saw autechre, matmos and rob hall last night at the middle east. it was
terrible. straight up boring. rob hall played about two good songs, and
the rest of his set was always in the process of regression into boring
shock value noise. 30+ minutes of it. matmos was better than autechre, but
they seemed very rushed and bored, so much so that i only knew it was matmos
after they left the stage when someone told me they'd already played. they
were doing something screeching with a bird cage which was cool for a bit.
then autechre came on. the first track was very out of sync and repetitive.
the next two songs were a little better, but could be because they were
variations on songs i've heard. then the last song was definitely the only
really interesting one. now i am not, nor have i ever been, a huge autechre
fan, albeit of peel sessions 1 and parts of amber, and now i know better
than to see them live again, or buy any more albums of theirs. they looked
bored and like they wanted to leave the entire time. i did, however shake
one of their hands in total silence for the fact that they are the potential
for me that never was and never will be the object of my fanhood (or
something).
the squash courts show is gonna rock some socks. so is tortoise w/prefuse
73 and dj takemura.
vzaem
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