I saw lesser open up for matmos in ny a good year or so back and i was also
quite impressed. previously i had only heard a 7" of his which kinda
underwhelmed me (no idea what his output sounds like these days). live was
another story.
if i understand it correctly he burns a bunch of cds of his tracks and then
just rocks them out on a nice cd dj-deck sprinkling in some live electronics
in if memory serves.... on paper this doesnt sound like it'd be all that
great but it works VERY nicely. he's one of the only 'electronic' folks i
can think of that you really walk away with a sense that they are actually
doing something on stage... its a very visceral experience not unlike
watching turntablists do their thing. i also havent really heard anything
else quite like it. (cd turntablism informed by glitch? a markus popp and
the invisible scratch pickles love child?) i wonder how he'd go over with
folks at something like a DMC event.
i'd also be very curious to hear his studio output these days... for me
listening to things like kid koala and those comps on bomb records (while
brilliant) never really give you anywhere near the same satisfaction of
watching it done live. i wonder if this problem would exist listening to
lesser at home....
even so, how many people can you say messing around with this type of music
sound better live than they do on your stereo? that alone should tell you
that something's going on ever there...
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: idm@hyperreal.org
From: Scott Pactor <scottpactor@yahoo.com>
quoted 6 lines I checked out the Tigerbomb show in SF last weekend.
>I checked out the Tigerbomb show in SF last weekend.
>While I was there I saw Lesser and Blectum from
>Blechdom. Can anybody explain to me the technique
>that Lesser uses when he "scratches" CD's like a DJ
>scratching records? I've never heard anything quite
>like it.
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