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From: Self <UK-AC-UMIST-CH-FS1/MCNIITF2>
To: ambient, idm
Subject: Autechre, Music Box, Manchester 15th October
Reply-to: timothy.fothergill@stud.umist.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:45:17 GMT
Autechre, Music Box, Manchester 15th October
My first experience of Brown/Booth live so I didn't really know what
to expect. They were only on for a very short period of time,
something like 45 minutes definitely less than an hour. They were
good while they lasted, though.
I'm afraid I'm not very good at intrument spotting. I suppose I
should be better being on an instrumentation M.Sc. course but I have
only just started. There was a box in between the two of them which
had lots of cable coming out the top of it, which had Yamaha written
on the side of it. Apart from that they each had some sort of
computer plugged into an old TV of some sort.
Very much in the same vein to LP5 and EP7. What appeared to be
improvised electronics. If it wasn't they went to a lot of bother to
make it look as if it were. A slight diversion was the use of what
you might call "retro" samples, for want of a better phrase. Almost
as if they'd plundered Jimi Tenor's sampler. This only appeared in a
couple of "tracks", out of a total of five or six.
They very much gave the impression of two little boys playing with
their (hi-tech) toys. Herein, though, lies their talent, for me at
least. If they were just two grown up boys playing aimlessly they
would sound like two boys playing aimlessly. There is definetely
something more there, the Autechre essence if you will.
One thing I didn't really expect was the amount of THC consumed by
both performers and audience. I suppose thinking about it now it
doesn't seem that suprising.
Good night overall even if I would have liked them to have played
longer. I will certainly be attending the next time I'm anywhere near
where they're playing.
Hope this hasn't been a complete waste of bandwidth.
Tim
Timothy Fothergill
DIAS
UMIST
Manchester