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The gig took place in a old factory, now a small concert/art event place, it was in paris, next to the seine (or small seine “canal”). Me & my mate arrived at 8PM, with the rain, so we went straight to the bar/restaurant of the venue where most of the audience found shelter. We share a couple of (pretty average) lagers at the bar & to my suprise i noticed the people having dinner just behind us were actually sean booth, rob brown & russell haswell!! I dont think many people noticed that or at least they weren’t ennoying them with autographs, demos tapes & how to pronounce “autechre”. I just asked my friend if he brought his earplugs & warned him about russell haswell. I was pretty surprised by rob brown dj set : he was mixing perfect records (team doyobi, bradley strider, cylob) but without changing any records, still the same one on his deck....? I think he was actually mixing trax with this software, which allows you to mix mp3 or wav files from a laptop (he had one on stage) with a recordplayer (& you use it like a joystick or something). Anyway he ended his pretty good set with a kind of tribute to France’s weirdest & best cultural event: Tour de France by Kraftwerk. |
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Then Russell Haswell plug his laptop. Fucking wicked set & a huge surprise. I’ve been (ab)using his live album for years & knew his music but shit, man, it was very different, still fucked up, dark & evil, but more mature in a way. I used to think his music was like some of Eno’s most abstract pieces: just lush sounds without beguining or ending, but his set was like a noise story, kind of narrative feel (& story telling) to it. I read he was inspired by Xennakis: i dont know the greek master very well but it rather sound like “xennakis eaten, like jonas, by a killer whale, drowning in a sea of lava”. I would not call it music but in terms of sound it was fucking excellent. Like listening to wind sounds on 5.1 at max volume. His set was much more complex, had more layers than his live salvage, a bit like hecker, but warmer. Still pretty hardcore & short, after 20 minutes it stopped. The crowd loved it (funnily my mate like it too). |
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he was probably using Final Scratch |
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More DJ set from Rob Hall (detroit stuff, robert hood) then the lights went off & the sound went completly er...autechrish! It would be completly bollocks to describe it but i was surprised: how clear & powerfull the sound was, it was hardcore, really frightening but it had much more guts, dynamics than, say, confield. A dark & speedy mix of heavy bass (not far from squarepusher basslines, funky ones or even a kind of jazz feeling), more heavy bass, chords, strings (you read it, strings, melodies in the background), lots of ace synths lines (think team doyobi latest records), dark mood (think confield track5 but more up for it, faster, darker) & lots of really speed beats (like peel session2, track2), more synths (think envane, track4, or tilapia) & unstoppable sounds/breaks machines (think last track of vancouver bootleg). Didnt hear the new album so far, but the crowd kept on screaming so i guess they were re-creating new but known tracks. It was fucking awesome, really dark set, the sound level was so raw but precise, clear, like an huge clockwork spiting out storms of lights, complete hypnotic set. I noticed there were very few girls in the audience ; but autechre, live, are going completly heavy metal, fast, hardcore & insane, but a kind of metal you would not laught at. It ended with kind of guitar/reverb/synth sound. A stuning concert & dont ask me how do they make such complex music with just a few instruments (no laptops on stage, just two beatboxes or sequencers) live. Its one really one thing to listen to autechre in your stereo, car, mp3 player, but its really different with huge volume & almost complete darkness, its a completly different thing, its so fast, its almost scary & dont ask me why but i found their tracks had some kind of orwellian feel to it, something about being slave to the machines & still loving it, probably something that the Marquis de Sade would have loved. |
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i just re-read my post : the dj set (final scratch thing) was by Rob Hall not Brown. |
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Youpi yay YeeeY |
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thanks for reviewing the show, mate =D |
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yum cant wait detroit one night chicago the next 2x the fun |
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formi dable! |
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yes it was, if i had one advice for forthcoming shows: bring your minidisc or dat, give the guy at the soundboard some cash (great job on sound btw & i'm sure ae bring their own "speakers" with them on tour), plug your MD & Record it!!! |
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