ahhhhh, the good old days. a moby/afx/orbital show. Now-a-days, you'd have
people bitching about Moby existing and whether or not Orbital sucked yet.
-adam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Michael Parry [brit@strauss.udel.edu]
> Sent: Mon, Nov 1, 1993 3:37 AM
> Subject: Aphextacy
>
> WOOW! that about says it all.
>
> Just got back from the moby/afx/orbital show in Philadelphia. Soon after
> arriving, I saw a guy wearing an afx shirt and went over to say hello - he
> was actually Scott, the Aphex Twin dancer :) He's a really nice guy, we
> talked about all kinds of stuff before he had to go get ready for the
> show. Soon after meeting Scott, Richard James himself came by and I got
> to say hello to him again and give him an NE:Raves sticker :). Orbital
> came on after VapourSpace (+8) and played a fairly long set which got
> fairly boring towards the end, but was really good in the mainpart. Then
> finally, it was time for richard to do his stuff. Talk about a lack of
> stage presence..you didnt really know he was even there. The entire
> performance, which was totally live, took place off the edge of the stage
> with richard sitting in front of his Atari while Scott, the dancer, took
> center stage and went crazy jumping and pointing around like a madman.
> His set was comprised mostly of unreleased material ranging from some
> heavy dub experimental sounds to an all out auditory assault. brutal. One
> of the few songs that I was able to pick out was his remix of Mescalinium
> Uniteds "we have arrived" which pounded and pounded for quite some time.
> Also, given out on the tour, were cassettes with tracks from each of the
> performing artists, including "d-scape" (i think) by afx. My one complaint
> of the night - I didnt get one :(.
> Anyway, from talking to Scott and Rich, heres some info I collected.
> Selected Ambient Works II, which is now scheduled for January, will be (as
> rumored) a double CD/triple vinyl collection with 25 tracks, over 2 hours
> of music. Scott said that he'd heard 75% of the album already and that it
> was a lot more experimental than the first, "classic richard" :) yaaaay.
>
> Oh, nearly forgot. The mistaken identity thing happened again...while
> lurking around in the dark, somebody came up to me and tapped me on the
> shoulder: "excuse me, are you Richard James??" "errrr....no" (me)
> thats the third time thats happened! :) heh
>
> excuse my poor posting....its 4:00am :)
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