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

 Featured Club of the Week: Bigfoot's
Venue: Sub club
Date: Friday 18th March

He was there when minimal tech-house started picking up speed, and added his own cultural influences of European meets Middle Eastern flavours for interesting textures; now Cocoon’s Onur Özer hits Bigfoot’s with support from Christopher Kelly and visuals by Redux.

Sounds like 

11pm–3am, £10

Edinburgh

Club: Axis
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 18th March

Axis host a Jack Knife Records special with Hostage vs Calvertron, Attic Kings and Hot Knives for a battle of techno, dubstep and electro, to be crowned the king of bass.

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11pm-3am, £9 / £8 before midnight or students

Extra: Upstairs in the Speakeasy, Solefusion’s backroom, The Cricket Club presents The Crease takes over the top floor with Illtch Joe, Sugar Ray and St’Ax’ playing soul, hip hop and funk. 11pm–3am, £6 / £5 before midnight.

Club: Xplicit
Venue: The Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 19th March

I’m actually beginning to get exhausted doing listings for Xplicit – award winning DJ after award winning DJ on their line-ups; I’m running out of positive adjectives! This week sees drum & bass and dubstep explain their connecting rhythms when Nero and Jakwob headline.

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10.30pm–3am, £14

Club: Ultragroove
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 19th March

Keeping their dedication to deep house going, Ultragroove welcomes Hyperdub hot property Cooly G for her tribal influenced house dubs. Gareth Sommerville supports.

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11pm–3am, £8 / £5 before midnight or students

Round up
Friday 18th March sees psychedelic trance and progressive house club Cosmic return with special guest Morph at Studio 24 11pm-3am, £5 / £4). Saturday is all about the disco and electro funk, beginning with Devil Disco Club at The Bongo with special live guests HRH and support form the Trouble DJs and Giles Walker (11pm–3am, £7 / £6 (conc.) / £5 before midnight / £4 before midnight (conc.), and rounded off with Wasabi Disco at Sneaky Pete’s, with special guest Billy Woods of Der Supermaxx Love Machine and accompanied by his vintage Bozak mixer (11pm-3am, £3 / £0 members)

Extra: Live recordings of previous Devil Disco Club sets are available to download here

Glasgow 

Club: Innuendo
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 18th March

Innuendo takes over the Arches for a wobbly dubstep thunderstorm courtesy of Caspa, with MC Rod Azlan spittin’ the consonants.

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11pm–3am, £12
 
Club: Men & Machines 
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Friday 18th March

Just to keep the nationalities mixed up here, a DJ from Munich, called San Quentin is playing in Glasgow for a collusion of electronica, disco and deep house at this now infrequent club.

11pm–3am, £5

Club: Kollektiv
Venue: The Art School
Date: Saturday 19th March

Fancy Italians doing Detroit techno? Then your wish comes true at Kollektiv as they invite minimal M_nus star Fabrizio Maurizi to see the moon out.

Sounds like: Premonitions by Fabrizio Maurizi - @burnstudios EXCLUSIVE by Burn Studios

11pm–3am, £8 / £6

Club: Mungo's Hi Fi
Venue: Stereo
Date: Saturday 19th March

O.B.F. Sound System and Diegojah up the ante on dub reggae and dancehall when they join Mungo’s Hi Fi for roots carnage and dubplate heaven.


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11pm–3am, £8 / £6 advance

Extra: Diegojah also appears at Dancehall at The Caves in Edinburgh on Friday 18th March with Riddim Tuffa and Big Toe’s Hi Fi in a digital dancehall evening (11pm-3am, £8 / £5 before midnight).

Round up
Special guests Hercules & Love Affair appear live for neo-disco at The Arches’ Death Disco with residents Hush Puppy, Mingo-go and more on Saturday 19th March (11pm-3am, £14 / £7 on DD email mailing list) while Radio Slave’s rescheduled appearance from NYE falls on the same evening at Sub Club’s Subculture for glorious techno grooves (11pm–3am, £12 / £10 before midnight).

Aberdeen and Dundee

Club: All Neon Like
Venue: Snafu, Aberdeen
Date: Friday 18th March

A La Fu takes over Snafu for more electronica, techno, disco, house and everything in between.

11pm–3am, £6 / £3 before midnight

Club: Spaceball
Venue: The Reading Rooms, Dundee
Date: Friday 18th March

Spaceball go head to head with Disuko to spin breaks, electro, house, techno, fidget and more

10.30pm–2.30am, £5 / £3.50 before midnight

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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11pm-3am, £18 / £15