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Squarepusher, Friday July 19th Bowery Ballroom, NYC Yeah this was pretty fucking wild. Let's get started. Vibert was pretty lame, this is the third time I have seen him play, and this was my least favorite set. He played some acid, some ragga/jungle stuff but nothing too hard hitting, the most exciting moments was when he played afx: analogue bubblebath, funny little man (a hit dance track :), 54 Cymru Beats, oh and Isopropophlex - hearing that in a crowd is fucking awesome. Its wierd cheering for a performer though when its not his own music, everyone cheered and luke kind of shrugged. He should have played more the homewerk ep, thats the jam. It would have been a great set if it didn't go on from 11-1AM, they should have had one other performer before tom. |
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Ok so TJ whips out the bass, for the whole show. He's a fucking MADMAN. Has anyone else seen him play the bass before? How come noone ever mentions how incredible he is? |
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True, Tom has some crazy bass skills! |
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Tom's first 15 tracks I don't recognize, I think they are 90% improv bass over INSANE drill. It is all like the hardest bits of Go Plastic and DYKS with bass. The only track I recognize was Chin Hippy, which was NOT the most intense beat he played over. It was really quite spectacular. |
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thats fucking amazing! i wanna see him so bad on tuesday!!! BUT IM TOO GODDAMN YOUNG FOR THE VENU!!! >:(|]!!!! |
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Tom is so fast that his hands blur, you have to see and hear this to believe it, his hands are just motion trails as he strums and plucks up and down the base. He would make these motions w/ his hands w/ the drums. His hands would actually move as fast as the drums and in perfect time. I realize that he actually plays the beats and bass in his songs, or could if he wanted to. He would tense up his face and bob his head up and down just like we do when we listen to his music. My friends and I were going fucking nuts, like Tom was, but the rest of the crowd was pretty lame, which took some of the fun out of it. A lot of people were standing with their arms crossed looking at up at him and nodding their heads. I wanted to fucking lash out. |
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wow that looks cool! i'd actually go to an idm gig if more artists did stuff like this! tom j gets even more respect from me now :O thanks for the awesome pics! |
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this is sounding amazing. chances are i'll shit my pants in anticipation before i even get in the venue! didnt expect the live bass thing....that changes everything! |
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FUCK! i wish i could go to the toronto show!!!!!! this sounds amazing..... he was playing the bass for the whole show!!! squarepushers so amazing.... xanatos can you post all your pics of the concert somewhere? and does anyone know if there are bootlegs out there of shows when tom has played the bass? preferably recent ones |
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Thanks Xanatos for providing the cool pics! It gives me a better idea of what i missed out on! |
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amazing !!!! |
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I saw video of Tom playing bass on the squarepusher site a while back, it was amazing. He makes Jaco Pastorious look like "Fieldy" from Korn. thanks for the pics Xanatos, you're good people. |
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thanks for the pics Xanatos, you're good people. YOU CANT SAY THAT ENOUGH ABOUT HIM, I AGREE 100% |
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damn, how many strings are on that bass? I can't wait for the next album. mental go plastic beats plus bass playing sounds like it should be fucking awesome. |
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where can i find out about his tour? is he going to hit japan?! |
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i want to see him...i need to see him |
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any idea why he doesnt do more gigs in europe? rdj is not playing that much either but at least we get a chance to see him at least 5- 10 in europe... mr.jenkinson play in europe!!! please... |
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that sounds cool, id like to see him live |
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OK I didn't actually finish before. So here's the juice. His final song was Anstromn Feck-4. It was fucking insanity. He was playing the whole bass line -- double the speed it is in the song, he even continued to play after the bass line ends in the track and would like vibrate his hands over the strings at insane speeds to the beat. I can't really describe it, again, I went nuts. |
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So he goes off stage, everyone stomps their feet and shouts (a couple of "Come To Fucking Daddy!" and "YOURE THE FUCKING DADDY" from the audience, I just screamed one solid note for about 3 minutes) He comes back on and we all here the first three zaps of Come on my Selector. I don't think I need to tell you what this was like...especially when he "llleeeeetttttt tttthhhhheeee bbbbaaaassss kkkkkiiiicccckkkk" (he stretched out the vocals over 15 seconds before jamming the whole bassline). And finally after like 2 minutes of solo playing at the end he took off his guitar, showed us his empty beer bottle and gave a thumbs up in the other hand. Don't let the skinny guy fool you though, the crowd was much less rowdy than it should have been. |
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I'm glad I got to get this, myself, tom and my friend max. This is BEFORE his set, and he was already smashed. |
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crowds are rarely rowdy these days. |
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Exactly! Crowds need to suck my dick. Honestly, if your are going to see an artist don't stand around like a wallflower, show some fucking support and 'go spastic'!!!! :D |
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that skinny guy in the crowd shot reminds me of cex. haha thanks for the wicked pictures dude! |
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good pictures. shame on the people who record the sets with a videocamera or minidisk and never share them. thats wack. |
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"And lastly this is max at the hookah bar at 4:30AM-ish, kind of a tradition with us, post raveness." This pic didn't show? |
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And lastly this is max at the hookah bar at 4:30AM-ish, kind of a tradition with us, post raveness. |
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Fucking classic! I love how the lights look in the background! It's got a "far and loathing" feel to it! :D |
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i'm gutted squarepusher's opening slot for bjork next month was replaced with sigur ros |
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^ouch |
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last night fucking rocked I shows mad respect for my main man tommy J, I will never forget any of it, xanatos do you remember like half way through the set it was like heavy metal with like the fast beats I have heard ever? |
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yea, with the strobe lights? I thought my head was going to explode. |
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Well. I must see Tom live once in my life, looked like an amzing show. Any possability of a recording? |
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thats what I was wondering, it was definitely sick, I think tom put on a great show. |
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i'm VERY excited i'm gonna get to see Sigur Ros, however i really woulda liked to have see []pusher......i'm not disappointed at all.....hehehe |
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Job a boj: Yes I will try to get my hands on a recording and get it to one of the webmasters for the site. May not happen for a few days tho. Nice icon, btway. |
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nice pix! i saw him on roskilde festival a few weeks ago. it was probably the same set, i hardly recognized any trax either it was very good, and very loud |
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cant wait for the liverpool show, my girls gonna be gutted she can't make it, she loves his bass playing |
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i saw that video too and thought "wow that good old times, too bad he will never play bass again live" ..... i`m totally jealous now |
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Olaaaaaaaaaaaaa is ALIVE!!! glad you had a blast at the Festival, and apparently architecture school hasn't done you in, which is a good thing! how's speedwax doin' did you ever put out your cd?? |
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Gonzola did he play Anstromn Feck-4 and Come on My selector? Who else played at Roskilde? |
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Oh I can't fucking wait for Reading Festival I hope he does something good like this. |
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lecoeur: nice to see you, i'll mail you! Xantos: the thing is, after the set, when everyone thought he would come back and play a few more trax, the roadies started unplugging everything. and when he came back on stage he just shrugged and went back:(. i think he probably would have played come on my selector and anstrom...i would have liked that |
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looks like warp liked your . |
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Wow, I hope you got something from them Xanatos. Free album or something. It would be LAME if they just ganked them without your permission. |
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"Photos courtesy of Xanatos from XLTRONIC used with permission. " |
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*farts* |
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best SP review i heard here ,. About fucking time the man was recognised.......... Xantos.. nice one! |
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