drove the 400 mile round trip yesterday up to ptown
to catch the devine otto von phoenecia beats.
got there just as otto was taking stage. i saw him
once over a year ago. he's definately the mr. bungle
of idm. personally i thought the set last year at the
blackbird was a bit more on. this is based on the fact
that nobody showed up, maybe a hundred souls.
most of his tracks were off his latest fungus
slap my ass trilogy. i can only imagine how his
performances will be taken in a packed venue.
definately nothing wrong with ottos performance but
rather the lack of portland representation.
devine played next laying out a relentless
compression of beats and a wish-wash of allemapper
esque noise. what can you really say? i typically
only travel that distance to see those artists that
i hold in high regards. pretty much met my expectations
and then blasted them. i beleive most of the tracks were
based off of the asect:desct ep. he won't, he can't
disapoint unless your looking for him to smash his laptop
or do shitty break dancing. not gonna happen.
phoenecia finished up the show much like they did a
year ago. i loved brownout and they are still playing
material of that sort (think BLD). if you havn't seen
them think 'autechre live set.' They pretty much just layout
frenetic beats over an up in the air time frame, continually
evolving. just when your about to get up
and leave so you can get that extra beauty sleep
they change it up and you have to resume your
last position.
also all of them were friendly, my brother had a few
too many long island's and i waited out in the
rain for his ass while he chatted it up with otto and devine.
Thats my take.
klint
http://www.laphop.com
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