CLUBS GLASGOW
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Thursday Glasgow ■ Danse Macabre at Classic Grand. 3 Jul, 11pm–3am. £4 (£2). DJs Pasta and Catnip spin old-school goth rock and classic disco along with Italo, sleazy synthpop and the best alternative rock tracks the 80s had to offer. ■ EzUp at La Cheetah. 12 Jun, 11pm–3am. £8 in advance; £10 before midnight; £12 after. New night with
residents Nife and DJJD presenting US house and garage producer Todd Edwards. ■ Jellybaby and Rubbermensch at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. A night for indie, electro and pop lovers. ■ Sub Rosa at the Sub Club. 12 Jun–11 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. House-led student night from residents Spittal, Junior G and Ray Vose. Upcoming guests include David Barbarossa (11 Jun), Rubadub Young Guns (18 Jun) and Glasgow Underground label party (25 Jun). ■ Walk ’n’ Skank with Mungo’s Hi Fi at Berkeley Suite. Weekly 11pm– 3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Reggae and dancehall session with residents Mungo’s Hi Fi and guests. Friday Glasgow
■ Dannic at the Arches. 13 Jun, 10pm–3am. £16. Dancetour DJ contest
HOUSE / TECHNO DEETRON Saint Judes, Glasgow, Fri 27 Jun
‘I don’t think I’ve enjoyed myself as much working on a mix in the studio before,’ says Deetron of his Fabric 76 mix, released on 16 June to a gaggle of excited dance fans. A swift glance at the tracklist and you can see why: recorded after one single take, this is as close to one of Deetron’s pleasure-seeking DJ sets as you’ll ever get pre-recorded. No white label one-upmanship, no sho wing off, just an instinctive, impulsive act of love.
The sweep of styles not only mirrors the Swiss producer’s own eclectic output – choosing to remix artists from Hercules & Love Affair to Gorgon City – but his rather admirable position in the dance world, straddling techno and house but still, after 20 years, never belonging to any particular crew or scene. ‘It’s a conscious decision,’ he says. ‘I don’t want to be really affiliated with anyone in particular. Not just in terms of my career, but because it would be too boring for me to do that. I prefer to try different things and work with different people.’ It’s also indicative of his position as a true master of the craft of
DJing. Like so many others before him, it was a love of hip hop which led to a passion for turntablism, and an eye-opening set from Jeff Mills in the early 90s which cemented a fascination with techno. Like not so many others, he continues to perform from three turntables. In a scene continually threatened by cut-corners wannabes, this is a man who knows how to hold a dancefloor. With his Glasgow date landing on the eve of the official compilation launch at Fabric, consider this the exclusive warm-up set, and consider yourself lucky to experience it. (Rosie Davies)
48 THE LIST 12 Jun–10 Jul 2014
winner 2009 spins his stuff. FREE El Rancho DJ Set at CCA. 20 Jun, 9pm–midnight. Americana, rock & roll, country and beyond.
✽■ Fly at Saint Judes. 27 Jun, 11pm–3am. £10–£12. Night of
PROFILE
house, dubstep, garage and UK funky from a selection of Edinburgh DJ featuring Theo Kottis and Deetron. See preview, below. ■ Foot Format at Saint Judes. 20 Jun, 11pm–3am. £3 before 11.30pm; £5 after. Euan Crawford and Fraser McIsaac provide you with toe tapping tunes set to get you moving and grooving including house, tech house and techno.
✽■ GSA Degree Show Party at the Art School. 13 Jun, 7pm.
HEADLINE GOES HERE £7–£10. School’s out at the Art School, and GSA regulars JG Wilkes (Optimo), Mungos HiFi Soundsystem and Golden Teacher will be playing in the union whilst Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock-Pickers, General Ludd and Afrodeesia station themselves across the road in CCA Saramago. Choose a side or party in the street in between. ■ Osmium at Nice’n’Sleazy. 20 Jun, 11.30pm–3am. £3. DJs Blair Benzini and Gary Dance Commander play Italo, disco, synthpop, funk and a whole bunch of other stuff. ■ Password? at Stereo. 4 Jul, 8pm–3am. £5 in advance; £8 on the door. Hardstyle and hardcore featuring YK Project, BPM, Agro-F, Stuart Wynne, D.M.T, A.K.A and Grant syme Watch out Edinburgh, there’s a back-to-back with DJ Veedr. new kid on the east coast block. ■ Return to Mono at the Sub Club. Well, OK, chances are Dundee’s 13 Jun, 11pm–3am. £6 in advance; £7 bookish extravaganza might never on the door. Slam’s monthly house quite reach the exalted status residency, with top-line house and techno guests and a set from the of the capital’s world-beating residents themselves. literary fiesta but it’s making a very ■ Secret Moon at La Cheetah. 20 strong case for itself with a series Jun, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Techno? More like tech-yes! Featuring Heiko Laux from Berlin along with Darren Quail from Animal Farm. ■ Selected Service at the Flying Duck. 20 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Music from one record label all night long with labels DFA and Celluloid in the two rooms. ■ Triple Drop v Mutiny at Audio. 20 Jun, 11pm–3am. £8 before midnight; £10 after. Glasgow outfit meets their Edinburgh counterparts for a night of jungle featuring Stivs, Junglefever and Lenkemz. ■ Wild Combination at Berkeley Suite. 13 Jun & 20 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £5. Drunk disco, fun house and acid rock at this party. ■ Zone at The Art School. Fri 20 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £5. Music collective and soon-to-be record label Zone launch a bi-monthly residency at the Art School. See preview, right.
Saturday Glasgow ■ #notsosilent at La Cheetah. 28 Jun, 11pm–3am. £7 in advance; more on the door. Future garage and bubbling dubstep sounds. Leon Vynehall back-to- back with Medlar. ■ Blitzed at SWG3. 28 Jun, 9pm–2am. £10 (£25 VIP tickets). Retro themed club night taking you back to WWII as you party to the sounds of swing, with live music, classic hits and footage form the era. Come dressed accordingly, and reserve tickets in advance by email. FREE Fantastic Man at Bloc+. 14 Jun, 9pm. Gender-bending macho metal. ■ For the Record at La Cheetah. 21 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £10 after. House and techno night presenting De Sluwe Vos and Reset Safari. ■ Gimme Shelter at the Flying Duck. 5 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). DJs play garage, soul, rock & roll and R&B. ■ Hollywood Boulevard at Blackfriars Basement. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. Boogie on down to soul, electro, funk and celebrate the music no matter what time of year.
ZONE
Darkness is afoot. Music collective and soon-to-be record label Zone is all about the heavier side of dance music and now they’re taking that sound to the club floor, launching a bi-monthly residency at the Art School that promises to sit somewhere between an electronic ritual and a pitch-black dungeon rave. Co-founder Toby Ridler (Becoming Real / Circulation of Oil / Mourn) elaborates.
What inspired you to start the night?
I came up with Zone with a friend back in London but couldn’t find any other like-minded folk, so when I moved to Glasgow and met Vickie [McDonald, of Divorce / Mourn], her band had just finished so we decided to team up and get shit done. What sort of music should we expect?
140bpm techno, doomy noise, extreme computer music and anything in between; basically, anything with a love of abusing electronics, and wanting to do something new. Were you inspired by any other club nights?
Probably loads – but really, the inspiration came from seeing dance and extreme experimental music getting less and less indistinguishable and wanting to join up the dots. What sort of crowd are you aiming to entice in?
Mainly dog owners . . . mainly. But also people who want to go clubbing and don’t mind the music stretching into weirder territories, where kick drums morph into sheets of noise and back again. Why Andy Stott as your first guest?
He was always at the top of the list, mainly because he’s just the master of mixing slo-mo techno rhythms cloaked in a kind of spectral, ever-shifting drone, like all the synths and textures sound like they’ve been sampled from medieval times. Describe the night in three words.
Noise. Rhythm. Ritual. (Rosie Davies) ■ Andy Stott plays Zone at the Art School, Glasgow, Fri 20 Jun.