Ancient Methods @ La Cheetah, Resurface Records

The teutonic marching music of Ancient Methods was a cobweb-clearing sonic blast last night in La Cheetah. It was enthusiatically recieved, showing again that Glasgow crowds not only love techno, but they love techno that pushes the art forward.

Supported by one of the most versatile DJs in the city - Domenic Cappello - those industrial sculptures of martial motion are book-ended by a performance that far surpasses anything I have ever heard from Cappello before. Away from his ancestral home of Subclub, he is as comfortable as I have ever seen him. I recognise less than half of what he plays, and I love almost every single track. Not only does he know what I like, but he know what I should like. As the crowd begins to swell, so the pace rises. As we approach the end of his set, the dance floor is all but everyone.

Ancient Methods, however, is something else. The live set is delivered with an occasional grin (and at least one hail satan) and is everything I had expected from one of the most exciting producers in the genre. The rhythm is complex, and the pulse is insistent; whenever it breaks down, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, anticipating the return of that hypnotic beat. The unrelenting drive of the Ancient Methods sound occasionaly inhales, but that is all the respite that comes in well over an hour of beautifully crafted brutality.

Despite having been described as 'pitch black techno war funk', the unassuming genius behind it all tells us he isn't really a fan of funk... So does that mean it's just pitch black techno war? I'm not sure he'd say so himself, but after that performance I'm not sure I'd ride into battle with anything else on the stereo.

Promoted by forward thinking techno purists Resurface Records, I can only hope there is more to come.

iFormat in La Cheetah Tonight

If you like techno, you probably already know who Joe McGeechan is. He's built a worthy reputation under his own name and as part of the BCR Boys crew, and he's now working under the name iFormat (his recent podcast for sleaze is wroth a swatch, if you're unfamiliar) .

Tonight he's playing in La Cheetah, one of Glasgow's most exciting venues for electronic music at the moment. He's being supported by forward thinking techno collective, Resurface Records. While his live set is gonna be well wroth catching, Those in the know will be getting down early to catch the residents in action.

Fiver in, 11 til 3.

Luke's Anger Free EP

One of our favourite techno nutjobs (and good friend of the Scrabble Soundsystem) Luke's Anger has a free four track EP available for download at the moment. Grab it like shit off a shovel from this link: http://www.lukesanger.com/content/lukes-anger-gift-horse-ep-free-download.

Luke's Anger is coming to our fair city to play for the mighty Scrabble Soundsytem on the 30th of April. Long before that they have Lief Ryan(live) and Ebola this weekend in La Cheetah. If you have never been to Scrabble,  you should really sort that out before it gets too popular to be cool.