Keeping Sydney deliciously toasted long into the AM hours was DJ/producer Hook N Sling, taking over popular venue Usual Suspects.

Following a blissful ninety minute set by John Glover, Hook N Sling punctually hit the stage by 12:30AM. Having carved out quite a name for himself in recent years, it was fair to expect nothing less than sheer magic from Hook N Sling, aka Anthony Maniscalco – and he delivered. Maniscalco blasted out continuous electro beats, mashed with classics, that kept energy levels high from start to finish.

Cleverly, he balanced the harder club-beats with more commercially-friendly tracks in his two-and-a-half-hour set, effortlessly switching between genres and tracks. The set featured much of Maniscalco’s own work, like his track with TV Rock Diamonds in the Sky, and he stepped things up a notch with tracks like Dirty South and The Usual Suspects Walking Alone and Calvin Harris’ Feel So Close.

The second hour of Hook N Sling’s set was just as solid, as the DJ uncovered the energetic beats of the Seventh Heaven club mix of DJ Fresh and Sian Evan’s Louder, an absolute monster of a track. Clearly, Hook thought so too – grinning from ear to ear, clearly having a ball with his entourage and working the crowd up behind the DJ booth.

By this point, he had already made our night ten times over – but then he dropped Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso’s infectious Calling, leading into Sirius’s Congorock which definitely sealed the deal, with everyone going absolutely nuts.

But this house music titan wasn’t going to leave us without a bang – enter Major Lazer’s Pod de Floor – a track which despite its original release date being more than years old, still forces everyone listening to drop whatever they’re doing and go into a funkadelic state of trance.

Lights Out and Nukewood followed on from Hook, with an array of house tracks fresh from heavy radio rotation. But by 4am, after a few too many yawns and one too many pick-up lines, I knew it was time to head home. Of course, Hook N Sling did nothing but exceed expectations with his skill and precision, mixing tracks with his own personal flavour – something that by this stage in his brilliant career, is completely unsurprising.