Bristol Techno Nights

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Bristol's Techno Scene

Techno is a big deal in Bristol, book the right names or build a strong enough reputation and you’re gonna need a seriously big club to keep everyone happy. And so Bristol has Motion, masterfully converted into a 1200+ capacity nightclub from derelict warehouse via a skatepark. If Motion is Bristol’s techno castle then there’s no denying Just Jack is king. Reigning for over a decade, Just Jack have enough programming muscle to pull names like Ricardo Villalobos and Omar S. If there’s a secret to the ultimate big-room techno experience, then Motion knows it.

On the other hand, if there’s a secret to healthy techno scene, then Bristol has totally nailed it. While tickets for Just Jack, Apex and Tribe of Frog may sell in their thousands, some of Bristol’s most forward thinking techno nights have capacities for just one or two hundred. The Prison Cells at The Island have become an unlikely home to some of the most adventurous dance music in Bristol. Promoters like Room 237 and Timedance are putting out challenging and thought-provoking line-ups with past guests including the likes of Surgeon, Untold, Asusu and Helena Hauff.

If techno had a spiritual home in Bristol, it would be Lakota. With 4 rooms, a back-to-basics yard and a pair of coroners courtrooms for larger events, Lakota is Bristol’s ultimate techno playground. The venue has found favour with pervasive promoters including the electro-techno focused Get Born and bass techno masters Wide Eyes.

Amongst the city’s resident house music djs, many of Bristol’s best techno djs regularly play Bristol’s smaller clubs and bars. Dojos, The Love Inn, The Doghouse and the Small Horse Inn to name a few.

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Our recent techno recommendations

Sell out warning! Teachings & Deep Medi lock in for a joint birthday weekender - we don't need a lineup to know this will be SEISMIC!!! FRIDAY : THE W/ENDER : MEDi20 x T.I.D.19 at The Trinity Centre.

Woi oi! Iconic 'ardkore action incoming from the unrivaled Moving Shadow fold! Reinforced / Altern8 / Shut Up And Dance heads will already have their tickets of course. For everyone else: breakbeat ravestalgia doesn’t come much ruffer than 2 Bad Mice, chopping samples and bombing tha bass like it was the Second Summer of Love all over again. 2 Bad Mice + Friends at The Jam Jar.

East-repping cult of the machine spawns in a sparkling-fresh, bespoke-sound-kitted archway in BS5. Surgeons Girl, notorious for hardware heavy sets, brings cosmic beatless and beating 150+ bpm techno propulsion while Delay Grounds and Thomas Ridley divine high-res 5k ultra doof from incomprehensible modular systems. SPOOL Late - Surgeons Girl, Delay Grounds, Dani Whylie, Thomas Ridley at Future Temple.

Thee greatest 2000s disciple of the year 4000 militant warrior stance, King Alpha fires up the Green King subs to celebrate their double digit adventures in community dubswise. Come rally round one of Bristol's best next-gen operations with the rootical steppas of Southall's Eastern Roots; your earplugs won't stop your mind (and your spine) from rumbling to creation. 10 YEARS OF GREEN KING CUTS FT KING ALPHA & EASTERN ROOTS at Green Works.

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What our editors say

“Best known as one half of Karenn alongside Blawan and co-founder of Voam, Pariah has established himself as one of the most distinctive artists in contemporary electronic music. Expect a genre-blurring journey through electro, broken beat, UK bass, techno and beyond.”
From: Playback Events presents: Pariah

“As a DJ he has RANGE, comfortably playing blazing disco boogie at Pickle Factory in London, deep house at TV Lounge in Detroit or raw swingy techno at Greissesmühle in Berlin. 2025 saw him headline Sydney Opera House and play Berghain’s garden before Ben Klock.”
From: Wiper and True's Annual NYE House Party with Red Rack'em

“GiGi FM is a multidisciplinary artist, DJ, producer, dancer, singer-songwriter and poet whose practice moves fluidly between sound, movement and performance. From her beginnings in the underground squat raves of South London to her current home in Berlin, she has developed a genre-fluid musical language spanning techno, bass, breaks, jungle and ambient, carrying dancefloors between intensity, vulnerability and states of ecstasy.”
From: GiGi FM, Jay Galligan & RS Tangent

“J.RAINS joins with a driving mix of prog, acid, breaks and techno. A rising name in Bristol’s queer underground and Embody resident, expect high energy with deeper, hypnotic moments built for the dancefloor.”
From: FIST

“Goth-Trad has been pushing the boundaries of bass music and experimental sound since the late 1990s. His music draws from dub, dubstep, jungle, grime, techno, rave, noise, industrial, and experimental music, constantly evolving into his own unique sound as one of dubstep’s leading artists. Alongside producing and touring, Goth-Trad still runs Japan’s most famous bass driven club night, Back To Chill. Appearing at numerous leading international festivals he remains one of the key figures connecting Japan’s underground sound with the global bass music community.”
From: It's Okay