I just came back from the Autechre/Spacetime Continium show in LA. Quite
an interesting night out. First, there were MASSIVE thunderstorms on the
way to the show. The rain was falling so hard cars were pulling over to
the side of the road. I drove directly under a huge bolt of lighting
that made the world around me light up light a huge fucking atomic
explosion, and the thunder was so massive it shook my car. Anyway when I
got to the show Mark Broom was playing some pretty garden variety
techno. His mixing was really impressive, I had to watch the tables to
see when he was switching records. The show was at the Trubador, which I
have never been to bofore. It's basically a bar with a stage and a small
area of seats upstairs. The show was sold out, but thats not saying much
since the Trubador looks like it only holds about 200 people. Needless
to say, it was a very cozy venue. There was an interesting mixture of
bedroom raver/IDMers (like me) and raver ravers at the show but hardly
anyone was dancing before Spacetime Continium took the stage. The
crowed really dug Mr. Shap's performance. He played an incredible blend
of IDMish Techno, Trance, and a bit of House. When Spacetime Continuim
was done Mark Broom came back with a much a much more trancey set.
By the time Autechre finally took the stage it was around 10:45, and
they played for around an hour. Autechre's harsher IDM sound really
threw the raver ravers for a loop, they couldn't quite figure it out.
Autechre played a brilliant blend of harsh ambient, rough beats, and
flat out nasty samples. I wish I had snuck a tape recorder in. While the
bedroom ravers where in hog heaven the raver ravers generally stood
around looking confused, and danced politely when the beats where
dropped in. All said, I can think of a few worse ways to spend a night.
After Autechre finished, Mark Broom came back on but I had seen what I
came to see. I gave my ticket the valet, picked up my car, and drove
home.
The size of the venue made me wonder what sort of place the boys
from Rephlex would end up in when they arrive in the summer. If Autechre
can sell out a 200 (maybe 250) capacity theatre, Aphex will probably be
able to sell out the American Legion Hall without much trouble. Any
venue larger than that will require that the Rephlex team hop on a
roster of local DJ's and sell the event as a 'rave', which tonights
Autechre show definetly was not.
-Fresh
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