On 09/05/01 16:24, Julian So said in living color:
quoted 10 lines At 16:37 09/05/01, Jeff/Ninja Tune wrote:> At 16:37 09/05/01, Jeff/Ninja Tune wrote:
>> Autechre were very good, but Russell Haswell rules. That recording he has of
>> the journalist getting really excited about "Altern-8 are about to take the
>> stage" is classic. Although he seemed to upset quite a few people I loved
>> his harsh noise/death metal set, but then a mis-spent youth doing acid and
>> listening to Whitehouse records will do that to you.
>
> That was Russell Haswell? I thought that was Rob Hall doing the inscrutable
> noise/death metal set and Russell, the Warp / Gary Numan / electro /
> Kraftwerk / EBM / M3rck / Chocolate tribute.
Nope, the inverse of that.
One funny thing is that when Rob Hall's set finished and Russell Haswell
came back to do the "second part" of his set (beginning by playing a Farmers
Manual track from "fsck", IIRC), lots of people thought it was Autechre
playing... :)
Personally, I didn't like Russell Haswell's set that much... A couple of
interesting passages and some funny moments, but overall, I didn't find it
very compelling. (One of) the problem(s), for me, was that he never truly
developed the sound objects he was playing with. "Hmm... I have these cool
sounds... Geez, what could I do with that? Hmm..., let's switch to another
snippet."
quoted 5 lines I've never seen either of them live before and I'm not familiar with their> I've never seen either of them live before and I'm not familiar with their
> work, so I can't be sure. But in any event, I really liked the first set.
>
> I thought Autechre was uninspiringly blah. But the sound did suck for their
> set.
Again, a disagreement. I thought Autechre were really good. A different
framework than their recorded output, but still fascinating stuff. I think
that Autechre is the only entity in electronic music (in the "popular"
field) to approach what could be called "spirituality" in their work.
They're visionaries, they're truly connected to their, hum, let's call it
"primal energies"... and it really shows in their music.
I'd say that the relatively limited sound palette used for percussion (in
comparison to what they use in their [recent] recorded tracks) throughout
the show is the only thing that actually bothered me.
One thing that surprised me was how they were providing very clear "guides"
that delimited the "path" they were taking, so people could easily follow
the flow of the music. And if you were able to follow what went on *inside*
those guides, there were great treasures to reward the listener for his
participation. Anyway, this listener.
g.
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Guillaume Grenier - gollum@videotron.ca
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in space there is no east in space there is no west
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