Legends of the floor

Music

Two of the most influential and respected figures in dance music join forces as Fabric presents Music. Detroit's Jeff Mills and Paris's Laurent Garnier are renowned as the mack daddies of full-on techno, each with careers spanning more than 15 years.

But tonight - and this is what makes Music such a draw - they play seven hours of forgotten dance music. Think Motown, funk, rare groove, house, hip hop and so much more. Both have always approached techno from outside of the box, with Mills incorporating synchronised samples and visuals of Sister Sledge and the Sugarhill Gang at this year's Sonar, while Garnier drops d'n'b in his techno sets. They play individually before going back-toback for a couple of hours. A school night it may be but this is the kind of one-off experience that you rarely see in clubland. So hats off to Fabric for inspired programming. Early arrival is essential.

Haywire Ninth Birthday Session
One of our own iconic dance music figures, Andy Weatherall, celebrates nine years of his club night and label tomorrow with the Haywire Ninth Birthday Session. If anyone can be a dance music maverick, then it's Weatherall who, aside from producing Primal Scream's Screamadelica, is a fearsome electro and machine-funk DJ. His recent Two Lone Swordsmen LP (with Keith Tenniswood) is as much informed by 1950s pyschobilly as electronica, yet Weatherall is also a big fan of grime ('it's techno/electro with more swing, innit?' he told us). The line-up reflects this eclecticism as Weatherall is joined by Detroit's Richie Hawtin (he's up there with Mills and Garnier) cutting, pasting, chopping and splicing records and CDRs like you've never seen - or heard - before.

Red Alert
Another legend rolls into town tomorrow as Red Alert shifts to Neighbourhood following its brief stint at the Islington Academy.

Although our abiding memory of him is in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (forever being thrown out of the house by Uncle Phil), Jazzy Jeff Townes is a prodigiously gifted DJ and producer. He can do hip hop (his 2002 LP, The Magnificent, is the most musically rich hip hop around), hip pop (he produced Summertime and Will Smith's Willennium), sumptuous soul (his A Touch Of Jazz production unit is behind Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild and Floetry) and jazzy house. On top of that, he's a DJ worthy of the superstar tag - time and again he's proved to be the most entertaining hip hop DJ we've ever heard.

Hospitality
The unofficial home of lush, deep d'n'b that still manages to induce tinnitus, Hospitality, welcomes soulful d'n'b's Welsh wunderkind High Contrast to launch his High Society LP. It's a breakneck exploration of stirring, widescreen soul, which is one of the few recent dance music albums that works at home, with songs galore (some with uplifting vocals, some with MCs). Matrix brings his superior take on d'n'b as Landslide and Chris Goss keep things (relatively) chilled upstairs.

Tonight, Music, Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street EC1, 9pm to 4am, £15. Tel: 020 7336 8898. www.fabriclondon.com Tube: Farringdon Tomorrow, Haywire Ninth Birthday Session, Rouge, 144 Charing Cross Road WC2, 11pm to 6am, £12 adv, £15 door. Tel: 0845 6444 4737. www.haywire.co.uk Tube: Tottenham Court Road Tomorrow, Red Alert, Neighbourhood, 12 Acklam Road W10, 8pm to 2.30am, £10 adv, £12 door. Tel: 020 7727 9950. www.neighbourhoodclub.net Tube: Ladbroke Grove Tomorrow, Hospitality, Herbal, 10-14 Kingsland Road E2, 9pm to 3am, £4 before 10.30pm, £7 after. Tel: 020 7613 4462. www.herbaluk.com Tube: Old Street