Having walked in around half-way through Anna Ce’s opening set, the venue was by then already infused with the warmth of her delicious music. It occurred to me to describe it as ‘sub’ progressive because it seemed to pull us deeper than is often found with said style, with beautifully smooth and seamlessly phrased blossoming, blooming, liquid clarity from the sound system. Anna mixes solid bass lines with treble sweetness. The tunes wash and converge with steady, even-flowing riffs that underpin a gentle cataclysm of brighter, crisper leading elements. A proper journey is established and ensured, but the course remains flexible. Having been taken on an auditory trip from just below the clouds to close to the ocean floor, Anna performed a smooth landing back in to the belly of more recognizable progressive elements for the change-over.

Andrew Till cleverly built upon Anna’s momentum and then he cranked it up to high intensity. Then, something I have never seen before, he brought the dance floor to almost zero decibel audibility (pin-drop territory) with a structured narrative of beats. Having been DJing since the late ‘80s, and being co-founder of Melbourne’s first dedicated underground electronic label Psy-Harmonics, Andrew remains prepared to experiment and move throughout the genres. Much of his set felt as though on cruise mode, but the interest on the dance floor was sustained. For me, the middle section left me drifting towards other paradigms, but at some point I was brought back by a bright, brittle core stimulus, which sustained crescendos and power-pulsing lifts and gains.

With the arrival of Simon Slieker at the decks the packed dancefloor took on a revived sense of appreciation and anticipation. Simon is a man of positive, grounded and logical philosophy. A tall, lean, and keen-eyed figure of a tech-musician, he carries the essence of a genuine leader. He led us in to his set with crisp, cranking, genre-belting production. Tapping in well with the buzz of his audience, Simon is one of those artists that can communicate without doing anything. His focus was upon ensuring the absolute clarity and accuracy of his technical support base. Hence, all necessary aspects were sorted, and from there he poured out the grooves.

The music was neither psy, prog, trance, electro, techno or anything so readily distinguishable, and yet it was all of that. I lost a thread after that initial pulse, so my tiredness took over somewhat and I went to head home. But the residual indicators, as I headed out the door, were that anything might happen. Judging by dedicated group still amassed upon the dance floor, I have little doubt it did.