i saw vibert and squarepusher at the bowery in new york. while i'm a
long-time fan of vibert, i can sadly say that i'll never go to see him
dj ever again. i dont know what in the hell he was doing, but i was
not impressed. now, i can understand someone using traktor to dj a
gig, and i have no problem with that, but that doesnt mean that you
should actually be worse off. he was obviously using the
auto-beatmatch features, which i would also normally be able to
forgive, but..
oh man.. but..
he seemed to have absolutely no sense of musical phrasing. at all.
again, i love luke vibert, and i have a lot of respect for the man, but
i'm better off forgetting that i saw him than remembering this part of
the night. his mixes were choppy, to be pleasant. his transitions
were.. well.. not so much transitions, as more randomly dropped in
chunks of other songs. either he couldnt count to four, or didnt care.
i'm more likely to say the latter, as every time he fucked up
severely, he visibly flinched.
now, there were times where what he did really, really came through. a
few of his mixes were absolutely, totally, incredible. he kept
dropping parts of cheesy above other songs, which made me smile, but...
man.. luke... next time, please wear headphones and preview the shit.
next time, actually pay attention to what measure you mix stuff in on.
next time, dont play so much afx. we know the songs, true, but 5 or 6
tracks over 2 hours is a bit much. variety.
but that song which i cant remember the name of.. the breaks remix of
the old track that goes "incense, pepperments," that was right on.
as for squarepusher....
wow.
i talked to a friend halfway through the show via text messages, and
all i could say was "fucking wow." literally. i've seen a lot of
people play live, but i've never actually had to lift my jaw off of the
ground before in order to shout. at no point did tom have to scream
"MAKE SOME FUCKING NOISE," but he did have to wave his hands a few
times to get people to shut the hell up.
wow. just.. wow. i cant go into more detail than that.
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 01:34 AM, joe peterson wrote:
quoted 16 lines i saw him, vibert, mu-ziq, + the rest in chowtown and it was, as the
> i saw him, vibert, mu-ziq, + the rest in chowtown and it was, as the
> kids say, the illness. the pusher brought his bass as I hoped he
> would, but at times I thought it was a bit... overdone? nomind. some
> old, some new. tough;ended with 'full rinse'! lukes set of
> stripped-down oldskool breaks&bass with acieed! (ceephax,afx,etc) for
> spice totally WRECKED it. definitely the best dj mix ive seen in a
> quite some time. mu-ziq has my pick for best set of the weekend
> though. 1/3 of the trax were from 'bilious', 1/3 from 'lunatic
> harness'+'brace yourself' era + some other released bits, 1/3
> unreleased? jackin! got tired of salvo beta losing the plot and I was
> too busy getting stoned so I missed all but the last bit of dykehouse
> (didn't like the lip-sync, singalong thing on 'on/off'). oh well.
>
> cheers chicago.
>
> -j.