Clubbing Highlights – October 2011
Festivals: over! Summer: over! You might as well get a good selection of soup stocked in your cupboards, dig out the winter wardrobe and invest in a SAD lamp because...

Festivals: over! Summer: over! You might as well get a good selection of soup stocked in your cupboards, dig out the winter wardrobe and invest in a SAD lamp because...

Ray Philp and Anna Seale walk you through the smorgasbord of after-dark musical pleasures on offer in Edinburgh and Glasgow

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...

As Glasgow label Soma Quality Records celebrate their twentieth year co-founder Dave Clarke gets nostalgic about bin lids being banged in Miami and discovering Daft Punk at Euro Disney

Factory Floor discuss the genesis of their post-industrial trance inducing music

Roland Rocha is a DJ and producer formerly of Underground Resistance, a legendary techno stable founded by "Mad" Mike Banks and Jeff Mills. He meets The Skinny for a few...

Fresh from a storming set at T in the Park, Auntie Flo (aka Brian D'Souza) shares his hottest records for the month

Nick Hook, Claude Speeed and Machinedrum have more in common than just long hair and Acme spectacles: they're playing the Fourth LuckyMe Festival Party later this month. The Skinny compiles...

Israeli techno DJ Guy Gerber explains how he is exposing his underground sounds to the mainstream with a little help from Puff Daddy

Liver spotted totem of sleaze Rupert Murdoch may have done his company's share price a mischief by turning a not-so-blind eye to the maelstrom of villainy clouding News International, but...

Dance culture pioneers Leftfield show the young 'uns how it's done at the top of this year's Slam Tent lineup

Fed up of the long hours and vitamin D deficiency inherent in its proselytising ways, the Clubbing Highlights column has made a devastating concession to 'fun' by packing its suitcase...

El Raval is littered with fauna typical of June. Wet cans of Estrella Damm exchange hands in the clandestine passageways of Carrer de L'Hostpital. Ears ring with terse, whispered promises...

Edinburgh's legendary drum and bass night Xplicit compile their top tracks for June with the help of Taz Buckfaster and ENO. SPY - Pressure Drop - Shogun Audio Vicious Circle...

London producer Skanky has been making heavy movements in the underground bass music scene in the past 6 months. Having dropped his fantastic 13 EP on Bullet Train last month and...

Some snakeoil salesmen types would have you believe that Scotland is an electronic music abyss this month: a George Romero dystopia of Hive flyers and swirling styrofoam containers possessed of...

Prolific Glasgow DJ Jack 'Jackmaster' Revill on why his Fabriclive mix is perfect afterparty material...

DJ Bot from Italian 'hip-house' duo Crookers on their new collaborative venture, Dr Gonzo

Social anthropologist Morgan Gerard once wrote of club culture as something akin to spiritual experience, referring specifically to 'liminality': an ephemeral, trance-like state of being more commonly used to describe...

The Scottish weather isn't known for welcoming festivals outwith the summer months, but it hasn't subdued the population's appetite for festivals all year round. For resourceful music lovers, there are...