Jamie Lidell was definitely my favorite from the Los
Angeles show!
I spoke to him for a little bit and he said that he is
doing a mini-album with Scott Herren. That should be
interesting.
--- M Mercer <vletrmx@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 89 lines I pretty much stayed in Metro all night (didn't go
>
> I pretty much stayed in Metro all night (didn't go
> down to Smartbar for the
> other acts)... so I only saw part of the lineup.
> Jamie Lidell blew me away,
> completely exceeded already high expectations with
> an awesome set of
> beat-boxing, looped-delay vocal tracks and complete
> digital noise. I really
> enjoyed his pseudo-digital-scratching he was doing
> on his looped
> beats/vocals. He totally was into what he was doing
> and despite the thin
> crowd (he started promptly at 10) it was probably my
> favorite portion of the
> evening.
>
> Chris Clark laid down a massive set of ultra-fast
> acid tracks, brutally
> heavy stuff. It was a lot harder and more aggressive
> than anything on his
> full-length and was closer to some of the newer
> Speedy J stuff (but
> faster)... I was pleasantly surprised though. People
> seemed to really want
> to get down although it was generally not that
> coherent for routine dance
> moves...
>
> DJ Ease's set wasn't especially to my liking. I'm
> not a huge Nightmares on
> Wax fan and I ended up by the bar for most of his
> set talking to some
> people, but the crowd seemed to be getting into it.
> Prefuse 73 was great,
> although I found that his sound wore a bit thin on
> me as the night went on.
> I love his records (under all his assorted aliases)
> so I was surprised to be
> losing interest myself, so maybe it was just the
> time rolling by as the
> night went on.
>
> Richard Devine shook the foundations with some super
> heavy noise and
> non-melodic Lipswitchness. He didn't do too much of
> the more abstract
> Aleamapper stuff, mostly more rhythmic tracks.
> Occasionally he'd drop
> something more structured like his Magic Bus comp
> track... I've seen him
> perform before and this was not very different, but
> he's a master of what he
> does so it was good to hear him doing it. If that
> makes sense.
>
> LFO came on with a DJ set around 2 am and my sorry
> ass was tired, so I
> caught a cab and went home. Luke Vibert was
> downstairs in Smart Bar and I
> stopped in to check it out on my way out.... it
> seemed like a lot of people
> were there specifically for his set, although i've
> never been a huge fan of
> his stuff. So I called it a night and headed home.
>
> It was an awesome show for $15. I was really glad
> that the tour stopped
> through here... I feel bad for those in Toronto who
> missed out. Anyone who
> has the opportunity to catch Mr. Lidell on tour any
> other time in the future
> really should try to make it, as it was one of the
> best performances I've
> seen in a long time. I was surprised that the venue
> wasn't very full. I
> expected the show to sell out completely and it
> wasn't even close to
> capacity, but it was a decent enough turnout, I
> suppose. All in all, a great
> event....
>
>
>
>
> m.mercer :: design + sound
> http://www.matthewmercer.com/
> http://www.mattmercer.com
>
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