maybe it was the promoter and not Amon Tobin who put "LIVE" on the flyer...
maybe he didn't even consider playing live because he likes DJing.
dave - the devil's advocate
quoted 96 lines Yes, I probably should've informed myself before I went to see his show. I
> Yes, I probably should've informed myself before I went to see his show. I
> like a lot of the stuff on his albums, and so had some expectations. Without
> expectations, there can be no dissapointments, right? However, it would be
> far from impossible for him to do a live show. I guess he's just to lazy and
> ambivalent to bother spending the time and effort to set one up. In any
> case, I would have felt completely cheated out of my money if Prefuse73 had
> not been there to tear it up.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "inky" <inkyinkz@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "Kewu" <kewu@telus.net>; <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [idm] Amon Tobin
>
>
>> i've never known amon tobin to paly 'live' he always dj's. i imagine it
>> would be impossible for him to re-inact his music as theres so many
> samples
>> taken from all over the place going off all over the palce.
>> at the big chill a few years back he dj'ed wasn't anything special. his
>> albums on the other hand are amazing and some of my fav jazzy drill n bass
>> music i've heard, listning to permutations i'd say he out does everyone in
>> the same genre.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kewu" <kewu@telus.net>
>> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:41 PM
>> Subject: [idm] Amon Tobin
>>
>>
>> What happened to Amon Tobin? I used to listen to his tracks and enjoy the
>> jazzy/arabic/dnb fusion he has managed to pull off so well. However, just
>> recently, I saw him perform live and all of my opinions of him changed.
> The
>> show (at the Commodore Theatre in Vancouver, BC) opened with Bonobo doing
> a
>> decent performance of some of his tracks. Didn't sound like anything
> special
>> or unique but he pulled it off nicely. Followed by him was Prefuse, and
> let
>> me tell you he absolutely ROCKED it. Using his MPC to punch out beats live
>> to some of (imo) his best tracks, doing live tweaks, sequencing, etc, he
>> kept me well entertained and hyped for the entire set. I was expecting the
>> same from Amon Tobin. This is what I was made to expect when I saw "Amon
>> Tobin LIVE" on the flyer. I can't even tell you how dissappointed me and
> my
>> compadred were. First of all, when Amon came on, they turned the system up
>> around 15-20DB so that even in the VERY back of the enormous ballroom it
> was
>> uncomfortably loud. Second of all, he wasn't really doing anything more
> live
>> than any dj does when mixing a set. He had records with time code mixing
>> tracks on his laptop (or at least he was doing his best at mixing). Last,
>> but not least, and this is the part that made me walk out after 15
>> minutes..... HE WASN'T EVEN PLAYING ANY OF HIS OWN TRACKS!!! WTF? Two of
> the
>> five tracks I stayed to hear were squarepusher tracks that have come out
> in
>> the last year. I mean, sure, it was cool to hear a couple of Squarepusher
>> tracks on a nice system, but please! That's just ridiculous! After myself
>> and a couple of friends rushed to the front of the stage to yell at him,
>> telling him to play his own tracks, he finally mixed one in.
> Unfortanately,
>> by that point we were so disillusioned and deaf that we just opted to
> leave.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think of this..... I know this probably
> happens
>> more that I realise with some of the other bigname artists, but at least
> put
>> "dj Amon tobin" or something like that on the flyer. If I go to a live
> show,
>> I don't want to watch some dude play other people's vinyl.
>> Bottom line.... all respect lost for Amon Tobin, but still worth the 30
>> bucks to see Prefuse.
>>
>>
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