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After reading about Vlad on this list, I noticed he was playing in London and thanks to verticalform.com went along to plastic people to have a listen - another high motivating factor manipulating me away from the computer was a mid-week dj'ing set by andrew weatherall whose just put out a compilation lp on nuphonic of the early uk stuff - chakk, 400 blowsacertain ratio, chris n cosey - dark moody industrial uk groups which i was drawn to around 84/85. brief chat with andrew revealed tps for his new warp lp floated out today - but whether he played anything from it, i couldnt tell you. Vlad's set could only be described as minimal and beatless except for the last 20 minutes or so...Appearing armed with nothing more than a laptop for kit with all programmes loaded in his music became white noise to the trendy hoxtonites more interested in each others smiley conversation than the music. He's obviously devoured some of enos white noise philosophy. Occasionally the white noise received additions, but so subtle were these, that had i been at home i would have closed my eyes and possibly gone into deep meditative retreat only to be drawn out by the odd sounding interspersed idea. Minimal yes. A bit numbing, but not loud numbing - at the same time extremely intriguing music. I was also quite amused as Vlad actually raised the mood in the last two pieces before Weatherall came on - succinctly moving into undulating grooves - he obviously knew Andrew was going to kick butt into the small room and actually get some bods moving... So there is idm in London, plastic people is just cross the road from 333 holds about 200 comfortably, is sometimes called 'balance' if its a jazz night thing, and thanks to mark from vertical form for a rare night out xcursion... coldcut on da radio mon nite 12am-2am gmt http://www.bbc.co.uk/londonlive http://www.worldtimezone.com zentertainment: wed nite 9pm - 3am http://www.piratetv.net http://www.ninjatune.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Wendy K wrote:

quoted 17 lines Vlad's set could only be described as minimal and beatless except for

> Vlad's set could only be described as minimal and beatless except for > the last 20 minutes or so...Appearing armed with nothing more than a > laptop for kit with all programmes loaded in his music became white > noise to the trendy hoxtonites more interested in each others smiley > conversation than the music. He's obviously devoured some of enos > white noise philosophy. > > Occasionally the white noise received additions, but so subtle were > these, that had i been at home i would have closed my eyes and possibly > gone into deep meditative retreat only to be drawn out by the odd sounding > interspersed idea. Minimal yes. A bit numbing, but not loud numbing - > at the same time extremely intriguing music. I was also quite amused as > Vlad actually raised the mood in the last two pieces before Weatherall > came on - succinctly moving into undulating grooves - he obviously knew > Andrew was going to kick butt into the small room and actually get some > bods moving... >

He also played at the second Offpeak in Manchester on Sunday - I think your description fits that performance too. Nice stuff but spoiled by idle chatterers. Why don't all these laptop 'performers' just put up a placard with the list of apps and plugins they are using? Then they wouldn't need to play anything. Just a thought. The Manchester segment of the touring Festival of Drifting was good last night. The only bad thing was that they tried to cram too many acts into too short a time period, so David Pajo wasn't on for long. The highlight was Pole, who was on last. I could see him this time (the previous occasion I saw him he was hiudden behind a shroud) and he doesn't half groove around as he's tweaking his gadgets. Sadly a lot of the sensitive indie-types in the audience had left but I think those remaining enjoyed his set a lot. Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Adam - Wow, i posted a review to idm & someone agreed! Amazing! If the laptop performers put up a placard telling you they were using loopops, propellerheads, reaktor 6, wowfactor, kosmik music or whatever name the latest tweak program was - ok i made some up - then we'd all be home downloading the stuff, messing about ourselves & why bother going out? (i have actually tried a few myself, but i make no pretense that i've mastered any of them) i've been a music appreciator 4 many years, what i respect is how interesting the sounds are that are being manipulated.... the most fascinating performance i ever attended was david toop at the purcell room who had a hundred bamboo conical shaped object that were manipulated into the computer wizardry & when i later went up to toop & told him i never imagined the sounds came from those objects, he replied 'you've got a strange brain' like they probably say somewhere else, it aint the meat, it's the motion... i'm really sorry i mist the pole show down in london. ok, gang, flame on...

quoted 8 lines He also played at the second Offpeak in Manchester on Sunday - I think

> >He also played at the second Offpeak in Manchester on Sunday - I think >your description fits that performance too. Nice stuff but spoiled by >idle chatterers. > >Why don't all these laptop 'performers' just put up a placard with the >list of apps and plugins they are using? Then they wouldn't need to >play anything. Just a thought.

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