From Simon Walley Sent Mon, Nov 23rd 1998, 09:52
Nice event, quite different. Big up to Tosh and everyone at M-NUS for their online guestlist system which I managed to get onto, meaning that I got in free to the event on Richie's guestlist. A very nice birthday present (even if the guestlist queue was longer than the ticket queue). Got in and (I think) John Tye (MLO) was playing noisy slow beats with some Sonic Youth tracks. I think the Wire subscribers liked it - I noticed some frenzied beard scratching going on. This went on a bit long and then three guys (Rothko) got some guitars and stepped to the front. They played this set of SAW2 type dark noise with some more obvious guitar sounds. Very textured unfortuntely pretty boring, not half as good as old Seefeel stuff. They tended to "rock out" at points as well. Not good. Tye went on again. Yawn. Then Pole stepped up to his laptop/rack stuff and played some *deep* stuff - much more dubby than _LP1_ yet with these searing clicks and pops. Mad bass going on. Bumped into Heatsink. Hawtin was next - very minimal, played what sounded like the Brinkmann Ernst stuff but teased it along into some more harder techno. He's just so smooth, lots of EQ'ing and some effects tweaking. I'd love to hear him really go for it and play out at a techno night (as opposed to this more freeform event). Then Tony Morley came on at the end, playing similar minimal stuff but lacking the oomph that Richie was putting into it so we departed. Quite an interesting night. || [CiM] || xxx_@xxxxxxx.xxx || - ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com