Done properly, a carnival is one of the world’s great spectacles. They take place from Croatia to the Caribbean, New Orleans to Notting Hill, these cavorting, free-flowing, all-day-and-all-night parades.

Brazil’s Carnival is the one we all know about, and for good reason: it is a knees-up like no other. Every year, from Friday until Wednesday at the beginning of Lent, the whole country becomes a party.

With their rivers of peacock suit dancers and booming samba bands, they’re often as close as it gets to peak debauchery: only at the legendary Thai full moon parties or on Sunday at T in the Park will you witness anything quite as bacchanalian.

The epicentre of Carnival is the Sambodromo: the parade avenue, where all of this multicoloured madness takes place. And this weekend, you can get a taste of it in Glasgow. Kind of. Because as you read this, the Spanish party crew Elrow are gearing up to bring their uniquely hedonistic show to Scotland for the first time.

Back in Barcelona, they’re notorious for their weekend-long after-hours bashes in their spiritual home, Row14: a tropical-themed outdoor club right next to the city’s El Prat airport. Here, revellers dance well into the daylight as passenger jets roar overhead: scenes that will be familiar to anyone who ever partied on the terrace at Space Ibiza.

Elrow take over SWG3 on Saturday and Sunday, with a quite stunning lineup waiting to bring a perfect storm of house and techno to the thick jungle foliage of the venue’s Warehouse. Local heroes Jackmaster and Denis Sulta will be tearing it up both days, Valencia’s Edu Imbernon – most famous for his killer remix of The xx’s Crystalised – is also on the bill, as is Barcelona boy De La Swing. Bastian Bux, Robert James and Edinburgh’s dreamy house supremo Theo Kottis also feature.

“Expect stilt-walking samba dancers, wild tropical beasts and lost explorers amidst the thick foliage and exotic jungle blossoms,” says the blurb for this one. If only I hadn’t sworn off mind-blowingly unique and amazing dance parties for Lent, this would be a real goodie.

Before all that descends on SWG3 on Saturday, the club plays host to two nights that couldn’t really be more different. Abandoning the stylish, high-production excess of Elrow, Factory Floor are an electronic duo from London who make dark, squelching, industrial grooves. I stumbled across them at the Captain’s Rest back when they were a three-piece, and their hypnotising live show has ramped up the volume and acid house vibes in the intervening years. Fans of the artier end of techno and electronica will find a lot to enjoy here tonight. And tomorrow, the south London rap squad 67 take to the venue’s TV Studio for a late show that, if it’s anything like their last time in Glasgow, should be gritty, powerful and uncompromising.

* Factory Floor, Thursday, SWG3, 7pm-11pm, £13

* 67, Friday, SWG3, 10pm – 2am, £12

* Elrow: Sambodromo do Brasil, Saturday, SWG3, 6pm-2am, sold out

* Elrow: Sambodromo do Brasil, Sunday, SWG3, 2pm-11pm, £35

Artwork

Artwork has been taking his Art’s House series of parties on the road for a while now. These follow a pattern - they invariably see Art left to his own devices for the whole night, a system that gives the hugely popular Londoner time to limber up, run through the genres, and unleash a never-ending stream of bangers. It seems to be a feature of his sets that he physically incapable of playing a bad tune. It’s a handy skill for a DJ to have, and one that has secured this top patter merchant’s place in Subbie history. Get down there tonight for four solid hours of banging house, techno, and anything good with a 4/4 beat.

Tomorrow night, Bigfoot’s Tea Party return to Jamaica Street with two exceptional guests in town. Willow is Sophie Wilson, a Mancunian producer whose first release, Feel Me, caused a stir in 2014 when it made a surprise appearance on Move D’s Fabric 74 mix. Since then, her low-key, minimalist house has made waves: its sparse, Jamie xx-ish tenderness and sublimely distorted vocals have landed gigs in Berlin, Amsterdam and beyond. Witness it for yourself tomorrow in the intimate surrounds of the Sub Club before she blows up.

* Art’s House, tonight, Sub Club, 11pm – 3am, £8

* Willow, tomorrow, Sub Club, 11pm – 3am, £8

Eli Escobar

It’s time to return to Killer Kitsch. The Buff Club’s evergreen Tuesday night has been taking it easy of late. Not that it hasn’t been active: the long-running party decided to take a break from booking guest DJs in 2016, a decision they’re now ready to distance themselves from with the appearance of New Yorker Eli Escobar next week. He’s been on the scene for over two decades now, and holds down residences across the Big Apple – most notably at his own Tiki Disco parties in happening Brooklyn. A super-hip New Yorker, with a cool-sounding name, playing excellent records all night. What’s not to love?

* Killer Kitsch with Eli Escobar, Tuesday, The Buff Club, 11pm – 3am, £5