the Scottish capital for a super-cheap night with residents Jackmaster and Nelson spinning techno, house, electro and so much more.
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11pm-3am, £3 / £0 members
Club: Telefunken
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 15th October
Libra birthdays seem to be a club trend - this time Derrick Carter helps Telefunken mark off six years of top house with Chicago funk, soul and jazz. Head along and see if he can inspire you - something he’s been achieving for three decades.
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11pm-3am, £tbc
Club: Az-Tech
Venue: The Caves
Date: Friday 15th October
Az-Tech welcomes Bristol breaks Jinx (aka Jinx-in-Dub) for electro, dub beats and digital riddims hosted in a subterranean venue.
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10.30pm–3am, £tbc
Club: Annie Mac Presents
Venue: Ocean Terminal
Date: Saturday 16th October
Annie Mac doesn’t even need a club to play at - she just invents her own! The Ocean Terminal mall will be turned over to Felix Da Housecat, Caspa, MC Rod Azlan and Ado for house, electro, and dubstep; bringing together some crowds which rarely mix in the Capital. This will be interesting for the sociological experiment alone!
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9.30pm-3am, £20 / £18
Club: Ultragroove
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 16th October
It’s another (bigger) birthday for Ultragroove when they celebrate 11 years with Frank Tope of Wild Geese and his disco-house charms. Melting Pot in Glasgow also get a look-in, when resident Andrew Pirie supports, with Ultragroove’s Gareth Sommerville, Lel Palfreya, and Carina Ramos.
11pm-3am, £8 / £5 students or before 12am
Glasgow
Club: Wrong Island vs Stay Plastic
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Friday 15th October
Wrong Island (Dirty Larry and Teamy) and Stay Plastic (Danceaff, Sidrad and Wardy) join forces to vary your electronic clubbing experience with party bangers and bleeps to make your ass shake.
11pm–3am, £5 / £3 before 12am
Club: Jungle Nation
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 15th October
Jungle Nation welcomes Chase & Status amongst the dnb flora and fauna for one of their biggest dates. The guitar-loving drum demons are due for a single release on November 8th - entitled Hypest Hype and featuring vocals from Tempa T, so keep an ear out for their new material (or indeed, get stuck in to the youtube vid below). Nero, Hush Hush and Jongerre support.
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11pm-3am, £15
Club: Point 4
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Friday 15th October
New event alert! Point 4 is Soundhaus’ newest addition to host four clubs over three rooms with Animal Farm DJs at the selection helm. First up is Kreep Crew, Slabs of the Tabernacle, Hotbox and Animal Farm for a mix of electro, techno, house, electronica and plenty more rhythms where that came from. It’s a clubbing pick ‘n’ mix - brings back fond memories of Edinburgh’s now-defunct Venue Friday nights.
10.30pm–3am, £tbc
Club: Sensu
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 15th October
No it’s not an annoying computer message; Reboot (Cadenza / Cocoon) plays a Scottish exclusive for Sensu’s 6th birthday, and indulges us in ‘the new sound of Frankfurt’* - a combination of techno, house and electronica, fire-stoked for extra warmth and arsch-schlapped for extra bounce.
*I feel a genre deconstruction coming on.
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11pm-4am, £10
Club: Mungo’s Hi Fi
Venue: Glasgow School of Art
Date: Saturday 16th October
Mungo’s welcome a touch of the Danish this month, with dancehall and digital riddims from Maffi and Firehouse Sound. The heavy dubplates will be coming out so get down to witness the links of culture spanning an ocean!
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11pm-3am, £8 / £5 advance from http://www.scotchbonnet.net/
Club: Death Disco
Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 16th October
Electro-head Erol Alkan must have some stack of frequent visitor points to Death Disco by now - he appears again in October when rave-rock remixers South Central and electro-funky disco tweakers Monarchy are playing special live sets. Support comes from Hush Puppy, Josh Jones, Wavy Graves and Mingo-Go.
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(Fucking ace; I love Rammstein, they always deserved a dance remix!)
11pm–3am, £14 / £7 with half price pass
More info: You can also catch Erol Alkan at Dundee’s Reading Rooms on Friday 15th October, 9.30pm-3am, £15
Club: Hung Up
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Sunday 17th October
Breaking dubstep out of the boundaries, Mount Kimbie have even referred to their sound as post-dubstep - adding rnb, guitar pop and extra dub vibes. Perfect for an Optimo-curated night and bringing dubstep to a more diversified audience.
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11pm-3am, £8 / £6 before 12am
Dundee
Club: Devil Disco Club
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Saturday 16th October
Devil Disco whip up electro-funk courtesy of Edinburgh settler X-Lion Tamer, armed with a laptop and guitar.
10.30pm-3am, £7 / £5 before 12am
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