Jon Hopkins @ Gorilla, Manchester, 24 September

A screen lowers, and a single synth-drone reverberates around the room before buzzing into Abandon Window from Jon Hopkins' latest album, Immunity. The twice Mercury Music Prize-nominated artist leads us through tonight's sold-out AV show: colours running the complete spectrum shimmer behind him, then transition into a wider galaxy. The crowd is in a state of trance.

That trance soon shifts, and we quiver as Open Eye Signal's delicate but swift snares transform into muddy synth beats. Rapidly transforming shapes – their colours inspired by Immunity's album artwork – bob onscreen like multi-coloured glaciers, their timings representing an equaliser display.

As Light Through The Veins from 2009's Insides delivers its euphoric electronica, there's a sense that tonight's performance has reached its most tremendous and epic moment, the track lending the atmosphere something of the orchestral – and the build-up elicits mass applause. The visual behind Hopkins is now a glittering, shape-shifting creature of sharp hues, enveloping the crowd in its majestic presence.

The show's close takes a dark turn as Hopkins presents Vessel, an emotive piece with a piano-keyed build-up that leads to thunderous crashes suggestive of Squarepusher. This hectic, back-to-basics drum'n'bass sends the crowd berserk; and the air is filled with electricity even after the lights come down.