From Steven Center Sent Tue, Nov 24th 1998, 22:42
first, let me echo Will's statement that this is not exactly IDM. i'm sorry if it's not that intelligent, but you try to convince the crowd i saw last night that it wasn't dance music. Will Samuels wrote: > At the last minute I got a free ticket and decided to go. i too came upon a free ticket at around 8:00 p.m. and decided to go. sounds like there were a lot of free tickets floating around. like Will, i like a lot of the underworld material, and that last album still puts me in a good mood sometimes. 'born slippy' is one of my favorite 12"s of all time. i also dug their performance at organic 96. last night had its ups and downs, though. the classics have never sounded better, with some great changes to 'born slippy/nuxx' and 'cowgirl'. there is little doubt in my mind that they do indeed mess around with their music quite a bit live, since you can watch the two blokes up on the stage with their entire mixing board messing stuff up the whole time. they even had some technical difficulties more than once during the show, but for all i know that could have been the dat machine queuing. that singer guy has got to go, though. all i could think of the whole night was the singer from everclear crossed with the fella from that band 'live', both of whom i would love to smack around a bit. the new material was indeed quite uninspired and less than intelligent, nothing new at all. one of them was nothing more than yet another take on the acid techno thing. very average overall. i would have been very disappointed if i had paid to see the show, but i can't get too mad when the show is free. i did get to dance a bit, which is always welcome on a monday night. i have to add that the sound was very crisp and clear and the visuals were very well done. the mayan is a cool place to see a show. it's not cramped small, but it is far from immense. that's all. stv xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx (i just got to teach my new e-mail program's spellcheck a new word: techno)