quoted 2 lines andy wrote:> andy wrote:
>Anyone else see the Kooky Scientist in Boston last night?
indeed.
quoted 4 lines My question: I thought his style would be more, well, erm,>My question: I thought his style would be more, well, erm,
>experimental-sounding(based only on his name). Is all his stuff so
>dancey, or was he just playing his stuff that's like that to keep the
>crowd moving?
i agree with you. even though i am a good friend of Fred's, i was hoping to
hear a little more kookiness as you do on record. but his live sets are
always a little more dance floor oriented anyway. i thought it was a little
more trancey in fact. after his set, he was complaining that he couldn't
hear the monitors too well and the headphone volume wasn't loud enough
either. perhaps it affected his performance a bit in not tweaking as many
things as he could have. he only played a couple of "kooky" tracks while
the rest where new renditions of tracks off his own Telepathic label
releases.
quoted 2 lines Anyone have the new LP? review?>Anyone have the new LP? review?
>
solid. nice sublty building and evolving tunes. a couple of
"experimental"/less beat oriented pieces. Aside from the opening track, i
prefer the tracks on the last half of the album a bit better. a little more
idm. the first half of the tracks are a little more dance floor or
"consumable".the last track "touched by sound", is a funny techno Bossa
piece. kinda in the same vein as that Lisa Carbon Trio stuff, but without
the pianos. I believe he is remixing this for the next single if i recall
correctly. Good production quality overall. Fred has got mad engineering
chops. and, he's a pretty good composer.....
and lastly, he finally got hooked to play Tribal Gathering, but not in the
Detroit Tent. He'll be in one of the other Techno tents with the rest of
the Plus8 crew. He has an early evening set. At least he'll get to see
Kraftwerk play live.
out,
benny blanco