House of Techno Highlights September 2007

Eclecticism seems to be the key this month across Edinburgh and Glasgow, with Sinden rocking out the Subclub, beatGlueradio, Vinyl and Smut kicking off new nights, and ever-reliable techno-booty heads going all soulful on us. Keeping things simple on 23 Sept, Jackmaster's Seismic crew bring Secondo and Jon Soul Jazz (live) to Blackfriars Basement (11pm-3am, £tbc). Secondo impressively blends bass heavy, innovative techno and sheer danceable disco fever in what should be an excellent night.

Mash rocks out the Subby with the Ooft! DJs in September. Much like fellow dubsided labelmate, Mash, Sinden spins a heady collision of bass, booty, breaks and rhythm. It's heady and guaranteed to make you get down. (13 Sept, 11pm–3am, £3/5). And now for something completely different; DinosaurDeathpenguin. Run by those very silly people behind Scribble and Screeb, DDP kick things off at the 13th Note on 15 Sept (9pm-late, free), promising all things surreal and confusing. Or as they put it, "everything and everyone put in a blender mixed and served with a big fuck off stupid straw that wraps around your face first before blasting it off."

With slightly better metaphors and promising a similarly eclectic taste, Smut takes over the Admiral for the first time on 6 Sept, with boy genius Lukid pitting his off-beat take on leftfield hip-hop and electro against Smut's soul-funk mixture and Ibrahim's mashed-up, grimey electro (details tbc).

Plus One (he of Scratch Perverts fame) launches Vinyl's first night on 13 Sept. Please don't tell me you don't know who the Scratch Perverts are: Mr. Thing? First Rate? World DMC champions? Anyway, twisted electro and mashed up sounds are the order of the day over in Edinburh at Club Ego, playing right across the board (11pm-3am, £4/£5). If all this seems a bit too broad-minded, on 28 Sept the Flying Lurinksy's (one half Monox, one half Forshaw) bring their straight-up, nasty jacking noise to JakN at Studio 24 (10.30pm-3am, £6/£7).

And finally, a big heads up for October; 12 Oct sees the Scrabble crew teaming up against Camouflage with Milanese. His show with Doublespeak earlier this year was absolutely killer. Tattoo this on your eyelids (details tbc).