From zimbo Sent Tue, Oct 27th 1998, 16:32
From zimbo Sent Tue, Oct 27th 1998, 16:32
on electric company and alex performing: > As for 'brilliant collaborative moments', alex is mainly playing > pre-sequenced tracks off his computer and occasionally playing a melody > or doing some effects tweaking, where as Electric Company consists of > Brad abusing a bunch of un-sunk up noise makers. The parts I disliked > the most of them playing together is when alex would have a nice little > tune going and out of no where this big > 'swooppppppppppxxxxnonxonxonxoxnoxnxonere' would come flying out the > speakers at about 30 times the volume of everything else. Nice > collaboration... actually, this defines the first part of the set at spaceland and some of the kuci performance... but at spaceland, at the end, they performed some stuff that they wrote together (alex later informed me of this) -- and oddly enough, that was the stuff that *made my night*. quite good. and, at kuci, there were some amazing spacey moments between the two of them. i was pretty into it. sounded like shit in the studio, but when listening in the car and just zoning, it was quite nice! (the studio setup we have is kind of junky :) > I found it odd that the majority of the IDM contingent there (including > zimbo too!) all ended up in the lounge area less then half way thru > brad's performance, yet the theater remained quite packed with extremely > 'hip' people for the whole set, most of whom left immediately > afterwards. this is partially true again -- except i was in the whole time for brads performance.. :) as was daniel (i think). i knew you kids left the performance early, which is where the "so, how much did you hate that?" comment came from :) > Then when alex went on, the place was mostly empty! but when solid eye came on after, it seemed fairly full to me.. so, i dont know. it was a noise show that happened to include alex (though im sure some would object to me using the term "noise" -- whatever, i dig it). the audience there was more there for the experimental/noise style stuff i'd gather. > After last night, electric companies live performance has, in my > opinion, joined the ranks of dj spooky (doing his little > 'deconstruction' bit), phthalocyanine, the mego guys live and alec > empire (when he's being a dick). alec empire was shit (though he has some tracks i love). i really enjoy pthalocyanine live, and have seen him many times. i would have loved to have seen the mego folk. and spooky has his moments, but never are they that worth it to me. > This exclusive group, IMHO, are people doing noisy shit that doesn't > make any sense to me and take what they are doing way too seriously. If > they could only laugh about it when people say that it's bad, then I > wouldn't have as much of a problem. But usually their answer is 'you > just don't have the intelligence to understand what I do', which is a > joke. funny, i never heard any of them say this.. moreso i have noticed they tend to laugh... but a lot of music i enjoy is made by folks that take themselves too seriously. echo and the bunnymen and current 93 are the major ones that come to mind :) > I can...but I must admit, seeing him live twice (plus playing records > and dats at KUCI) has made me want to find some of his CD's to find out > if it's just his live shows that aren't to my liking. the electric company releases all mildly differ from one another -- my favorite still is the hidden cd that came with the Amnesia release (a more 'pop' oriented project of brad laners). on lexaunculpt: > Here is someone who's not afraid of trying out new shit and different > methods of achieving his goals...and all the while, everything still > ends up sounding great. i really agree here.. but, "sounding great" simply boils down to taste. and thats where is spose we disagree on the noisier stuff. wee! chris