From Kelley Hackett Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 13:43
From Kelley Hackett Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 13:43
Yeah, You are quite lucky my friend quite Luck. Good run-down of events--- Hk-50! np: Ae--"Nil" > -----Original Message----- > From: =D6rn =C1sbj=F6rnsson [SMTP:xxx@xxxxxxx.xx] > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 5:31 AM > To: Kelley Hackett > Subject: Autechre show >=20 > Ok ok here=B4s the deal! > =A0 > When we arrived just before 10 the place was quite packed, and what > bugged me the most was that everybody was sitting down! Now I like > sitting down concerts, but when the main act is a hard hitting > electronic act like Autechre you might wanna shake your limbs to the > beat. Anyhow when we arrived an artist called Biogen was playing, and > this is probably the first time his music was mellow and nice, still > with a fair amount of oomph! My guess was that he wanted to show > Autechre what he was capable of. Later on his tracks got alot ruffer, > and the first two or three souls started shaking their limbs.=20 > =A0 > Then came Mira Calix, apperently wife of one of the Autechre boys and > a Warp Records DJ. Her selection of tracks fully made up for her lack > of dj techniques, not that there was any botched mixes or anything, > but with everybody sitting down watching a dj they probably wanted a > show of it. Anyhoo more and more souls starting shaking their limbs = so > this was starting to look promising! Then after an hour or two of a > premium selection of tracks from Mira the boys sneaked on stage and > took their place behind their laptops.=20 > =A0 > I was standing next to the stage when they dropped their first sound, > and damn I haven=B4t been that startled in a long time! Thus they = were > off, the first minutes they had this complex beat that seemed to > mutate quite randomly, and on it went for quite long. I don=B4t = remember > for how long but it came apperant that this was going to be something > nobody had expected. Alot of people had left their seats and pushed > them aside and started to move their body. But with such randomly > mutated beats as the boys were feeding us with that was not easy, > especially when in the middle of a "track" they increased the bpm > quite alot and then everybody trying to hold on to the beat totally > lost track. But hey we are icelandic so we didn=B4t give up! Alot of > people who apperently were there just to seen left after maybe a half > and hour. A friend of mine came up to me and yelled into my ear : = this > is WAY to wierd for mister normal joe! And I totally agreed with him! > After an hour of this it was totaly clear that this was the most > mind-bending stuff I had heard in a long time! Either this is = insanely > ahead of it=B4s time or they were just messing with us. I personally > belive in the former. When they rolled of their last track everybody > who had been moving went crazy clapping and screeming and we managed > to get an encore from them after they left the stage and that was the > only track I had ever heard before, although this version was far = more > rough! When that was finished I damned my self bigtime for not > bringing a recorder of some sorts! Cause this is the kinda stuff you > need to digest after more than one listen. I thought about it after > the concert that I probably wouldn=B4t remember a single track = because > this was so mind bending that it doesn=B4t stick easily and I was = right, > today I only remember the mood and what I saw but not the sounds, > DAMN!!!. Later on I heard that this and some gig in Austria were the > only shows they were gonna do this year. So I consider myself > extremely lucky even though I don=B4t remember the sounds! > =A0 > =A0 > ciao=20 > =A0 > Orn > =A0