If there was any doubt left about Seattle's appetite for electronic music after last weekend's makeshift rave at Re-bar, this weekend's wealth of activity killed it completely. Every booker, promoter, performer, and show-goer I've spoken to since the New Year has expressed nothing but renewed enthusiasm for Seattle's nightlife. "I sense that there's a lot of hope in the air about what 2007 could become," says Chop Suey's Colin Johnson, and this weekend certainly backed up that sentiment.

Friday night's debut of Sing Sing at Chop Suey was a triumphant realization of Clayton Vomero's tireless promotional hustle—a wild, beer-soaked dance party full of happily mixing hipsters, weekenders, punks, and heads. Low Budget and his hypeman worked the crowd into a lather with some help from Fourcolorzack, Pretty Titty, and the girls of the (soon to disband?) Deep V dance collective. Low Budget's set included a lot of blends from the blueprint Hollertronix mix CD, Never Scared (Clash into Missy Elliott into Debbie Deb) and plenty of Baltimore-style remixes. I'd wondered if that stuff hadn't already reached critical mass, but Friday night's crowd ate it up, so apparently it hasn't.

"It was one of the best parties I've ever thrown," says Vomero, in the typically self-aggrandizing fashion of any decent promoter. "I think it's only going to get better and better."

Early warning for the March 2 Sing Sing: Matt & Kim dispense joy like 7-Eleven does Slurpees. You will be sugar-rushed.

To the toastmaster at the after-hours: Sorry we didn't have that chat, I got bored/tired/drunk and went home. Some impressions: free champagne was promised but never materialized, gambling is just lame at 2:00 a.m. on a Friday when kids wanna dance, the music was weak, and I'll be damned if I'm adhering to a dress code for some place that has porta-potties for bathrooms. But that's just me—I like dance parties and casual Fridays.

The next night at Chop Suey was hardly a dance party either, but the music was tight, and it was a major coup for Seattle to host Various's first ever U.S. performance. Given how many great electronic acts we miss as a city, it was a rare treat to have such an exclusive show—and ndCv and Scientific American were inspired opening acts. The former's dubby, organic compositions demonstrated an impressive attention to detail—every sound was thoughtfully sculpted and carefully deployed. Scientific American went the other way, eviscerating pop songs (Justin Timberlake, Wu-Tang, Lady Sovereign) and replacing their recognizable rhythms and melodies with his own skeletal versions, aided by the dexterous scratching of collaborator Mr. Piccolo. Then there were Various, whose set touched on both gutted pop (their remix of Thom Yorke) and finely wrought dubstep and even drum 'n' bass instrumentals. It was hard to tell who was doing what, between the two or three guys onstage, the two turntables, and the laptop, but the mystery is really part of their charm now, innit?

During their set on KEXP, Various said they'd like to come back with a full band, the not-so-secret dream of many an electronic producer. It'll be a hell of a show if they do. Until then, expect the nightlife to keep getting better, and pray for basic plumbing at the afterparties.