Liquid Room, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Febuary 1, 1997,
The club was absolutely packed, sold-out. After trudging up to the 7th
floor (too many people to use the elevators), I was thinking that it would
have to be a good show to make that climb worth it. Cylob finished around
midnight (good show, was the sign with the hotel room number a success ?
:) The tension in the crowd rose steadily and there were several false
starts when the DJ would pause and then start spinning something AFX-y,
at which point the crowd would go nuts, then relax 30 seconds later when
they realized no-one was on stage yet.
About 1am, finally, James-san pops on stage. It has to be him, look at the
hair! The entire club goes mental. I thought there was an earthquake; no,
it was just the combined seismic efforts of bass and several hundred
people jumping up and down. A good part of the first half of the show was
d'n'b-ish, though not steadily, just here and there. I though I
maybe recognized a couple drum bits from "I care because you do", but
other than that all new to me. The second half got darker and heavier.
Think only good thoughts.
And Someone said "Let there be bears. Two fluffy, 3 meter tall bears. Make
one yellow and one orange. Make them look like something from Tetsuo's
hospital room in 'Akira' when the little telekinetic kids are after him."
Then this Someone said "Let them do Sumo. On stage."
And it was good.
So anyways, sorry if my review of the music is weak, but I failed the
trainspotting exam and don't own the entire Rephlex back catelogue. Oh,
one question. This was my first AFX show, so I wonder if other people
who've seen him live can tell me if crowd-surfing is a regular sort of
thing. Just wondering.
gdunn@zooid.org Graham Dunn inuse@goth.org
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