Yeah! That show was amazing!
-kb
quoted 79 lines From: Gaiatekztur214@aol.com
>From: Gaiatekztur214@aol.com
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] hrvatski_gerard malanga_dj olive_thurston moore last night
>nyc
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:11:22 EST
>
>g'deevnin' ya'll
>so i saw the listing for this show in the NY press and i was fukkin blown
>away by the lineup...for those unknowing who gerard malanga is, he was part
>of the inner circle of william s. burroughs and the beats as well as andy
>warhol's later on...he's done tons of photo and poetry work which has been
>published worldwide and also released a cD on sub rosa a couple years
>back...anyway...here's the long and short of it..
>
>cooler_nyc_1_27_01
>
>gerard malanga/dj olive_i saw gerard catting around all night and not a
>single person sed hi! or anything...too bad, so sad...but yeah..his poetry
>was awe inspiring...made me feel like i was witnessing something really
>rare
>and special...talking about reflections, shadows, the light of the
>world...great stuff...olive was spinning a lot of ambient soundscapish
>stuff...i wish i knew what but some of it was off his 3LP set i could tell
>as
>well as some well knowns like biosphere i think etc...worked well for the
>most part with malanga's poetry and at times perfectly accented the theme
>and
>mood of the reading....nothing short of dopalicious
>
>hrvatski_well i thought iD be treated to a tweak-beat drilly bassified
>workout but instead he carried on the theme of avant garde
>kraziness...almost
>all new materials, maybe one half of one of the tracks i recognised off of
>reckanwhatever...no fancy hardware, just a laptop and a mixer as well as a
>couple of effects modules i think..had a guitar with him but he didn't
>play,
>i think the bigwigs were trying to keep the lineup somewhat on time to the
>schedule but i personally have NEVER seen that happen at this venue....shit
>always starts kraaazy late...anyway...so he did a lot of dsp
>screechiness...a
>little video game blip bloop drill and bass at one point and some dubish
>hiphop/funk but that was the only beat oriented stuff he did...i was
>yapping
>at him the whole time, yelling "metal hell!!!" and "faster dood!!!" and
>other
>stupidities....when he finished up we tried to hold a conversation for a
>couple minuted but the intermission muzak was sooooo loud it was like
>impossible...he ended up giving me a Red Stripe beer and a copy of his
>Gai/Jin 7" too...that made my night complete....
>
>thurston moore_xena_nels_two guitarists and on electronic harpist going
>crazy...attempting insanity sysnthesis...they were mos def the most
>energetic
>of the night that i saw....thurston broke 3-4 of his strings but kept
>playing
>and xena broke one of hers....all around a deafening reassurance that the
>asylums aren't doing a good job keeping the loonies in
>
>christian marclay_lee ranaldo_didnt stay for this one cuz i was bleeding
>out
>the ears from the moore/xena/nels performance and i had the thirst for a
>$.50
>soda in the vein of Top Pop or Tropical Fantasy...marclay had two OOOOOllld
>school decks and a bunch of effects while lee had his geetar and about 20
>different pedals as well as a violin reed...i hope they blew out the sound
>system cuz that woulda been the icing on the night
>
>cloudy with a chance of meatballs,
>centripdLL
>"a happy matt, a snappy matt"
>
>np>>"we had bass pound speakers, shell-toed adidas...original rap with new
>school leaders...grafitti art gangs, the fat gold chains..shock the world
>cousin..cuz hip-hop remains" pete rock-tru master
>
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