Here's a bit of a review of Aphex Twin in DC on Sept. 5th..
I'll have to think to remember every track, so the following tracks are not
in the right order.
When they were setting up for AFX, Richard was laying down on a couch that
was behind a white hanging tarp, and then he got up from the couch so they
could move all his gear (couch included) to the front of the stage. He did
the entire gig laying there on his side with his feet plopped over the arm
of the couch and his Mac Powerbook stood up on some milkcrates and a record
box, hooked up to some kind of mixer I reckon. He had it seems the different
sound channels from his Mac plugged into the mixer, because he turned
individual track volumes up down off and on while he was doing the gig,
unless heh this was preprogrammed, but it looked as if he was twiddling
knobs/sliders.
The bears came out and started dancing and dry-fucking each other on stage
during some tracks and then later came back to do what looked like ballet
stuff to Lichen from SAW2 :D the bears also sat on RDJ's set and nearly
knocked his laptop into the floor, but Richard didn't look up not once.
the tracks:
pulsewidth: at first I thought this was an unreleased track, then I heard
the melody. entirely new drums at the beginning at least.
lichen: directly from saw2 except there's some resonance sweeps/modulation
in it.
heliospan: same thing he played basically from Big Day Out, basically some
new drums and tb-303-alike things added.
to kill a weakling child: this was instrumental and some more new drums,
only the vocals "my feet" etc. played at the beginning and end, and in some
parts in between.
laughable butane bob: this is basically the same as on HAB
come to daddy: hah ok now I'm wearing my flame-protection suit. I thought
track was quite nice actually, despite all the stuff said on here. "Come to
Daddy" isn't repeated throughout the entire track, it only says it 3 times,
and then doesn't say it anymore for a while, and then it says it again 3
times. True, this is quite a bit boring at times, but it was a pretty good
track.. As for whether it's a joke of Prodigy or not, I don't know, but it
certainly doesn't sound like he's making fun of Prodigy to me. just my
opinion :) the come to daddy vocals are pretty cool.
he played a few untitled tracks, including an acid track with totally
awesome drum programming, using the same drum sounds as in all the RDJ LP
tracks. also another one had a childlike melody and another one had loops
with snarerushes that seemed to speed up exponentially or in a similar
fashion, and they were repeated with other rhythms laced over it.
was a really good gig :)
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