From Tom Tonger Sent Tue, Nov 10th 1998, 23:55
From Tom Tonger Sent Tue, Nov 10th 1998, 23:55
At 17:41 10.11.98 -0400, Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote: >so that it flowed better but what can you do. Unfortunatly Coldcut's set >got pushed back later and there set was cut short due to scheduling, but >they rocked anyway. If anyone caught it, the software they were using to >mix the audio and visual is what we are releasing next year. they played live in cologne on the final night of the 10-day battery park cologne festival last month, 1 hour by themselves and 1 hour vs. air liquide. the visual effects matched to their music were excellent, but sadly that was about all that was good about their show (just my personal opinion here, no disrespect to the ninja crew). IMO their music was a rather sad mix of uninspired big beats and a total overload of samples wrongly aimed at a mainstream audience (all the usual jungle book and classical music samples and stuff). fortunately air liquide's entering the ring completely changed the scene. they kept cranking everything from dr walker's trademark ultra-crunchy hip hop beats to jammin unit classics from deaf dub and blind, and for all i could see coldcut's function was reduced to taking care of the visuals. occasionally a sorry-ass disney sample would be dropped in, only to be drowned out by air liquide with even sicker terror loops. all in all, nothing against coldcut, i'm sure big beat fans would've had a great time, but this act clearly didn't fit into the rest of the battery park lineup. good thing you had strobocop and the modernist in the basement to escape to. cheers, tom