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FREE First Footing Party at Victoria. 2 Jan, 6pm–midnight. Come down from your Hogmanay with chilled beats, cocktails, cakes and shortbread. ■ Hot Dub Time Machine. Best. Party. Ever. at Summerhall. 12 & 19 Dec. 9.30pm–1am. £12.50. A mash-up of tunes from the 60s to the present day, presented against a video backdrop. Part of Edinburgh’s Christmas. ■ Hullabaloo at the Bongo Club. Weekly (not 26 Dec, 2 & 9 Jan) 11pm–3am. £3 (£2). Trendy Wendy and Steve Austin (Mumbo Jumbo) playing funky mishaps, beats, breaks and hip hop, and Tall Paul playing 60s, 70s, ska, reggae, soul. ■ I AM at Cabaret Voltaire. 12 Dec, 11pm–3am. £4 (£3). Electronica and house supplied by Beta and Kappa. Redinho (Numbers) guests.
✽ FREE Juice at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. Trap, dubstep and grime from Floating Boy and Dan Juice. Special appearance from Daniel Avery showcasing Drone Logic (19 Dec, entry £10). See preview, page 71. ■ Madchester Boxing Day Bash at the Liquid Room. 26 Dec, 10.30pm– 3am. £tbc. Annual celebration of all things baggy (Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ride, The Las and the usual suspects). Clint Boon from Inspiral Carpets guests.
Friday Edinburgh
■ Animal Hospital at Studio 24. 17 Jan, 11pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £5 after. Techno and minimal night outgrows Sneaky’s and moves to Studio 24, taking top tunes, sense of humour, decor and live visuals with them. FREE Audacious at the Banshee Labyrinth. 20 Dec, 10pm–4am. Breakcore, jungle and drum ‘n’ bass. Joining with Pi-Eyed to present DJ Love, Babyshaker, Taz and more. ■ Bixon at Sneaky Pete’s. 17 Jan, 11pm–3am. £5 (members free). Slick hip house night. ■ Blind Alley at the Dram House. 20 Dec, 11pm–5am. £2–£4. Two floors of disco, funk, soul, jazz and hip hop with Disco Edits/Anything Disco DJs Barnaby and Sam Darcus and What’s Golden DJs Babes and EH1. ■ Club Oxygen at the Annexe at the Liquid Room. 3 Jan, 10.30pm–3am. £5. House, trance, electro and dirty Dutch from residents Johan Van Alphen (Amsterdam), Ross Jackson, Keith Hunter and Deejay Archy. ■ Comedy Dave at Lulu. 13 & 20 Dec, 10pm–3am. £5 before midnight; more after. See Thu. ■ Confusion is Sex at the Bongo Club. 20 Dec & 17 Jan, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Freaky mix of burlesque, glam techno, electro, indie punk and rock’n’roll. ■ Cosmic at Studio 24. 13 Dec & 10 Jan, 9pm–3am. £3 before 10pm; £6 after. A spaced-out night of psychedelic trance and tribal beats, with live percussion and visuals by VisualGnosis. ■ Electrikal & Animal Hospital Christmas Party at the Bongo Club. 27 Dec, 11pm–5am. £7. Expect techno, drum & bass, dubstep and much more . ■ Etiket at Sneaky Pete’s. 20 Dec, 11pm–3am. £5 (members free). House residents’ showdown with Jack Stanley, Laurence Nolan and Philip Kearney. Xmas party with special guest Linkwood (Firecracker Records). ■ 4x4 at Henry’s Cellar Bar. 20 Dec, 11pm–5am. 17 Jan, 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. House, techno and bass. ■ Four Corners at the Bongo Club. 13 Dec & 10 Jan, 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Deep funk and future soul, party hip hop and good- time reggae, nu-Latin breaks and afro beats. ■ Henry’s X-Mess Party at Henry’s Cellar Bar. 3 Jan, 7.30pm–3am. £tbc. The Cellar Bar’s customary post-festive Xmas party featuring live music.
CLUBS
TECHNO DANIEL AVERY Juice at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Thu 19 Dec; I Am at Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 20 Dec
With the end-of-year ‘best of’ lists due around about now, it remains to be seen whether or not Daniel Avery’s debut album Drone Logic really is the crossover success it feels like at the moment (read an album review at list.co.uk). It breaks few boundaries, but there’s just something about it – it’s a perfectly controlled and executed techno record full of identifiable and irresistible hooks, with a beautiful production veneer to die for. The 28-year-old grew up in Bournemouth and started out there as a DJ, putting on what he terms alternative
nights: ‘The sort of place where you could put on post-punk and electroclash back to back.’ It was when he moved to London that he decided to start producing his own music to play in his sets, and after releasing some music ‘I was happy to put my name to’ on labels including Relish, Throne of Blood and Optimo, his friendship with Erol Alkan sowed the seeds of Drone Logic. ‘The track ‘Drone Logic’ was a big turning point,’ he says. ‘I wanted to make something I could put in Andrew Weatherall’s hands to play, something which encapsulated his A Love From Outer Space nights. Slow, psychedelic acid music.’ The track appeared on the ‘Water Jump EP’, his second release on Alkan’s Phantasy Sound, and would
define the style of the subsequent album. ‘That song happened very quickly, it was as if all the ideas I’d had in my head just came pouring out,’ he says. ‘I knew the album was going to be called Drone Logic from that point on, because the track was a very good summary of what I do. Dark, droney dub echoes and psychedelic effects, it’s not particularly fast but it has a certain pulse to it. I think that sums me up well.’ (David Pollock)
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