On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Wendy K wrote:
quoted 17 lines Vlad's set could only be described as minimal and beatless except for> 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...
>
He also played at the second Offpeak in Manchester on Sunday - I think
your description fits that performance too. Nice stuff but spoiled by
idle chatterers.
Why don't all these laptop 'performers' just put up a placard with the
list of apps and plugins they are using? Then they wouldn't need to
play anything. Just a thought.
The Manchester segment of the touring Festival of Drifting was good last
night. The only bad thing was that they tried to cram too many acts
into too short a time period, so David Pajo wasn't on for long. The
highlight was Pole, who was on last. I could see him this time (the
previous occasion I saw him he was hiudden behind a shroud) and he
doesn't half groove around as he's tweaking his gadgets. Sadly a lot of
the sensitive indie-types in the audience had left but I think those
remaining enjoyed his set a lot.
Adam
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