did you smoke weed before they played
On Sep 30, 2015 11:11 PM, "Alex Kolesnichenko" <support@bytegems.com> wrote:
quoted 78 lines Laurel Halo was fucking amazing. First half of her show just blew my mind.
> Laurel Halo was fucking amazing. First half of her show just blew my mind.
> Second half was more of a standard 4x4 fare – good, but not great as the
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> FWIW, I feel a bit of let down for the whole “show in the dark” thing that
> Ae did, but yeah, the music is what matters… I was with my eyes closed on
> pretty much any show I went during the fest, so not a big deal. :)
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> Thanks.
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> *From:* Chris Bellevie [mailto:c.bellevie@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:21 PM
> *Cc:* idm list <idm@hyperreal.org>
> *Subject:* Re: autechre US tour
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> This pretty much sums up their show at Decibel. Most I talked to after
> were put off by them playing in the dark, but I loved it, just the sound.
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> In addition to Cygnus and Rob Hall, we had Laurel Halo play before Ae came
> on. That was awesome.
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> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Chris Taylor wrote:
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> Has anyone caught Autechre on their current US tour? Any reports?
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> Yeah, saw 'em here in Portland last week.
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> The opener (the impossible-to-google Cygnus) was awesome. Live hardware
> set that was electro-rooted with some great development and movement.
> http://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/
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> Autechre played in the dark. Each with their laptop, screens dimmed down
> to almost nothing.
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> Nothing I recognized, but I haven't really been able to ID individual
> tracks since Quaristice. The sound at Holocene was pretty good but many in
> the crowd would not shut up their dumb mouths long enough to hear the quiet
> passages. Things would go sort of noodly noisey space and then drop into
> incredibly fast and 'hard' beats, full spectrum clattering glitchy things
> at 190bpm. Midrange "melodies" like they figured out how to suck sound
> backwards through the speakers. Pause. Repeat with a variation on
> timbre/tonality or maybe a hint of an acid squiggle done so fast it was
> gone before you're sure that's what happened.
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> 60 minutes of this and then they unplugged their laptops and slunk off.
> Rob Hall did some nice Warp-ish DJ stuff but it was a worknight and I had
> to go pretty quickly.
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> Was it good? Yeah, it's a treat for the ears. Feels like there is a bit of
> disdain, or at least indifference, for the audience and what they're hoping
> to get out of a live show, which I don't think is new. I was hoping for
> some kind of the 4/4 stuff that surfaced a couple of years back, and I had
> to resist the urge to shout out "Basscadet!!" like an idm-dork "Free
> bird!!" .. but as always, we get the thing Autechre want to do, not what we
> want them to.
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