House of Techno April 2008

Digital Harlot is back to wreck the Barfly in Glasgow on the 19th (11pm–3am, £tbc) with breakcore mentalist The Fez giving the world an 8-bit headache and a variety of carnivalesque performers breathing fire and making balloon animals. Numbers bring TNT to Glasgow on 4 Apr (Sub Club, 11pm-3am, £10) while 2 May sees them offering up Substance and Vainquer, reinventors of dub-techno, to flood the Subby (11pm-3am, £10). Actress, don of the Werk label supports in May, with a bleepy take on grime that'll shake from the floor to the ceiling. And don't miss Kode9 and the Spaceape, the icons of dubstep cool, at Fortified Sessions on 18 Apr (Art School, 10.30pm-3am, £10/12). In Edinburgh, the summer officially starts with the first Edinburgh Boat Party on 20 Apr (£17.50/£95 six month season ticket). On 25 Apr, doyenne of the leftfield, Annie Nightingale plays Sugarbeat (Cabaret Voltaire, 11pm-3am, £10). A.Skillz backs the charge, and if you've heard his Grandmaster Flash-worshipping Rock the Spot, you'll know this is old-skool hip-hop of the highest order. If you fancy a rockier slant on your electro, check out Juno at Limbo (The Voodoo Rooms, 10 Apr, £4/£5), who provide a punchy, poppy take on Ed-Banger's disco-punk style. [Liam Arnold]