Clubs, Issue 620

Underneath The Arches

Glasgow’s Arches, as anyone who’s worked there will tell you, is the sort of place that doesn’t so much defy your expectations as consistently confound them. Audiences might marvel at the sort of building that can stage a theatre show, art exhibition…

Alex Smoke

TECHNO Despite his own career as a DJ and producer, and the fact his third album Lux is lined up for release this spring, it’s label business which has been concerning Alex Smoke of late. Having released his first two albums and a selection of 12s on…

Profile - !K7 Records

Name:!K7 Records Who’s playing? Joakim (pictured) and Chicken Lips, in the!K7 Room at this month’s Death Disco What’s!K7? A Berlin-based dance and electronic label/empire which now has offices throughout the world, including London, New York and…

Syntheme

Expect some seriously squelchy acid techno from Planet Mu signing Syntheme at 2009’s first instalment of Inner City Acid. At once forward thinking yet lovingly retro Syntheme (aka Louise Woods) will be coaxing some distorted dancefloor grooves form her…

Scottish DJs and Producers 2009

House music was born in the 80s and morphed into techno under the guiding hands of the Detroit masters. More recently, drum & bass and electro-clash swept though clubland whilst grime and dubstep have are the newest configuration of dance beats, not to…

The Foundation

HIP HOP There’s been a distinct lack of hip hop clubs in Edinburgh since the golden age of the likes of Scratch and El Segundo. Hip hop itself, it seems, has been taken over by the world of bling, with mainstream hip hop becoming a weak R&B-heavy…

Substance

We admit it can be hard to get motivated to head out clubbing in early January: you’ve been partying non-stop for almost two weeks as it is. But techno night Substance is the perfect antidote to any midwinter malaise with live sets from Espion, Stick…