Jackhammer can’t resist hosting a club night it seems as
they’re back again with Detroit deck demon Kevin Saunderson on Friday 15 June in Edinburgh,
barely pausing for breath between stellar guests this month (The Annexe @
Liquid Room, 10.30pm-3am, £3 or £10 depending on who you ask!). Substance host
their free Summer Rave on the same evening with special guest Jerome Hill (Bongo
Club, 11pm-3am, Free / £7 after 11.30pm) for what Edinburgh people like to
refer to as their ‘wonk techno’ fix. The techno rivalry for your attentions
continues over at Studio 24, again on Friday with Animal Hospital, formerly of
Sneaky Pete’s (11pm-3am, Free / £4 after 11.30pm).
Glasgow’s Pi-Eyed Free Party annual rave guarantees you a
little bit of everything dance-wise, and for the great price of £0 you can
afford to dip your toe in the waters, with Dave Skywalker, Wombcorps and Dave
Shades captaining your night (La Cheetah, Friday 15 June, 11pm-3am). To
continue the Glasgow free vibe, head to the Courtyard on Sat 16 for Maneuver’s
free all-day second birthday party with Rebecca Vasmant, Terry Whyte, Anima
Farm, Unique, Lindsay & Kendal and more (1pm-11pm). Audio Assault’s label
boss Radial guests at Code on Saturday delivering robust techno delights for
your discerning palette (La Cheetah, 11pm-3am, £8 / £5 adv).
All quiet on the techno front in Aberdeen and Dundee this
week...
Glasgow’s Pi-Eyed
Free Party annual rave guarantees you a little bit of everything dance-wise,
and for the great price of £0 you can afford to dip your toe in the waters,
with Dave Skywalker, Wombcorps and Dave Shades captaining your night (La
Cheetah, Friday 15 June, 11pm-3am). To continue the Glasgow free vibe, head to
the Courtyard on Sat 16 for Maneuver’s free all-day second birthday party with
Rebecca Vasmant, Terry Whyte, Anima Farm, Unique, Lindsay & Kendal and more
(1pm-11pm). Audio Assault’s label boss Radial guests at Code on Saturday delivering
robust techno delights for your discerning palette (La Cheetah, 11pm-3am, £8 /
£5 adv).
All quiet on the
techno front in Aberdeen and Dundee this week…
Glasgow’s Pi-Eyed
Free Party annual rave guarantees you a little bit of everything dance-wise,
and for the great price of £0 you can afford to dip your toe in the waters,
with Dave Skywalker, Wombcorps and Dave Shades captaining your night (La
Cheetah, Friday 15 June, 11pm-3am). To continue the Glasgow free vibe, head to
the Courtyard on Sat 16 for Maneuver’s free all-day second birthday party with
Rebecca Vasmant, Terry Whyte, Anima Farm, Unique, Lindsay & Kendal and more
(1pm-11pm). Audio Assault’s label boss Radial guests at Code on Saturday delivering
robust techno delights for your discerning palette (La Cheetah, 11pm-3am, £8 /
£5 adv).
All quiet on the
techno front in Aberdeen and Dundee this week…
Featured Club of the Week: I really can't decide this week - Maetrik, Rune Lindbaek, Green Velvet, Black Sun Empire... check out the youtube links for a taster menu!
Edinburgh
Club: Elementary
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 12th November
Brand new house, techno and electro night for Edinburgh, and their launch event will feature a headline breaks set from Toolroom Records’ Toni Jarvis (who is so in demand that she appears again at the same venue for Sugarbeat later this month and in December!). Residents Bruno FK and Prof support and celebrate their new venture with Picassio holding down the back room. Apparently there is free Vitamin Water as well? Bringing the elemental to Elementary.
Sounds like:
11pm-3am, £5 / £3 before 12am
Club: Izu
Venue: The GRV
Date: Friday 12th November
Touting itself as an unpredictable night, perhaps I shouldn’t mention the styles they’ll be playing to keep the surprise. Ah well, it’s techno, electro and funky soul to tie it altogether across laptops, decks and fx.
11pm-3am, £5
Club: Souloco
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 12th November
A club already situated in a chill-out zone, the Speakeasy is an ideal location for the deep tech-house of Souloco.
11pm-3am, £4 / £2 / £0 before 12am
Club: Xplicit
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Friday 12th November
Album tour ahoy! Xplicit are always keen to get the next great artist on their roster and bring new releases to Edinburgh - this time it’s Dutch trio Black Sun Empire who are in town with their fourth album Lights and Wires. Buckle your belts tightly for a hard lesson in dnb and how to enjoy the dark beats in your life. Teebee (Subtitles) supports with an expert DJ set, and ENO and The General conclude the main room line-up. Upstairs is a reggae and dub exploration hosted by Jungledub with Tekkerz and Tamobanter.
Sounds like:
11pm-3am, £8 advance
Club: Musika
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 13th November
Musika racks up a double-bill of tech-house and electro from Radio Slave and Heidi (Radio 1 / Get Physical) for a sure-fire tune selection. Kirk Douglas and Derek Martin support.
Sounds like:
10.30pm-3am, £15 / £12 advance
Glasgow
Club: Mixed Bizness
Venue: Glasgow School of Art
Date: Friday 12th November
Boom Monk Ben just seems to pull in the dubstep stars at the drop of a hat and this November will be no exception, with Caspa and Emalkay (on his Glasgow debut) sounding out the Dub Police. Profisee of Cloak x Dagger hosts the evening and as always Ben on tune warm-up.
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11pm-3am, £12
Club: Return to Mono
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 12th November
Residents Slam welcome Maetrik, signed to Claude Von Stroke’s Mothership label for low-slung house and techno grooves.
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11pm-3am, £10 / £8 students
Club: Wrong Island: The Wrong Weekender
Venue: The Admiral and Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s
Date: Friday 12th and Saturday 13th November
Wrong Island stage a full weekend of beats for one month only, bringing their electro and techno mash-up to The Admiral and then Sleazy’s for a Dirty Larry and Teamy double-bill. Can you have too much of a good thing?
Sounds like: Ok, this isn’t from Wrong Island, but what better way to sum up a wrong weekend?
11pm-3am, £tbc
Club: Jilted
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Saturday 13th November
New night (ish)! Tech-house and electro courtesy of new club Jilted (last appeared on a one-time basis in September) brings local DJs Frostfire, Captiv8, Malcolm Bennet and special guest Dave Brown to keen new ears.
10pm-3am, £5
More info: In the next room of the same evening, Froot/Booty Shake Specialitee present Disuko, a house and techno showcase for Fife’s Froot and Booty Shake labels. Jo D’arc, Jnr Lazarou, Ziggy, Keykutz and Kid Robotik show what they got. 10pm-3am, £7 / £5
Club: Mount Heart Attack
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 13th November
Hailing from Oslo’s fantastically named Club Kebab, Rune Lindbaek delivers his Scandinavian psychedelic dub-disco for the returning Heart Attack crowds at this special relaunch event. Jonathan Hunter from Slabs of the Tabernacle steals a guest spot and residents Lono, Cutter’s Choice and Lebowski are on support.
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11pm-3am, £8 / £5 students
Club: Shakedown
Venue: The Universal
Date: Saturday 13th November
Another new night to keep you going through the recession - this time it’s Shakedown - a popular activity of coppers and now name of the underground house night hitting The Universal. Residents Ciar McKinley, Darrin Henderson, John Higgins and Ryan Smith launch the show.
11pm-3am, £5
Club: Tictactoe
Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 13th November
Sunday Circus’ Affi Koman stars at Tictactoe’s ‘budget’ Arches show for minimal house and techno at a mere £5. Residents Andrew and Steve Doran are on support.
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11pm-3am, £5
Aberdeen
Club: Mixtape
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 12th November
Green Velvet makes an auspicious return to Aberdeen to spin tunes that require little introduction - they’ll probably all be great and just the techno, house and electro you’ve been looking for! Aw yeah, and he’s got some of the best behind the decks moves!
Featured Club of the Week: Mixed Bizness presents How's Your Party?
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 29th October
Mixed Bizness’ How’s Your Party? celebrate their 3rd birthday the night before at the Sub Club with Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi and Riton), whose Black Billionaires EP whips up funk and disco with energised electro, and A La Fu returns after a production hiatus to reveal his works.
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11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.
More info: The very next night at the same venue, Mixed Bizness secure the rest of your weekend with a special live dubstep performance by Magnetic Man, the trio composed of Benga, Skream and Artwork. Boom Monk Ben, Katy B and Profisee support. 7.30pm, £12 advance.
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Edinburgh
Club: She-Bang Rave Unit
Venue: Wee Red Bar
Date: Friday 29th October
For their Halloween ball special, the all-girl She-Bang Rave Unit present The Tokyo Bitches’ (DJ Rob Dylan and Dr Dempsey the ‘Virgin Surgeon’) house and techno, especially reforming for this event. Miss Penny Pornstar performs as She-Bang hostess for the genre-bending night, all supported by the She-Bang DJs Pretty Vacant (Vicki Watson), Mrs Wee (smells like Kirstie Paton), AbadabaDisco (Abi Cornwall), Tracy Island (Tracey Stewart) and M.C.(certainly not squared) Mary Collins. Warning - typing in Tokyo Botches online leads to some seriously pornographic websites; I was expecting techno not anal.
10.30pm-3am, £7 / £5 in fancy dress
Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 29th October
Doorly and Purple Pop join The Utah Saints for Sugarbeat - a sweet mix of breaks, electro, house and anything that tingles the spine.
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11pm-3am, £8
Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 30th October
It’s difficult to escape the fancy dress parties this weekend - and why would you? Cheaper entry and CDs / future guest lists for best costumes! Karnival and Fuse lockdown Voltaire for a night of ‘haunting house and terrifying techno’. Still, doubt they’ll be playing witch house.
11pm-3am, £8 / £6 before midnight / £5 in fancy dress
Club: Samhuinn Afterparty
Venue: The Bongo Club
Date: Sunday 31st October
If you need to further your Halloween / Samhuinn celebrations, the Beltane Fire Society are hosting an afterparty of not-so-Celtic-traditional dubstep, dnb and balkan dance with DJ Tactus, Covalent and Anonymi.
11pm-3am, £7 / £5
Glasgow
Club: Fortified
Venue: The Glasgow School of Art
Date: Friday 29th October
Two celebrations at once! It’s Electric Eliminators fourth birthday and Halloween (dubstep) Ball with Rinse FM’s Oneman, Ben UFO, Elijah & Skilliam, and of course regulars Electric Eliminators and B.A.S.S. Ethereal dub seems just the ticket for these dark nights.
Sounds like:
11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.
Club: Pressure
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 29th October
One of the more distinctly non-Halloween clubs of the weekend, Pressure returns with Slam and special guests Ben Sims, Cassy, Fergie and Tricky for five hours of top techno.
Huntley & Palmer’s returns from London to its homeland for a one-off special and techno and electro from Oni Ayhun, Alex Smoke, Veronica Vasicka and TVO. Put some wonk on it!
Sounds like:
11pm-4am, £12 / £10 adv.
Club: Lost in Space
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Saturday 30th October
Courtesy of Specialitee, the Soundhaus is having a special Halloween Party featuring DJs from many of its clubs including Camouflage, Off the Records, Shift, Inner City Acid and more. There’s prizes for the best spaceman, alien or superhero to win a prize!
10.30pm-3am, £tbc
Club: Spectrum
Venue: Blackfriars
Date: Saturday 30th October
Renamed Spooktrum for the evening, electroo and technoo will be blasted by residents B-Tone, Leigh Miles and Aymard.
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11pm-3am, £5 / £4 students
Club: Terrorfest
Venue: The Universal
Date: Saturday 30th October
Technofest (the predominant genre is hinted by the title) becomes Terrorfest for Halloween, and usurps its own name by welcoming deep house maestro Silicone Soul as headline guest! Profits go towards the un-ghoulish cause of Cancer Research, and there’s even a pre-party from 8.30pm at the CCA Terrace Bar. Support on the night comes from resident DJs Adrian M, Gary J, Kyle McArthur, and Lee Goomes, while Clyde Productions and Mr Mofis guide the lights and visuals.
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10pm-3am, £10
Aberdeen
Club: Let it Bleed
Venue: The Forum
Date: Friday 29th October
They carved themselves a popular niche in the 90s, firmly imprinting ‘electronique dance Francais’ on awe-struck synth and key enthusiasts and now Cassius make a special Halloween appearance to infuse the north with electro-house.
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10pm-3am, £20 / £15 adv.
Dundee
Club: Neon Nights
Venue: The Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 29th October
Electro dawns on Neon Nights for their Halloween horror party (yep, fancy dress with prizes), with Human Life mashing disco, electro, pop, bassline, house to create monster beats. Residents Beastmaster2000 and Is_Kill support the horror show.
Animal Farm feature a showcase of the Ost Gut Ton label, starring Berghain DJ Marcel Fengler for deep and pounding techno - check out the title track from his recent Enigma EP below. The newest signing to Ost Gut Ton, Ryan Elliot, will be running the bassline techno for maximum OGT drenching.
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11pm–3am, £10
Edinburgh
Club: Axis
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 22nd October
It doesn’t time travel but it does come in bright colours: Hot Pink Delorean tease in the electro and house at Axis, usually a preserve of techno beats. If you pitch up looking for straight 4/4s you might not be prepared for the funkier and glam melody aspects so remember your party attitude.
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11pm–3am, £5 / £4
Club: Fakin’ It
Venue: Henry’s Cellar Bar
Date: Friday 22nd October
For all your hardcore basement desires, Fakin’ It surfaces with hardtek, breaks, jungle and electro to grind your face off.
11pm–3am, £4 / £3
Club: Four Corners
Venue: The Bongo Club
Date: Friday 22nd October
Always on the pulse for music with world flavours and heritage, Four Corners spins jazz, latin, afro, reggae, funk, soul and everything in between: supported by live percussion.
11pm–3am, £5 / £3 before 12am
Club: Ghantin vs Electikal
Venue: The GRV
Date: Friday 22nd October
Phew seems like a mix of extremes this weekendm ; one night in and hardcore has reared it’s head a few ties. Using the Elecktikal Soundsystem, Ghantin breaks out the breakcore, smashes the dnb, and ramps up the techno with Tekkerz, Tam O Banter and Taz Buckfaster back-to-back with White Noise.
11pm–3am, £3
Club: Bass Syndicate
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 23rd October
The Plump DJs have garnered a rep for their one-off specials in the capital, and never fail to move tickets. They’re back once again at the rebuilt Liquid Room to test those new supporting beams with powerful electro house, breaks, house and whatever can raise the heart rate.
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10.30pm–3am, £12 / £10
Club: Big’n’Bashy
Venue: The Bongo Club
Date: Saturday 23rd October
She kicks a lot of ass through heavy beats, and Numbers / LuckyMe’s Eclair FiFi whips up a stormer guest set for Big’n’Bashy, who will spin their four deck mix of dubstep, reggae, dancehall and jungle.
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11pm–3am, £5
Glasgow
Club: Precision Bass
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Friday 22nd October
In a way, dnb is a matter of precision - constructing rhythm patterns which confirm and stretch and genre, so definitely you get the club’s name. Rifling the bass rhythms will be Alcane (Symbiosis), Waptek, Totcc, Daddy G, and support from MCs Dazzo and Amense.
11pm-3am, £6
Club: Elevate Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Saturday 23rd October
So much techno this month! I have a theory that when the nights get darker in Scotland the rate of techno guests goes up in tandem. The Advent and Industrialyzer are in town to throw some acid, detroit and electro techno your way; three months ago they released the Root Key Ep on Advanced Intelligence and this month they bring it directly to your ears.
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10pm–3am, £tbc
Club: Itch!
Venue: The Universal
Date: Saturday 23rd October
Hyperdub’s Ikonika scratches that itch for dubstep, emotive bleeps and sub-bass, and Subcity’s Skinny Rufftrax scratches out the grimy garage. Itch! residents MatthewOneMoreTune, Gnarlyface and Mark David take on all of the above with extra house.
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11pm–3am, £6
Club: The Appreciation Society
Venue: Glasgow School of Art
Date: Saturday 23rd October
It’s a new club launch courtesy of 3rd Abstract Records; where else can you get up close with a homegrown techno-electro label with a regular showcase? (No, really, where? If I’m missing out on a club let me know). With releases due out from Polymath and Dersonna in November and December, start tapping this local night-time resource.
Club: Subculture
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Saturday 23rd October
If you don’t want to end your evening after the Wee Chill you can hit one of the after parties - Subculture host the longest running event with a 4am licence. Top up your house indulgence with Harri, Domenic and the inkling of a special guest!
11pm–4am, £10
Club: Hung Up!
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Sunday 24th October
New York remixer / re-editor Prince Language joins JD Twitch for light-hearted house, disco and plenty genre-combo moves.
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11pm-3am, £6 / £4 before 12am
Aberdeen
Club: Mixtape Presents Jesse Rose
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 22nd October
Berlin-based, London-born and spinning a mix of Chicago house and Detroit techno, Jesse Rose joins the nations with warped synth, bass and a minimal touch.
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11pm–3am, £7 Dundee
Club: Autodisco Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Saturday 23rd October
Special guests Horse Meat Disco deliver their expertise in the funk and electro veins of disco to get the Dundonian blood pumping.
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!
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.
Featured Club of the Week: TrusT Label Launch Venue: The GRV
Date: Friday 8th October
Hemlock Nights and MAPt take Edinburgh for the first time, with ramped-up electro and techno with Inigo Kennedy, Ben Wollard, Casual Violence, and Siege in the main room, and Neil Templar, Honky Shuffle and Pyz in the back room. This is the launch party for new TrusT LP ‘Acceptance’, though for the life of Lo-Quality I can’t find out whose LP!
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11pm–3am, £10
Edinburgh
Club: Departure Lounge
Venue: The Caves
Date: Friday 8th October
To begin their 8th year on the go Departure Lounge presents Floating Points featuring Fatima as MC (live PA). Despite studying for his PhD in Pharmacology, Floating Points successfully indulges in a side-career of beats circling hip-hop, dubstep, jazz and house for an ambient and soulful feel. Full live band Digital Jones (fresh from releasing their debut album) deliver the funk and DJ residents Astroboy, Jiminez and Mr Zimbabwe support.
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10pm–3am, £10 / £9 students / £8 adv.
Club: Hot Mess
Venue: Wee Red Bar
Date: Friday 8th October
New club night ahoy! DJ Simonotron of Club for Heroes and Devil Disco Club launches new gay-friendly night, Hot Mess, which promises to mix up the best disco, acid house, electro and italo.
11pm-3am, £5 / £3
Club: This is Sick!
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 8th October
Lee Mortimer has developed a rep for bass-fuelled house and now he intends to infuse This is Sick! with the rumbles. He is joined by Last Japan for full-on electro and daubs of ghetto-techno.
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11pm–3am, £6-£9
Club: Musika
Venue: Liquidroom
Date: Saturday 9th October
House legend (and Space club legend) Steve Lawler spreads his deep and disco sound around the revamped Liquid Room, dashing. Derek Martin and Kirk Douglas support.
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11pm-3am, £15
Club: Substance
Venue: The GRV
Date: Saturday 9th October
Wow, late nights do scramble the brain, I thought I was at Substance’s third birthday this year! The fourth birthday is upon us already with special guest Paul Daley of Leftfield to bring royal house and techno heritage to proceedings.
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10.30pm-3am, £12
Glasgow
Club: Muck and Dirty Noise
Venue: Stereo
Date: Friday 8th October
Cherish the Scottish electro and techno; Perth’s Clouds traverse to a grittier landscape to bleep their way into your hearts this month and show you the reason why they’re the first release on Fake Blood’s label. Residents PMcQ, Go-Dirty, Digital Stitch, Martin What?, Joe Crogan and Mediaheroic spin support and tweak visuals.
Club: Return to Mono
Venue: The Sub Club
Date: Friday 8th October
Berlin heavin’ house and crispy techno from Pan-Pot (Mobilee) at RTM this month, who also happen to star on hosts and residents Slam’s Paragraph label with their remixes of ‘Room 2’. If you like it heavy but clever, check it out.
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11pm–3am, £12 / £10 students
Club: One More Tune
Venue: Glasgow School of Art
Date: Saturday 9th October
Fasten your seatbelt for Brackles (Applepips / Planet Mu) at a bargain fiver, as he prepares to devastate your comprehension of dubstep when it gets up close and personal with electro, techno and British bass. Residents Define Define and Patchwork Visuals support.
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11pm-3am, £5
Club: Supernova
Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 9th October
The man with a penchant for vomiting electrical wires in photoshoots returns to Glasgow for more cosmic-themed fun; Stephan Bodzin delivers the minimal techno safe in the knowledge that he’s managed to come a very long way in such a short space of time – and proof that you don’t have to be a foetus to start your career behind the decks!
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11pm-3am, £12
Aberdeen
Club: Mixtape
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 8th October
Funk D’Void takes it deep and funky on a techno and house tip for Mixtape’s regular appearance as one of the only three clubs to maintain a strong dance thread in Aberdeen.
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11pm–3am, £7
Club: The Mothership & Let It Bleed
Venue: Snafu
Date: Saturday 9th October
Speaking of which, here are the other two dance clubs of Aberdeen! Mothership and Let it Bleed are collaborating to bring you Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac for electro, dubstep and techno with promises of up and coming tracks that have yet to interfere with your ears.
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10pm–3am, £18 / £14
Dundee
Club: Glitch
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 8th October
Freerange Records’ Jimpster joins Glitch for deep electronic house that doesn't mind giving you a few whacks right between the eyes.
