Sydney-based trio Pivot will be challenging listeners to dance while simultaneously stroking their chins – quite a thing if you can do it – at the Cockpit 3 this Sunday, October 5, as they collide moody modern synthscapes, cutting-edge beats, post-rock attitude and the odd daft noise.

With their entirely instrumental debut album O Soundtrack My Heart being described as "utterly mesmerising" and "manna from futuristic heaven" by publications as diverse as the Independent On Sunday and the NME, this is one that will find favour with a broad spectrum of electronic music fans, from adventurous Vangelis lovers not afraid to rock out, right up to devotees of bleeding edge artists like Metronomy.

Tickets are £6 in advance and doors open at 7pm.

Meanwhile, on the very same night and just up the road at Mission nightclub, bombastic cosmic prog-disco pioneers Midnight Juggernauts will be doing their thing.

Originally scheduled to play at the Cockpit on October 8, the Melbourne three-piece instead hooked up with the brilliant don't-call-us-nu-ravers Late Of The Pier and a roadshow which features both bands and a bumper line-up of DJs, including electro champion Erol Alkan.

The event runs from 9pm until 3am and tickets are £10 in advance.

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