Blood Sugar number fourteen represented something of a renaissance for Delirium’s long running house, tek and tribal evening, primarily due to a new home, and renewed energy.

The latest venue is of course the Ambar, and the switch was right on the money – with the enclosed, removed-from-the-outside-world feel of the club restoring the pressure cooker atmosphere that existed way back in the evening’s early incarnations at Geisha. With the vibe now well and truly set, all residents MRW, Warren 10, Chad D and Troy had to do was supply the usual high quality flow of tunes.

MRW opened up proceedings, and as the night approached 11:30 he set an atmosphere on the moody tribal tip, which built anticipation nicely for the more frenetic pace which would later emerge. Towards the end of his set J worked in a little funky tekno, before winding up on a rollicking house tune with attitude laden vocals from Miss Thing. The jackin’ house sound was picked up by Warren who took to the decks a little after midnight, and enthusiastically worked the crowd into peak time mode.

The intensity of the dubby house cuts gradually built over the early phases, before Warren started dropping some heavy percussive numbers, most notably Peace Division’s remix of Sunflowers from Agent Sumo. The turnout for the night was strong with the dance floor pretty full most of the time, and the club was now well and truly alive with energy. Warren continued to play in excellent fashion, transitioning with lengthy, well timed and nicely placed mixes. An intensely rhythmic cut off tek-house maestro Tony Thomas’s Living It EP, was one of the best passages.

Warren kept the styles shifting, moving into some filtered stuff in the latter stages which went down nicely, and even some decidedly old-school sounding house awash with piano and uplifting rhythm.

Control was handed over to Chad at 2:00, who took the aural offerings back to a minimal 4 by 4 sound for awhile; numbers such as the tek-house classic Let Yourself Go, imparting a hypnotic groove over the dance floor. Chaddy eventually paid off the building intensity with some climatic cuts in the final half and hour, most notably the awesome, banging tek-house tune Understanding off Edge records.

The night was finally concluded on the teckno side of things by Troy. I was not personally witness to most of that set, but reports are that he took the evening home in style.

It was great to see one of Perth’s best local nights returning to great form, and word has it that the Ambar will now house proceedings for a while to come, which will definitely keep Blood Sugar a key date on the dance music calendar.