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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:53:24 -0500
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Re: (idm) dropbeat tour:columbus, oh
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Curious- Are the still going to be at Motor on the 16th? S At 11:51 AM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 54 lines at the risk of following up a thread with yet another astoundingly positive>at the risk of following up a thread with yet another astoundingly positive >account of this tour, here it goes; > >amazing. best $5 i've ever spent. set's were a little on the short side, >but hey, all parties involved used their time effecitvely. > >kit clayton: dubby, experimental at times, more techno tinged at times but >all around wonderful. oh, and if that boy leans over his g3 like that for >the rest of his life, we're talking scoliosis. > >chessie: wasn't sure what to expect, but i was pleasantly surprised. i was >afraid it was going to meander into fuzz rock type territory, but pleasantly >enough it reminded me of some of the older bowery electric (w/out vocals of >course) and some earlier seefeel. excellent. could have done without the >seemingly ten minutes between each track though. > >stewart walker: crashing laptops? no. try instead dying power strip. just >as he had developed a smooth tech house type groove power went off. walker >brushed it off though as several guys from chessie and clayton himself all >rushed the stage to get walker up and running again. thankfully they got >him on within ten minutes or so and from there on he switched to a higher >tempo techno and got the 30 or 40 people in the crowd all bobbing their >heads and/or dancing. definitely knew how to work the crowd. all in all >one of the best live pa techno sets i've seen. > >as for equip: clayton used an older g3 laptop w/some sort of midi/effects >controller and walker stayed pretty much to his large akai looking drum >machine/sampler and his nord lead 2 modular. > >if possible, it's highly recommended that anyone see this show. i would >have paid five times that much if i had to. > > > > > > >craig. s. >w111cms@hotmail.com > > > > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > > >
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