CLUBS: Laur above

During a 20-year career behind the decks, he’s held residencies in some of the world’s most talked-about clubs – the Hacienda, Yellow, Robert Johnson, The End and, of course, the Rex in Paris.

He’s released a succession of heavyweight dance floor anthems, from the relentless techno pulse of Crispy Bacon and moody Detroitisms of Acid Eiffel to the end-of-night jazz-house release that is the seminal Man with the Red Face.

There have been numerous studio albums, and an epic, five-CD mix album, Excess Luggage. He’s devoted an unnatural amount of time to his automated Internet radio station, PBBR, and written a lengthy semi-autobiographical book, Electrochoc.

Laurent Garnier has even found time to put together a band and tour an experimental jazz-techno-hip-hop live show.

Tales of a Kleptomaniac, his new full-length CD, is arguably his most rounded work to date, mixing dubstep-influenced hip-hop and politically-aware dance floor jazz workouts with slick techno, raucous drum& bass and dubwise downtempo flavours.

“There are five of us in the band, a proper full live show with a brass section, a keyboardist and a guitar player”, says the Frenchman.

Pressure with Laurent Garnier @ O2 Academy, Friday March 5, 10:30pm - 3am, £18 plus bf.

Roll up for the circus

The Garage holds its 16th Birthday Party tomorrow, celebrating many moons of doing what they do best: having fun and being silly! Join in the celebrations and head to The Garage Circus and expect naughty clowns, balloon models, face painting, candy floss, silly games and one mammoth prize.

One lucky customer and their friend will win a trip to Las Vegas, that’s Vegas baby and stay at the Circus Circus hotel!

The Garage 16th Birthday Party, tomorrow, 10pm, £5/3

Touching bass

How’s Your Party? welcomes two of the foremost exponents of modern bass culture to Sub Club tomorrow.

Caspa has ridden the wave of the dubstep phenomenon and is among the cream of subsonic dynamos responsible for reshaping electronic music in recent years.

Alongside production partner Rusko, Caspa has been responsible for some of the biggest and best dubstep tracks to emerge from the scene.

Having been at the forefront of the dubstep scene through his residency at London’s seminal nightclub Fabric, his massive Fabric Live 37 DJ mix and his labels Dub Police and Sub Soldiers, Caspa has played a major role in helping the bass heavy, dirty dubstep sound become the defining club style of the millennium so far.

His debut album Everyone’s Talking, Nobody’s Listening and his massive remixes of TC, Kid Sister, Art Of Noise and Rusko have confirmed his rank as No.1 sub soldier and his flawless and amped-up DJ sets have taken him to every corner of the globe.

Toddla T, meanwhile, is everyone’s favourite electro skanker, responsible for the very best modern dancehall and bassline beats to emerge from these shores.

His Skanky Skanky album, released in early 2009, features collaborations with artists as diverse as Roots Manuva, Herve and MC Serocee and joins the dots between traditional Jamaican soundsystem culture and contemporary British bass music and sounds like no-one else out there.

It followed on from production for Roots Manuva’s latest album and a slew of high-profile remixes for Roisin Murphy, Horace Andy, Jamie T and Grand Puba, helping to secure his status. Bass in the place...