My first time experiencing a nightclub with an acoustically nurtured and hi-spec sound-system was at the venue Egg in Kings Cross roughly three years ago. Before entering the space, queuing outside, the hairs on my body prickled with excitement, reacting to the resonating thump of a kick drum and the incredibly low end bass attempting to break through the brick walls. Edging ever closer to the entrance the music intensified, mixing with the cacophony of noise from the crowd; laughter, shouts and the barking orders from security.

After roughly ten minuets we were inside, by this time the music had become the central focus of every action and thought I had, my movements became autonomously in time with the beat; tapping the bar with my hand and bobbing my head. From the second I entered Egg, I literally forget everything, my worries, fears and anxieties, it was as if the music and space created a vacuum between my conscious brain and my body. All I wanted to do now was dance for hours and hours. Looking back to this time my music tastes have changed rather drastically and I’m not sure if I’d be found at a similar party but the impact of this sonic experience will live with me forever. Egg is known for being an intensely sweaty and hardcore club, the ceilings are low and the walls are damp, while a musty stench of body odour, cigarettes and alcohol wafts above the dancers. However none of this mattered, like all the other dancers I had become consumed by the thundering music, it swallowed me whole and spat me back out again, performing crazy dances I’d wouldn’t be found dead doing anywhere else.

Preferring to stay in the centre of the dance floor, eyes closed, the music literally felt like a warm blanket, the bass massaged my body and the hi-hats felt like bolts of electricity to my fingers. Losing all sense of time, some songs felt like they played for eternity while others could have been short deafening cries. The absence of clocks, windows and security really helped create a fantastical atmosphere, the real world did not exist here, only I and the other dancers did.