Hey...I was at this show.
Just wonderful.
Pretty much agree with your review here.
I was the guy with spikey hair and a Gridlock T-shirt 2 rows back from the
stage attempting to dance, albiet badly, while getting crushed kinda
claustrophobically. Know where I could find an mp3 recording of the show?
Ebola
np: Xingu Hill
quoted 48 lines From: "Matthew Korfhage" <pomomofo2000@hotmail.com>
>From: "Matthew Korfhage" <pomomofo2000@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] REVIEW: Autechre in PDX
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:20:28 -0700
>
>I've been reading bad reviews of Autechre shows for what seems like ages,
>usually with some variation on the theme of "it's just noise, there's no
>melody". So I went in expecting an abstract, static-y bit of noise.
>
>At this point, I'm starting to think that most of the negative reviews are
>coming from people who didn't like EP7 and Confield (admittedly not their
>strongest, but the B-side is gorgeous), and long for the melodic
>melancholia
>of Amber or Tri Repetae. Because what I got was a surprisingly danceable
>mess of beats and melodic fragments, with definite funk inside, although
>B-complex (which is otherwise the venue Portland's been needing for a
>while-- it'll be nice to see MoM-Vert there shortly) was far too sweaty and
>packed to allow much moving around. Those few who did carve out dance
>spaces at the periphery were unfortunately doing little gothic
>pinkie-dances or post-hippie acid lumbers. Myself, I was up near the front,
>so I contented myself with (mostly) in-place body-rocking. All in all, a
>nice, very dense musical experience, with a commendable sound job by the
>man
>in the back. I missed most of the openers, intentionally, after suffering
>through Rob Hall's proto-utopian Depeche-Mode-meets-really-hard-hitting-Yaz
>approach to rhythm and sound design-- this is the person Sean and Rob chose
>to tour with them? Grammar school chums, I'm assuming, because I just don't
>see it.
>A nicely intense, engaging show on Autechre's end, though. I was pleasantly
>surprised.
>
>M.
>
>
>"It is the pledges that this place makes to me, pledges that cannot be
>redeemed, that will confuse me later."
>
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