Night Clubs - Friday 2nd December - Regis at Pure Techno at Rhythm Room Contd By Michelle Dee

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Once you have that first small group you can start to manipulate the rest. In no time at all, believe it or not, the feelings of those first few can spread like wild fire as each person within the crowd conforms to what quickly becomes the norm. Full on, feet stomping, hands in the air, head whirling, euphoric dancing.

Of course, it helps if you have had a few mind enhancing substances before hand, you are then more inclined to lose inhibitions. Regis said he was loving the Hull crowd; they managed to blow away any of the associated misconceptions he had been hitherto concerned with. In fact he was very much taken with the place and was eagerly talking about a return visit. He was, as many of the true professionals in the entertainment industry, both approachable and affable to boot.

Rhythm Room is split in to two main parts, both with bars and seated areas; upstairs you can have a few hundred or more people dancing their tits off as one club goer so eloquently stated. There are two well sized screens displaying digital imagery with shapes, patterns and colours that move and morph in time to the music. As well as these visual displays there is an impressive lighting rig complete with blinding spotlights, gels and strobe. To add even more atmosphere, a smoke machine is used subtly to heighten the ecstasy just one more level.

When the one driving the wheels of steel drops a particular track the crowd, as one, raise the roof and the beats become all consuming.

Nothing else matters apart from following that sound; waiting for it to grow, come alive, build and transport you somewhere; far from where you started. It's not just about playing the tunes but creating undulating soundscapes that rise and fall with the crowd; a symbiotic interaction that feeds off the other. Many have argued that this kind of music can help to free the mind from everyday concerns and evoke something of a spiritual transition. It does seem to tap into different synaptic pathways that many other genres just don't reach, akin, I suppose, to the outbreaks of transcendental rapture in Evangelical churches.

Downstairs has more of a chilled out vibe with a smaller dance area but with no less talented deejays and no less enthusiastic dancers, at times. I was fortunate to experience some first rate mixing from the well respected and much loved Andy Maile. He managed to put together some dirty breaks mixed up with grinding beats, throw in some old skool house and keep all downstairs movin' and agroovin'. I was particularly impressed with the vast range of samples of tunes that you kind of felt you knew that he would loop a tiny part of, then add other half-familiar sounds to create a new, ever changing, ever evolving pulse.

Towards the end I was really on another plane and was rather shocked and grounded when abruptly the sound ceased. This could be something of a throwback to my days of listening to piano-driven house and euro-trance, the ending of a carefully engineered set can be so blindingly beautiful. Special mention must go to George who did the last mix; we had an illuminating discussion after, about all things philosophical; which I look forward to continuing.

Pure Techno - a thoroughly enjoyable night, so get your spiritual minds and bodies lifted next time the Pure Techno crew open another can of whup ass breaks and beats. Pure Techno 2nd Birthday: March 21st 2006 at Rhythm Room with special guest, Surgeon Regis website: www.downwards.info Pure Techno website: www.puretechno.co.uk Surgeon website: www.dj-surgeon.com

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