Trouble Vision Presents Hivern Discs, London
John Talabot’s Fin was a deep house masterpiece, an album that proved the style could induce ventricle-tightening existential crises, rather than, as it usually does, the most inane epiphanies this side of Love Island. We’re getting a little bit antsy for a follow-up, but his extracurricular activities have at least been fun: a top DJ-Kicks mix, coconut-scented side-project Talaboman with Axel Boman, and his label Hivern Discs, which rolls into town for this showcase. Talabot himself is DJing at the top of the bill, with a crop of other mournfully Balearic types below. Pional plays live, pairing sturdy electropop with feathery, jelly-spined vocals; Marc Piñol spins Latin NY house, Italo and more all muffled by worry; and also DJing is Dorisburg, one half of Genius Of Time, who goes into a far more introspective, minimal mode for his own productions.
Village Underground, EC2, Sat
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Todd Terje, Glasgow
It will always feel a little odd that disco – a sound forged by multicultural, polysexual outsiders on the dancefloors of 1970s America – has been embraced quite so readily by Scandinavian dads. But it is an unassailable fact that Todd Terje and his friends Prins Thomas and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm – lily-white Norwegian gents with kind eyes and fluffy beards – have taken disco’s euphoric lift and made it their own. Terje made his name with a string of remixes and extended edits in the mid-00s, and his signature sound embraces unhurried langour and a sense of space. Everything from soft rock to cosmic synth to exotica can be heard in these dreamy grooves, so it makes perfect sense that, while hunting for collaborators for his 2014 LP It’s Album Time, he hit upon Bryan Ferry. The erstwhile Roxy Music frontman so enjoyed their cover of Robert Palmer’s Johnny And Mary he included it on his LP of the same year. Tonight, Terje performs live with a band, so expect Arp synths, violins and irrepressible congas, all working in the service of tasteful transcendence.
Sub Club, Sat
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Sub:Terranea, Leeds
Recently returning to the UK after an extended stay in Berlin – where he was a regular at Panorama Bar and Stattbad, the now sadly defunct drained swimming pool rave – Ewan Pearson continues to impress. Having spent two decades producing, writing and writing about music, Pearson naturally expanded the cult following he gained off the back of his much loved Fabric and We Are Proud Of Our Choices mix CDs, leading to gigs with fans including Andrew Weatherall, as well as club hits under the aliases Partial Arts and World Of Apples. A pal of many, he’s also recently polished off the production on Midland’s much-anticipated AKASE side-project. This evening Sub:Terranea showcases his evolving work in the booth.
Wire, Sat
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Finsbury Park Festivals, London
Trample your frustrations at summer being over into the sod and quaff your last hangover-blasting fruit cider at this pair of day festivals that rage against the browning of the leaves. Ceremony features a house history lesson with both old hands and young bucks taking the lectern – a Dance Mania set from “Loefah Vandross” will be a highlight. Things get even messier on Sunday with United festival, where men with hammocks under their eyes play rave, jungle and garage to people who will be dancing on the spot on a music-free patio come 11am Monday.
Finsbury Park, N4, Sat & Sun
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Zig Zag II, Brighton
Emerging nearly two years ago, Mute has gripped Brighton’s formidable club scene with vibrant lineups spanning grime, UK garage, dubstep and the rhythmically twisting noises that swim in between. Friday’s session will reverberate with hi-tech grooves; Mssngno’s euphoric-melancholic bangers colliding with the coldly pared-down grime of Faze Miyake. Scratcha DVA, Wen and Riz La Teef drop their dancefloor-ready experimentalism, too, so freshness abounds.
Patterns, Friday
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