Oh, Spaceland, how I’ve missed you so. Tonight was my first visit to the quaint L.A. club in well over a year, and it was a nice welcome back.

For those of you who have yet to attend a show at the Silverlake venue, picture this—a high school dance, where the auditorium walls have been decorated with tacky (in the best way possible) metallic blue and silver drapes, and colored laser lights fill the dance floor with green and red dots. Awesome, right?

The concert itself followed the structure of a high school dance. The first act, unfortunately aptly titled The Great Mundane, hit the stage. The Portland-based IDM artist tapped his Macbook Pro and rigidly attempted to dance along with his disjointed beats. Alas, he was virtually the only one dancing. The sea of red and green dots flooded the empty dance floor.

The next dude with his laptop, or second act of the evening, was Vancouver, BC-based Teen Daze, who got the crowd dancing a bit with his ambient electro-pop, but there were still hesitant crowd members hovering around the perimeter of the dance floor.

When Mike Diaz, a.k.a. Millionyoung, stepped foot on stage, everything changed. The crowd finally loosened up, and the laser lights reflected off bodies instead of the floor. Though Diaz’s recorded music is a solo effort, he wrangled up a band, including a drummer, guitarist and bassist, to translate his reverb-drenched bedroom chill-wave tunes into fleshed out live tracks (although the Macbook was still featured in the set), and the quartet got the crowd dancing in no time.

Though the only recorded material Diaz has released thus far has been two EPs (Sunndreamm and Be So True), he is in the process of releasing a debut LP entitled Replicants on Old Flame Records and Rix Records. The album is set for a January 11 and 12 digital release and a February 15 physical release.

The 22-year-old South Floridian multi-instrumentalist teased the crowd with some material from his upcoming LP, which featured groovy guitar riffs and funky bass lines that strayed a bit from the atmospheric soundscapes shaped in his EPs, but his vocals were still doused in reverb.

In fact, he never turned the reverb off his microphone, which was meant to amplify instruments, not vocal chords, so Diaz’s only downfall on his first trip out west was singing completely incoherent vocals. But this didn’t seem to faze the kids out on the dance floor, who were finally cutting a rug in that sea of lights.

CMJ 2010: Millionyoung performs Sundreamm at Cake Shop for the Capeshok/Flower Booking Day Party from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.