Someone please book Ame for Seattle (or Portland, I’ll roadtrip it). I don’t care if it’s Decibel, Perfect Hit, the Wooden Octopus Skull Festival, or someone who just wants DJs playing in their backyard, you book Ame, and I will be there.

Arriving to the venue around 2am, Ame was already on stage entertaining a packed dancefloor. He shifted subtly between house and techno (micro & minimal if you really want the details), but it wasn’t so much about genre as creating a mood, riding the intersections in some musical Venn diagram. There were clicks, beeps, and other little details to keep your chin-stroking attention, but more than enough thump to keep the dancefloor going. While a couple of mixes were less than flawless, the set was impressive, and just what one would expect after the album.

Rolando closed out the night with (*gasp*) a set of Detroit techno. Taking over from Ame, he took a half hour to pick up the tempo and intensity, increasing it once again about an hour into his set. His set included “all the hits” from Underground Resistance alongside some other Detroit classics. I also realized that Kerri Chandler’s “Bar a Thym” is the official track that anyone can play, fitting into this set as well as it has in many others. I’ve heard that track everywhere, and if it weren’t so good I’d long since have grown annoyed by it. The crowd never thinned as the night went along (no crowd-stasis here), giving constant praise through the set’s closing track, Rolando’s (as Aztec Mystic) own “Jaguar.”

Time for Sonar. And Stewart Walker later tonight.