From jstevens Sent Sun, Aug 2nd 1998, 19:17
From jstevens Sent Sun, Aug 2nd 1998, 19:17
Yeah I was there Friday night too. I was rather dissapointed. I only found the last little bit of Dave Kristians' set interesting, it just didn't really seem to be an apropriate kind of music to be doing, everybody i could see just sorta stood there and didn't really react, I don't think they liked it very much. And I found Autechres set to be rather disjoint. I think that the sound didn't help much, there was a hell of a lot of sizzle on those speakers, killing my hearing, and it seemed to be distorting. There was better sound in the bathroom, Where I could actually hear some of the melodies. And I left after derrick carters first song -<YUK>- >I'm surprised nobody talked about Autechre's last night performance in >Montreal. I was there but since I'm not a big Autechre fan I don't really >have any special comment to mention. The show started one hour late, DJ Luv >was pretty good, DJ Chantal's set was agonizingly long. I expected some >lightwork but all we got was a few flashes and a stupid blue lightspot that >stayed on for two hours. Then Dave Kristian came onstage. The first 15 >minutes were awful but then he played this great ambient bit, it turned out >to be the greatest moment of the evening. Then he left and Autechre >appeared. They played about 6 or 7 different tracks that I didn't know. I >liked maybe one or two. There was no big cheer and applause at the end of >their act, I think that most of the audience didn't liked it very much as >well, I might be wrong though, maybe they were too stunned. I didn't stay >for the other DJ and the after-party. All throughout the night the sound was >bad, lots of unwanted distortion I think, most of the subtilities of the >sound were lost. Anyways, that's my short review. Say, did the RealAudio >live stream work on Sugarrush? > >chris > <Jon>m