Detroit techno and house royalty Mike Huckaby is returning to Australia later this month. Already playing Subsonic, now he’s announced an intimate Sydney headline show. Huckaby has been on the scene for well over 20 years, and if his most recent release is anything to go by (a remix of Motor City Drum Ensemble’s killer Raw Cuts), he’s still at the very top of his game. He’ll hit the Burdekin Hotel on Friday November 28.

Iranian-American Dubfire (aka Ali Shirazinia) will return to Sydney next month. Last seen in Australia for Future Music Festival, this time around he’ll be performing a series of intimate club shows. He’s one half of the Grammy-award winning duo Deep Dish, his SCI+TEC imprint is recognised as one of the top techno labels in the world, and he’ll be hitting the Greenwood Hotel on Saturday December 20.

Two of the biggest names on the 2014 OutsideIn bill have locked in a last-minute Sydney headline show. Giraffage and Brenmar will be taking to the Oxford Art Factory this Thursday November 20 joined by local heroes Polographia and Mike Who. Be quick.

Tour rumours: thought that all of the parties taking place over the NYE/NYD period had been announced? Think again. Word on the grapevine is that a few more heavy-hitting internationals still have tours to be announced, including Oliver $, Franky Rizardo and Crazy P.Stay tuned.

For the DJs out there, Pioneer have just announced a brand new digital deck. Dubbed the XDJ-1000, it comes with a major difference to their standard CDJ line – it’s the first deck that won’t play CDs. Yep, only USBs. Sure to be the most divisive release on the market this year, it’ll also feature a touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard for track searching. It’ll be available for purchase next month.

Best releases this week: Atom™’s Ground Loop (on The Bunker New York) is slaying me. It’ll crush a lot of dreams if he does not play a Sydney show when he visits for Adelaide Festival next March. Other highlights include Locked Groove’s Enigma (on Hotflush), Blacknecks006 (on Blacknecks) and Plant43’s Scars of Intransigence (on Shipwrec).

Recommended:

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20

Giraffage, Brenmar

Oxford Art Factory

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21

Jonas Kopp

Burdekin Hotel

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22

Lost Disco: Seth Troxler, Âme, Pachanga Boys,Optimo

Greenwood Hotel

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23

Stimming

The Spice Cellar

Laura Jones,Gavin Herlihy

S.A.S.H

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28

Powell

The Imperial Hotel

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29

OutsideIn:Pantha Du Prince, Seekae, Client Liaison

Manning Bar, Sydney University

THURSDAY DECEMBER 5

Claude VonStroke

The Spice Cellar

SATURDAY DECEMBER 13

Robag Wruhme

The Spice Cellar

SUNDAY DECEMBER 14

Vakula

Sydney’s National Art School

SATURDAY DECEMBER 20

Lido, SOPHIE, Nadus and QT

The Metro Theatre

SUNDAY DECEMBER 21

House Shoes

Sydney’s National Art School

THURSDAY JANUARY 1

Spice Afloat:Space Dimension Controller, Trus’Me (UK), Oliver Koletzki (GER), Niko Schwind

Sydney Harbour

SATURDAY JANUARY 10

Tycho

The Hi-Fi

SUNDAY JANUARY 11

Omar-S

Sydney’s National Art Schooll

FRIDAY JANUARY 16

Omar Souleyman

The Aurora

SATURDAY JANUARY 17

Tim Hecker, Ben Frost

Sydney Opera House

SUNDAY JANUARY 25

Mister Saturday Night

Sydney’s National Art School

Leon Vynehall

The Metro Theatre

Nightmares on Wax

The Aurora

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8

DJ EZ

Sydney’s National Art School

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22

Moodymann

Sydney’s National Art School

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