July (Week 5) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee

 

Featured Club of the Week: Electric Frog Summer Festival

Venue: SWG3
Date: Saturday 30th July

The slimmed down Electric Frog festival returns with a killer line-up spreading over eight hours: Dubfire, Nitzer Ebb, Marc Houle, DJ Funk, Karotte, Optimo, Instra:mental, Pro Vinylist Karim, Orde Meikle of Slam, and Graeme Reedie of Silicone Soul. Bought your ticket yet? 

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3pm-11pm, £22.50

More info: Get to the After-Party special at Subculture (Sub Club), kicking off at 11pm-3am, free / £10 after midnight
 

Edinburgh 

Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 29th July

Lincoln-based Urchins join the Utah Saints to infect the floor with their bright and upbeat African-style electro, house and techno, while the Saints deliver extra toppings of bass and breaks. 

Sounds like:
XYLOPHOBE EP - OUT NOW ON CHEAPER THRILLS by urchins

11pm-3am, £6

Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 30th July

Lutzenkirchen joins the Karnival and Rockness DJ competition winner RYZO for this always festive crowd, spinning live electro-techno onslaughts. RYZO aka Ryan Cass supports with his brand of tech-house, bringing you the sounds of Galashiels!

Sounds like:
Dema & Paride Saraceni - Alarm (Lutzenkirchen Superdub Remix) [Feierkind] by Lützenkirchen

11pm-3am, £12

Club: Playdate
Venue: Sneaky Pete’s
Date: Saturday 30th July

Benedict Bull, half of Skull Juice, joins Playdate for a special guest set of electrofied house, with support from leftfield-loving residents Steven and Stewart.

Sounds like:

Best Supporting Actress Mix by Benedict Bull on Mixcloud

11pm-3am, £3 / members free

Round up
Dr No’s returns after a loooong break, hitting Henry’s Cellar bar on Friday 29th (11pm-3am, £5/£4) for a return to dancehall, 60s ska, reggae and rocksteady, while dubstep and dnb dominate at The Store’s Hush Hush (11pm-3am, £tbc). LuckyMe return to Edinburgh the same night with special guest Ben UFO joining The Blessings and Éclair FiFi (11pm-3am, £5) supplying dark swathes of dubstep and hip-hop at Sneaky Pete’s. Belgian disco merchants Villa debut at Hawke and Hunter’s Heavy Gossip on Saturday 30th, with support from Craig Smith and Nick Yuill (Green Room, 10pm-3am, £10 / £8 before midnight). Over at the Bongo Club, Big ‘n’ Bashy throw down the grime, jungle and reggae from 11pm-3am (£4), and Chris Colburn headlines The Store’s Gravity with techno and house (11pm-3am, £8 / £6). Club 10-86 also host a techno special with guest Jon Rundell and Bulletdodge Records at The Lane (10.30pm-3am, £5 / free before midnight). End the weekend with Dirt-E-Stop-Out at The Store with chunky house and funk (11pm-3am, £3 / £2) on Sunday 31st.


Glasgow   

Club: Highlife
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 29th July

Start your Friday with Nicolas Jaar and Valentin Stip playing this special live gig at the Arches for some full on melancholia dub. Highlife DJs (Huntleys and Palmers and Brian d’Souza) and Esa from Subculture support with a continued afterparty.

Sounds like:
CS006 Valentin Stip - Anytime Will Do EP by Clown and Sunset

10pm-3am, £8

Club: Mondo Scuro
Venue: Nice 'n' Sleazy
Date: Friday 29th July

Right, had to write this one up, as it’s described as ‘occult sexmusic for insomniacs’. I thought that’s what all clubbing music was, so I’m curious as to how they’ve ramped it into the occult. Featuring live music from dirty electric-weirdos Organs of Love and DJ support from GK Machine.

11pm-3am, £3

Club: Stay Plasic Vs Jelly Roll Soul
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Friday 29th July

Another union of clubs has given birth to a Detroit house guest spot, this time Marcellus Pittman of supergroup 3 Chairs arrives in Glasgow courtesy of Stay Plastic and Jelly Roll Soul. With support from Wardy and Avant Radge.

Sounds like: http://soundcloud.com/marcellus-pittman/03-track-3

11pm-3am, £10

Club: Skweee in July
Venue: Stereo
Date: Saturday 30th July

Very little skweee hits the usual club circuit round these parts, especially as the reigning genre, so get your fix at this apropos night featuring a live set from Ben Butler and Mouse Pad member Bastian, with Wavy Graves supporting. Experience electronic funk, synthpop and skweee delights.

Sounds like:
Kalim-ba by Ben Butler & Mousepad

11pm-3am, £4


Round up
Dum Dum returns to Bacchus with more IDM and experimental electro and techno, with live guests Skeksi, S>>D, Konx-Om-Pax, and residents Stochastic and Ian Wilson supporting (Friday 29th, 10pm-3am, £6). Made to Play’s Riva Starr guests at How's Your Party? With HaHaHa for another funky mash at Sub Club on the same evening (11pm-3am, £8 / £6 before midnight), and Piece Together invite Japanese Popstars for a guest electro appearance at Chambre 69 (11pm-3am, £10 / £8 adv).

Saturday is a packed one in Glasgow – starting with a lighter, student-edged mash up of electro and pop at New Life, with guests Betatone Distraction, The Great I Am and Phiktion (10pm-3am, £tbc / free before midnight), and On Air continue their Saturday takeover of chicagohousefm.com with Derrick Burns (Alt), Pasty 32 (In About It), Stuart Holbeck (SloMo), 54th & West and Lach (Fiasco), spinning all the strands of house (Bacchus, 10pm-3am, £tbc). Slabs of the Tabernacle host their summer party with I-F’s Parallax Corporation partner, Intergalactic Gary and Mathematics Recordings’ John Heckle debuting live. Acid, techno, italo, house and more will shake the Big Joint with residents Andrew Ingram and the Slabs team (9pm-4am, £10). Over at La Cheetah, Banjax returns with special guest Hektor Ruiez of Stick 430, joining Dave Shades, Tommy & McGarvatron, and Data Rape shaking your body with acidic-tinged techno and rave (11pm-3am, £5). Finish off on Sunday 31st with hard electro project Modulate at the Classic Grand from 7pm, on the last night of their international tour (Till 10pm, £8)


Aberdeen

Club: Dot to Dot
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 29th July

It’s a big one over at Dot to Dot with their Everything Else Sucks summer spectacular, with Drop the Lime, Bones & Money and support from Krazzy Martin. It’ll be an interesting one, blending rockabilly, techno, house, and more in one session.

Sounds like:
Drop The Lime - DJ Mixes by Drop The Lime

11pm-3am, £7


Dundee

Club: Librarian's Choice
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 29th July

Librarian’s Choice returns with Ken Swift and Bruce Anderson playing a mixed bag of genres; great for the eclectics.

10.30pm-2.30am, £tbc

Club: Autodisco
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Saturday 30th July

Pete Herbert guests at Autodisco, for a rich slather of electronic disco grooves topped with Balearic beats and house.

Sounds like:
Los Charly's Orchestra 'Disco Gamma' Pete Herbert remix by pete herbert

10.30pm-2.30am, £10