On the 25th of January, a night of trance descended on Sydney’s Space Nightclub. Arriving at around 11.30pm, Scotty G and VLN were hard at work warming the crowd, showcasing the various styles of trance the genre has to offer. Throughout their set, tracks like Above & Beyond’s Sun and Moon and Yuri Kane’s Right Back kept the dance floor in a controlled frenzy.

The night progressed with Arbor and Tommy on the decks, the duo building a steady progression of luscious trance sounds the crowd lapped up; then dropping a series of mayhem-inducing tunes: Dyno from Mike Koglin and Genix, and Brute from Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten both being played, before tech bomb Stranger to Stability by Dustin Zahn with Len Faki on the remix was dropped. At this point, the crowd went mental, with all hands stuck firmly in the air.

As the madness ascended to the peak of its furore, Marcel Woods graced the decks to take things to the next level. Taking the crowd on a journey through the exotic and vibrant sounds of techno, tech house and tech trance, Marcel dropped tunes left, right and centre, treating the audience to the likes of Sand and Sky by Paul and Fritz Kalkbrenner, The Bottle, a new remix of Traffic, Inside Me and Advanced.

The two definite crowd pleasers of the night were Avicii’s Levels and the Silence 2012 remix, both sending the crowd went absolutely ballistic as the tracks pulsated through the speakers.

Crowd-wise, the venue was definitely filled by a younger generation of scene kids that didn’t really fit in with the usual mould of trance addicts. But overall, the night was done superbly. Sound and production was fantastic, clear and crisp: every beat was laid perfectly upon our ears and the wonderful assortment of DJs all dropped amazing sets.