House of Techno - August, 2008

The past few months have seen disturbances in the supercontext or collective subconscious, a sociological form of seasonal adjustment disorder, or quite simply a series of bloody great coincidences. As well as my belief that it signifies the apocalypse/the coming of the mothership, it seems equally possible that quite simply, no-one's had the damn summer they deserve and everyone could do with some time off. There's a few chances to blow off steam approaching, before we descend into the terminal darkness of Scottish winter, kicking off with Numbers on 1 Aug with I-F, Dutch exponent of wonky electro and all-round bad boy facing off against Truffle Club, Optimo/Oscarr collaborator and a bit of a beast in the live stakes (Sub Club, Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £10).

There's revolution, rebirth and fresh start inaugurated at the Arches, with new Artistic Director Jackie Wiley taking up her post and hopefully railroading the 8th best club in the world onto new tangents.

The Godhead of techno, the mack daddy of minimal, Robert Hood comes to wreck the Soundhaus on 23 Aug, along with the Monox crew (11pm-3am, £tbc). And for some home worship, check out Twitch from Optimo's new release under the Betty Botox moniker, a series of re-edits of anything under the sun, including Hawkwind, the Residents and The Jellies. Seriously weird shit. It's a brilliant antidote to the huge number of unimaginative compilations chucked out every summer to clog up your CD players.

I'll see you on the mothership.