WEDS 3 MARCH - HERBAL TEA PARTY, THE NEW ARDRI, MANCHESTER
DJ - RESIDENT Typical Glastonbury-Sound-system-crusty-
120BPM-look-i've-sampled-the-303-and-808-no
breakbeats-here-mate Techno
DAVID HOLMES, (SUGAR-SWEET, BELFAST)
good sounds, not too impressed with mixing choice, lots of
big biuld-up acid techno, leading to very wishywsashy
ambient. A lot of US techno and i wish he could have left
the basslines alone instead of trying to be clever and
taking out basslines (bassdrum) for a couple of bars,
leaving a 303 and a hi-hat, most of the time. The sound
system was crap anyway,without letting the DJ piss around
with a Bass EQ Fader..
PA - SPACE CADET , LOCAL BAND - OZRIC TENTACLES WANNABES
Live drums, Bass guitar, Roland sequencer, bassoon
- not very impressive, the same tired old dub reggae
bass lines, no vocals/samples, folky bassoon.
songs too long but alright as background music.
- BIOSPHERE,
Initial impressions was not too good, typical scandinavian
student-looking sequencer-know-all wonders on stage. Blonde
hair, and wearing those awful blotchy shell suit bottoms
that appear so popular on the continent..
First tune was good / interesting, this man was nervous,
kept fucking up the chords, but you couldn't tell unless
you could see his face (expression of : why are all these
drugged up crustys and technutters here looking at me )
second tune, his partner came on ( probably got
held up trying to get a drink and interpreteting
the Irish bar staff's accents ) and things suddenly got a
lot better. BPM slowly increased through the set (up to
120 BPM ) moog basslines got louder. lots of vocal film
samples, put through delay. Nice dancable beats,lots of
whooshy analoguey sounds. A lot like the ORB in many places
but instead of soundinglike a copy it all sounded dead
fresh and inspirational...
J.D. Conclusion 8/10 - Good night out
got better when we all chilled out at home
staying up to 6am spinnin' ambient tunes and
toking