From cg Sent Sat, Jul 10th 1999, 07:03
From cg Sent Sat, Jul 10th 1999, 07:03
hello. Just wanted to drop a line that anyone who was at the montreal jazz festival tuesday night should have witnessed an awesome show. it was the pre-Carl Craig show (he was playing nxt, or rather once he started i couldn't really figure out what he was doing.. it was he and the "Innerzone Orchestra", and i think he was the guy ranting over the music about the future of techno and stuff. anyway for 2 tracks it was rough organny jazzy breakbeaty fast stuff and then a bunch of african guys came out and did tribal dance sort of things with cowbells. isn't he supposed to be a detroit techno guy?) Anyway, A-trak (spelling?) came on first and did some amazing beat juggling and all sorts of those famous turntable tricks. really impressive. i'm sure someone will tell me he sucked but this is the first time i've ever seen a DJ like him do this sort of thing so Peace! my friends and i almost completely forgot about A-trak, however, after Kid Koala's performance, until we listened to the minidisc we recorded during the show. Kid K's was a more musical set, starting with that Coldcut track, don't remember the title, and doing scratchy bits over it. He would play along with it by picking up the needle and placing it on another groove of the record, over and over, adjusting the pitch to create melody! Then there was the heaviest/beatiest of the Amon Tobin tracks with really amazing scratching. finally a real jazzy number was backing him, it was sort of a swing, and he scratched a trumpet along to it. he was practically playing the trumpet, changing the notes played with different speed scratch strokes, except he could reverse it too =). we were pretty much blown away. one of the coolest shows i've ever seen, and groovy. some of them canadians are weird tho -- hardly anyone was groovin their body to the musics, most of which were just droolin with funky chunks. we'll try and get up an MP3 of those two DJ sets sometime. bye krzysztof graves === _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com