After reading about Vlad on this list, I noticed he was playing in
London and thanks to verticalform.com went along to plastic people
to have a listen - another high motivating factor manipulating me
away from the computer was a mid-week dj'ing set by andrew weatherall
whose just put out a compilation lp on nuphonic of the early uk stuff -
chakk, 400 blowsacertain ratio, chris n cosey - dark moody industrial
uk groups which i was drawn to around 84/85. brief chat with andrew
revealed tps for his new warp lp floated out today - but whether he
played anything from it, i couldnt tell you.
Vlad's set could only be described as minimal and beatless except for
the last 20 minutes or so...Appearing armed with nothing more than a
laptop for kit with all programmes loaded in his music became white
noise to the trendy hoxtonites more interested in each others smiley
conversation than the music. He's obviously devoured some of enos
white noise philosophy.
Occasionally the white noise received additions, but so subtle were
these, that had i been at home i would have closed my eyes and possibly
gone into deep meditative retreat only to be drawn out by the odd sounding
interspersed idea. Minimal yes. A bit numbing, but not loud numbing -
at the same time extremely intriguing music. I was also quite amused as
Vlad actually raised the mood in the last two pieces before Weatherall
came on - succinctly moving into undulating grooves - he obviously knew
Andrew was going to kick butt into the small room and actually get some
bods moving...
So there is idm in London, plastic people is just cross the road from
333 holds about 200 comfortably, is sometimes called 'balance' if its
a jazz night thing, and thanks to mark from vertical form for a rare
night out xcursion...
coldcut on da radio mon nite 12am-2am gmt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/londonlive
http://www.worldtimezone.com
zentertainment: wed nite 9pm - 3am
http://www.piratetv.net
http://www.ninjatune.net
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