Live Review: Disclosure, Wave Racer, Genga & Drifter

Coming off the back of a Best Dance/Electronica Album nomination at the Grammys earlier this year only to lose to the French disco house sensation Daft Punk, it's safe to say that the Disclosure boys have blown up on a grand scale. Perth locals Genga and Drifter went back to back to kick off proceedings with a performance full of relatively mainstream deep house selections, including some irrefutably catchy remixes of Montell Jordan and Wu-Tang Clan.

You may not have heard the term 'Jersey Club' before, but you would be living in a cave if you hadn't heard its distinctive and rapidly emerging sound. With artists like Sable, Basenji and Cosmo's Midnight, Australia has injected their glittery and syrupy flavour to the genre, contributing to the revitalisation of an entire scene. Perhaps the most notable director of its resurgence is Sydney based Wave Racer. Using just a laptop to select samples and an APC to launch them, Wave Racer delighted Perth with his frantically fun production, with enough video game references to poke a Sega Genesis controller at. The dainty, summery vibrations of Mount Kimbie served their purpose at intermission, leading into the highly anticipated international main act.

“We don't often get to play to small clubs like this these days, but this is how we started and what we love doing the most,” Howard Lawrence announced to one of Perth's largest clubs at full capacity. Disclosure have evidently perfected the pop/house formula, and in addition to their aptitude for selecting charismatic guest vocalists, it's no wonder that the Surrey-based brothers have met with intimidatingly high commercial and critical success. It's not often that electronic dance music is better suited in the form of a live medium, but with a multitude of organic sounds amongst their production including bass guitar, drums and keyboard, this was certainly an exception. An eager audience erupted into hysterics as the soothing vocals of Mary J Blige signalled the start of their set with F For You. Playing out a string of their seemingly endless chart topping goodies, the performance was very well received, concluding with the enchanting sing-along Latch to the crowd's delight. Fortunately for the more alternative fans, a DJ set at Parker Nightclub was to follow with an assured future bass orientation; another craft that the baby-faced Brits have refined to a tee.