Claudio Simonetti's Goblin / Golden Teacher @ Òran Mór, 27 February

Glasgow's Golden Teacher haven't been given enough time to showcase their wares in this support slot. Each slab of their Afro-futurist house, filtered through a smoky dub aesthetic, finds its mark, but ends all too quickly. Their compelling mix of Grace Jones-like, echoing vocals, hypnotic, pulsing percussion and bubbling synth bass evokes a dubbed-out Factory Floor – and begs to be witnessed without constraints. They could have played for ten hours and the crowd would have loved it. 

Tonight, though, we're here to see the composer and lynchpin of Goblin, Claudio Simonetti, backed by session musicians on guitar, bass and drums. The four-piece plunge into a greatest hits set, delivering incendiary takes on their classic themes from Dawn of the Dead, Profondo Rosso, Suspiria and Tenebrae (the last a Vocoder-powered highlight).

The sheer genre-defying experimentation of their performance is what makes them unique, plunging from deep, atmospheric synth workouts – Simonetti playing five synths simultaneously – into wildly over-the-top funk-metal riffage. Their performance is astounding, and for the younger members of the crowd, a revelation – everything from 80s cartoon themes to Clint Mansell's score work bears traces of their DNA. Bands have made entire careers out of aping just four bars of a Goblin standard. Seminal doesn't even cover it. [Bram E. Gieben]