The Going Out Podcast by Skiddle

Weekends Matter 51: Sander van Doorn (SW4 Sessions)

The Weekends Matter podcast has come through the door and it's a cracker once again. The final podcast before we celebrate two years of knocking them out comes courtesy of one of the biggest names in the business, the one and only Sander van Doorn.

The Dutch DJ will be the headline act at SW4 Sessions at Electric Brixton on Saturday 16th November, one of a select number of shows the world-beating festival does in club spaces with the starlets of the festival. It's Sander's first set in the capital since his stage owning performances at SW4, and this set will get you in the mood for his groove heavy take on trance, house and electro. Head here for further info on the event, where  Jochen Miller supports Sander's deck acumen.

Weekends Matter 50: Mark Knight (Halloween Spooks)

This edition of Weekends Matter, the inaugural fiftieth installment and a Halloween special, comes from Toolroom records head Mark Knight who plays at Halloween Spooks on the 31st October.

Weekends Matter 49: Bitr8 (Speakerbox)

The weekend is nearly upon us, and right now that means podcast time. We're rapidly approaching two years of the fortnightly dosage of aural hedonism and we've got a few tricks up our sleeve to celebrate. This edition comes though in the tried and tested formula, with the event focus resting squarely on the delightful Speakerbox.

Mistajam's bass driven extravaganza has had a fast and furious four years at the apex of the events industry, circumventing the full spectrum of electronic music dominated by the low end. Dubstep, drum & bass, future garage... the lot are all represented in a true representation of the sounds he pushes on his 1Xtra Radio show.

This event continues that rich vein, Mistajam joined by the indomitable DJ Fresh, UK Garage legend DJ EZ, breakbeat pioneers Stanton Warriors and plenty more, all pushing forward the sounds that make you cower in the bass bins at the sheer size of the seismic sonic rumble.

The mix comes courtesy of Speakerbox resident Bitr8, providing us with a slick ensemble of upfront garage and house. Sotuhampton reared, the selector also presents the Speakerbox radio show on Ministry of Sound Radio.

Weekends matter 48: Yousef (Yousef presents Circus)

Weekends matter 47: Felix Leiter (Mint Festival / Bitch)

Festivals may have been drifting towards the past tense recently but we’re giving them one final hurrah, and this week’s podcast reverberates to one of the best still left to do, Mint Festival. Located in the rather swish Lotherham Hall in Leeds, this year’s sees headline turns from Marco Carola, Seth Troxler, Ferry Corsten and plenty more in a complete smorgasbord of electronic music. We’ve been quite excited about the festival all summer, so you can read the words we’ve already wrote in their honour right here.

This mix comes from Felix Leiter, resident of Elektiqua in Newcastle and a star who continues to ascend in the world of electronic music. He’s playing as part of the Bitch arena (check our rundown of that part of the festival here) where he’ll be joined by the likes of Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Nervo, Danny Howard and plenty more. Bitch themselves also turn seven later in the month,head here to read all about that, and this mix is crammed with the type of groove led abandon that has made the party so revered during that tenure.

As well as the Mint Festival we also run down the top five we’re looking forward to over the next fortnight, and these being as follows:

Underground & Friends – Saturday 14^th September @ Gorilla, Manchester

Brunel Rooms presents Zinc & Hostage – Saturday 14^th September @ Brunel Rooms, Swindon

Trance Sanctuary – Saturday 14^th September @ Egg London

Basics - Saturday 14^th September @ The Garage, Leeds

Freeze presents Innervisions – Saturday 21^st September @ Haus Warehouse, Liverpool

weekends matter 46: Mike Vale (Space, Ibiza)

The white isle. It’s the stuff of dreams, a place where the magic happens each and every summer with a high octane blend of hedonism and thumping electronic grooves has been seducing dance music lovers for decades. Whether you lose yourself in the reach for the lasers hedonism of the trance at Cream, the slow and sexual grooves of DC10’s underground house or the multi-faceted sounds of We Love… Space, Ibiza has it all for anyone who loves music.

With this in mind we’ve dedicated our podcast not to any one individual event this time round, but instead just given you a flavour of the best parties and clubs on the island you can still nab tickets for before the season shuts up shop for another year in early October. We’ve also grabbed a recent mix from someone you will be hearing a lot of in the future to showcase a flavour of the sound on offer, with Mike Vale delivering a techno workout which was his recent live recording when he played Space recently – he returns on Monday 9^th September.

So turn up the speakers and let the pounding Balearic beats soothe you as we offer you a slice of the world’s still undoubted party capital.

#45 - Autocycle (Freeze & Waxxx)

The summer’s slowly but surely coming to an end, but there’s always one last hurrah – the august Bank Holiday Weekend. There’s longer weekends but this is definitely the most important, simply because it’s the last time in a while you’re going to be given a legitimate three day weekend that, fingers crossed, should be sunny. You need to indulge yourselves.

We know this, so our Weekends Matter podcast is focused entirely this time round on arguably the best weekend of them all. We’ve picked out our top five events as per usual, and they circumnavigate the full spectrum of the dancefloor caveat.

There’s the thrusting sonics of Artist of the Week Steve Angello and his record label showcase Size in the Park, classic house from Todd Terry at the Hard Times 20^th Birthday in Leeds, Musika collab with James Zabiela and his Born Electric promotion, mUmU’s Day & Night showcase in Liverpool and then last, but by no means least, Leeds’ final Faversham Garden Party of the year. It’s getting us all a little hot under the collar just thinking about them.

The mix though comes from our preferred choice this time round, Freeze in Liverpool. The clubnight has been one of the success stories of the year with their unconventional approach to venue choices for their parties, and even though they’re in a club this time round they’re doing a day and night party at Haus Warehouse in the city, with a music policy that reflects the lighter side of house and disco in the day before cranking up the energy once the sun sets.

We picked elusive disco duo Autocycle to drop the mix, their funk laced take on house and disco perfectly representative of the daytime grooves that go hand in hand with the event. We spoke to them earlier in the year which you can check here, but other than that just enjoy the mix.

#44 - Steve Aoki (Creamfields)

For what seems like an eternity there's been a constant in our lives come the end of the British Summer - Creamfields. The Bank Holiday festival has always been the cornerstone of every dance music fan's calender and the success of the gathering continues to gather apace - it's currently on target to sell out for the sixth consecutive year. 2013 has seen the announcement of some pretty spectacular news surrounding the new production put into the main stage, so in honor of that we decided to get a mix form a DJ who understand the full force of the intensity Creamfields represents - Steve Aoki.

The American superstar has a reputation for excess (crowd surfing, cake throwing and that rider) but it's only allayed to the manner in which he relays this knack to clubbers, delivering sets that traverse house, electro, techno and dubstep for full frontal explosions of sound. This set showcases that full throttle hedonism, recorded when he made his Cream debut back in may this year.

Also spotlighted in this week's episode are the following five events:

Under & Gorilla present Radio Slave @ Gorilla 

Cream Ibiza @ Privilege 

Ruckus On The Beach with Miguel Campbell @ Middlesbrough

Brunel Rooms Opening Weekend (Thurs-Sat) Swindon 

Back To Basics with Carl Craig @ Leeds Warehouse 

#43 - The Head Gardener (Secret Garden Party)

We’ve been big fans of the Secret Garden Party here at Skiddle HQ for a few years now, the soiree rightfully attaining the status as one of the most loved boutique festivals in the UK. The attention to detail to the entire experience remains unrivalled and in terms of charm, they don’t come much better than SGP.

Although it’s a festival that’s well-endowed in the headliners department (2ManyDJs, Mistajam and David Rodigan number in this year's DJs) the family feel of their residents has been one of the key components of their musical make-up, headed up by The Head Gardener. So when we announced we’d be selling tickets for the gathering recently, we knew we had to spotlight his mix on our podcast series.

The podcast also throws some love to five other big events coming up over the next fortnight, with Leeds tyros mono_cult heading to London, Barcelona clubFACT doing the same, the Brazilica Festival afterparty in Liverpool, Australian bass fiend FLUME hitting Gorilla in Manchester and the monolithic Size in the Parkup in Scotland.

#42 - LWE with Dan Drastic

We’re onto the forty second edition of our Weekends Matter podcast, and the love this time round falls onto one of our favoured London promoters, LWE. They are celebrating their third birthday on Saturday with a Moon Harbour showcase that features Azari and III, Mirko Loko, Matthias Tanzmann, Italoboyz and many more,

The mix here is helmed by Deutsch don Dan Drastic, curating a connoisseur’s selection of upfront house which offers a snapshot into what to expect this weekend at the event. Since first recording for Moon Harbour in 2008, Dan has gone onto curate their monthly radio shows, alternating with Luna City Express, and as such as become a consistent influence within the label and their output.

Alongside Dan’s mix the podcast also peaks into some of our picks for this weekend as well, Back to Basics in Leeds with James Zabiela, Jack Groove getting MK down to Coventry and Manchester’s Beatnik, as well as a look over to a couple of European festivals - Fresh Island Festival in Croatia and Serbia’s Exit Festival.