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> From: Örn Ásbjörnsson [SMTP:orn@bodeind.is]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 5:31 AM
> To: Kelley Hackett
> Subject: Autechre show
>
> Ok ok here´s the deal!
>
> When we arrived just before 10 the place was quite packed, and what
> bugged me the most was that everybody was sitting down! Now I like
> sitting down concerts, but when the main act is a hard hitting
> electronic act like Autechre you might wanna shake your limbs to the
> beat. Anyhow when we arrived an artist called Biogen was playing, and
> this is probably the first time his music was mellow and nice, still
> with a fair amount of oomph! My guess was that he wanted to show
> Autechre what he was capable of. Later on his tracks got alot ruffer,
> and the first two or three souls started shaking their limbs.
>
> Then came Mira Calix, apperently wife of one of the Autechre boys and
> a Warp Records DJ. Her selection of tracks fully made up for her lack
> of dj techniques, not that there was any botched mixes or anything,
> but with everybody sitting down watching a dj they probably wanted a
> show of it. Anyhoo more and more souls starting shaking their limbs so
> this was starting to look promising! Then after an hour or two of a
> premium selection of tracks from Mira the boys sneaked on stage and
> took their place behind their laptops.
>
> I was standing next to the stage when they dropped their first sound,
> and damn I haven´t been that startled in a long time! Thus they were
> off, the first minutes they had this complex beat that seemed to
> mutate quite randomly, and on it went for quite long. I don´t remember
> for how long but it came apperant that this was going to be something
> nobody had expected. Alot of people had left their seats and pushed
> them aside and started to move their body. But with such randomly
> mutated beats as the boys were feeding us with that was not easy,
> especially when in the middle of a "track" they increased the bpm
> quite alot and then everybody trying to hold on to the beat totally
> lost track. But hey we are icelandic so we didn´t give up! Alot of
> people who apperently were there just to seen left after maybe a half
> and hour. A friend of mine came up to me and yelled into my ear : this
> is WAY to wierd for mister normal joe! And I totally agreed with him!
> After an hour of this it was totaly clear that this was the most
> mind-bending stuff I had heard in a long time! Either this is insanely
> ahead of it´s time or they were just messing with us. I personally
> belive in the former. When they rolled of their last track everybody
> who had been moving went crazy clapping and screeming and we managed
> to get an encore from them after they left the stage and that was the
> only track I had ever heard before, although this version was far more
> rough! When that was finished I damned my self bigtime for not
> bringing a recorder of some sorts! Cause this is the kinda stuff you
> need to digest after more than one listen. I thought about it after
> the concert that I probably wouldn´t remember a single track because
> this was so mind bending that it doesn´t stick easily and I was right,
> today I only remember the mood and what I saw but not the sounds,
> DAMN!!!. Later on I heard that this and some gig in Austria were the
> only shows they were gonna do this year. So I consider myself
> extremely lucky even though I don´t remember the sounds!
>
>
> ciao
>
> Orn
>