Fans of dance music are in for a treat at this year’s Hidden Door Festival at The Complex on Dalkeith Road, taking place from Wednesday 31 May to Sunday 4 June. Bringing a much bigger programme of electronic music to this year’s festival, the 500-capacity Club Space will be the centre of a non-stop pulsating party, with back-to-back tunes from some of the best DJs and electronic artists around.

The ‘General’ will lead the charge on the opening night on Wednesday, as we see a welcome return to Jacuzzi General and the Jets from Paradise Palms Records. There follows a much-anticipated two-hour “boiler-room” set from Edinburgh-based German-born DJ Prosumer. Expect anything and everything from old school house to deep, dark disco.

Thursday brings a different vibe with the Samedia Shebeen late night party, featuring Glasgow’s Butho the Warrior. In a night that celebrates the history of Afrobeat, you’ll be taken on a journey from the homegrown sounds of late 60s and 70s Lagos to its current influences in modern club culture.

Based on the huge success of last year’s festival, Friday night sees the return of SISU – a collective of women and non-binary DJs challenging male domination of the industry. Expect an upbeat evening of dance music euphoria from the high-energy, multi-genre DJ Melati, electro and video artist Penstkart and Swiss-born trance and techno DJ Tsuniman.

Saturday presents the all-female DJ collective EPiKA, an Edinburgh-based offshoot of SISU with a host of talented DJs including the fast-paced techno, DnB and jungle sounds of DarkAli, the ‘murderous but groovy’ techno of Violet Haze and the harder, darker techno and emotive electro of ona:v, who makes a welcome return from last year’s festival.

The final Sunday night features another epic night of chilled out tunes from the SISU collective, bringing the London-based, all-female collective GUYZ, whose musical energy spans from experimental techno to percussive rhythms and ambient sounds. To close the final night of 2023, we’ll have a set from Glasgow-based KAVARI, who fuse industrial, ambient, club and pop into her own unique sound.

And if all that wasn’t enough for all the electro-music enthusiasts among you, the Hidden Door team has found a new way to bring you even more! Descend into the depths of the former Scottish Widows office block and you’ll find Environment 6 “Holocene”, where Edinburgh producer Doug MacDonald, aka Exterior, will perform live every night alongside a series of guest DJs and music producers each night, which including SISU founder Malissa (Sunday) and Glasgow-based Sofay.