Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Berlin, Manchester, New York & Copenhagen

For those of you in London last weekend, you still might be trying to come to terms with what happened. Those of you, like us, who made it to the Blueprint Records party or the CLR party (or even the CLR afterparty) will know just how vibrant the techno scene here is becoming. Which is why we kick off our roundup in our capital city....

Finally, after a few months of planning, the weekend of our first monthly Sunday party @ Basing House is here. We'll be showing London that just because the weekend's almost over, we don't want any let up when it comes to the ferocity of our music. London's techno clubbers have had a serious lack of options when it comes to heading out on the supposed 'day of rest'.

Headed up by Grounded Theory boss and K209 artist, Henning Baer. He'll be joined by London's own Truss (Perc Trax / Stroboscopic Artefacts), XI and EarToGround resident and Candelight bloggist, Billy Allen.

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor, and you can find all the info you'll need there too.

With all the techno action going on around London last weekend, fabric decided to give Room 2 a week off from the relentless Saturday night techno that it's seen so far this year. So this weekend it's back to normal service with two UK acts at very different stages of their career, Surgeon and Shifted.

Full event info and tickets can be found on Resident Advisor

Next up we head over to Berlin, and more importantly, tonight at Suicide Circus as they present Echocord Records headman, Kenneth Christiansen and Vault Series artist, Morbeck.

Doors open at midnight and entrance is 10 euros. Full info on Resident Advisor

Back to England now and we make our way up North to Manchester for the Eastern Bloc Records Frozen Border / Horizontal Ground label showcase at The Soup Kitchen Basement. DJ Skirt, AnD and Szare join local artist, Setaoc Mass, for a night with two of our favourite labels.

Full info on Resident Advisor

Events in New York seem to be popping up on our radar more and more and our next pick is a very special one indeed. Hotflush Recordings boss, Scuba, takes his Sub:stance party on the road with help from Luke Slater, under his L.B. Dub Corp alias, Boddika and more.

Tickets and full event info can be found on Resident Advisor

The final stop on our whistle stop tour of the weekends clubbing is Culture Box in the Danish capital city Copenhagen. As ever, it's a hugely promising line up including Echocord artists, Deadbeat and Resoe, and Chilean DJ / Producer, Dandy Jack.

More info can be found on Resident Advisor

That concludes our roundup. Whatever you do this weekend, we hope you have a great one and we'll see you all on the other side

Techno Therapy pres. Sawf @ Basing House (25th Feb 12)

It's time for another forward thinking underground techno session at our new home of Basing House. For Saturday's party it's Techno Therapy in charge and they've lined up one of previous Slash Dot Dash Podcast contributers to lead the festivities.

Making his London debut will be Perc Trax artist, Sawf. Backed up by his stunning album, on the label, and recently signed to the Grounded Theory booking agency, the man from Greece is very much an exciting prospect and will be bringing his special brand of twisted techno to rock the Shoreditch nightspot.

The venture is all part of Techno Therapy's plan to host a number of intimate parties, after their recent string of large scale warehouse events. There's still some tickets available which can be found on the Resident Advisor Event Page. For those of you wanting to know more about Techno Therapy, check out their Facebook Fan Page

Weekend Clubbing Roundup - London, Bristol, Berlin, Copenhagen, NYC

The January blues are long forgotten and 2012 is well into the swing of things. Two weekends into February and the quality techno is coming thick and fast. We've got a number of parties happening this weekend to tell you about, spanning continents and even oceans. There's plenty to mention so I'll be brief. We kick off with our hometown....

London - Friday

Basing House is our new home for Slash Dot Dash and we're in some very good company. Two weeks ago Redshape headlined for Bread & Butter, and tonight Make Me host the man from Minneapolis, DVS1. Tickets are available from Resident Advisor

London - Saturday

fabric seemed to of stepped up their commitment to providing London with world class techno, week in week out. We've already seen the likes of Sandwell District, Sigha, Delta Funktionen and Skudge. This week sees a Berghain takeover as Norman Nodge and Ben Klock join Terry Francis in Room 2. Get your tickets at Resident Advisor

Bristol - Friday
After the big success of last weeks fabric Room 2 takeover, Hotflush take the show on the road, West down the M4 to one of the UKs most influential music cities, Bristol. Scuba, Sigha and George Fitzgerald again feature at the Lakota Club. Tickets on Resident Advisor

Berlin - Saturday

Klubnacht pres Blueprinted Berlin @ Berghain (11th Feb 12)

This event very much speaks for itself. Blueprint Records taking over Berghain! I'll let the line up do the talking. There's no tickets, just pay on the door. The club opens at Midnight and will finish.......?

Berghain - Blueprinted Berlin

23:59 - 05:00 - DVS1

05:00 - 06:00 - O/V/R (Live)

06:00 - 09:00 - James Ruskin

09:00 - 12:00 - Sigha

12:00 - End - Marcel Dettmann

Panoramabar features Cle, Blondes (Live), Bok Bok vs Jam City, Thomas Schumacher, Mano Le Tough, Ed Davenport, Oliver Deutschmann, Magda and Nick Hoppner. Full event info on Resident Advisor.

Copenhagen - Saturday

Culture Box continues to keep the big line ups coming. Saturday sees two very big Slash Dot Dash favourites in Samuli Kemppi and Dasha Rush. The intimate surroundings of the Danish club will provide the perfect setting for these two excellent artists. There's no tickets but check out the event info on Resident Advisor.

New York - Saturday

Finally we come to the end of our Weekend Roundup and we finish with something rather special happening across the pond in New York. Oktave team up with Sama to help them celebrate their 1st birthday and they do it in style. They've looked to Berlin and selected Stroboscopic Artefacts boss, Lucy, and CLR shining star, Tommy Four Seven to join Oktave resident and Perc Trax artist, Jeff Derringer at a secret location somewhere in Brooklyn. Full event info can be found on Resident Advisor.

Thanks for reading and where ever you happen to be in the world, if you go to one of our selected parties, or not, we hope you have a great time.

Weekend Clubbing Roundup - Dystopian, Redshape @ Basing House and Wax Treatment

This week we've already brought you news of the Prologue Label Night @ Suicide Circus and James Ruskin & Pattern Repeat @ Culture Box so now we'll finish off the round up with 3 more excellent events.

First up tonight it's one of our favourite Berlin promotions, Dystopian with their event tonight at Arena Club, headlined by our previous SDD guest, Redshape. Their last event featured UK producer, Sigha, and they're continuing to give the UK techno scene some more love this time with Shifted. Fachwerk Records artist Roman Lindau and Dystopian resident, Rødhåd complete the line up. Doors open at midnight. Full info can be found on Resident Advisor Event Page

Next up we return to London and believe it or not, Redshape appears again. It's going to be a busy weekend for the masked wonder as he headlines Bread & Butter's next event at Basing House. He'll be joined on the night by a selection of B&B residents and special guests. Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor otherwise it'll be more on the door.

Finally, to finish off the Berlin weekend in style, on Sunday it's DJ Pete's Wax Treatment @ Horst Krzbrg. More UK love is flowing from Berlin as UK dubstep artists, Appleblim, Shackleton and Ben UFO join Shed and of course, DJ Pete.

To get you in the mood for this one check out Shed's superb Wax Treatment Podcast 030. We gave it a listen yesterday and it's seriously epic. Doors open on Sunday at 8pm, more info can be found on the Resident Advisor Event Page

Slash Dot Dash pres. Henning Baer & Truss @ Basing House (11th March 12)

Slash Dot Dash return to bring in a new era of Sunday clubbing in London. For too long the only options available to the Sunday clubber has been house, house, house (with a bit of this new wave disco thrown in the pot too). But finally proper underground Techno has found it's way on to the Sunday scene and it's not a moment too soon!

We've got plenty more info on the event and our guests coming soon so keep an eye out. As for now pre sale tickets are available from Resident Advisor and you can also check out the Facebook Event Page. More info on Henning Baer can be found on his Facebook Fan Page. For Truss, you can like him on Facebook or follow him on Twitter

Weekend Picks: London - Blackest Ever Black @ Basing House and fabric's 12th birthday

Looking at the flyer you be forgiven for thinking that's enough for a club night, but the guys over at BleeD thought otherwise. Going by their Facebook page it seems that the Secret Special Guest is no longer a secret. Turns out that, for the first time since 2006, Regis and Surgeon, aka the British Murder Boys, will be performing a special one off live set.

Basing House is the perfect setting for the party. Small, dark, intimate surroundings with an excellent Funktion 1 soundsystem. The venue plus the new development turns this from a great night out, into a phenomenal night out! Advanced tickets have now gone but there's spaces available on the door. Check out Resident Advisor for all the info.

Our second weekend pick is one of my favourite weekends of the year, fabric's birthday. 30 hours (and probably a few more) of partying in London's best club, listening to some of the worlds best DJs playing on London's best Soundsystem. I'm not going to go through all the names on the flyer, because I'd be here all day.

The techno stand outs are of course Ben Klock and Peter Van Hoesen. Both Ben and Peter have been in scintillating form in the last 12 months, and their most recent ventures to London have resulted in 2 of the best nights out we've had this year.

Tickets were sold out, but fabric have released some more. Head over to the fabric website to see what's still available.