Myroslaw Bytz wrote:
quoted 8 lines saw autechre, matmos and rob hall last night at the middle east. it was> 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.
Actually Matmos were followed by Russell Haswell's DJ set (which included Jeff Mills,
Farmers Manual and Naked City among other things), which was pretty intense and I
kinda enjoyed except that it felt like he went on for too long. That dance
track/noise routine kinda lost its charm after the first 2 or 3 times.
I also enjoyed Matmos's set the most, but I don't know what gave you the impression
they were bored. I think they're actually pretty busy and concentrated during
performances. I thought Lesser's CDJ/Kaoss Pad thing sounded pretty great too.
I have to say that the sound of The Middle East Downstairs probably doesn't do
justice to Autechre's recent stuff, which I think demands a lot of clarity, and the
only thing I could hear clearly were the drums (maybe it was just a bad mix). Having
said that, I found their set rather static and uninvolving. Pretty much the whole set
consisted of percussion loops coupled with hovering "ambient" sounds. Not much
contrast or development, which might help make make the tracks more memorable. There
were a couple of tracks where the percussion got more syncopated, but it still ended
up just looping for like 10 minutes. There was one track where it sounded like they
were using just the percussion track from "Second Scepe", but it didn't end up going
into that track.
I just wonder where they're gonna go after this ? My guess is they're just gonna
abandon percussion altogether and just do some sort of electro-acoustic type thing.
Andrei
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