Well, Warp and Mu records, both better get themselves
sorted out soon, as Ant Zen are quickly replacing them
at the cutting edge of electronica/IDM...and it isn't
even due to the artists on the labels...its the image
too...
I went to the two recent V. Snares gigs in London (2
nights in a row, helps to compare, lots) - the first
night, was a Warp night, with Mike Paradinas and a
bunch of other Warp folk about...the second night was
an Ant Zen night, with Stephan (head Ant himself)
DJing and some other acts...
First night was dull...lots of pretencious folk, in
lo-fi dress (well arranged clothing, in a shabby
style) - general vibe, was of a private view at a
really head-up-your-own-arse art show...V. Snares got
little reaction out of the crowd...drug of choice for
the evening, by most folk, was charlie...of course...
Second night was great...good support before V.
Snares, apart from the DJ just before, who is the
resident @ the Slimelight (the name of the night, they
were playing at) ...he played the usual cyber-goth
rubbish, with the odd bit of Converter/Hypnoskull type
stuff thrown in, to keep the crowd from falling
asleep...but the crowd were generally up for it...and
the dancefloor was full of maniacs jumping around, and
enjoying themselves, not standing at the side,
scratching their chins (with the appropriate hairs
attached in the Frank Zappa style that suits)...V.
snares was wicked...took the last trancey style track
that was being played, screwed it about, and just
messed with the crowd until they stopped dancing, then
did his thing...
As for an acid revival...what about Ceephax Acid Crew
(Squarepusher's brother, I believe) - he's doing a
fine job there...
:)
RoNAn
--- Glenn McClements <glenn.mcclements@openwave.com>
wrote: > >
quoted 28 lines OK, so I have a question to pose to the list:
> >
> >OK, so I have a question to pose to the list:
> >What or who do people think is going to be the next
> big thing in the IDM
> >genre?
> >My bet is Venetian Snares.
> >g.
> >
> I hope you're right. It seems that Aphex,
> Squarepusher and all of
> Planet-Mu are reacting against the current Warp and
> nicey-nicey
> oh-so-subtle glitchy stuff. I like it all, but
> sometimes you can have
> enough of all that nice Arovane stuff and just want
> some F*CKING
> GABBER!!!!!! Hopefully we'll get an acid and drill
> n' bass revival as well.
>
> So ahem, yeah, V Snares it could be.
>
> Glenn
>
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