C2C

Italy
November 3 - November 5

Formerly known as Club to Club, C2C Festival takes place at Lingotto Fiere in Turin, an Italian city best known for its cars and chocolate. The venue is a 44,000 square metre exhibition centre that, fittingly, once housed a Fiat factory. This year marks C2C's 20th anniversary, with a lineup that brings electronic music powerhouses alongside more experimental club sounds. Look forward to Arca, Jamie xx and Autechre to Lyra Pramuk, AYA and Deena Abdelwahed.

RA Pick: Two Shell's delirious pop edits.

HOMOBLOC

United Kingdom
November 5

Homobloc returns to Depot Mayfield, the home of The Warehouse Project in Manchester, for a huge queer block party across four spaces, fundraising for several LGBTQ+ causes. With the Depot dressed to the nines with kaleidoscopic production and stage performers, the lineup will offer up a melting point of buoyant and melodic club music—from the uplifting vocal house of Honey Dijon and the ravey edits of Bored Lord, to Job Jobse's '90s anthems and local legend DJ Paulette's groove-led selections.

RA Pick: Róisín Murphy's live show is an attitude-filled spectacle that often comes with multiple brilliant costume changes.

Positive Education

France
November 8 - November 13

This will be the sixth and final year that Positive Education festival takes place at Quartier Manufacture, an 18th-century weapons factory in Saint-Étienne, France. Next year, the festival will move to a new industrial location, but not without first hosting a big farewell party for their veteran space. As always, the lineup champions artists at the forefront of various electronic sounds, welcoming everything from Mama Snake's breakneck techno to Sky H1 and Mika Oki's ambient explorations.

RA Pick: Don't miss Iceboy Violet, one of Manchester's most exciting rising artists, performing live.

Le Guess Who?

Netherlands
November 10 - November 13

In the student city of Utrecht, local artists join a plethora of global underground creatives for the 15th edition of Le Guess Who?. The festival takes place across a series of settings, including the impressive Grote Zaal and Hertz Auditorium, renowned for its brilliant acoustics. Nia Archives, DJ Munchi and "South Africa's Mozart" Abdullah Ibrahim join the ever-evolving lineup. Brussels-based duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul hone in on racism, misogyny and post-colonialism through their music, with Timedance head Batu curating a programme of his own.

RA Pick: KMRU and Aho Ssan will perform Limen, an emotionally charged collaborative work born out of Berlin Atonal's Metabolic Rift edition.

MIRA Festival

Spain
November 11 - November 12

A radiant audiovisual wonderland of digital installations, screenings and 4D art shows compliment the two-day music programme at MIRA, taking place at Fira de Montjuïc in Barcelona. Orbital perform their latest album 30 Something on Friday night at the Cloud Stage, defining an epic trajectory of sound evolution over the last three decades. Soft Crash AKA Phase Fatale and Pablo Bozzi perform their debut album Your Last Everything, while Special Request is guaranteed to ignite the crowd.

RA Pick: Chaos magic and all that forward-thinking electronica from Squarepusher.

Primavera Santiago

Chile
November 12 - November 13

Spanish festival Primavera attracts people of all ages and from all walks of life thanks to its wide-ranging programming. The global brand now makes its debut in South America, with a marathon event in Chile's capital that's due to shed more light on the local scene. Over the course of a week, a host of regional and international names will play at various locations around the city, including a sprawling park that once hosted the United Nations' climate negotiations. Expect percussive wizardry from the likes of Sangre Nueva, hybrid club delights by Badsista and furious techno courtesy of VTSS back-to-back LSDXOXO.

RA Pick: Sweltering dembow and mutant gqom will go head-to-head in a NAAFI versus Nyege Nyege showcase, featuring Debit, Fausto Bahia, Mexican Jihad, Authentically Plastic, MC Yallah, Debmaster and others.

Polaris Festival

Switzerland
November 18 - November 19 and November 25 - November 27

Polaris Festival returns after a three-year hiatus to a huge dome in the mountains in Verbier, Switzerland. On top of the breathtaking Swiss Alps, attendees will have the option to ski and dance over two weekends in November, with the first weekend featuring an opening collaboration with Montreux Jazz Festival. DJ sets to look forward to include Gabrielle Kwarteng, BICEP, Shanti Celeste and Chez Damier.

RA Pick: Look out for New York via Berlin DJ Gabrielle Kwarteng, whose eclectic blend of house, East Coast club and hardcore music will surely bring the house down.

MUTEK MX

Mexico
November 23 - November 27

Music is a sensory experience and it deserves to be seen and heard. There's nothing better than face-melting electronics against hypnotic visuals. MUTEK is a leading name in audiovisual technologies and both gearheads and artists keenly anticipate its carefully curated programme in Mexico's capital city, which seeks to capture "collaboration between humans and technology," all year long. From Caterina Barbieri's modular manoeuvres to Andy Stott's cinematic sound, this edition will be a feast for the eyes and ears.

RA Pick: Tristan Arp's mutating polyrhythms and syncopated grooves that seem to pulse with a life of their own.

Herfstdrift Festival

Netherlands
November 25 - November 26

There's something special about hearing slamming techno or stinging electro in an industrial complex. The austere setting increases the urgency of the dance, encouraging reckless abandon and dramatic flair. The team behind Drift, a veteran promoter in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, know this all too well. That's why they keep returning to De Vasim, a massive venue that once housed power stations and factories, for Herfstdrift Festival. Each edition features stacked lineups and this year is no different. Experimentalists and rave purists alike will be satisfied with curation featuring object blue and TSVI's head-spinning body music to a live set by DMX Krew.

RA Pick: Hyperaktivist's style of fast and funky techno, breaks and trance will feel like a sonic missile.

Sanctum Festival

United States
November 25 - November 27

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Sanctum is a new Chicago festival bringing together lovers of industrial, electro, post-punk and more for a weekend of "dark music." The likes of Phase Fatale, Andi and Boy Harsher will perform across two beloved Chicago venues, the historic Thalia Hall and the intimate Empty Bottle. Don't forget the dress code–the theme for Sanctum's debut outing is "blasphemy."

RA Pick: Boy Harsher's retro, cinematic sound will transport you to lands far away from the Windy City.