With a backcatalog on such labels as Mathew Jonson’s Wagon Repair and Mike Shannon’s Cynosure,Deadbeat aka Scott Monteith has been on the bleeding edge of minimal electronics since the early 2000. Coming into the venue, I just knew it was going to be exciting to watch. I was greeted by some lush dub techno from Lance Harrison, half of the pinksilver duo Forty6 and Two. The sounds really prompted a social atmosphere with people sitting down, chatting and nodding their heads to the music. After an hour or so of smooth dub techno grooves the other half of Forty6 and Two Markojux came on. Staight away, he lifted the anti by playing more direct 4 by 4 grooves mixed with dubstep. By this stage this action had started a small exodus to the dance floor which continued right thought out the set. After Forty6 and Two finished, Brock Ferrar stepped up to the mixing console. With a infectious deep techno groove, he got the whole floor moving. By this stage, everyone had left the lounge area and got on the dancefloor. By the end everyone was ready for the bass onslaught of Deadbeat. Deadbeat came on stage and started pushing the Funkton One sound system with pure bass. From the first track was a dub step monster. This mutated Into an hour set where his own edit of Mike Shannon’s Underneath the radar remix cascaded into the big dance floor track Temptation & Lies. Deadbeats set flew by. By the end, the audience was appreciating this world class music with dub, jazz and techno influences. I was truly spent by 4.30. Leaving the venue to find a cab, I was thinking I wished gigs like this happened every week. With Australia being so far away from the techno hotbed that is Southern Europe, experiencing a gig like this was worth savoring every moment.