Photo: Elleni Toumpas

The Powerhouse is practically deserted as Lunch Money lynchpin Adam, better known as Wolfgang DJs, spins some ace tunes, including his own rework of Yello’s classic Bostich. It’s a shame nobody’s dancing, but I guess the normal Wolfgang crowd are just tucking into breakfast at this early hour.

Local kids Toy Balloon provide a set drawing on their recent album, Toy Division. Live, their sound is a lot grungier than on the record, and it lends an early New Order flavour to the proceedings. At the end they seemed to have garnered some new fans.

JD Samson (of Le Tigre and MEN) opens her DJ set with a whole lotta early house, and moves through some embarrassing pop moments (sorry, JD, but not even your level of coolness can render Boom Boom Pow ironic) to end with some incredible disco tunes, closing with Sylvester & Patrick Cowley’s masterpiece Do You Wanna Funk?

YACHT begin their set with a brief water ritual before delivering a cracking version of Ring The Bell, the opener to their most recent album, See Mystery Lights. A projector displays religious imagery in high-contrast black and white; motifs of triangles feature prominently, alongside blink-and-you’ll-miss-them subliminal messages (one of the few I can catch reads “TONIGHT IS NOT A PRIVILEGE”). It sounds goofy on paper, but it works a treat live. The duo guide the audience through a meditation on what angers us before launching into B Side Suicide, then bring the set to a peak with See Mystery Lights highlight The Afterlife. They close with recent hit single Psychic City (Voodoo City), joined on stage by 80 or so punters who turn the final song into a sweaty rave-up. Their last gig in Brisbane only attracted 13 punters; this packed show proves that the gospel of YACHT is spreading. Judging by the smiles on everyone’s face as we file out of the Powerhouse, they’ve earned a new batch of proselytisers, too.

CHAD PARKHILL

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