Christmas edges inexorably closer, which means that New Years Eve is just around the corner – but you still just about have time to get in on our two room takeover of Amsterdam’s Melkweg this December 31st (tickets still available for 40 Euros from Ticketmaster):

Leave the festive frenzy where it belongs in 2011, and start 2012 as you mean to go on in the company of none other than: master of Shamanic ceremonies James Holden! DJ-come-lately Apparat! Norfolk knob-twiddler Nathan Fake! Rave Buffalo Luke Abbott! Synth-and-sax synergist Etienne Jaumet! Weird wonder Kate Wax! Welsh mystic Wesley Matsell! And last but by no means least, man-about-Amsterdam-town Jorn Liefdeshuis!

Of course, the hardest part will be choosing between the two competing rooms of music-for-dancing-to, not to mention the BC-approved film selections showing in the Melkweg’s in-house cinema area. So perhaps a few set times would help you plan your New Years Eve manoeuvres down to the letter:

The Max:
22:00 Wesley Matsell
00:00 Apparat
02:00 Nathan Fake
03:00 James Holden

Old Hall:
00:15 Jorn Liefdeshuis
01:30 Etienne Jaumet
02:30 Luke Abbott
03:30 Kate Wax

Or better still, in the spirit of our roaming party mentor An’Unexpectacle, make no plans, and wander aimlessly through the Melkweg complex taking delight wherever you may find it.

In the meantime, how about some prescribed listening to fill your between days festive downtime until the big event? Apparat’s 2010 DJ-Kicks patchwork provides the perfect preparation for one of his rare DJ outings, jostling for a place in your Spotify queue alongside more recent releases from brothers-in-synth Luke Abbott (the invigorating Brazil) and Etienne Jaumet (the brooding Satori). Miss Kate Wax meanwhile will also be stepping out of her usual Dust Collision live orbit to don her DJ cloak of danceability, whose delights might best be previewed in her latest podcast outing for the mighty Drowned In Sound – the grandiosely titled influence-spanning Monolith For The Blues: