Welcome to No Skips. This is the week London exhales. Fewer crowds, longer sets, and parties that feel more about the room than the hype. Here’s a glimpse of what’s on this week and what’s ahead.
January going-out mode
RADAR
Christmas Eve Rave
🗓 WEDNESDAY | 📍Club Makossa
🎫 Tickets Here [Free]
Underground techno and acid on Christmas Eve, free entry with donation. Raw sets, no filler, and a crowd that knows why they’re there. All donations support New Horizons Youth Centre, helping young people affected by homelessness. Rave properly. Give what you can.
Boxing Day w/ Onur Ozer + more
🗓 FRIDAY | 📍FOLD
🎫 Tickets Here
Onur Özer leads a serious main room session at FOLD, deep, hypnotic, no shortcuts. When it shuts, it rolls straight into Starlane for the after. Long hours, locked-in crowd, and energy built for people who don’t check the time.
Marco Carola & Franky Rizardo
🗓 SATURDAY | 📍KOKO
🎫 Tickets Here [Resale]
Marco Carola and Franky Rizardo lock in at KOKO, with Delilah setting the tone. Expect rolling grooves, tight mixing, and a crowd that’s there early and stays put. This one’s about momentum, not surprises.
INSIDER PICK
Drumcity
🗓 SATURDAY | 📍B London
🎫 Tickets Here
The first-ever Drum City lands as a new home for Afro House and forward-facing electronic music in London. This one’s about rhythm, movement, and connection. DJ IC brings Afro House with real soul, D-Malice pushes underground pressure, Bobby Digital blends Afro rhythms with deep electronic textures, Porsh keeps it club-ready, and Loki holds the energy to the end. A proper launch. A new chapter starting loud.
NEW YEAR’S
THE BOOTH
EDITORIAL
An activist group called Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped up to 86 million songs from Spotify, describing the move as a “preservation archive” for music. Spotify says it was not hacked, but unlawfully scraped via third-party accounts, which have now been shut down. The files haven’t been released yet, but the story has sparked concern around copyright, artist control, and the risk of scraped music being used to train AI systems.
With more music released since 2000 than any era before it, Resident Advisor stepped back to map what’s actually lasted. Their list pulls together the most enduring electronic tracks of the 21st century so far. From acid freakouts to deep house, techno to left-field experiments, these are the records that shaped scenes, sparked movements, and still hit when the room’s right.
