Boxcutter, Sola Perplexus, & Gravious, Tronic, Blackfriars, Glasgow, 17 Nov

Tronic are normally about live artists and gigs, but this is one of their regular if infrequent club nights that offer a slightly heavier approach to proceedings. They've brought in local boys Captain Shitbeard and Gravious to open the night with big bass dubstep DJ and laptop sets, setting the tone for headliner, Boxcutter. Part of the growing left-of-the-leftfield in electronic music, Boxcutter is a dubstep artist from an IDM gene pool producing trippy melodies over dubby rhythms. Signed to the prestigious Planet Mu, who put out his latest LP Glyphic (released 29 Oct), his pedigree is asserted through his tutelage from label boss and electro musician maestro Mike Paradinas (aka u-ziq). Sola Perplexus then takes the reins, pushing the evening into 4/4 and breaks territory. A box full of dub-steppin', break-beatin', techno-pumpin' electronic producers. Experience a slice of the most cutting edge electronic music around. [Jack McFarlane]