Complete mastery bordering on genius: Autonomech aka Autonomous Machine has arrived and everybody is listening to this. Tonight saw the launch of his debut album I/O, released on Zenon with the party presented by Ostara and featuring a host of sensational artists. This proved to be a night of astonishing variety.

The party featured two dance floors, and at times moving between them became an auditory ping pong game; a battle of the senses, and a place where a gentle pause was just as likely to overwhelm the mixture as any single beat might do. Leading in to the main act was Merkaba who took us on a journey within realms of twisted delicacy and complexity; all spiced and spliced and layered with a color wheel of bold structures. Merkaba looks beautiful on stage, swaying and pulsing along with his deck-dancing lightness and slippery grip liquidity. For all the richness in the sound, it is profoundly spare, yet jam packed with mindful content. The leading influence of the music dynamically spearheads along a forward-moving groove, and there is so much space between the notes that the invitation to internally engage is simply irresistible.

In the second room, a solid set of progressive electronica was established by J-Dub and many chose to spend their entire night without leaving that space. On an evening with so much incredible talent running riot with our imaginations, it becomes impossible to decipher just exactly where the brilliance is coming from in that sound, let alone how. It was a case of having to completely surrender to it all and allow oneself to be taken along in the directions of the rolling grooves, sizzling froths and wicked undertows. Along that personal journey though, I discovered some highly inspiring music to which I had previously been a total virgin. My Friend Samuel presented a set that fascinated me with its morphing from one facet to another of crystalline clarity. It was so beguilingly gentle and strong. He thrilled us with some extreme experimentation that shone the brightest light on techno I have seen for quite some time. This artist is completely unique. His music is that caliber of specialness that might see you take this mix to that desert island if you could only take one – eternally comfortable. Morphington played next and he was just as spellbinding. He unlocked the cabinet and threw the keys overboard and the dance floor lifted to stratospheres of joyousness that brought unity and balance to the whole venue. It was damn smooth and just so groovy,, I was again rendered speechless and astonished.

But the night belonged to Autonomech. He stands on that podium with authority and poise, and the actions of his face and figure as he expresses such intense connectivity to his music that to simply watch him do it was a complete treat. Deep, rollicking, fluid, kicking and skipping, trance inducing, dub, glitch, dark psychedelic mind-blowing material. He delivers it as epic, and with such sensitivity that the room sparkles with glitter bombs of radiance and power. Where he will take it to from here is a complete unknown to me, but I can tell you this: I want to be there! The production of the music and all supporting aspects are beyond first class; this is something incredibly new and very exciting.