Wow; a great day!
Highlights:
* Coldcut: the best I've ever seen them live; VJamm'd versions of More
Beats & Pieces, Timber, Natural Rhythm, Panopticon, Atomic Moog 2000,
the Extreme Possibilities section from JDJ, and a couple of other tracks
I didn't recognise.
* The weather: neither baking hot nor pissing with rain.
* The Herbalizer: band with 4-piece string section playing great stuff
* Indian Rope Man: band + sitar = fat sounds -- the first thing I saw, so
it made a good impression
Lowlights:
* Fatboy Slim: the 45 minutes [at the start of his 2-hour set] seemed to
consist of about 80% crowdpleasing tunes that didn't do anything for
me -- and I like him; too safe compared with Coldcut, who were playing
at the same time
* Bentley Rhythm Ace: big, soupy sound from which the occasional fragment
emerged of melodies I recognised
* Taking 2 hours to get out of the car park afterwards :-(
* No rappers with The Herbalizer
* Kid Koala playing on Sunday & not Saturday :-(
Also checked out parts of the sets of DJ Vadim, DJ Scissorkicks, Freq Nasty,
Midfield General, Subtropic, Cakeboy, Les R(h)ythmes Digitales: all more or
less excellent.
Lots of DJing going on, and I was surprised not to hear people playing more
of their own released tracks: eg Scissorkicks, Subtropic & Freq Nasty
didn't play anything I knew from the album each I've got of their stuff.
Highlights are being streamed at
http://www.thesiteofsound.com.
I found a reference to a Cakeboy CD release "Stupidinformationhighway"? via
a Google search; can any list member comment on this?
-- Richard
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