From Timothy Fothergill Sent Mon, Oct 18th 1999, 13:59
Forwarded message: From: Self <UK-AC-UMIST-CH-FS1/MCNIITF2> To: ambient, idm Subject: Autechre, Music Box, Manchester 15th October Reply-to: xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:45:17 GMT Autechre, Music Box, Manchester 15th October My first experience of Brown/Booth live so I didn't really know what to expect. They were only on for a very short period of time, something like 45 minutes definitely less than an hour. They were good while they lasted, though. I'm afraid I'm not very good at intrument spotting. I suppose I should be better being on an instrumentation M.Sc. course but I have only just started. There was a box in between the two of them which had lots of cable coming out the top of it, which had Yamaha written on the side of it. Apart from that they each had some sort of computer plugged into an old TV of some sort. Very much in the same vein to LP5 and EP7. What appeared to be improvised electronics. If it wasn't they went to a lot of bother to make it look as if it were. A slight diversion was the use of what you might call "retro" samples, for want of a better phrase. Almost as if they'd plundered Jimi Tenor's sampler. This only appeared in a couple of "tracks", out of a total of five or six. They very much gave the impression of two little boys playing with their (hi-tech) toys. Herein, though, lies their talent, for me at least. If they were just two grown up boys playing aimlessly they would sound like two boys playing aimlessly. There is definetely something more there, the Autechre essence if you will. One thing I didn't really expect was the amount of THC consumed by both performers and audience. I suppose thinking about it now it doesn't seem that suprising. Good night overall even if I would have liked them to have played longer. I will certainly be attending the next time I'm anywhere near where they're playing. Hope this hasn't been a complete waste of bandwidth. Tim Timothy Fothergill DIAS UMIST Manchester