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My friend from Cali responded with his review of RDJ at All Tommorow's Parties at UCLA, anyhow: a truly religious experience. by far the most intense emotions I have ever felt while listening to music. I felt like it was the culmination of 8 years of listening to electronic sounds, and 21 to music as a whole. 'twas the epitome of what a computer music performance should aspire to. I felt like I was standing 20 feet away from God. as intense, if not more, than any acid trip I've ever had (and there've been a lot) at points all I could do was hold my head and scream. the man played started off with 15 minutes of some crazy pimp AFX shit like at the beginning of the Windowlicker video (you know, the scratchy bits) and flowed it into something like a timeline of dope AFX moments, from the acid beats of Polygon Window and Analogue Bubblebath through the smoothness of I Care Because You Do to the utter hotness of RDJ album and Druqks then through a half hour of the roughest amen jungle madness from back in the day, serious highlights of any jungle party I've ever attended, and back to more unreleased Aphex brillliance, through tracks 3 and 5 of go plastic, and then ending with an even more fucked version of Meltphace6. He mixed all the tracks live, and edited them in real time with some fucky patches he must have programmed in VST or supercollider. |
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Hunched behind his laptop for the entire show bathed in some ethereal green glow, the man did not glimpse at the audience even once until to shyly glance up and wave for a half second while packing up his gear at the end. Instead, he had this maniac dancer who was supposed to ambiguously look like RDJ, (many of my friends in the back actually thought it was him. I was close enough to the front to see the man himself behind the drum machine, however) who was wearing a long white robe, with two obscure looking symbols painted on the upper and lower centers of the front of the robe, while "AS ABOVE" was painted vertically to the left of these symbols, and "SO BELOW" was marked on the left. On the dancer's face was an ornate Victorian mask straight out of the masquerade ball scene in Amadeus, loosely based on the beaked Plague doctor masks of 14th century England. As this madman danced to the fucking mindblowing beats, two female midget dancers walk out on stage on either side of him, one of which proceeds to do a striptease dance (not actually down to skin, thank god), and the other doing handstands and acrobatic maneuvers. This was like a slap in the face to all the wankers on stage who don't move for two hours from behind their laptops and expecting the crowd to move, who you've no doubt seen if you've been to contemporary electronica shows. Fucking entertainment. Seriously, I don't think I can go to another show for a long time, maybe until the Rephlex tour hits LA in June. Really, the only thing left to do now is make music. I feel like I will never be the same. peace |
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Definately worth reading, made me real jealous. |
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wow. great review. i hope RDJ never dies so that i'll catch one of his live shows someday.... |
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ya same.. that sounded REALLY good... i hope some day i will be able to experience him..... ...-uh... his MUSIC, that is. |
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yeah, before when people complained about it i was ok with the fact that i missed it, but now after reading two great reviews, i am more than mad or sad, i am on the verge of self anhialtion. i know that if someone on here would have offered me a ride down to the show i would have truly appreciated just beingin the same building as the one RDJ as he fuckin did his thing that he does so well....man. |
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Yeah that's exactly how I feel. |
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As above so below eh? "Into paradise we go brighter made is their woe!" |
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