Clubbing Highlights - September

Sophistry of the Roland TR909 variety to report on Sat 10 Sep, as Jeff 'The Wizard' Mills descends from the skies above the Electric Frog dressed in a cloak and sceptre while lightning repeatedly strikes the charred remains of Steve Aoki's liferaft, moored at whatever shit festival he's playing. Where a lengthy diatribe would usually follow on why you should do everything in your mortal power to present yourself to the SWG3 box office with a wad of clammy tenners, this is being written post-deadline with a beasting hangover on a hot Sunday afternoon, and if you really need to know who Jeff Mills is then what are you even doing casting your eyes over these words, you swine.

Sunday's timetable is an assortment of gentler, but no less worthy fare from Wild Beasts, The Fall and Mogwai, though Jimmy Edgar's sleaze disco and the shelled-out shuffle of sort-of-dubstep duo Mount Kimbie should see the Sunday remain a worthy dancefloor concern.

Staying in Glasgow, secretsundaze blow out the candles on ten years of disco and deep house at Chambre 69 on Fri 9 Sep – one of several parties they're hosting across the UK to celebrate the fact – aided by Brawther's supple, hypnagogic crawl and the garage-tinged chords of Hotflush and AUS alumna George FitzGerald. Giles Smith, co-founder of secretsundaze, will anchor proceedings in his patented, syrup-thick grooves.

Africa Hitech make a case for your attentions on the same evening over at The Arches, a Warp-backed project borne of Mark Pritchard and Steve White, whose 93 Million Miles LP plays like a much less annoying Buraka Som Sistema.

The Arches hosts another belter of an evening on Sat 17 Sep, hosting Balearic disco dons Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, italo-disco/house duo Retro/Grade, and a plethora of others via Death Disco's 'Trans Euro-Expressway'.

Key Edinburgh dates find themselves preoccupied by bass-heavy concerns: UK garage veteran Zed Bias (aka Maddslinky) appears at Departure Lounge at the end of the month (Fri 30 Sep), and the week before sees dubstep producer and Swamp 81 badman Loefah decamp at Electrikal (Fri 23 Sep). Should you find yourself in Aberdeen on Fri 30, you'd be well advised to check for UK ingenue Blawan, whose numerous releases on Hessle and R&S drip with quality; Dot to Dot (Snafu) host this one. Vowel defilers SBTRKT and CRST open Cabaret Voltaire's 'Alternative Fresher's Week' for all you impressionable youngsters on Fri 30 Sep, and Oneman takes to the 1200s at LuckyMe's latest Sneaky Pete's soiree on the same date.

Laura Jones' more straightforward iteration of house music at Rendezvous on Sat 3 Sep, though less alluring to Edinburgh's dubbier fancies, should offer another exemplary glimpse into the smooth, melody-led aesthetic that the likes of Hot Natured and Crosstown Rebels have embraced.