quoted 1 line Anyone make it to this show, and if so, would they care to comment on it?> Anyone make it to this show, and if so, would they care to comment on it?
Oliver did two shows here. The first was a small intimate gathering at a
once-every-so-often event called Public Space (last one was Autechre/STC).
The second was at a full-on party (I guess I can't call it "rave" anymore,
ever since I was on CU-SeeMe talking to some English Techno boffin who
keeled over with laughter when I said I went to "raves") that also featured
another Freaky Chakra vs. Sickle Cell Anemia slugfest.
I went to the first event. The setting and crowd size was not terribly
dissimilar to g303's description of the Gescom/Zoviet France intermingling.
Oliver sat down at a table with a Novation Basstation, a Juno 106, a Yamaha
digital mixer, a little Kawai sequencer, and a couple of other things (maybe
a sampler, it was in a rack box and it was dark ... ). I thought he'd go
for an Ambient set but instead played mostly fast tempo German trance.
I liked most of it quite a bit, although the setting was a bit odd ... not
really a place to dance in, and half the people left during his set (!) - maybe
they wanted/expected an Ambient set. It would have worked better at a normal
"rave" (quote-unquote).
As for the other event, as much as I wanted to go, the $40 (for two) admission
price and a psychic premonition on my part made me decide to stay home. And
sure enough, I heard the next day that the event was busted. (It was more a
learned premonition; any events that are more of the Hardcore - and not in
the UK breakbeat sense of the term - are busted more often than not these days
here in Los Angeles). So I don't know if Oliver got to play at it or not.
- Greg