From Michael J Makunas Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 16:07
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, nils wrote: > > In Detroit, the ads for Friday's show (doors at 9PM) list Trans Am at the > > top and Pan sonic underneath (along with "Laddio Balacko Plus DJ On"). > > Anyone know what or who Laddio Balacko is? I get the feeling that I should > > be very, very afraid... > > In Boston (earlier tonite) the order was LB then > PS then TA. > > Interesting audience. A lot of young hipsters. > Pretensious arty types. Though it wasn't you average art rock crowd. I'd say it was more "nerd-punk", but maybe I need to get out more often. > Extremely loud show. With earplugs I almost went > deaf. Side benefit: some nice body vibrations, > esp. with PS. At times I felt my colon moving in > new and distinctive ways. They did a good job > with the sound, though. You could get a hint of > what was happening in the treble without too much > painful screeching. It was loudest show I'd ever been too and the first time I had to buy ear plugs at a show. But despite that, it was a great show. The vibrations were so strong that I probably would have enjoyed the show even if I was deaf. Anyway...nils described the show pretty we so I won't go into more detail, but liked the fact that they weren't too freeform since I think some their less beat oriented stuff is boring. > PS a bit disappointing. Seemed caught between > their newer 4-on-the-floor techno beats and their > older super-sparse click-and-whir abstraction. > They mostly set up loops with their weird analog > tone generators, about 8 bars long, then added on > other loops to achieve polyrhythm and texture. > Heavy use of delay. A lot of 4/4 and some 8/8 and > some nice expansion to 9 and 11 later on. There > were some nice transitions between pieces, > surprises galore there. But otherwise lots of > loops, I was hoping for more free-form playing.