well I've just come back from the Bristol planet mu gig and it was amazing! Every single artist was fantastic: Leafcutter in a sort of weird ambient quasi-Autechre type thing (at one point he had a table miked up and was whacking it with beer bottles)... Capitol K did only a few tunes, basically skronked-up album tracks with perfect singing and I think he used a theremin at one point... Jega was really good, especially when he played a brand-new tune at the end which sounded like lots of little '94-era jungle amen-breaks, all chopped up and spliced together in weird patterns; I had a little chat with him afterwards and he said he'd only just finished that one, and he showed me how he made the tunes live with his laptop... mike p's dj set was ace, mainly hard drum'n'bass that I didn't really recognise, but I had to get up and really dance when I heard hrvatski's kid606 remix, oh yeah... and as for hellfish, well... sounded basically like happy hardcore without the happy, all mashed up to the point where the beats were disappearing in static, fucking mental. there was some oriental guy there as well doing the coolest dancing I have ever seen... at one point he seemed to be crawling on the floor, hopping his knees up and down to the beat... oh yeah, what a night!
Anthony.