On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 08:13 PM, Albers, Brian A. wrote:
quoted 41 lines The DJ was oustanding and really carried the evening for me. Between
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>> The DJ was oustanding and really carried the evening for me. Between
>> everyone else's live sets he played a great >selection of
>> drill-n-bass tunes.
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> Dj Aura I think he goes by. I've heard worse, but nothing really
> earthshattering.
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>> First up was Nick Forte who's set didn't really do anything for me.
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> Na, me either. No laptop- highly processed guitar, something creating
> some drum loops. With all the reverb/delay/flange/phase on the guitar,
> it reminded me of some of the Cure stuff. The slow, lo-fi droney drum
> parts reminded me of Scorn. It sorta came off like he was just
> screwing around with delay sounds. Even at 30 minutes, his set was 25
> minutes too long. And by the way, his album sounds nothing like this.
> It sounds like really half-assed demo versions of Richard Devine > songs.
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>> Next was Otto von Schirach who's set was entirely memorable and
>> plenty of fun. He rocked the place with his shirt off >and a wig on
>> sounding on the mic much the same as he does on his latest album
>> "Chopped Zombie Fungus" (which is >spectacular imo). I particularly
>> liked how easy-going and playful he was. He really seemed to be
>> enjoying himself and >was doing much more than simply bobbing his
>> head behind a laptop.
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> I knew what to expect having seen him a few times now, and ya, it's
> the same shit he's been doing for a while now. Not offensive, but not
> great either. The only album of his that I have is his first (the one
> without any rapping), and so live when he busts out the microphone,
> it's a big downer for me. Also, he seems like he takes a bit too long
> between each song to fuck around and yell things like some vulgar
> drunkard. Musically, his stuff is OK, but I can do without all the
> tomfoolery (and we all know that's never gonna change).
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>> After Otto came Richard Devine who's set was pretty hectic and noisy.
>> I somehow figured out how to dance to it (after >several drinks and
>> some tequila) and was in in the front making a fool of myself with
>> the 2 other people dancing. He >mainly just stood behind the laptop
>> grimacing at the different sounds he was making with little other
>> movement. Still, the >set was good.quoted 31 lines By 1:30 I realized I still had work in the morning so begrudgingly I
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>> By 1:30 I realized I still had work in the morning so begrudgingly I
>> left before Phoenicia's set.
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> For us, Phoenecia was next. I've seen them play some really fantastic
> shows in the past, as well as some real stinkers. This one was
> somewhere in the middle, but definitely leaning towards the stinker
> side of the spectrum. They had the beats going, but sounding a lot
> like Plastikman, which for me translates as 'super boring'. They would
> find a loop for about 20 seconds and then morph it into something else
> for about 20 seconds, and then morph it into something else for 20
> seconds, and so on. It was the right tempo for dancing, and it had the
> beats for dancing, yet it inspired no dancing. And you could feel that
> the crowd was ready to start shakin' it, and a few of 'em tried to,
> but it never lasted long. So everybody just stood there with their
> arms folded, or chatted with friends or went outside. They did do one
> song about halfway through that had a good punch to it, but everything
> else was just really boring.
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> Then Richie. He didn't go on until 2 AM, and I think most people were
> pretty sleepy with tired feet at this point. Luckily, he was the high
> point of the evening and it seems like he recharged everybodies
> batteries. Not quite as aggressive sounding as I've heard him before
> (Nesh and Sugar are tops), but he did have the people (what was left
> of them) dancing furiously.
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>> All in all I had a pretty rockin' time :)
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> It wasn't rockin' in LA until 2 AM, and overall it was a really really
> looooong evening.
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