Underground Playground, Red Vodka Club, Edinburgh, Every Thurs

Whether you love it or hate it, most people will associate Edinburgh's Cowgate with cheap drink, cheesy clubs, and backpackers a plenty. However, one night is mounting a resistance against this tawdry image: Underground Playground, and as the name suggests this is a new night bucking the trend and offering the unsuspecting punter a taste of the best in underground dance music. The diminuitive Red Vodka Bar is the venue for this irregular Thursday night session which specialises in tech/minimal house and electro courtesy of aptly named and supremely talented residents Kojak and Drti-hibt. In many ways a shrunken version of We Are Electric at the Cab just up the road, last month's superb Abelton live set from guest DJ Mike Ford (Tombone Records) set the tone for the future of this admirable little night. Get along and give it a try. [Peter Walker]