It was a great show. Here's another another brief take:
Made it in time for Meat Beat. Great! Enjoyed every minute. It was Jack
and three others: A guitarist (hard to tell what he did, but he probably
just made strange guitar noises), a drummer (he was excellent, and added
a lot to what was going on, especially the couple solos), and a
keyboardist (with a theramin!). Great set, new stuff and old favorites.
Next was Underworld. Never heard them before. Sorry, but I didn't really
enjoy it much. It sounded like they had one 909 with three slightly
different drum patterns, and they played it through their whole show. I
was really looking forward to Tomato's video work which I had heard of,
but hadn't seen before. I wasn't disappointed. Beautiful massive type
layering. Of course the Organic rave-video person kept throwing in their
own multi colored rave stars and ruined it. Oh well...
Chemical Brothers. Heard a track or two before, but never got into them,
myself. But, live there were really energetic and fun. Nice to hear good
breaks without that boring, tired 909 thud in everything. They definatly
made the crowd (and me) move. Liked all the visuals, too. Lots of
periodic table stuff and chemical related imagery (of course). I enjoyed
it quite a bit.
Orbital. Excellent!!! of course. Started off with my favorite track from
the new album, Out There Somewhere? Played quite a bit of older material,
actually, and stuff from the new one. Don't remember anything from
Snivilization, unfortuneatly. Loved the version of Satan they played,
sounded even thick/heavier, but mabye just because it was live. This was
supposed to be broadcast live on KROQ/106.7. Did any poor unfortunate
IDMer who couldn't go to the event tape this? I would enjoy a copy. Any
bootleg entrepreneurs?
Lastly, the Orb. I think I might have enjoyed their set the best. I'd
never seen them live before, but I've always liked them. What was best
was that everything was different then their album work. Lots of new
sounds/beats mixed in. I wish this was broadcast live, because I'd love a
copy of what they did more than anything else! Started off real mellow
and ambient, then worked up to some great beats! Ended with Little Fluffy
Clouds when the sun was coming up. Great experience.
Great night. Nice long sets. Don't feel so jealous anymore of you UK folk
who always seem to get the super-great lineup shows.
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