quoted 7 lines Hi Rjyan. I was wondering what happened to you...> Hi Rjyan. I was wondering what happened to you...
>
> Now that you are "back", will you be performing your (amazing) music as it
> is recorded or will you be doing hip hop/nerdcore shows? I still can't
> fathom what that was all about. I skipped all of your previous Florida
> performances specifically because of this, and have yet to see you
> perform.
hehe... the last couple tours (all of em since fall '03, although they've
been much less frequent since the hip-hop era) were not very hip-hop, they
were kinda-tribal, somewhat-dubby, verymuch-pot-fueled IDM jam-band stuff
with a sick live drummer--- along the same lines as what most IDM guys have
been trying to pull off the last few years, I guess. It actually went down
quite well a few times, one of the more notable shows being opening for
KRS-1 in Miami, where we were initially all convinced we were going to get
bottled for not being hip-hop ENOUGH...
but anyways, keeping good musicians together playing under a name that's
always going to be associated with nerdy rapping turns out to be a pretty
Herculean task, though. (And then you've got to split all the money up at
the end!) For better or worse, Cex has been just me and my laptop (sans
rapping) at the last bunch of Baltimore shows. My next tour is probably
April-May of next year and will probably be me mashing up classic Cex tracks
and remixes of classic Cex tracks and my newer Sketchi/Must finish stuff on
CDJs+effects... something midway between Sander von Doorn and Noel
Fielding's character on Nathan Barley, I imagine?
-rk