Wireless Festival, Hyde Park, London

With a glut of festivals vying for punters, sometimes it seems that organisers make a slap-dash supermarket-sweep of acts, grabbing what they can with little concern for cohesion.

Take Hyde Park’s Wireless festival: Friday features Pink and The Temper Trap, whilst ‘sh*t-fest Sunday’ sees Slash share the bill with Chipmunk. Nevertheless, the diamond in the rough is Saturday, quite simply a treasure chest choc-full of electronic music treats.

First on the bill, Pretty Lights dazzle and gradually pack out the tent with a DJ Shadow-style set, whilst Autokratz impress with their industrial Dead or Alive-style ‘Always More’. Sub-Focus prompt murmurs of discontent with post-Pendulum emo-dance, whereas New Young Pony Club get the strobe-lit pit pounding and receive a goose-pimple sing-along response to ‘We Want To’.

Meanwhile, Missy Elliot makes a big fat boo-boo by decking her crew out in matching Germany tracksuits. Though intended as a nice gesture, it went down like a tranquilised elephant and, having come on late, she’s shooed offstage to make way for Snoop Dogg.

With his new visa snug in his back pocket, Snoop comes loping on with his inimitable lanky, laid-back swagger. Playing a selection of West Coast classics, including ‘The Next Episode’ and ‘What’s My Name’, the Doggfather dishes out ‘Gangsta Luv’ to an adoring crowd and offers a nonchalant reworking of Steam staple ‘Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye’ (much to the chagrin of tube drivers later …).

Things get cranked up a notch when the consistently flawless 2ManyDjs take to the stage with a disco medley that sounds so perfect it could have been crafted in a solar flare; taking in everything from CLS’s ‘Can You Feel It’, to David Bowie, to John Paul Young’s ‘Love Is In The Air’.

With the parade ground dust getting whipped up underfoot, many retreat to catch Magnetic Man, the dubstep triumvirate locked up in a big lazer-strewn metal box. The trio (consisting of Skream, Benga and Artwork) deliver a sphincter-quivering master class, with floor-ripper ‘MAD’ prompting all sorts of moshpit tomfoolery.

With a splinter cell screaming up at the sound tower for more decibels, LCD Soundsystem’s set somehow doesn’t feel like the triumph it should be. It doesn’t help that Murphy throws his toys out of the pram after some plastic bottle-flinging. “I remember my first beer too a*shole,” he chides, “but I refuse not to like you people”.

Unfortunately, it signals the fizzling out of their set. Ignoring obvious festival choices such as ‘Someone Great’, he ploughs on with the rambling ‘Losing My Edge’, then decides to finish with ‘New York I Love You…’ – this to a crowd full of ravers who have spent their day building a buzz. They turn away in droves and disappear into the night, singing their new-found anthem: “Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Snoop Dogg…”