Howdy!
Well, about a week ago LFO and SPEEDY J were performing live in
Helsinki, Finland. I just thought I could write some observations
about the gigs.
LFO played completely new material. It really was quite different
from their recorded material. It was much simpler and "heavier", at
least to my ears. More force, less melodies. I was expecting
something else but well, maybe their live stuff is intentionally
different for those who want to dance? They seemingly used playback,
at least they had a tape recorder running almost all the time.
SPEEDY J played simplified "dance" versions of some of the tracks on
Ginger (I haven't heard the Pepper record, so I can't say if he
actually played the stuff from it). Well, one reason why it sounded
"simplified" might be that the organizer borrowed my Kurzweil for
Speedy J and just before the gig I had to go to the stage to hear
about Speedy J's problem: I had different preset sounds than he
has in his own Kurzweil! I had no I idea he would be using presets
and the newer Kurzweils have different presets... Thus, he couldn't
use the Kurzweil at all (and he said it would have been central for
his songs).
There was some extremely stupid guy during standing in front of the
stage during the LFO gig. He was wearing a "Mayday" T-shirt and he
shouted "Fuck You" to the LFO guys. After that he shouted (in
Finnish) "why don't you play Gabber?". Depressing, eh?
Speedy J hinted that there might be a new album out from him on
Autumn (on Warp). He said it would be "stranger" that Ginger. Sounds
interesting to me.
To a completely other thing: Does anybody have the June 26. issue of
Melody Maker? There is supposed to be a review of my album in it and
I am not sure if I can track the magazine here in Finland. Please E-
mail me if you have it (I'd like to know what it says).
Greetings, Jouni________________________________________________________________________
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