Floating Points @ Melting Pot, The Admiral, 6 October

For the last 11 years and counting, Melting Pot have been purveyors of the finest house and disco, and come Saturday 6 October they welcome none other than Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points, to The Admiral. With the Melting Pot resident pairing of Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner citing their audiophiliiac appreciation for high end audio as an integral cog in the party process, Floating Points will have a near pristine canvas on which to create his musical masterpiece.

Sam's all encompassing musical taste will see him meld together a broad spectrum of jazz, garage, techno and of course house. As well as Andrew and Simon, support on the night comes in the form of GHOST, also known to their mums as Colin Cook and Colin Walker. GHOST is the combined experience and works of the afore-mentioned pair of Colins, which will bear fruit in the form of their own club night of the same name launching in Glasgow in November. Melting Pot, and GHOST, embody all that is great and good about the Scottish dance scene, where the emphasis is firmly on the music and the party rather than on being seen. An intimate audience with Floating Points, akin to his Plastic People residency in London, should not be missed. [Stu Todd]