From Maximilien Lincourt Sent Mon, Aug 3rd 1998, 12:52
From Maximilien Lincourt Sent Mon, Aug 3rd 1998, 12:52
Christian Faucher wrote: > > I'm surprised nobody talked about Autechre's last night performance in > Montreal. I was there but since I'm not a big Autechre fan I don't > really have any special comment to mention. The show started one hour > late, DJ Luv was pretty good, DJ Chantal's set was agonizingly long. I > expected some lightwork but all we got was a few flashes and a stupid > blue lightspot that stayed on for two hours. Then Dave Kristian came > onstage. The first 15 minutes were awful but then he played this great > ambient bit, it turned out to be the greatest moment of the evening. > Then he left and Autechre > appeared. They played about 6 or 7 different tracks that I didn't > know. I liked maybe one or two. There was no big cheer and applause at > the end of their act, I think that most of the audience didn't liked > it very much as well, I might be wrong though, maybe they were too > stunned. I didn't stay for the other DJ and the after-party. All > throughout the night the sound was bad, lots of unwanted distortion I > think, most of the subtilities of the sound were lost. I was there also friday, the review is much the same; DJ Luv was good, saw the end of it only, but I liked it, but then came DJ Chantal, she had some good music, some bad music, but what was worse, is that she was not really DJing at all, a CD changer could do better and she was not always in front, she disapeared for lond period of time... Then came Dave Kristian; I half expected what he should sound, the first part was very experimental, very spaced out... The second part was ambient ( even had some keyboard playing ... :) ) I kinda liked it anyway... Autechre came out, with simple ligths ( no candles that I could see ) and the music came out very good, I don't think the sound was all that bad ( I just should never forget earplugs... ) they played "danceable" music, lot's of autechre'ish beats , some melodies, not much, and I did not really expect more, I think that many people were expecting more accessible music, I don't think that a lot of people in there were real fans ( I'm not, but I liked the early Ae stuff ). Than came the WORST ending of a show that I ever watched, Derek Carter came out played some gospel-chicago-house; as we watched from the second level, we could see the whole floor stop dancing at some points and kinda looking around wandering what's going on... Max. Maximilien Lincourt, B. info., Software developer "2d or not 2d" ToonBoom Technologies Inc. phone 514 278 86 66 7, Laurier East fax 514 278 26 66 Montreal, Canada mailto:xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx H2T 1E4 http://www.toonboom.com