From brian flanagan Sent Sun, Nov 30th 1997, 16:36
From brian flanagan Sent Sun, Nov 30th 1997, 16:36
what a weekend... starring : andy VVM, mr thief and paul speedranch and some bloke called Ivan from SRD as the tourguide blech02 after missing chantals set and coming in halfway through cylob's set,I can't really comment on what chris did, apart from yet ANOTHER version of "diof".....come on, it's a good track, but you can't milk it dry chris!!..though the rest of what I heard was solid,chunky and funky and typically cylob grant..oh dear, oh dear..he runs a great label,but man, did his set SUCK!!!..I have never been so insulted in all my days of clubbing....i'm sure it was all very funny for him, but judging from the choruses of "wanker!" and "get the fuck off!" from the crowd, it seems I was not alone in being on the recieving end of the utterly safe disco SHIT we had to endure....jeezus christ!!, roland fucking rat and some chart track that BUGS THE SHIT OUT OF ME (god knows what it's called)..even though he finished his set with a new panacea track and possibly a new tom jenkinson track, this just wasn't enough to redeem himself from the 2hrs of utter bollocks we were subjected to...still, there were many people dancing....and he did drom some mad old acid track which cuts in the middle to a vocal that went something like "all you people under the effects of pills..IE getting brain damage..YOU STUPID FUCKING CUNTS!!"..this could have been the punchline to the sonic joke, but i'm not too sure Autechre: BAAASS!!!!! this is probably the best i've heard AE sound in ages..the low end textures were edging into panasonic territory, couldn't recognise hardly any of their set,sean and rob looked as if they were really working hard that night..however, while the sound quality was good, I gots to admit that after half an hour I was a tad bored.. god knows who dj'd after that cuz I was backstage gabbing to RDJ (ha!) after all that, we set off on saturday to see matt wand of stockhausen and walkman perform some kind of "improv thing" at the ICA..didn't get in..sold out..full of japanese artclones with ridiculous glasses (a la the fast show) and mediawhores that apparently left during the latter part of matts set...ah well, no loss there!! we also found out that AE were on AGAIN at lost that night, then we found out it was about £16 quid to get in...ha!!!..corporate peegs!!!..that's staduim rock gig price business!!! so...we then find out about a "warehouse party" that had something to do with PRAXIS records (eeek!) in hackney..so off we goes in search of the party inna where the fuck are we going '92 stylee!!... well, we got there.. full on dog on a string pierced dreadlocked smell bizness!!..scary as fuck!!, no lights, pissy smells, (classic sight of seeing someone lend some scary gangster type his mobile phone in good natured old school "rave freindyness"..then seeing the same phone being SOLD by scary gangsterbloke to some other guy!!)scary ketamine fucked nutcases trying to kick off on anyone in staggering range...but, fuck!! the MUSIC!!!..mucho CAUSTIC HARD AS NAILS DISTORTO HATEBEATS!!!...which proved to be a little to much for our terrified tourguide!!..(lookit that bloke on the floor over there!!..is he shitfaced??..is he stoned???..shit!..is he dead??) loads of classic aphex and some j9/j4 inspired shit that i'd never heard before that fuckin' rocked!!!...despite the total terror factor it was pointed out by andy of VVM that you never hear this type of stuff anywhere these days..it was nice to see that some people don't compromise..and i have to admit, the location suited the music perfectly...I went off my head to most of the stuff that got played and grinned to myself safe in the knowledge that we weren't in the safe confines of the end listening to the same old shit by the same old dj's ..and being 16 quid better off for it..but I don't think it's gonna become a habit!! i need my bed.... oh yeah.. anyone got the tracklisting for global goon's "afterlife" 12"? -- peace. Brian F studio moo online http://www.source.co.uk/users/moo/moo.htm