The ongoing US dance music resurgence isn't showing any sign of abating, so the year-on-year rise of Tao Beach Club & Nightclub is no shock to the system. XS, Marquee and Encore/Surrender have also all fared well, once and for all implicating Las Vegas as the undisputed epicentre of the EDM storm.

Reverting to the formula shared by pretty much all Sin City's clubs (big sound, big production, even bigger DJs), in all its glory, Tao is an indoor club with outdoor “beach” club attached (basically, meaning it has a pool) connected to an enormous self-sustained entertainments-slash-hotel-slash-shopping centre-slash-you-name-it centre.

Tao's exterior is Gran Canal Shoppes, a Venetian themed complex under which the nightclub sits screaming with list-and-bottle chic, while above bikini-clad bombshells soak up the sun (and beats) on cabanas by the pool.