Halloween Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Berlin, Roma, Antwerp, Barcelona, Copenhagen, New York, Taipei & Sydney

It's a big weekend of clubbing as the freaks come out to celebrate halloween in true techno style. So instead of waffling, we'll get straight to the events. There's plenty to get through so we'll keep most of them short and sweet.

London

We begin on Friday night in London as Broken & Uneven's Hydra series continues as they welcome online record store Bleep.com to launch their new project, BLPGRN001, the first in a run of 12"s in collaboration with design collective Give Up Art and photographer Shaun Bloodworth.

Provide the music for the night's festivities will be a star studded line up consisting of Blawan, Lucy, Pangaea, Objekt, Kowton and the first UK live show from, the duo of Analogue Cops and Steffi, Third Side.

The party will be held in Hackney Wick at the Ican Studios and tickets are available from Resident Advisor

Saturday at fabric Room 2 hosts the official launch party of their latest cd, fabric 66 mixed by Ben Klock. The Berghain resident is joined by a couple of names that you'll see in the compilation CDs tracklisting in the shape of Truncate and Wincent Kunth.

You can read all about the CD and order your own copy from the fabric website where you can also purchase your Tickets. As part of the package you can get a discount when you order your CD and ticket together.

Berlin

It's tonight, and already started, but we couldn't do this post without giving it a mention. We're gutted we're not there, but if you're looking for something to do in Berlin tonight, this has to be your only destination.

Tresor, Sonic Groove Records and Fullpanda Records combine in Tresor's Globus room to bring you Timewise. Featuring live sets from Biosphere and Robert Henke and topping it off with an ambient DJ set from Adam X and Dasha Rush.

Once the show has finished the fun's not over, as Adam and Dasha take you down to Tresor's legendary basement for what's bound to be an epic after party. Full event info can be found on the Facebook Event Page

We stay at Tresor from Friday night's shenanigans as Tuna Park puts on an altogether international affair of great interest to us here at SDD. Two SDD Podcasters in Singapore's Xhin and Argentina's Pfirter and past SDD guest, Germany's Milton Bradley.

Full event info on Resident Advisor

We don't need to tell you that quality that can be found at Berghain's in house Saturday event, Klubnacht, so we'll let the line up talk for itself!

Robert Hood, Karenn (Blawan & Pariah), Obtane, Giorgio Gigli, Len Faki, Fiedel and Oliver Deutschmann. If you need more convincing, head over to Resident Advisor to see what's happening in the rest of the club.

Roma

Roma welcomes two of the UKs finest talents as James Ruskin and Shifted join Suprvsion vs Animatek  in taking over the Goa Club for Resistance Is Techno. The Facebook Event Page holds all you need to know

Antwerp

Hertz celebrate their 2 year anniversary in Antwerp's Petrol Club with two more of the UK finest talents, Luke Slater and Surgeon. Full info and tickets on the Petrol Website.

Barcelona

PoleGroup take over Barcelona's BeCool venue and host Peter Van Hoesen, Exium and Reeko. Doors open at 1am and entrance is 10 euros.

Copenhagen

On Friday night at Culture Box you'll witness a live set from legendary techno duo, Hardfloor. Full info on Facebook

New York

In New York on Friday it's another birthday as US party throwers, Oktave, turn three. Providing the celebratory music will be Brendon Moeller, Jeff Derringer and Max_M. Full event info on the Oktave website

Taipei

Smoke Machine host their 20th Organik party in conjunction with Field Records headed up by Delta Funktionen. Full info on Resident Advisor.

Sydney

For our last destination on our worldwide tour we land down under, in Sydney to be more precise, and after a weekend spent with the wonderful Dutch people, it would be wrong not to give a mention to one of their very best techno exports, Steve Rachmad. Disconnected Audio and Shrug present his show that's inspired by his recent album 'Secret Life Of Machines'.

Tickets available through Resident Advisor

Weekend clubbing roundup: London, Birmingham, Berlin, Copenhagen, Athens, LA, Buenos Aires

There's plenty of events going on around the techno world this weekend. Here's our pick of them

London

On Friday, Coma continue their London Techno Champions series at the Horse & Groom with a London Debut for Avian artist Ventress and support from Doubleffe and Setaoc Mass.

There's a £3 concessions guestlist running for the party. Send your names to comaevents@gmail.com before 5pm tomorrow afternoon to get on it.

Sunday techno returns to London as Void are throwing a free party residents special. A collection of upcoming London based producers and DJs will be displaying just how bright the future is for London techno.

It's free so if you're in the area (or even if you're not) get yourselves down to Cafe 1001

Birmingham

Birmingham has a rich history of techno and on Saturday the Gibb Street Warehouse intend to keep that going. Function, who is of course part of the legendary techno collective, Sandwell District (named after an area of Birmingham) takes top billing supported by Birmingham's own first lady of techno, Rebekah.

Tickets for the event can be purchased on the Ticket Sellers Website

Berlin

Swedish Tuna @ Tresor (Friday 20th Jul 12)

It's a Stockholm LTD showcase in Tresor on Friday night at Pär Grindvik and Staffan Linzatti showcase their considerable skills with Drumcode's Joel Mull completing the Swedish connection.

Full event details can be found on Resident Advisor

Copenhagen

Whenever we do these roundup posts, somewhere along the line there's always a mention for our friends at Culture Box and more often than not there's a party in there which includes Luke Slater, so when the two of them came together for one event, it's was always going to find it's place on the post.

Support comes from local boys and Sonic Groove act, Northern Structures, and Circuit Club's Morten Kamper with Finn Of Tomland in the Cocktail Box. Full event info on Facebook.

Athens

The Greek economy may be in a precarious position at present, but the techno scene is alive and well as Time To Express boss, Peter Van Hoesen, heads to the capital to join Slydex, HRISL and Poen at the Astron Bar.

Doors open at 8pm and stay open until 7am and best of all, it's free!

Los Angeles

Droid Behaviour head to LA to host a CLR Showcase which includes Chris Liebing, Drumcell, Truncate and Dean Paul.

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor

Buenos Aires

The last stop on our roundup takes us to Buenos Aires and the home town of our last SDD Podcast contributor Pfirter. For Wormhole .02 @ Cocoliche, Juan Pablo is joined by another home town boy, Jonas Kopp.

Full event info can be found on the Facebook Event Page

Weekend Clubbing Roundup: Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Riccione, Nagoya City, Taipei

For Londoners this weekend is all about Bloc @ The London Pleasure Gardens (check the link for our preview / itinerary) but for everyone else there's still some cracking events happening worldwide. Here's our picks of some of the best of them

Berlin

Klubnacht - Panoramabar 04 Release Party @ Berghain / Panoramabar (Saturday 7th Jul 12)


Berghain - Klubnacht
23:59 - 04:00 Silent Servant
04:00 - 07:00 Luke Slater
07:00 - 10:00 Fiedel
10:00 - End Rødhåd






Panoramabar - Nick Höppner's Panoramabar 04 Release Party
Andrés
Dexter
Nick Höppner
Matthew Styles
The Mole
John McMillion (Live)


Sonntags
Will Saul b2b SCB (Scuba)
More TBA


With all the recent goings on involving the GEMA legislations the days of Berghain could be numbered, so every opportunity to spend time in the Berlin techno mecca should be taken. Especially when there's a stella line up like this and the launch party of the new Panoramabar 04 CD.

Amsterdam

Darko Esser invites two of the UK's brightest techno stars, Tommy Four Seven and Shifted, to join him at Amsterdam's Melkweg club for the latest of his Balans label parties. Doors open at 11pm, full info can be found on the Facebook Event Page

Paris

Tonight the legendary Paris venue, Rex Club, will be filled with the sounds of Technorama as DVS1 and Delta Funktionen join French local DJs Zadig and DJ Jee.


Full event info and tickets can be found on Resident Advisor

New York

Two weekends ago London was blessed with the incredible live set from Prologue's Voices From The Lake. Tonight it's New York's turn as The Bunker take over Public Assembly for another night of Pure Techno. As well as the VFTL live set, both Donato Dozzy and Neel will be performing DJ sets in the Back Room alongside Bunker resident Spinoza, while the Front Room is headed up by Detroit legend, Omar S.


Tickets for tonight's party are still available through Brown Paper Tickets

Riccione

Notte Rosa @ Cocorico (Saturday 7th Jul 12)

Chris Liebing

Len Faki

Ben Klock

Idriss D

Seuil

Andrea Arcangeli

Vault Series (Mørbeck & Subjected)

Italy gets a selection of techno heavyweights as Mr CLR joins two Berghain residents, two Grounded Theory boys and more.

Event info on Resident Advisor

Nagoya City / Taipai

This weekend the man behind the labels Do Not Resist The Beat!, The End Of All Existence and, with Henning Baer, K209, Milton Bradley makes two stops on his tour of the far east. First up tonight in Japan at Mago for Otonoko (Resident Advisor)

and tomorrow he'll be in Taipai, Taiwan at The Wall as Smoke Machine present Organik 18.

Event info on Resident Advisor

The Jubilee Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Italy, Hannover

For those of us in London a four day weekend is something a bit special, a four day week at the start of summer is a whole different ball game. There's some big events coming up, not just in the capital but all around Europe.... and here's the best of them

London

We kick off with a new comer to the London techno scene, Dystopia. The project goes beyond the standard format for a club night and pulls together the artistic talents of DJs, musicians, designers, visuals artists and photographer to form an inclusive creative showcase.


They've picked two very creative acts to guest at the party with Time To Express boss, Peter Van Hoesen and Stroboscopic Artefacts duo Dadub (check out their recent Dystopia Podcast 002). The venue will be announced for Saturdays party in the next few days. Full event info and tickets can be found on Resident Advisor

fabric are pulling in the big guns for room 2 on Saturday as the Berghain resident and Klockworks Records head honcho, Ben Klock links up with the man from Minneapolis, Berghain regular and Klockworks artist, DVS1.


Tickets available on the fabric website

When Plex and Perc Trax combine at Corsica Studios the outcome is usually pretty special, but Sunday could be the most special to date. 9 hours of first rate techno featuring some of the best names in Underground music. A live set from Kangding Ray, DJ sets from Lone, Perc, Randomer, Truss, AnD, DJ Skirt and many more make this rammed full of quality from start to finish.


Tickets available from Resident Advisor

Edinburgh

From the English capital to the Scottish capital now and Edinburgh is in for a massive treat on Friday as Adam X presents Traversable Wormhole for Unseen at Studio 24. There's no tickets so just get there and pay on the door. Full event info on Facebook

Dublin

And now on to the ROI captial, Dublin, as Fachwerk Records owner, Mike Dehnert, takes to the decks at The Academy. Again there's no presale tickets but head over to Resident Advisor for all the event info.

Italy

Je Ne T'Aime Plus Afterparty @ Studio 2 Club, Vigonovo (Friday 1st June)


Delsin Records' Morphosis joins Prologue Records artists Donato Dozzy and Neel at the Je Ne T'Aime Plus Afterparty, and best of all it's free. Full event info on Facebook

The One Festival takes place this weekend at Cocorico in Riccione. Techno highlights come from the legend that is Jeff Mills, Dasha Rush and Tommy Four Seven. All the info you need can be found on the Facebook Event Page

Hannover

TechnoDrivers mit Luke Slater @ Underground Club (Saturday 2nd June)

Our final stop off is in Hannover at the Underground club as TechnoDrivers welcome the man behind the Mote Evolver label, Luke Slater, headlines alongside a host of local talent. Full event info on Facebook

Weekending 24/3 Clubbing Roundup: Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Leipzig

Berlin

Jeff Mills, Axis Records 20th Anniversary @ Tresor (Friday 23rd March 12)

Globus: (Midnight - 6:30am)

Jeff Mills (Axis Records / Detroit)

Globus: Klubnacht (6:30am - onwards)

Blake Baxter (Mix Media / Detroit)

Vince Watson (Tresor Rec, Delsin / NL)

Tresor:

TAG (Tresor)

Mad Max (Tresor)

Herr Schneider (Tresor)

+4Bar:

Patrice Scott (Sistrum Recordings / Detroit)

Oskar Offermann (AIM, White)

Schoppen Wittes (Frühschoppen)

There's not many occasions in techno bigger than Jeff Mills celebrating 20 years of Axis Records at Tresor, and this weekend it's happening. He'll be marking the landmark with a 6 1/2 hour set at legendary Berlin venue, Tresor.

There's not much more to be said on this one. It opens at midnight tonight and, as is generally the case in Berlin, finishes....? Full info available on Resident Advisor

Klubnacht @ Berghain / Panoramabar (Saturday 24th March 2012)

Berghain:

DJ Pete (Ostgut Ton)

Fiedel (Ostgut Ton)

Shifted (Mote Evolver)

Luke Slater (Mote Evolver)

LADA aka Dasha Rush & Lars Hemmerling (Live) (Fullpanda)

Panoramabar:

Gerry Read (live) (Fourth Wave)

Lady Blacktronica (Sound Black)

Jenifa Mayanja (Bu-Mako)

Tama Sumo (Ostgut Ton)

Tom Kerridge (Ramp)

Sonntags:

Joy Orbison (Dold Drums)

Van Rivers (F Records)

Boris (Ostgut Ton)

nd_baumecker (Ostgut Ton)

The good times keep coming at Berghain (not that we expect anything less). Berghain sees a collection of some of todays most innovative artists supplying the soundtrack to your Saturday night / Sunday morning. This line up really lept of the page at us, so much so that we almost booked up some flights.

We recently brought you LADA's video interpretation of their 'Lostbanhof' release, now here comes the live show. Luke Slater and Shifted join them with the show is completed with the usual spattering of Berghain residents, this weekend in the form of DJ Pete and Fiedel.

Full info on Resident Advisor

Copenhagen

Most weeks when putting these roundups together, we look to the Danish capital for the next edition of the Culture Box legacy and we're rarely let down. Prologue Records' Abdulla Rashim headlines, with support from a Korridor artist showcase.

Check Resident Advisor for the rest of the info

London

After recent hectic weeks rammed full of world class techno, London's has quietened down for the weekend, but you can always rely on their being something special on the horizon. This weekend's party is care of Thunder and features one of our favourite producers, Sven Weisemann.

Advanced tickets have sold out but there will be tickets available on the door, however they are limited as the venue is on the intimate side. But that should make for a great night. Full info on Resident Advisor

Leipzig

Echolot Electronic Series Chemnitz @ Weltecho (24th March 12)

Electronic Music by:

Moritz Von Oswald (Honest Jons)

C-Beams feat. Tina (Uncanny Valley)

radio121soundsystem feat K-fog und Felde (Chemnitz)

Visuals by:

Autolum (Chemnitz)

We finish back in Germany with another of our favourite producers. Moritz Von Oswald, of Basic Channel / Rhythm & Sound fame (along with Mark Ernestus), has pretty much influenced the majority of techno you hear today. It would be a very different place had that infamous mastering studio not been set up in the heart of Berlin.

He'll be bringing his dub techno sound to the city of Leipzig as part of the Echolot Electronic Series

There's no tickets so turn up and pay on the door. Full info on Resident Advisor

We Fear Silence Pres. Blueprint Records @ Cable, London (3rd March 12)

After a 5 month winter break Blueprint Records return to Cable for their first party of the year. Combined with We Fear Silence and with plenty of help from Colony, Blueprint was probably our favourite promotion of 2011. Even though they only put on 3 events, those events included Marcel Dettmann b2b with Ben Klock for a mighty 5 hours, live sets from Peter Van Hoesen (one of the best live sets we've ever heard) and O/V/R, as well as DJ sets from Surgeon, DVS1, Luke Slater, Sigha & Shifted and Mark Broom all alongside Blueprint boss James Ruskin.

There's no slacking off for 2012 either. Luke Slater is back,this time under his Planetary Assault Systems guise. After the huge success of his album on Ostgut Ton 'The Messenger', PAS is a name carrying some serious weight right now.

Regis is back too. After performing with Function, as Sandwell District, in 2010 and with Ruskin as O/V/R in 2011, it's time for Regis to put on a solo show. He's been in some form over the last year or so. Releases on Blackest Ever Black (both his own EP and remixes) plus remastered version of old Downwards classics, we're extremely excited to see what Regis produces. Saturday seems so far away.

Closing out the main room line up is Mark Broom and obviously James Ruskin. The 'Fear Ratio' pair will be doing what they do best, which generally means playing some ferocious techno over huge soundsystems. Expect very much more of the same on Saturday.

Room 2 will be occupied by Colony. Residents Tengui and MB & CB are joined by Blackest Ever Black duo, Raime. Like Regis, the end of 2011 saw a flurry of activity from the British pair. Releases, remixes and represses made for an inspiring build up to Christmas. Abstract sounds, almost to the point of it being post techno, has been the order of the day and it's these styles which will make a perfect accompaniment to the Blueprint sound in room 1.

Set Times

Room 1 - Blueprint Records

10pm - 11pm: Warm Up

11pm - 1am: Mark Br0om

1am - 3am: James Ruskin

3am - 4am: Regis (Live)

4am - 6am: Luke Slater (Planetary Assault Systems DJ Set)

Room 2 - Colony

10pm - 00:30am: Tengui

00:30am - 2:30am: Raime

2:30am - 4:30am: MB & CB

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor, or if you're feeling really lucky then there's a chance to win some tickets on the We Fear Silence Website.

Weekend Clubbing Roundup: London, Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Geneva

Friday has finally arrived and not a moment too soon. We've put together a selection of the weekend's events around Europe to help you make the most of your two days off work. We take in London, Stuttgart, Copenhagen and Geneva, so if you happy to be in any of those cities, you're in for a treat

We begin at our local, fabric. Followers of the blog will be well aware of the Farringdon's establishments commitment to techno in 2012. Only 7 weekends into the year and we've already seen some of the best names in the business take to Room 2. This week, of course is no different.

Marcel Dettmann is back, joined by Ben Sims and Craig Richards. We expect Room 2 will certainly not be for the light hearted.

Tickets are now unavailable so make sure you turn up early if you've not got yours. Full event info is on Resident Advisor

Firstly, my apologies for the quality of the flyer, it was the best version I could find online, but there's no apologies needed for the quality of the line up. CLR begin their new residency at Lehmann Club in Stuttgrat.

Luke Slater, Tommy Four Seven and Monoloc all perform on the night. Full info is on Resident Advisor

Culture Box are a permanent fixture on our clubbing round ups of late. Friday sees the night of the label bosses, Scuba of Hotflush and Ulf Eriksson of Kontra Musik. We have huge respect for both labels so we expect there to be some seriouly good music on offer tonight.

Full info on Resident Advisor

Finally we land in Geneva, and more importantly Zoo @ Usine. Grounded Theory and Vault Series artist, Subjected, headlines with support from Sonic Groove's Northern Structures.

Full info, as always, is on Resident Advisor

Mix Of The Day: Luke Slater fabric mix

You have to of been living under a rock for the last year to not know that Luke Slater has a new Planetary Assault Systems album out entitled 'The Messenger'. We have our copy and it's superb. To celebrate the launch of the album, Luke Slater's label, Mote Evolver, is taking over fabric's Room 2, with support from Marcel Fengler and Shifted.

To wet your appetite for Saturday, Luke Slater has recorded a special promo mix for fabric's blog. You can download the mix from the following link

Luke Slater fabric Promo Mix

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor for Saturdays event. You can get them through the RA Event Page.

We Fear Silence pres. Blueprint Records @ Cable (26th Mar 11)

If you're out and about in London on Saturday there's only 1 place for you to make plans for. The flyer pretty much tells you all you need to know. Some serious big techno heavyweights. For those of you who don't know too much about O/V/R, it's a live project from Ruskin and Sandwell Districts, Regis. Recently they performed live at Berghain and it went down an absolute stormer. Rumours have it that the whole Blueprint Klubnacht went on till 11pm Sunday!

The room 2 line up is also a strong one. Really excited to see how the ambient set from Sigha and Shifted goes down. I'm expecting it to be special.

Anyway there's still tickets available on Resident Advisor for a more than reasonable £10 (+bf) or you can pay on the door but it will cost you a few more quid.