From Eric Frans Sent Fri, Mar 20th 1998, 22:07
From Eric Frans Sent Fri, Mar 20th 1998, 22:07
On Monday, March 16, Arjun Mendiratta wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 xxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx wrote: > > > Plug Research artist Low Res will be performing live Thursday March 12th > > @ Lumpy Gravy (7311 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (213)934-9400) at 9:30 > > PM. > > Plug Research (and all the freaks) will be on hand. > > > > Plug research > > > > anyone get to attend this? ...how was it? Sorry for the delayed response, but I did attend this and Low Res played a great show! There were only a handful of tracks and he played for about 40 minutes. The tracks pulled elements from jazz, trip hop, house and threw them in with nice crunchy complex beats -- Autechre with more melody and variation. He didn't bother with only a lap top, he brought the monitor and full computer set-up! His sound is completely different than the more tame 12" on Metroplex that I've heard from awhile back. This was the first show I've made it to here in LA, since moving here recently, and I must say the turn out was *weak*. Seriously, there were only about 30 people (optimistically) in the whole place (Lumpy Gravy). I figured the scene was a little bigger and stronger here (especially since the cover was only $3, which they didn't even bother charging me), but I guess not. However, I did get to meet Mr. Phthalocyanine, Mr. Low Res and the Plug Research gang, which was cool. Apparently, Low Res will have a CD coming out on Plug Research from what I've heard, which I'm really looking forward too if the live stuff is any indicator. It's too bad more people didn't show up because the music was good and Lumpy Gravy has a nice little CD shop upstairs with quite a large experimental electronic selection (the most Nurse With Wound CDs I've ever seen in one shop!). Plus their gallery and book selection is impressive -- definitely a good distraction during the 1st band (One Good Meteor -- even a crap name) who played a rather dull blend of ambient/jazz/new age fusion (like that combination could yield a decent blend) -- it seems they get booked there a lot, though, since the people eating (did I mention that Lumpy Gravy is a restaurant too?!) seemed to find their "soundscapes" more appealing than the wacked out tracks by Low Res. I'm sure there will be lots more people at the Invisible show tonight though (even though Scorn will be absent). At least Phylr will be there as a bonus, apparently (check my Real Audio page in sig to check his sound). And of course Not Breathing will amaze as usual! E r i c F r a n s xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx [subvox music] http://www.azstarnet.com/~subvox [cellular] http://ns1.internetconnect.net/~kdkates/epf