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Someone who needs no introduction is Moodymann (Kenny Dixon Jr), who plays Max's La Cheetah Club tonight in Glasgow (Friday 7th Match). An outspoken voice in the normally non-confrontational world of electronic dance music, Moodymann is committed to keeping a distinctly black imprint on techno and house. While he may frustrate people with his refusal to be interviewed and insistence on reminding people of the genre's origins, the soulfulness of his output is unquestioned. Utilizing classic soul an d jazz samples, low-slung bass lines and an approach to drum programming that is diametrically opposed to the tendency to push the tempo faster and faster, he has achieved classic status thanks to gems like "Sunday Morning", "Shades of Jae", and his remix of Innerzone Orchestra's "People Make the World Go Round". Following years of 12" only releases, he compiled his best work on "Silentintroduction", one of the most ...

New club night On The Quiet makes it's debut tonight (Saturday 15th Feb) at Max's La Cheetah Club on Queens St in Glasgow, and brings along The Revenge (Roar Groove) and Ali Ooft (Foto Recordings) to kick things off alongside residents Craig Moog and Kev Stevens. As one half of the 6th Borough Project, Graeme Clark aka The Revenge is a producer who understands the past but embraces the future. The analogue approach, forward thinking productions and his versatility as a DJ, has ensured him a place as one of the leading names in House music in recent years. The main force behind OOFT Music is Ali Herron. Originally cutting his production chops with tracky edits and some early OOFT! remixes alongside The Revenge, Ali has been steadily building up his own studio over the last 5 years, putting out a series of deep, pitched-down house tracks on labels such as Instruments of Rapture, PPF, Delusions of Grandeur, Rememory,Wolf Music and his own Foto Recordings label...

One of our favourite labels and one of the best labels around right now has to be Dixon Avenue Basement Jams. It's great to see the guy's behind it Kenny and Dan take to Subculture at Glasgow's Sub Club tomorrow night (Saturday 25th Jan) for what looks set to be an outstanding night of music. Based out of Glasgow, the motto for the labels is “real rockin’ raw shit from the street for the clubs”, and it sums up the imprint to date perfectly. Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, quite frankly, release weird, non standard machine music that spits and splurts, blurts and bleats all kinds of alien patterns, hooks and melodies into your ears and has done with every single one of its EP's so far. Despite belying any one easy genre classification, never is the music too weird, alien or off the wall to not be hugely likeable – there is often a moment of serene synth calm, a catchy vocal clip or soulful detroit reflection hidden within the rawness of EPs from Marquis Ha...

Million Dollar Disco return to Glasgow this Saturday night (18th January) almost a year to the day since their last party there. To say they're excited is a bit of an understatement, anyone who was there last January is sure to understand why. All this in the intimate surrounding of one of Glasgow's best club spaces, The Berkeley Suite. Al Kent was born in Scotland. His father was an avid record collector and had a cabinet full of them. And Whisky. Everything from Abba and Elvis to the Glitter Band and Buddy Holly was in there. What a load of shit they were. 
In 1976 Al ran away from home to live in New York. Here, at the age of 8 he started attending the Loft and hanging out with Nicky Siano and a whole bunch of cool New York DJs with Italian names. In 1978 he was arrested for possession of PCP while guesting at Better Days with Tee Scott and deported back to Glasgow, where his dad was now getting into a bit more David Essex. He was shit too. 
So Al opened....

Felix Da Housecat will be tearing up Glasgow’s Berkeley Suite tonight (23rd November) for another set of house music and electroclash. His reinterpretation of songs by Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and Nina Simone has made him one of the most dominant remixers and producers on the planet. Felix da Housecat’s 2001 album, Kittenz and thee Glitz, turned the dance music world on its side as his collaborations with the now infamous Miss Kittin on “Silver Screen” and “Madame Hollywood” and Melistar on “Harlot” and “What Does it Feel Like” spawned a synth club revival. Along the way, Felix gained mainstream press acceptance and was heralded by Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Spin as one of the most creative artists in music today. Over the course of 20 years his determination and willingness to re-invent himself have led him to a point that has now included a Grammy nomination, remix work for artists such as Madonna, Garbage, New Order and Giorgio Moroder; to DJ gig...

A Love From Outer Space drops into Glasgow tonight (Friday 8th November) for it's Bi-Monthly residency at one of Glasgow's great club spaces The Berkeley Suite with residents Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston behind the controls. Beginning in 2010 in a residency within the intimate neo-dinge of Stoke Newington’s The Waiting Room, A Love from Outer Space was originally brought together by the advent of an excitement held for sounds situated within the mid-tempo frame; a lower BPM statute which has accented the astral, the headlong and the brawny, melding disco’s drive and glossy gestures, the cosmic glints of kosmische, thunderous dub-sonority, and intrepid post-punk bombast with proto-house and that of acid-house; the background of perennial residents and night owners, Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston. The pair held a mutual regard for Adrian Sherwood records and moved in the same circles for a number of years before ‘the oasis of slowness’, offered by AL...

Otis Jackson Jr. (born October 24, 1973 in Oxnard, California), known professionally as Madlib , is a Los Angeles-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and music producer. Known under a plethora of pseudonyms, he is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed hip hop producers of the 2000s and has collaborated with a myriad of hip hop artists, including MF DOOM (as Madvillain), and the late J Dilla (as Jaylib). Madlib has described himself as a "DJ first, producer second, and MC last,"[1][2] and he has done several projects as a DJ, mixer, or remixer. In 2003, Madlib announced two collaborative projects. Working with the late hip hop producer J Dilla, the duo known as Jaylib released Champion Sound. The other was Madlib's collaboration with rapper MF DOOM, known together as Madvillain. The 2004 Madvillainy album was highly anticipated and well-received, topping many critics' year-end lists.[7] The 2005 Quasimoto album, The Further Adventures...

One of Glasgow's most loved parties Sensu turns 9 tonight (Friday 25th Oct) at the world famous Sub Club in Glasgow. Kicking things off back in the Q club in 2004 residents Barry Price & Junior moved onwards and upwards to the long winding steps of the Liquid Lounge. However, their aspiration was always to host Sensu in their favourite place in the world, The Sub Club . Luckily they were given that chance! For their first night in the Sub club they booked Lawrence & Mr C, everything went better than they could of imagined and since then they have tried to bring a sound to Glasgow that excites themselves and hopefully everyone who has supported them in the past 9 years. The club night has hosted an endless amount of outstanding guests, such as Steve Bug, Ricardo Villalobos, Nina Kravitz, Loco Dice, Raresh, Magda, etc the list goes on & on. As well as their nights in the Sub Club they’ve always enjoyed taking their music & parties out of the club en...

Two of our favourite club nights at Fat Buddha Store take to the high seas tonight on the legendary paddle steamer boat The Waverly. Melting Pot and Optimo (Espacio) provide the soundtrack to bring us one of the best boat party's of the year taking place on the last sea sailing paddle steamer in the world, The Waverley with a trip to Gourock and back on an immaculately preserved vessel.  The boat sails from the Glasgow Science Centre at 8pm, sails up to the lighthouse in Gourock and returns to Glasgow for 11pm. At 11pm they will move over to SWG3 for Part 2 and pick up where they left off until 3am. Round 2 sees Them take the party back to SWG3 where three of Glasgow's most famous clubs, Optimo (Espacio) ,  Melting Pot and Mungo's Hi Fi Sound System with special guest Parly B, welcome everyone with open arms and also with the kick ass Mighty Mungo's Sound System. This is event will take place over 2 floors. If you don’t have a ticket for the...

Under the Hood jump starts itself back into action this Saturday night (12th Oct) at the Basura Blanca club, downstairs in the caveaux of Glasgow's colourful Brunswick Hotel on Brunswick Street in the Merchant City. The organisers have welcomed acts like Charles Webster, Moodymanc, Tim Paris and Ralph Lawson to Glasgow in the past and this month welcome one of our favourite producers and DJ's Ray Mang (Eskimo/Mangled/Disco Deviance) This is a limited capacity event and is pay on the door only with a capacity limited to 120 persons. This is very rare opportunity to hear a DJ of distinct calibre and taste and one of the Uk's finest Disco Re-Editors pleasure your senses in the unique and special Micro-Club that is Basura-Blanca. UK DJ/Producer/Remixer and all-­‐round studio boffin (known to his mates as Raj Gupta) Ray Mang is definitely not a new boy on the Disco Dance scene. He landed his first 12” Number One in ’96 on Noid Recordings gaining ...

DJ and co-founder of Death In Vegas Richard Fearless has been busy with his great bi-monthly club night Drone at The Berkeley Suite in Glasgow, and tonight (Fri 27th Sept) see's him step behind the turntables once again. Having emerged during the earliest throes of Britpop as something of a musical anomaly, Death In Vegas have continued to confound expectations ever since. Formed in 1994 as a vehicle for Richard Fearless and then co-conspirator Steve Hellier's genre crossing experiments, Death In Vegas have maintained a high degree of quality rather than churning out an endless stream of continually inferior but prolific records. With Tim Holmes having replaced Hellier, 1999's second long player The Contino Sessions and its successor Scorpio Rising brought about mainstream recognition and commercial success, album number four Satan's Circus took an even more disparate route into Germanic territories and ultimately, remains their "lost classic". ...

One of our favourite club nights Supermax celebrates it's sixth birthday tomorrow night (Sat 7th September) at one of our favourite clubs The Berkeley Suite. A taste of the decadent sound systems of New York's disco era – Studio 54 et al - Supermax is where Glaswegian fashionistas, muzic freaks & wild thangs get down to the audiosexual soundtrack of local discotheque grand master DJ Billy Woods. Christopher Kane, Tim Sweeney, Tim Goldsworthy, Jim Lambie, JG Wilkes, Slam and Horse Meat Disco DJ's Jim Stanton & James Hillard are just some of the names who’ve dropped in to party at ‘Der’ Løve Machine and experience the aural pleasure of the legendary ‘Bozak - Balmain’ sound system - Glasgow's finest club sound system. Supermax is where you will find world class club audio in Glasgow and a soundtrack that will truly expand your mind and open your eyes and ears to the possibilities. Eclectic, expansive, outrageous, DJ Billy Woods is the one man d...

Disco deviants Horse Meat Disco make a welcome return to Glasgow's Berkeley Suite tomorrow night (Saturday 31st August). Now approaching their tenth year of existence, the four man dj club collective Horse Meat Disco have continued to lead the way in the disco field with packed residencies at their HQ Eagle London in London's inner city Vauxhall, Cielo and verious venues in New York, Prince Charles in Berlin and Silencio/Wanderlust in Paris. Inspired by the music and inclusive ethos of New York's heady club scene in the 80s & 90s the collective have garnered a unique reputation for throwing amazing parties with unmatchable sets. The quartet of djs each mix their own individual interpretations of the disco sound with a soundtrack that marries their expertise and shared knowledge and experience in the field. Expect all manner of dancefloor movers from classic to cosmic to deep disco, italo, punk funk, house, even techno, electric bangers and just plain old...

STREETrave & The Arches are very proud to present a legend. After an 18 year chase they have finally managed to secure their holy grail. Not played in Scotland for over 12 years.....Never played for STREETrave or Colours and never played at Scotlands No. 1 venue The Arches......However tonight (Friday 16th August )this will all change...... They bring to Glasgow the one and only Danny Tenaglia. Danny Tenaglia's love affair with music, and the world's subsequent romance with him, is one of the critical veins in the body of dance music. He is every dancer's secret discovery; a random purchase at the record store, a reluctant night out that unexpectedly turned magic. Explosive success came not behind a major label release, or a world tour, or a radio hit remix: It happened when enough people had the private Tenaglia experience for themselves. As in every year since his DJ odyssey began, all across the globe, from Acapulco to Tokyo, more people ex...

One of Glasgow's finest DJ's and owner of the great Hum + Haw record label (Alex Smoke, Unknown Wanderer etc) Jim Hutchison has been running his club night Oddio at the Berkeley Suite for the past few months with some great results. Tomorrow night (Sat 10th August) one of Glasgow's hottest production duo's Mermaids dive in to join him at The Berkeley Suite with their new live set, which promises to be something special. With an EP forthcoming on Young Adults and the second release on their own eponymous imprint the MermaidS are about to explode interoceanically. Catch them while you can. Thing kick off at 11pm, so get down there sharp!

After the huge success of the first Sub Club Record Fair & Pop Up Sale Shop event, they are pleased to announce they will be returning on Saturday 3rd August for their second bimonthly event. They invite all record collectors, music lovers to come and join in their celebration of music. Record vendors will be hosting stalls with House, Techno, Jazz, Latin, Soul, Northern Soul, Funk, Rock, Disco, Electronic and much more.   They will have various listening stations within the venue for listening of any potential purchases. Various guest DJ`s will be playing on the day.  They are pleased to announce the following record vendors : *Jazzman Records *Underground Solu`shn Edinburgh *Soma Records *Oxfam Music *Rubadub Glasgow *Starla Records *Mixed Up Records *Made Fresh Daily Records *David Little ( House/Techno) *John Good (Electronica, Reggae, Funk) *Craig Reece (Jazz, Funk, Latin, Soul) *David Kearney (Techno/funk 89-95 era) *Gordon Mackinnon (Ho...

Toolroom Records is one of the world's leading dance record labels. From the humble beginnings of owner and superstar DJ Mark Knight’s Tool Shed in 2003, the label has grown in to an international powerhouse, achieving unrivalled success in just a short few years; smashing innumerable sales records, scooping some of the industries biggest awards and a globally renowned events brand make the Toolroom name synonymous with the best in the business!  They kick things off for their tenth birthday tour in style with a night and day event at Colours, Glasgow. On Sunday 4th August 2013, they will be celebrating from 1.30pm to 2am at the Barras Art & Design Centre and SWG3  with a soundtrack provided by this stunning line-up: Mark Knight Stefano Noferini Mark Storie Jon Mancini Giovanni Ferri MARK KNIGHT Mark Knight’s legacy already ranks him as a leading player in dance music culture. His rise to the forefront has been more than just gigs and remixe...

With Merchant City Festival starting in Glasgow today (Friday 26th-28th July) and looking to be one of the biggest yet, those good people at The Brunswick (Basura Blanca) bring you a treat for the ears on the Saturday night when two of Glasgow's finest DJ's join together to bring you a night of musical delight.   DJ Billy Woods who’s Supermax night has been causing a sensation at the Berkeley Suite of late, as has his recent edit work which has been receiving plays from Thomas Bullock (Rub N Tug), DJ Harvey, Tim Sweeney & Idjut Boys steps up to the turntables alongside Craig Moog who's has warmed things up for some of the biggest players in the Disco/Balearic/House scene including Prins Thomas (Full Pupp), Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco (Disco Deviance), Horse Meat Disco and lot's more. This takes place on Saturday night (27th July) at Basura Blanca from 11pm - 2am and is £5 entry with full Urei Rotary Mixer in effect. Sound wise think, Disco, Italo, H...

If your not at T In The Park this weekend, and your out on the town there is only one party to be at this Saturday night (Sat 13th July) and that's at The Berkeley Suite with Thomas Bullock (Map Of Africa/Rub N Tug/ Thomas Of England) and DJ Billy Woods (Supermax). Most commonly known for his participation in the Rub’N’Tug psychedelic disco machine alongside Eric Duncan, Thomas' career in music stretches all the way back to late 80s Cambridge where he was a part of the “legendary” Tonka party crew alongside long term aficionado DJ Harvey – the two would later record together as Map Of Africa on the Whatever We Want label. Thomas Bullock has been a resident of the USA since the early 90s, first pitching up in San Francisco and gaining reputation as part of the “Wicked” collective then moving to New York City and inadvertently starting electroclash as part of A.R.E Weapons, before focusing on less risible musical endeavors under a multiplicity of names includi...

Well it's Friday again, and one of the best party's in the city is set to take place tonight at The Berkeley Suite. Due to a late cancellation in their touring schedule and an uncontrollable urge to play music… the folks at The Berkeley are delighted to announce a very special one-off FREE PARTY as their event for  tonight (Friday 5th July) at The Berkeley Suite, North Street, Glasgow. Playin from doors til closing time will be one of Glasgow's favourite DJ duo's Optimo (Espacio) JD Twitch and JG Wilkes.   Back to Back, Front to Back, Side by Side, Shoulder to Shoulder, Arse over Tit… All Night Long. Yes, this is a FREE party Glasgow so get down early and get in there as this is sure to be filled to capacity. One night ONLY. Drinks at the bar from 10.30pm. License 'til 3am. Please note that there are no advance tickets for this event. Going, to make you Freek!!!