House of Techno April 2007

As T.S. Eliot remarked, April is a bit of a bugger. So many great acts are hitting Scotland and we've not enough space to speak about them. Friday the 13th sees Solescience bracing against bad luck by teaming up with Diskomatic (11pm-3am, £3 b4 12/£5) at the Cab. Freq-beat hold the fort for Edinburgh breaks on the first Friday of the month at their Red Vodka club residency (details tbc) and if that's to your taste, then Az-tech are offering more of their breaks, techno, electro and house on 6 Apr with Silver Storic and Verr (The Caves, 10pm-3am, £5). The best action in the capital is being eaten up by Triptych though, with We Are Electric partying with Ewan Pearson, and Sugarbeat bringing in sleazy trash-master Erol Alkan to mash-things up (see our Triptych feature for full details).

In Glasgow, the Black Dog plays with Slam at Return to Mono on the 13th (The SubClub, 11pm-3am, £8/£10), celebrating the release of a retrospective collection on Soma - the electronic soundtrack to Rene Magritte doing a stripshow: this is premier weirdness. Rubadub record store is the epicentre of Glasgow's electronic scene this month, with Dan Monox and Jackmaster putting together some awesome local shows. Dan's side-project, the Flying Lurinskys, have just put a brand-new stonking industrial track online and they can be seen at Monox on 21 Apr (Soundhaus, 11pm-3am, £tbc). When you hear Gubbarama, the only method of survival is to either throw your hands up and dance, or just prolapse, vomiting. Nasty. Jackmaster is throwing a seismic party in Blackfriars on the 13th (there's a superstitious theme here!) with Seymour Bits (live) (10pm-3am, £8), then he takes over The Brunswick on 20 Apr with Bitstream performing live (10pm-3am, £8). Experimental and melodic, this should be awesome. And Doublespeak also take over Blackfriars with digital dancer Mr Pauli on 14 Apr (11pm-3am, £8), making wobbly synth noises and 8-bit meditations. All this in Glasgow, without even mentioning the city's Triptych lineup, or the Subclub birthday bash.

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