Clubs, Techno

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…

Clubbing birthdays

Three Scottish clubbing institutions hit big milestones this month: rock club The Cathouse is 18, the Art School’s regular soul night Divine is 18, and Slam’s techno hoedown Pressure is 10. We asked three regular punters just why they love these clubs…

Kapital

MINIMAL Although Kapital’s promoter and resident DJ Barry O’Connell describes his night as plugging a specific hole in the Edinburgh clubbing market, it still draws from a broad spectrum of musical influences. ‘Kapital is mainly minimal techno,’ he…

Monox_100

TECHNO In order to celebrate the 100th Monox party, Rubadub’s Dan Lurinsky has invited Monolake and T++, two of Berlin’s most inventive electronic musicians to perform at the Sub Club. As one of the key contributors to the development of Ableton…

Cabaret Voltaire The Fourth Birthday: Life’s a cabaret

For four years now, Cabaret Voltaire has been the hard act which every other club in Edinburgh has had to follow. The hard work and determination of owner Sarah David accounts for much of this success, although this year we decided to let some of her…

RKGB/Wrong Island

The debut of this monthly joint residency came about by complete accident, but sometimes that’s how the magic happens. ‘We were promised the last Friday of the month by the V Club,’ says RKGB’s Dema, ‘and Wrong Island were promised the fourth Friday of…

Playdoe at Mixed Bizness

Playdoe: that squidgy stuff you tried to eat when you were a kid, or a fresh new electro rap duo from Johannesburg. Either way, it’s great fun. Former scratch champion Sibot and local rapper Spoek are the sound of modern Africa. A raucous mix of funk…

Hitlist - Clubs

● Numbers Numbers with Modeselektor. That’s all you need to know. The Arches, Glasgow, Fri 20 Feb. ● Death Disco Brodinski, Jokers of the Scene and Filthy Dukes are all appearing. But The List really can’t see past the fact that London’s filthiest…

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

(Take Me to the Hospital) TECHNO/ROCK The Prodigy have a lot to prove. Live they are still incendiary, creating the biggest mosh pit of the weekend at last year’s T in the Park and sending the entire field into technoid spasms. On record however…

SoCo Social

Scotland’s very own Mylo is the big draw at this early doors club experience. The perfect pre-club warm up also featuring Killer Kitsch and live and direct from New Orleans, Big Sam’s Funky Nation capturing the get up and party Mardi Gras vibe. Not only…

Drop The Lime

Underground electronica and heavy bass as Drop The Lime (aka Luca Venezia) guests at Coalition. A devout Brooklynite and member of the Trouble & Bass crew, together they’re forging the new sound of New York and can often be found crooning over the top…

Friday Night Takeaway

Miranda Ralston and Angie Koorbanally believe that Friday nights are where it’s at clubbing wise. The duo, both Arches employees and Octopussy and Death Disco workers, are the brains behind Friday Night Takeaway, a one-off night in conjunction with…

Slabs of the Tabernacle

TECHNO ‘It’s not that we don’t want to book bigger-name DJs and artists,’ says Slabs of the Tabernacle DJ and co-promoter Andrew Ingram, ‘but we just can’t afford them. So our club’s the way it is for financial reasons as much as anything else.…

Jackhammer/Creative Industries

TECHNO It’s certainly a busy month for the folk at Jackhammer and Creative Industries. Not content supplying the capital with their usual brand of high quality techno, minimal and electro, they are hosting a full weekend of techno and at the end of…

Profile - Marcel Woods

Name Marcel Woods Occupation Hard house, trance and techno DJ, who has cut a searing path across the larger clubs in Europe throughout the 00s. The future looks bright. Where is he from? The Netherlands, where Woods recently played both the…

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…

Introducing . . . Paragraph

The best new labels in town. This month: Paragraph Who’s behind it? Slam, aka Stuart MacMillan and Orde Meikle, arguably Scotland’s biggest house and techno export. Who’s on it? Just the Slam boys, recording under the alias Paragraph. They view…

Born Sneaky - Sneaky Pete’s

It’s still hard to discuss Edinburgh’s club scene without referencing the Cowgate fire which claimed La Belle Angele and the Gilded Saloon in December 2002. The event, along with the demise of the Venue on Calton Road, was a hammer blow to the city’s…

Profile - Digitalism

Also known as Jens ‘Jence’ Moelle and Ismail ‘Isi’ Tüfekçi. Occupation German purveyors of funky and discordant dancefloor filth. Where are they from? Moelle and Tüfekçi founded Digitalism in 2004 after meeting at a record shop in Hamburg where…

Blake Baxter

BLAKE BAXTER Cotton Cake at the Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 21 Nov. Brush up on the history of Detroit techno DJ and producer Blake Baxter for a bit and one of the first adjectives you’ll come across in many of his biographies and career summations is…

Subculture

PREVIEW TECHNO & HOUSE Studio 24, Edinburgh, Fri 14 Nov. This fortnight Subculture comes to Edinburgh after Studio 24’s manager, Gill McArthur, witnessed their programming of T in the Park’s Bacardi B-Bar by chance and felt she could make the night…

O holy night: Christmas clubbing 2008

It’s dark in the mornings, so why not live nocturnally? As DJs get into training for Hogmanay – the biggest night in the clubbing calendar – Jasper Hamill and Kirstin Innes round up the best-lookin’ Christmas parties Glasgow A merry little…

Ready for the festive floor: Hot Chip interview

What are your favourite Christmas hits? My favourite is the Phil Spector Christmas album, which I think is wonderful and romantic. Of course, there are also the classics, like ‘Little Drummer Boy’ and ‘I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus’, which is about…

Hitlist-Clubs

● Cathouse 18th Birthday Weekender Bands, DJs and much more help celebrate Glasgow’s finest rock club. Cathouse, Glasgow, Fri 14 & Sat 15 Nov. ● Fantasylands Twelve hours of rave, trance and hardcore, with headliner Ferry Corsten. Royal Highland…

Baller’s Social Club

One of Glasgow’s most eclectic club nights rolls on with guest appearances from England’s Darkstar, with an oddly upbeat kind of instrumental grime, and Mweslee and Bflecha (pictured). The latter pair are from Spain, and offset each other perfectly…