“Let’s hear some noise for the silver rat,” Tom Piper yelled, thrusting a metallic sculpture of a rodent into the beckoning hands of the front row. Then the bass hit and the rodent was well and truly forgotten, at least until the next dropout. And this was how Tom Piper prepped the seething dancefloor at Chinese Laundry on Saturday night, for what was to be a chest-thumping mix of dubstep, hip hop, house, drumstep and countless genre mashes from Oh Snap!!.

Tom Piper well and truly set the stage with a blistering track selection, with his trademark “yep, yep, yep, yep!” preceding the refreshingly well-crafted dubstep remixes. As my phone read 00:59 Tom Piper closed his laptop and Oh Snap!! opened his, the beat bouncing on into Snap’s set. It was here that the night hit peak, track after track pulling screams, claps and packing the dancefloor.

Highlights throughout his set came thick and fast, the crowd firmly embracing his newly-released ‘Big Room Dubstep Bootlegs’, Big Boss Is Coming Home and a surprisingly pleasant version of Party Rock Anthem drew further energy to the dancefloor. The joy of being a nineties kid came beaming from me as Oh Snap dropped a remix of Darude’s Sandstorm and it was the audacious track selection that brought the Laundry to boiling point.

However by far it was his live performance of Who the Hell Let the Douchebags In which I found most rewarding, as it mixed perfectly with his set and supplied clarity of vocals rarely experienced in that form of set-up. The set continued through the night pushing just under a three-hour performance. The club favourite We Are Your Friends emerged in the final half hour in brilliant style, ringing in my ears long into the morning as I staggered home, tired, hazy and firmly fulfilled.

It was a perfect venue for this party; dark, packed and bouncing. The DJs delivered on all counts and even through some questionable tracks I felt no inclination to leave the floor, many others agreeing as a frowning face was not to be seen amongst the crowd.