Gold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November

Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for the second leg of his UK tour.

Although not as packed to the rafters as one might expect for a Saturday night of this electronic calibre, East Village Arts Club welcomes a decent crowd who, from opening track We Work Nights, are hooked to Gold Panda as if he is a fisherman reeling us in and bringing us up.

We are led on a dreamy electronic journey across the globe, to places from which this new album has taken clear influences. Following We Work Nights, Gold Panda launches into the six-minute banger that is Brazil. A hollow bassline, winding synth and male voice repeating the country’s name create a glowing energy, which is transferred to the thrilled and valued audience.

Background visuals of kaleidoscopic colours and patterns blend with photographic images and become integrated with the richly textured soundscape. This intense 90-minute set rises and rises, and as the crowd dances it feels like the night shouldn’t end. A broad set of samples are taken from a variety of tracks: most notably, mid-way through Community, Gold Panda launches into one of his earlier classics, You, from Lucky Shiner.

A highlight of the night, taken from his six-track Reprise EP, is encore If U Knew; the lines “If you knew how much I miss you…” reverberate around the grand converted theatre. The track develops with muffled klaxons and melodious pianistic refrains, creating a crackly, crisp sound, which fits perfectly with the woodland trees projected behind him and the autumnal fireworks and crunchy leaves outside.