All in all, a great 5 days of electronic music, in all forms and shapes,
from the ultra kitsch and groovy Nova Huta and Felix Kubin to the
horribly boring noise of DIOXIDE, with excursions into laptop nerdness with
SND, and elektro moments with Solvent vs. Lowfish to the extreme house of
Luomo ...
A day by day review ...
day 1 :
vitaminsforyou : nice "board of canda"-ish set,
snd : laptop nerdness, simple beats and "melody"
d i o x y d e : noise, with fun visuals, not quite loud enough
( I8U was better last year, in that type of music )
mens/koolwyk : sound a lot like SND, with visuals to go, minimal.
hellothisisalex : missed them because aforementionned shows started
late...
nova huta : Whoohooo kitsch groovy east-european analog junky with a
twist...
one of the best showman of the festival.
felix kubin : same thing as nova huta
day 2 :
deadbeat-monolake webjam : cool minimal techno web jam kind of groovy ...
alexandre burton : Blah, max/msp construction set live ) , left the place
...
zack settel : din't hear it
duul_drv : did't hear it ....
helen of troy : ambient loops of live violin with feedback, a bit like
some mellow
seefeel
ghislain poirier : nice groovy laptop glitches and beats ...
stephan mathieu plays sad mac studies : missed this one.
janek schaefer : boring, I'm sorry, turntables, with 2 arms, custom
vinyls,
and feedback and noise.
solvent vs lowfish : nice set of elektro-ish techno, with enough kick to
make people
dance.
bola : I like bola, but not live, not different enough from
the CD...
ensemble : Blah, I left ...
day 3 :
[ I missed the afternoon session ... ]
steve beaupre - dj : came in ... nice minimal tech-house-ish set ...
repair + dawn lewis : really liked them, but I don't remember enough, but
I danced on
it, and I liked dawn lewis' voice, quite fitting.
copacabannark : WhooHooo Rocked da' House, hard pounding techno with
a twist...
but, my friend lazlo, they were beat by Dandy Jack
as the most enthusiamic
radio boy live - aka matthew herbert : I like herber's more jazzy side,
but not this,
too much anger and uselessness ...
didn't go anywhere...
overkill ...
akufen : simple straight "storming cut'n'paste techhouse"
like lazlo wrote, but as one
of my friend told me, it's lacking variations ...
but I danced right thrue it ...
hakan libdo : again, I agree with you lazlo ...
day 4 :
ORTHLORNG MUSORK label showcase:
stephan mathieu plays full swing : missed this one.
timeblind : don't remember, I was reading a magazine .... :-(
agf : nice laidback glitch-pop, with
agf / dlay : in the same vein as AGF solo, but a bit more up-tempo, i
half expected
something more like Naima ?!?!? well, can't have everything
...
philip sherburne - dj : I left ....
vincent lemieux - dj : nice tech-house set ...
ben nevile : Fun to watch, and dance to ...
KLANG/PLAYHOUSE label showcase:
farben : Blah, I don't like him, didn't do much for me, went for a
drink ...
losoul : WhooHoo, he kicked ass ... great tech-house ...
ricardo villalobos : Ricardo is a hard one to get, it's either really
great of really bad, but
I liked it very much ...
luomo : WhooHoo, this is house, really sexy house ... this guy can
do it all !!!
day 5 :
[ I missed the afternoon session ... ]
mutek dj : Alain Mongeau himself, he's the mutek head ... good tech set
...
murcof : I liked him very much, more into cinematic techno, with great
ambience and
a real sens of depth ...
juan self : Tech-House, rocked the place, good show man also,
atomtm : What can I say, this is really great, I must admit I was a bit
scared, because I didn't
really know what to expect ... great tech-break-glitchs ...
rocked the house ...
dandy jack presents sieg uber die sonne : and just when you thing you
heard enough !!!! Whoohooo
This guy kicked add, and dropped a bomb in Montreal last
night, a great, woonderfull set
of tech-house with some nice touch of latin percussions he
was the best ...
atom + dandy jack + ricardo villalobos (jam session) : and then came
apotheosis, the three of them all
together on stage, took so time to get things going, but when
I left at 4am,
all latin-hell broke loose ...
In summary :
The bests :
copacabannark
losoul
luomo
every one on day 5
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