I love techno and much more

November has room both for crazy techno-raves with armour-piercing line-ups of artists and for refined cultural events with no less — and sometimes even more — interesting headliners. The main thing is that everyone finds an event to their taste. It doesn't matter whether it's in Buenos Aires, pulsing with Latin rhythms, or a Polish town with a remarkable parachute tower.

The 7th international festival of electronic music and the arts, Club to Club, is devoted to contemporary music and art in their most whimsical manifestations. Over three festival days the organisers will present to progressive Italians and their guests the very latest achievements in the field of electronic music, design and other kinds of contemporary art. By tradition, one day of the festival takes place in two countries at once. Last year it was Berlin; next in line is another pulsing hotspot of fashionable Europe — Barcelona. The name of the headliner for the special closed opening (sounds funny, doesn't it?) of the festival in Turin is still being kept secret. The remaining participants are already confirmed: Akufen, William Basinski, Digitalism, D-I-R-T-Y, Fairmont, Fovea Hex, Stefan Goldmann, Green Velvet, James Holden, Kalabrese, Larsen, Jeff Mills, Tobi Neumann, Onur Ozer, Mauro Picotto, Troy Pierce, Undo, Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic).

Creamfields is gradually taking over the whole world like McDonald's. This time one of the world's most famous dance festivals will take place in the capital of sunny Argentina. The top item on the menu is The Chemical Brothers. As they say, have a taste of a legend! Carl Cox, Hernan Cattaneo, John Digweed, Dubfire (Deep Dish), LCD Soundsystem, James Zabiela, 2 Many DJs, Tiefschwarz, Craig Richards, Christian Smith, Martin Garcia, Mark Farina, Mathias Schaffhauser, Zuker, Wally Lopez and more.

Another example of a successful festival franchise is Mayday. In November its venue will be Poland. So if you feel it's worth it, you won't have to travel far at all. The autumn Mayday will take place in the town of Katowice, whose main landmark is a parachute tower built in 1937. Though, to understand why a techno-rave is happening precisely there, it's enough to glance at the town's coat of arms with its hammer and some huge cogwheel. Besides this, Katowice is a twin town of the German techno capital Cologne. Announced for the festival: Westbam, Chris Liebing, Tocadisco, Cari Lekebusch, Umek, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Moguai, Hardy Hard.

From a modest club event the Belgian festival has grown to a pan-European scale. Besides its decent artist line-ups, the festival is always noted for its clear organisation. This matters for an event visited annually by over 30,000 people. This year, by tradition, each dancefloor will have its own colour. So every hunter will be able to find out where his pheasant is sitting: Underworld, Dave Clarke, Justice, Miss Kittin & The Hacker Live, Digitalism, Technasia, Trentemoller, Adam Beyer, Felix Da Housecat, Klaxons, Ellen Allien, Sven Wittekind, Mathew Jonson, Boys Noize.

STRP is pronounced "Stripe" and comes from Strijp-S. This is the name of a huge industrial space that used to belong to "Philips" and now remains for the delight of the young. Besides music, the festival is devoted to what's new in cinema, video art and media art. Besides this year's main heroes The Chemical Brothers and Rosin Murphy, the festival announces: Dave Clarke, Trentemoller, Monolake, Apparat & Band, Speedy J, Daniel Bell, 5MM (Akufen & VJ Coutu-Dumont), District One, Aufgang.

This year Liverpool Music Week will present around 200 musical projects at 15 different Liverpool venues. Among the artists are local young talents and those whose popularity has grown beyond their home town. Besides parties, the festival programme also has room for music seminars featuring important figures from the English music industry. Over the festival's 10 days there will be performances by: The Chemical Brothers, Simian Mobile Disco, New Young Pony Club, Pendulum, Lightspeed Champion, Madness, Candie Payne.