From Steve Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 23:23
From Steve Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 23:23
> I've not noticed any reports on this yet, did the Boards of Canada > actually play? - if so I completely missed them, careless of me. hmm me too... i was going to post a review of the event but im tootired from my new job! > I did catch Farmers Manual PA their stuff. It was odd watching the > three of them idly fingering their laptops, looking awkward/bored, > sounding wired, with a huge steam engine looming above, > occasionally stirring. i think Farmers Manual was the best thing i saw, i think they felt moreAwkward than bored... actually the steam engine was the best thing i saw all day, it was incredible wasnt it! huge doesnt really sum up how big it actually was... gargantuan maybe The Surgeon/Mike Harris noise thing was pretty damn good too, squarepusher was ok, he played records by himself... a bit of plug.. a bit of MCing 'Super Sharp Pea Shooter' > Autechre played later on. Stunning. They just get better. On this > occassion the beats seemed less fractured, with longer structures > being formed. I had a right old dance. Are rumours of a new > album true? ... notebooks out, plagiarists-ahh. I dunno Autechre didnt really move me, i fully respect what they do.. and find it quite admirable in a way that they havent actually developed that much since their second album (they obviously like what they do...) ,there was a very nice bassline at one point, some lush strings, the last track bored me for five minutes... but then i really got into i for five mins... and it hadnt actually changed! and then it started to drag again, i thought id recorded the autechre set on my minidisc... but it didnt come out! if it had i wouldnt be broadcasting the fact on idm for fear of my ISP going down from all the begging mails i would have been sent ;-) Steve