From jimg Sent Tue, Apr 7th 1998, 00:53
From jimg Sent Tue, Apr 7th 1998, 00:53
okay, somebody asked about the sf ninja show. I went, so I'll offer my 2 cents... we got to the justice leage at about 11pm, right in the middle of neotropic's set. now I must admit, I knew nothing about this artist before that night...but I was hyped to see a 'live' act. the music she played was quite good, nice intella-drum'n'bass, and I liked the video footage they were playing above her--looked to me like she took a stroll with a vid cam one day--there were lots of shots of her face & stuff. but, I was less than won-over by the rest of her live show. firstoff, and this is just my personal taste, and I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed for it, I'm not keen on a 'live' artist spinning records and then just playing a few samples overtop....which is what it seemed like she was doing. I can do that at home. I mean, if there's some real mixing skillz there, that's one thing, but she was just playing records, and then shambling over to the keyboadrd and hitting a few keys. big deal. the last piece she played was very chill, and it kinda killed the vibe in the hot, sweaty, overcrowded club. afterwards, the herbalizer went on, the little guy, spinning some old-school rap/hiip-hop while scratching over top. I dug his dj/scratching skillz, esp since there was a mini-cam giving the POV of the mixer and projected overhead, but too much is too much...after a bit it all sounded the same. then the bigger, frank-black-looking dude walked up, started grinning like a 5-year-old, and proceeded to play waaay too much james brown 70's funk. not even any mixing...just record after record after record. occasionally the little guy would scratch overtop. but inbetween that they actually walked to the back of the stage and sat down. I got a bit tired of the 'ow!' and 'sex-machine!', mr. oaf grinning the whole time like he was the shit. finally dj vadim started, and kept the old school hip hop shit going. we left at that point...it was 1:30 and it didn't seem like choc weasel was going to go on...we musta missed 'em. that electro sounded like it woulda been cool. (relurk) -jimg --xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx --http://www.slackers.net/~skoop