‘I’M buying a house the minute I get back to Glasgow – it’s time to stop spending all my money on shite.” The end of yet another hectic summer season in Ibiza is probably a moment of relative contemplation for a lot of big-hitting DJs, and responsibility comes to us all in the end, but it’s still striking (and ever so slightly sobering) to hear Jack Revill – aka Jackmaster, the most infamous party-boy DJ Glasgow has ever produced – use the word “house” without it being immediately prefaced by “Chicago”.

Thankfully though, fun still plays a central role in Revill’s post-summer plans, despite the addition of title deeds and conveyancing fees to the mix. Along with maintaining his relentless schedule of worldwide club and festival dates, he has just launched Mastermix, an ambitious, pan-European series of club-based parties, with the line-ups curated by Revill and organisation done in conjunction with the Numbers collective of which he has been a part since his mid-teens.

Eagle-eyed readers may recognise the Mastermix name from the mix series Revill has updated once a year since 2012 (all of the mixes can currently be streamed at www.jackmaster.net). There’s a partial connection between the party series and the mix series, though as Revill admits, there’s an element of convenience too. “I’ve always found that the hardest thing in this game is thinking of names for things,” he laughs. “We had dates set in lots of cities but we couldn’t think of a name for the parties. Then someone came up with the idea of using Mastermix and we thought that worked well. If you listen to the mixes, they’re not [as many people have thought] a mix of my favourite tunes that were released that year, they’re just a really varied mix of the stuff I’ve been into recently, which is never just new stuff. So the parties link back to that idea in that they’re me exploring the things that I’m into right now.”

“If I had done this five years ago that would have meant booking dubstep and grime artists, but at the moment it’s different strains of house and techno, whether it’s Moodymann [who plays the Amsterdam leg], garage legends like Artwork, who we’ve booked in Glasgow, or a Chicago legend like Gene Hunt, who we had play the first Mastermix in London last weekend. I’ve tried to represent everything I like in house and techno right now. And if we keep the series going, which I’m hopeful we will, then in five years time it’ll probably mean booking different kinds of stuff again. Being purely a DJ means it’s easy for me to be adaptable like that – producers are a lot more easily typecast but as a DJ I have a lot of creative freedom to jump about stylistically according to what’s striking me most at the time.”

Alongside UK parties in London, Manchester and Glasgow, the Mastermix series, which unfolds over a couple of months in the run up to Christmas, has editions in Dublin, Lisbon and Amsterdam. Aside from the edition at Manchester’s cavernous WHP, Glasgow’s Mastermix has the largest bill of the series, thanks to the multi-stage capabilities of the SWG3 venue chosen for the night. “It’s well documented how in love I am with the Sub Club,” Revill says, “but for the kind of multi-faceted thing we’re doing here it just wasn’t an option.” Attempts to book Numbers’ own Spencer, who taught Revill to DJ and introduced him to everyone from Daft Punk to Underground Resistance, were thwarted by the travel involved in Spencer’s job with Red Bull Music Academy. The bill looks mightily impressive nonetheless though, with dubstep originator Skream, English house legend Mr G, Dutch producer Martyn, Hessle Audio’s Pearson Sound, Jasper James, Peggy Gou, Subculture’s Harri and Domenic and Revill himself playing over three stages.

“Mr G I’m really happy to have got – he’s a true house innovator and a god to me, I really look up to him and have been trying to book him forever but never managed to. I sent him a few nice texts and managed to nail him for this though. He’s great friends with Harri and Domenic, and they’ll be warming up for him along with [Revill’s flatmate and Harri’s son] Jasper James.

“Apart from them, Pearson Sound is someone who is always pushing boundaries and looking to the next thing. People always follow him and try to copy what he does – he blew up a few years ago and then totally changed what he was doing stylistically, and his last few singles have just blown my head off. And Martyn we’ve had over to play a bunch of times – his tunes are always so consistent and he was one of first people who turned me onto dubstep.

“Artwork brings something to the party that nobody else can,” he continues. “Not only does he play good music but his personality is just incredible. When Artwork enters a room it turns everything on its head, he’s the funniest guy I know. And I’ll be playing b2b with Skream, who’s one of my best pals in the world. Without him bigging me up years ago I wouldn’t be doing this job on the scale I am now – he was the Jackmaster hype man for two years.”

Aside from these big names, Mastermix Glasgow also finds Revill paying forward Skream’s patronage by playing the hype man for a relative unknown in Peggy Gou. “She’s a Korean DJ I ran into on a random night off at a bar in Bristol and was really impressed by,” he explains. “I’m very rarely blown away by a DJ to be honest but she’s incredibly good. I said to her that night that I was going to try and book her for some gigs, so it’s great to get her up for it.”

With a contacts book containing almost every credible name in the business and an endless thirst for musical discovery, it’s easy to imagine Revill and Numbers turning Mastermix into a “runner”, both creatively and financially. All of which should keep fans and mortgage lenders alike very happy indeed.

Mastermix Glasgow is at SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place on Friday, October 7, 9pm to 2am, £18