At 12:59 PM 9/6/97 EST4EDT, GamePrg. wrote:
quoted 54 lines Here's a bit of a review of Aphex Twin in DC on Sept. 5th..>Here's a bit of a review of Aphex Twin in DC on Sept. 5th..
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>I'll have to think to remember every track, so the following tracks are not
>in the right order.
>
>When they were setting up for AFX, Richard was laying down on a couch that
>was behind a white hanging tarp, and then he got up from the couch so they
>could move all his gear (couch included) to the front of the stage. He did
>the entire gig laying there on his side with his feet plopped over the arm
>of the couch and his Mac Powerbook stood up on some milkcrates and a record
>box, hooked up to some kind of mixer I reckon. He had it seems the different
>sound channels from his Mac plugged into the mixer, because he turned
>individual track volumes up down off and on while he was doing the gig,
>unless heh this was preprogrammed, but it looked as if he was twiddling
>knobs/sliders.
>
>The bears came out and started dancing and dry-fucking each other on stage
>during some tracks and then later came back to do what looked like ballet
>stuff to Lichen from SAW2 :D the bears also sat on RDJ's set and nearly
>knocked his laptop into the floor, but Richard didn't look up not once.
>
>the tracks:
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>pulsewidth: at first I thought this was an unreleased track, then I heard
>the melody. entirely new drums at the beginning at least.
>
>lichen: directly from saw2 except there's some resonance sweeps/modulation
>in it.
>
>heliospan: same thing he played basically from Big Day Out, basically some
>new drums and tb-303-alike things added.
>
>to kill a weakling child: this was instrumental and some more new drums,
>only the vocals "my feet" etc. played at the beginning and end, and in some
>parts in between.
>
>laughable butane bob: this is basically the same as on HAB
>
>come to daddy: hah ok now I'm wearing my flame-protection suit. I thought
>track was quite nice actually, despite all the stuff said on here. "Come to
>Daddy" isn't repeated throughout the entire track, it only says it 3 times,
>and then doesn't say it anymore for a while, and then it says it again 3
>times. True, this is quite a bit boring at times, but it was a pretty good
>track.. As for whether it's a joke of Prodigy or not, I don't know, but it
>certainly doesn't sound like he's making fun of Prodigy to me. just my
>opinion :) the come to daddy vocals are pretty cool.
>
>he played a few untitled tracks, including an acid track with totally
>awesome drum programming, using the same drum sounds as in all the RDJ LP
>tracks. also another one had a childlike melody and another one had loops
>with snarerushes that seemed to speed up exponentially or in a similar
>fashion, and they were repeated with other rhythms laced over it.
>
>was a really good gig :)
i was there.. wonderful show, however.. i thought the crowd was horrible. i
like to actually dance (how can people sit there and WATCH death in vegas..
got my booty shaking) and there were too many drunk fucking frat types
around me who probably just "wanna fuck that chick from the sneaker pimps"
(who were horribly boring yet thankfully short). some guy even told me to
stay off his feet (excuuuse me).
oh well. wonderful show. i loved the fact he played heliosphan and tha from
SAW85-92 and then the track from SAW2... amazing.
and the bears.. hahaha. they were a trip!
- wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu
"i know it's only his body & all that's in the cemetary, & his soul's
in heaven and all that crap, but i couldn't stand it anyway. i just
wish he wasn't there. you didn't know him. if you'd known him, you'd
know what i mean. it's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun
only comes out when it feels like coming out."
- holden caulfield