list.co.uk/clubs ■ Chambre69 Residents Night at Chambre 69. 4 Feb, 10pm–3am. £10. The clue’s in the title. FREE Colours 17th Birthday Pre- Party at the Courtyard. 4 Feb, 3.30–6.30pm. Get ready for Colours’ big night with Andy Raeside, Ian McNab, Mikey Duncan and more. ■ Colours at the Arches. 4 Feb, 11pm–4am. £25. Scotland’s biggest commercial club night presents an array of massive names. This will be a massive 17th birthday party, with guests Gareth Emery, Sander van Doorn, William Daniel and many, many more. ■ Deathkill4000 at Bloc+. 4 Feb, 10pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. An industrial rock noise party. With Glasgow rap outfit Hector Bizerk. FREE Dirty Disorder at Flat 0/1. 4 Feb, 11pm–2am. Orderly Disorder and Dirty Noise team up for a night of free techno. ■ Elements of Soul at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 4 Feb, 9pm–2am. £5. Deep and soulful house music from residents Nick Ferrara and Stephen Rodgers. ✽✽ The Final Tango at Soundhaus. 4 Feb, 9pm–3.30am. £7 advance and before 10pm; £10 after. Bid a fond farewell to much-loved techno dungeon the Soundhaus after almost a decade and a half in business, with an array of past and present nights including Monox, Chakra, Up4It, Disco X, Shake the Disease, Syntax, Pussypower, Mad Dog, Camouflage, Basement, Symbiosis, FreshLICK, Inner City Acid and more. See preview, page 55. ■ The Freak-Beats Club at the Flying Duck. 4 Feb, 11pm–3am. £5 or free if already in before 11pm. Free guest passes from CCA. A happening 60s dance party, playing mod, soul, psych, ska and much more. Free guest passes available from pre-club party Get the Records On! at the CCA Bar. ■ Jak at La Cheetah. 4 Feb, 11pm–3am. £8. Electro, acid and Chicago house. With special guest Andrea Parker (Mowax, Touchin’ Bass, DJ Kicks). ■ Melting Pot at the Admiral. 4 Feb, 11pm–3am. £10. All things disco-house from residents Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner. With New York’s DJ Cosmo (The Loft). ■ Pandemic at Nice’n’Sleazy. 4 Feb, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Noj, Mark, Johnny Shrapnel and Gil Scott Heroin play indie, 60s garage, soul, rock’n’roll and ‘The Fall at least once.’ ■ Subculture at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £10. Glasgow’s well- established house institution. 11 Feb sees Ralph Lawson bring his 2020Vision tour to Scotland, while 18 Feb features special guest Tom Trago. ■ Back to the Future Valentine’s Party at the Arches. 11 Feb, 9pm–3am. £20. Hardcore and hardstyle at the radgest Valentine’s Party you’ve ever been to. ■ Club Noir Valentine’s Saturday Night at the Movies at O2 Academy. 11 Feb, 9pm–3am. £15.50. Scotland’s premier burlesque night promises us a veritable tinseltown of blonde bombshells, B-movie babes, sweater girls and Hollywood heartthrobs, with DJ Loveless and DJ Poprock playing vintage, contemporary and film-inspired music, and The Mosa Funk Club (live). FREE By Demand at the Courtyard. 11 Feb, 2pm–midnight. A new techno all-dayer with Kenny Humphries, Graeme Cameron, Steven Tully, Elliot Castro and more. FREE In About It! at the Art School. 11 Feb, 2pm–midnight. A brand new date, with residents Twonko and Pasty Thirtytwo and more. ■ Menergy’s Valentines Mascara Massacre Ball at the Forbidden Gentlemen’s Club. 11 Feb, 11pm–3am. £8 (students £7). Drag club and gay dance party hosted by scene queen Lady Munter with live performances and featuring music from residents Kid Zipper and the Niallist.
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While it seems like all manner of chancers have been slapping a Richter scale bass beat and clichéd wubwub onto a track and calling it dubstep, London’s Rinse FM is the perfect quality control. Starting as a pirate station back in 1994 they championed grime, UK funky, drum & bass and dubstep before it was fashionable and now make their live debut in Glasgow with Zinc (pictured), Plastician, P-Money, Elijah, Skilliam and Brackles. ■ The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 18 Feb.
■ Mixed Bizness at La Cheetah. 11 Feb, 11pm–3am. £8 (£6). Cutting edge underground beats and classic dancefloor gems from resident Boom Monk Ben for a weekend MB special. The first of a new link-up between Mixed Bizness and La Cheetah which sees the pair team up with one of Glasgow’s finest young nights. This time it’s Vitamins, with guests Ben UFO (Hessle Audio) and Mosca (Numbers/Night Slugs). ■ Osmium at Blackfriars. 11 Feb, 11pm–3am. £3. DJs Blair Benzini and Gary Dance Commander play Italo, disco, synthpop, funk and a whole bunch of other stuff. ■ Rectify at Chambre 69. 11 Feb, 10.30pm–3am. £10 advance; £12 on the door. A night of trance and techno now rehoused following the Soundhaus’ demise, with guests Indecent Noise and Neal Scarborough. ■ Valentines in Pink at the Polo Lounge. 11 Feb, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Glasgow Uni LGBT soc presents its Valentines in Pink (VIP) party, complete with wedding booth for those who fancy getting hitched for the night. ■ Let’s Go Back . . . Way Back at Berkeley Suite. 18 Feb, 11pm–3am. £5. Old school house, rave and dance music from the genres’ early days. First night in a brand new venue. ✽✽ Rinse FM at the Arches. 18 Feb, 11pm–3am. £12. London’s dubstep and grime radio station comes to Glasgow for a massive tour date, featuring Zinc, Plastician & P-Money, Elijah & Skilliam, Brackles and more. ■ Shout Bamalama at Blackfriars. 18 Feb, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Raucous rock’n’roll, groovin’ R&B, thumping soul and other sounds from the past that’ll make your backbone slip. ■ Bedlam at Queen Margaret Union. 25 Feb, 10pm–2am. £tbc. A monthly goth, EMB and hardcore night. ■ Divine at the Admiral. 25 Feb, 11pm–3am. £5 concessions and before midnight; £7 after. Glasgow’s longest- running club residency brings you a monthly dose of northern soul, heavyweight funk, Tamla Motown, 60s freakbeat, dynamite ska, easy listening and psychedelic soundtracks.
■ Hyphae III Global Video Party at Old Hairdressers. 25 Feb, 8pm–midnight. £5. A ‘Global video party’ in association with Holland’s Hyphae festival, beaming in live sets from artists all over Europe downstairs and beaming out live sets from fresh Glasgow artists Stefan Bloemeier, Silk Cut and Ben Butler & Mousepad upstairs. ■ Mungo’s Hi Fi at Chambre 69. 25 Feb, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Dancehall, grime, ragga and dubstep fromthis legendary soundsystem party. Returning to Glasgow at a new venue, with special guest Charlie P (Conscious Sounds). ■ Pass the Peas at Blackfriars. 25 Feb, 11pm–3am. £3. Andy Taylor (Resense, Wack Records) and weeG play four solid hours of the international funk and soul scene’s very best tracks. With Glaswegian funk bank The DT6. ■ Sounds of STREETrave at the Arches. 25 Feb, 10pm–3am. £20; £15 until 11 Feb. The classic Glasgow club night returns, with an old-school line-up of Inner City (live), CJ Mackintosh, Jon Mancini and Iain ‘Boney’ Clark. Weekly ■ Absolution at Classic Grand. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (students free). Rock, metal, industrial and punk to liven up your Saturday night. ■ Back Tae Mine at the Flying Duck. Weekly 9pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after. Going out is the new staying in, as this night offers booze, tea, toast, bands and DJs including Andy Divine and Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes from Singles Night and Jamo from Freakbeats. ■ Bob’s Full House at Òran Mór. Weekly 11pm–3am. £8. Chart, R&B, house, indie and electro with DJ Bobby Bluebell. ■ Boho Saturdays at Boho. Weekly 9.30pm–3am. Free before 10.30pm; £8 after. Li’l Rich packs the dancefloor every Saturday with a li’l bit of everything. ■ Front to Back at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £7 (£5). Bouncy reggae business from Chungo Bungo, DJ L-I- AM on beat patrol, the Marquee DJs, La Bamba and more.
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Liquid Funk aka Liquid drum & bass or just plain Liquid, proper noun: drum & bass sub-genre, so generally very much up- tempo (160-180 bpm), taking influences from soca, Latin, disco and jazz as well as funk, featuring more live instrumental parts and fewer samples. ORIGINS Best known for being one of the godfathers of drum & bass, alongside Grooverider (having pioneered the sound together at their Rage nights at London’s Heaven night club), and also for hosting a show devoted to the genre on Radio 1 since 1995, DJ Fabio is usually credited with being the first DJ to champion the sound. Fabio released a compilation entitled Liquid Funk via his own Creative Source label in 2000. However, it’s arguable that the Liquid sound actually originated with LTJ Bukem, who was producing and releasing tracks in a similar mould via his Good Looking label much earlier. Notably, Bukem and Fabio shared a residency at London’s legendary Speed night, which Bukem launched in 1994. KEY FIGURES Fabio’s compilation featured tracks by Carlito, Flytronix, Peshay and Hidden Agenda, all drum & bass mainstays at the time. Since then, Tony Colman and Chris Goss have been at Liquid’s forefront, partly via their studio production outfit and live act, London Elektricity, and even more so through their Hospital label, releasing High Contrast, Danny Byrd, Logistics, Nu:Tone, Cyantificand more. DJs Bryan G and Jumping Jack Frost’s Liquid V label is also key, while DJ Friction’s Shogun Audio has also ploughed the Liquid furrow. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You’ll catch some Liquid Funk at Xplicit, Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Fri 3 Feb.
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