House of Techno - January
Go break some new year's resolutions
| 06 Jan 2008
A few new nights rear their heads in the new year to spit out more bass, beats and excuses to get smashed, with Ampbox promoting cross-country, cross-media events in both Edinburgh's Wee Red Bar and Glasgow's Art School. Shadow Dancer fae Boys Noize and Christopher D. Ashley (Sunday Best) will be playing live sets, as well as the usual art and video presentations (18 Jan: Edinburgh, 19 Jan: Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £5). And definitely not one for scenesters, residents Fuz and Lee continue Eclectic Mud's crusade to destroy all genres at the Hide (underneath the Argyle Bar) on Saturday 12 Jan (9pm-1am, free). Playing whatever they feel like and then some, Eclectic Mud is an interesting experiment with the club format that's well worth checking out.
Mark a date in your diary in your own blood to get down to Clutter House on 4 Jan (Studio 24, 11pm-3am, £8/£6) with one of the true legends of the techno scene, The Black Dog, backed up by everyone's favourite lunatics, Double Helix. But if you're broke in January, you can always get down to the Red Star Institute (Red, Thursdays, 10pm-3am) for some freebies. Staying with the Institute on 17 Jan it's a dubstep v techno fest with Andfullstop, Mr Frosty and Gareth King facing off over the wheels of steel.
In Glasgow there are three big ones to catch, with another Numbers v Monox spectacular to wreck your head and a bit of nasty one from the ICA gang. The former is at the Subby with Lory D, Automat and Davey Red, plus the usual gang of miscreants making a hell of a noise (4 Jan, 11pm-3am, £5/£7). Go break some new year's resolutions. Then the Inner City Acid boys present a live set from Kronos Device, the finest purveyor of space-age robotic techno on 12 Jan (Soundhaus, 10.30pm-3am, £tbc). And finishing off the month in fine style, Kinky Afro bring Toddla T's splintered take on dub and dancehall to blow up the Sub Club (25 Jan, 10.30pm-3am, £8/£10).
As if you needed another reason to move to Dundee, Chris Lake (Rising Music), billed as the best thing from Scotland since Mylo, makes the trek from Aberdeen to bring his euphoric take on electro-house to the Reading Rooms on 25 Jan (10.30pm-3am, £10) with residents Ken Swift and Mikro.dot. [Liam Arnold]
Mark a date in your diary in your own blood to get down to Clutter House on 4 Jan (Studio 24, 11pm-3am, £8/£6) with one of the true legends of the techno scene, The Black Dog, backed up by everyone's favourite lunatics, Double Helix. But if you're broke in January, you can always get down to the Red Star Institute (Red, Thursdays, 10pm-3am) for some freebies. Staying with the Institute on 17 Jan it's a dubstep v techno fest with Andfullstop, Mr Frosty and Gareth King facing off over the wheels of steel.
In Glasgow there are three big ones to catch, with another Numbers v Monox spectacular to wreck your head and a bit of nasty one from the ICA gang. The former is at the Subby with Lory D, Automat and Davey Red, plus the usual gang of miscreants making a hell of a noise (4 Jan, 11pm-3am, £5/£7). Go break some new year's resolutions. Then the Inner City Acid boys present a live set from Kronos Device, the finest purveyor of space-age robotic techno on 12 Jan (Soundhaus, 10.30pm-3am, £tbc). And finishing off the month in fine style, Kinky Afro bring Toddla T's splintered take on dub and dancehall to blow up the Sub Club (25 Jan, 10.30pm-3am, £8/£10).
As if you needed another reason to move to Dundee, Chris Lake (Rising Music), billed as the best thing from Scotland since Mylo, makes the trek from Aberdeen to bring his euphoric take on electro-house to the Reading Rooms on 25 Jan (10.30pm-3am, £10) with residents Ken Swift and Mikro.dot. [Liam Arnold]