you're right; its just my limited musical genre vocabulary at work i'm
afraid. your description is far better!
phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Lockett" <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk>
To: "Philip Orr" <orr.philip@gmail.com>; <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] Glasgow: AFX / The Bug / Wolf Eyes
quoted 42 lines Is The Bug really doing dubstep now or is that tag being used really>
> Is The Bug really doing dubstep now or is that tag being used really
> loosely now?
> I saw him a couple of years ago and it was breakcore-dancehall
> ragga-tech-noise mayhem. Way too maximal to be what I understand as
> dubstep, which tends to keep itself on a leash to create tension, where
> Bug just let the sound loose to perpetrate aural savagery.
> Pretty full-on, admittedly.
>
> alan
>
> --On 01 May 2006 17:41 +0100 Philip Orr <orr.philip@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Saw these guys last night for the finale of the triptych festival
>> (Barrowlands, Glasgow).
>>
>> I have to say I was disapointed by the 'phex. He was basically sitting
>> behind his laptop doing a bit of a mash-up DJ set, which I half expected.
>> I hoped he would do something original and great, with something other
>> than a laptop (especailly since releasing drukqs), but no.
>>
>> I was also a bit disapointed by the noise group Wolf Eyes, but at least
>> they were doing something properly live. It seemed to lack something
>> though, some structure (even noise should have a bit of one I feel). I
>> think others who were there would disagree with me about this act though.
>> I think quite a lot of people were impressed.
>>
>> For me, the star act was The Bug (Kevin Martin). It was an absolutely
>> fantastic performance of kind of dub step with two live vocalists. Very
>> dub, very fast, very cool. I totally recommend people see this guy.
>>
>> What did the rest of you think? There must be some folk here who went!
>>
>> Philip
>
>
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