Despite the chilling winds and freezing temperatures, when you need a beer, you need a beer… And what better way to consume it than also soaking in the sublime sounds of Future Classic’s local stars Jamie Lloyd and Jimi Polar? But with beers at over $8 a pop, Ladylux isn’t necessarily the best place to spend your night drinking the said beverages… but with such quality music on offer, sometimes your wallet just has to be sacrificed.

Ladylux is nice small, intimate venue with quirky décor, good facilities and a really nice sound system. The bar staff are friendly, the dance floor nice and spacious with really comfy couches at the front. So on Friday night the club made for a great venue to host the musical glory that was to come.

I entered the club to see three different DJs at the helm. It felt to me as though their contrasting music styles didn’t really gel together, and thus it didn’t make for smooth listening. At one stage Larry Heard’s beautiful The Sun Can’t Compare was mixed into a generic dancefloor number, and these ups and downs continued until Gary took the decks by his lonesome.

Gary, who also runs the Bread & Butter night, has a unique music taste that comes as a nice surprise amongst the swarm of ‘minimal’ DJs out there. At one point he even had the dancefloor rocking to the beautiful beat-less track, Ricardo Villalobos’s Waiworinao. It takes a special DJ to not only have the balls to drop a song like this, but also make it seem so smooth and so danceable.

With the club reaching full capacity at 2pm, it was time for Jimi and Jamie to take centre stage. Showcasing a relatively new set, one encompassing the burgeoning sounds from Germany and the techno of Detroit, their set was specifically constructed for the dance floor – which reflected in the reaction it got from the dancefloor.

With Jamie armed with Ableton Live and a pioneer FX unit, and Jimi surrounded by various analogue keyboards and sound effects, they created dancefloor mayhem that harnessed the cosmic craziness of early Star Wars soundtracks and putting it behind a four-four beat.

Live music always has a different energy when compared to your normal DJ set. There’s just something about people touching keyboards and turning knobs that injects a certain magic into the music. The amount of fun the boys had on stage was a pleasure to watch: constantly giving each other high fives and greeting each crazy crowd reaction with a warm smile. It was this ‘fun’ energy that was an integral part of the show and made for a very, very good night of music.

After awhile though, the set did start to get a bit repetitive. With Jimi just adding noises on top of the tracks that Jamie was sequencing on his laptop, it all just started to sound the same. That said, I believe it will be only a matter of time before the pair gels together and ‘creates’ the music as opposed to just playing it.

After their set ended to a rapturous applause, it was already 4am and I quickly hauled my drunken ass back to bed. It’s really good to see such quality nights as Bread & Butter pushing an alternative form of music and hosting such quality artists on their lineup, with previous artists including Deepchild, Simon Caldwell and Oliver Huntemann. And with Style of Eye playing in a week’s time, Sydney’s winter doesn’t look so cold and miserable after all.