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

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

Ah there's so much musical goodness this weekend - it's again difficult to pick a top night. Nicolas Jaar debut, Laurent's Garnier LBS live show, Sub Focus, Ivan Smagghe; you take the pick and plan your weekend!

Edinburgh

Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 28th January

The first Sugarbeat of 2011 will, as ever, be hosted by the fantastic Utah Saints aka Tim & Jez, and to make sure they pack the right kind of punch, special guests Erol Alkan, The Shoes and Clouds for an electro-fying adventure.

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10.30pm-3am, £15

Club: Techno For Breakfast
Venue: Henry’s Cellar Bar
Date: Friday 28th January

It’s been about four months since Techno For Breakfast last appeared so contain your excitement no longer! Nostra Terra and the Monkey Mind partnership team up for minimal, techno, progressive, electro and the shades in between. And if you ever fancied starring as part of the club, live camera footage courtesy of VJ S2 will see you forming part of the visuals.

11pm-3am, £5

Club: Childline Headphone Disco
Venue: Ocean Terminal
Date: Saturday 29th January

The Silent Disco is always a hit when it comes to the Edinburgh Festival - from a spectator point of view there’s nothing more delightful than people dancing in silence like an art-house montage. For this Childline Headphone Disco great music is on offer too and listeners can choose between two different DJs to tune into. What’s more, the entire thing is set in a mall. Silent shuffling, in a mall.... I think I’ve spent too long playing Dead Rising 2. With proceeds going towards Scotland’s Childline service, punters can help charity and simultaneously delight at the dance sounds of Neolithic, Monterey Jack, Eclair Fifi, Brian d’Souza, and Andrew Ingram.

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10pm-2am, £10

Club: Club 10-86
Venue: The Lane
Date: Saturday 29th January

Italian techno star Sasha Carassi has been gaining ground with hit releases in 2010 on Harthouse and his own label Globox, delivering a textured but minimal sound. Catch his first Scottish show at Club 10-86.

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10.30pm-3am, £7 / £5 before 12am / £4 students

Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 29th January
 
Karnival celebrate their fifth birthday without a dodgem in sight, but there may be house music of the Farris Wheel variety! To make it a special event they invite Andrew Weatherall and Ivan Smagghe to (in the words of Harry Hill...) FIGHT! A DJ dual between two of the hottest properties in house and techno music will see a litany of styles thrown your way - prepare those moves! Supporting is Ryan Ellis, The Oxygen Junkies, Mike Pinkerton and Matt Edwards.

Sounds like:

10pm-3am, £12+bf

Club: Xplicit
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 29th January

It’s a night of birthdays this weekend when Xplicit also celebrate a significant milestone - six years on the Edinburgh circuit as one of the few remaining drum and bass clubs. Sub Focus is welcomed back with open arms for his synth-laden sounds and melodic touches, with MC ID.

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10pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.

Glasgow

Club: Symbiosis
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Friday 28th January

Renegade Hardware signing Raiden stars with Morphy (Exit / Function) at this jam-packed full of drum and bass goodness Symbiosis, with touches of dub and heeeavvy bass, supported by Calaco Jack, Alcane, Dom D'Sylva, Whoa!gan and Altronix. Room 2 is hosted by our friends at the Phuturelabs blog for the latest electronic sounds of house, garage, techno, dubstep and electronica - you’ll all be ‘living together’ in an auricle-pleasing club!

Sounds like: Smiddy is playing the Phuturelabs room, and has prepared this killer mix in advance of the fun!

Phuture labs mix by smiddy

10pm-3am, £8

Club: Banjax
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Friday 28th January

It sounds like a new way to insult people, but Banjax is actually the name of a new bi-monthly night from Dave Shades of Mount Heart Attack / Co-op, Tommy & McGarvatron of Bass Invaders, and Data Rape aka Full Phat of Concept Theory. To set the right wheels in motion they invite Neil Landstrumm for glitch-dub, idm, and techno.

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11pm-3am, £10

Club: How's Your Party?
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 28th January

How’s Your Party? Really good, actually. HYP invite A1 Bassline (Tighten Up / Southern Fried) and two man / one MC outfit Tomb Crew, with resident DJ NoFace for hot garage, jackin’ beats, dubstep, house and more.

Sounds like: Check out this exclusive Mixed Bizness Tomb Crew DJ mix and interview

Mix tracklisting
1. Benjamin Damage - Pump
2. Mr Tickle - Predator
3. Tomb crew - Gal U Look Nice
4. Zed Bias & Omar - Dancing (Instrumental)
5. Tomb crew & Wholesick - I Go Sick
6. Daniel Haaksman - Purr Na Na (BeatauCue Remix)
7. Nick & Daniel Chatelain - Katrinyla (Mastiksoul Remix)
8. Schlachtofbronx - Chambacu
9. Foamo - Rumours
10. A1 Bassline - Badboy Sound
11. DJ Ayres - Panty Crickets (Tomb Crew’s ‘It’s Not Cricket’ Remix)
12. Bert On Beats - Bone Dat

11pm-3am, £8 / £6

Club: Pressure
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 28th January

Laurent Garnier brings his celebrated Live Booth Sessions show to Pressure - fearsome and fantastic techno and house courtesy of Laurent Garnier, Benjamin Rippert and Stephane Dri - not to be missed! Silicone Soul dishes the deep house for the cherry on top.

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11pm-3am, £15

More info: Silicone Soul are busy boys! They head to The Mothership at Aberdeen’s Snafu venue on Saturday 29th January. 11pm-3am, £6.

Club: Subculture
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Saturday 29th January

It’s a special Resident Advisor party this week at Subculture featuring a live set from Nicolas Jaar and disco sophistication from Eddie C. Jaar is another one of those wunderkids blessed with musical talent, barely into his 20s and consistently wowing with his blend of sounds for futuristic techno / electronica that tickles the internal electrodes. This is also Jaar’s Scottish debut, so get your ‘I was there’ t-shirts ready. Harri and Domenic support.

Sounds like: 

11pm-4am, £12+bf

Aberdeen
 
Club: Mix Tape v All Neon Like
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 28th January


Mix Tape goes head to head with All Neon Like with A La Fu and Yoin battling with techno and house.

11pm-3am, £6 / £3 before 12am

Dundee

Club: Bleep 
Venue: The Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 28th January

Bleep assemble the beats for their second birthday, featuring special guests Mumbai Science and electro-techno grooves with a tribal drum twist.

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10pm-2.30am, £7 / £5 before 11pm