From Oral Sent Sun, Nov 22nd 1998, 02:07
Just back from Thomas Brinkmann set at Sona. I'm right now smiling, (or one of them) man on this stupid planet. Mostly because contacts was easy with both Thomas and Brendon. We spoke with Thomas after the set to figure further venues in other context (clubs are not the right place for such people and music, clubbers just waiting for fast tempos to be able to feel the E or to whistle dramatically without any feelings to the music) about the show......because of a stupid Underworld concert, Thomas set began in front of only few people, some ravers with whistles (whistling would be forbidden, if you ask me) with new pieces from Max Ernst.... the final warfare some new tracks from both 2 Max eps by Marcus Schmickler and Thomas, heavy fats tempo acidic minimal tracks..AMAZING, raving the club as I haven't heard anything since ages. And through all these, deconstruction, interesting sounds built with multiple sources, records of his own (all of them are for minimal trackers a MUST), 2 sequencers coupled to turnables on which his squared knive cut eps are playing. The result is a 2 hour and a half show with a permanent increasing slope, amazing textures and structures. And even if the set was far from what I expected, Studio 1, Concept 1...remixes I'm used to listen in the comfort of my home, happily it turned in a dancy experimental set, because some attitudes between clubbers would have annoyed me so much, that I did prefer to see them bumping to the roof instead to complain. =2E...................... Eric Mattson =2E........... .......... xxxx@xxx.xx.xx ____________ Oral:The magazine of non-lyrical electronics: www.sat.qc.ca/oral ____________ "Je ne vaux que ce par quoi je n'adh=E8re pas au monde" Cioran