The Sub Club in Glasgow is one of those legendary clubs that balances a great venue with an always up-for-it crowd and a consistently solid music policy, whether from local or international guests. This double mix CD encapsulates that vibe perfectly.

What the Hacienda club did to Manchester, the Sub Club has done to Glasgow, albeit in a fashion that belies the nature of the local Weegies: understated and underground. In the crowded Scottish basement, you can almost picture the relatively new house music scene growing from the bottom up over 20 years ago to the vast empire it has become today, and the Subculture disc epitomises this vision.

At the controls for the Subculture disc are two long-term residents of the club, Harri & Domenic, who put forth a disc brimming with the big names of the scene. Kickstarting things is the immense Mind Of A Machine by none other than Carl Craig, who joins the likes of Derrick May, Quadrant and Galaxy to Galaxy. However, while the names are big, the disc is not about the big tunes.

In fact, rather than being a collection of club stormers, the mix combines carefully selected timeless tracks in a slow-building, mesmerising quagmire of techno and house that would be as at home in an intimate British basement party as it would in the background at your neighbours house party. Conversely, the second disc is more eclectic, less structured and errs on the side of the avante-garde.

The Optimo disc lowers the tempo somewhat by including funk, punk and disco elements along with the obligatory banging techno given by none other than Jeff Mills. The Orb, Madlib and Lindstrom all contribute, with classics like Amnesia’s Ibiza stealing the show. Generally, I found both discs to have a very high repeat listening value which is a testament not only to the timelessness of the tracks, but the genius of the track selection.

If you’ve never been to the Sub Club, I cannot recommend it highly enough. But if Glasgow isn’t on your travel itinerary in the foreseeable future, picking up this double disc should tide you over until it is.