wow. sound like you had a real boring time. well that sucks for you.
althought i'm not crazy about the atmosphere in rodan, the people who did
show for signaldrift were cool, and there were a lot of people (which was
surprising to me) that we didn't know who enjoyed the show as well.
as for the dj who played the shitty techno music about 11p, that was me.
also just to let you know, i wasn't playing techno. i was playing some new
wave (new order, talking heads, esg) into some early 80's new york electro
(jonzun crew, man parrish, hasim, etc) along w/ other shit that fit like
paul hardcastle, lcd soundsystem, kraftwerk, spacepimp. that was my 80's
set, and i'm real sorry that i didn't fit into your narrow little field of
what idm dj's should do. so, boo hoo that you didn't have a good time and i
apologise for the rest of us whose musical tastes start before the
"artificial intelligence" comp came out, you little fucking crybaby.
i'll tell you what, i'm gonna open for funkstorung @ the metro in chicago
(illinois) in december. you can send me a playlist of what proper idm dj's
are gonna play, and i'll put you on the list, and i'll buy you a drink or 2
as well. this is not me saying i have more $$$ than you or anything like
that. i don't. i just want you to be satisfied, because people who whine
about what other folks should be playing need to be placated.
so, once again, on behalf of franz, john, brian foote and myself: WE'RE
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY. PLEASE FORGIVE US.
easy,
the rev.
p.s.,
there's a new signaldrift record called 'set design' coming out on monday 31
october:
Textura Magazine
Artist: Signaldrift
Title: Set Design
Label: Consumers Research & Development
Release Date: Oct 31 2005
Reviewed by: Ron Schepper
Set Design finds Franz Buchholtz concocting ten breezy tracks in a follow-up
to Girl, his earlier 2005 release on Audraglint. The new collection
alternates four fully-developed compositions and six interludes, with the
former not surprisingly registering more strongly. "?And Yet" initiates the
album serenely with placid cascades of electric piano, until "Yellow Leaves"
animates the mood with staccato pulses of typewriter clicks and reverberant
thwacks. The piece gradually deepens with Buchholtz adding layer upon layer
of echoing guitars, dubby voices, and thrumming percussion, the song never
losing its dreamy character despite building forcefully. While the bucolic
"De De" fashions an enchanting groove of buoyant pulses and washes, it?s
bettered by the vibrant trance epic "Dutch Assassin" where an hypnotic flute
melody loops over New Order bass lines and an infectiously percolating house
pulse.
Typical for the genre, the shorter pieces are meditative, hazy, and
celestial, reflective in mood and filled with distinctive touches like
backward guitar effects and heavenly harp swirls. A nostalgic, Boards of
Canada feel colours "Children of the 70?s" with faint flute tones and hazy
keyboard musings couched in crusty vinyl crackle. Press material describes
Set Design as an album for "those post-club, late-night drives," and it?s a
succinct and accurate characterization. Despite its uptempo moments, the
mood is restrained and perhaps a bit too well-behaved: every time a longer
dance track ups the intensity, an interlude follows to pull it back down to
a becalmed level. The penultimate arrival, then, of "128" is especially
welcome as its thirteen-minute duration provides ample opportunity for heat
to develop?exactly what happens when Brian Foote?s guitars and Buchholtz?s
electronics merge into propulsive streams of panoramic sweep.
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>From: incredible weirdo <incredible.weirdo@gmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] LASTNIGHT in Chicago
>Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:44:23 -0500
>
>Un petit request-
>If you advertise a show starting at 9, start it at the latest at 10:30 or
>so. And, when you do start it, let people know.
>So, I went to this show (quoted below) last night. Showed up early (8:50 or
>so), as I always do, to find most stools and tables filled with yuppies and
>hipsters. I can certainly be accused of hipsterness myself, but yuppies are
>another issue. Anywho, I inquire with the bartender about the music
>tonight,
>when it starts, blah blah - he doesn't know anything. No big deal. I have a
>drink (a decent, tall Sapphire & tonic for only $6), lounge around and
>people watch. Which gets dull quick, as yuppies aren't very fascinating.
>Quotes of "He/she has such a good heart" and "So I was interviewing this
>guy" abound. I have another drink. The music this whole while has obviously
>been just the music the house plays in the background, and I can see the
>musician setting up a mixer, keyboard, et cetera in front of the 'trippy'
>visuals projected on the back wall. This makes me think it won't be long
>until the music starts.
>So, an hour passes. The place begins to fill to the brim with what is still
>a yuppie/hipster (yupster?) meet market. The musicians setting up had
>finished that and vanished. The music still seems to be the boring,
>characterless, background 'loungy' electronic that the house had been
>playing the whole time, though at one point it seemed someone raised the
>volume. At about 11, I get tired of the noxious crowd and boring music, and
>decide to leave. I use the restroom first, and upon exiting and proceeding
>toward the front, I realize the "show" had started a great while ago, and
>that increase in volume I heard was a DJ beginning to spin boring, shitty
>techno - it most certainly wasn't IDM. The DJ himself looked quite bored
>and
>disinterested (I guess that's the way to seem cool these days, is to feign
>disinterest).
>It would have been helpful if the musicians or promoters had announced the
>show's beginning, welcomed the audience and all that, that way when the
>shitty was techno was just beginning, I would have known to leave then
>instead of waiting another 45 minutes in vain for the artists to take the
>stage.
> I.W.
>P.S. - to the person who posted the Hefty Records Event that was last night
>at Sonoteque - please include the city in the subject line. If I had seen
>that one flagged as in Chicago when I was quickly checking my email to see
>if there were any shows yesterday, I would have been there instead.
>
> On 10/27/05, John Goelzer <johng@engberganderson.com> wrote:
> >
> > Signaldrift live pa (Wobblyhead, Consumers, Audraglint)
> > Brian Foote dj (Nudge, Omco, Audraglint)
> > Reverent Robert Sinewave dj (Consumers, Meiotic)
> > BTS.WRKNG dj (Wobblyhead, WMSE 91.7FM)
> >
> > Rodan . 1530 N. Milwaukee Ave.
> > Thursday, October 27 . 9:00pm
> > 21 and over . NO COVER
> >
> > It's a kinda-sorta release party for Signaldrift's new Set Design
> > full-length on Consumers. We'd love to see you!
> >
> > http://www.rodan.ws/
> > http://www.consumerslabel.net/
> > http://www.wobblyhead.com/
> > http://www.audraglint.com/
> > http://www.outwardmusic.com/
> > http://www.meioticpromotions.com/
> > http://www.myspace.com/btswrkng
> > http://www.wmse.org/
> >
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