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I saw them this weekend doing a DJ set. Having seen them about 5 times doing their live laptop thang i was looking forward to how they'd be as DJ's with other peoples tunes. Well i have to say they absolutely blew me away. I'd say they were a gazillion-mafillion times better then their live stuff. I was expecting tha they were gonna so some experimental mixing like Ned or Aura from Warp but instead they played a very suprising straight beat-matching set that was soooooooooo fucking brilliant i nearly cried. The only track i recognied was Milanese's "billy hologram"....it was all sort of lush techno with a break-beat edge. I aslo saw Rephlex's "The Bug" doing his raggacore riddims live with an MC.... heavy grimey stuff that i enjoyed but it needed a better sound system to cope with the filthy bass. |
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yeah great review. but as i said - were you the one wearing black with white oriental writing on the back? |
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bingo! Ya shoulda said hello! What did you make of it all? |
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hehe :D i saw a guy bearing a striking resemblance between your old avatar at chris clark a while back too but i was again too shy/unsure to say hi. i was brought along by a few friends who were going mainly to see shellac. i thought they were fairly pants, the drummer was the buisness though. redneck manifesto were great as ever. the bug hurt my ears - as you said the sound system wasn't up for it (and neither was the majority of the crowd - boy did that place empty when the white noise started blaring) and you could barely hear him over the beats (which i didn't really like; don't like stuff that messy) BUT jesus christ were plaid amazing or what.. i wasn't drunk or on anything but i couldn't help but move to those funky funky beats - to use a cliche. i was really impressed; it wasn't at all what i was expecting. |
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their visuals were pretty neat too - remember the ones towards the beginning with all the pixellated letters / numbers / general ASCII? and then the computer game in an isometric view? class.. |
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Good call... i was at Chirs Clark as well - what a fooking great free gig that was... i agree with you on all counts cept for Bug which i thought, while messy and noisey, was a nice break from the straight edged stuff. Plaid were indeed a revelation.... i find their live sets a bit samey and simple... as DJ's they are in my top 5 of all time.... and thats saying a lot! |
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jesus yeah..... top class visuals... and lets not forgte Decal who was really rather brilliant too. Next time (dynamix II rematch)... say hello. I'm a friendly cunt. I liked Shellacs Q&A session and they were great performers but the music was too up and down and got boring/samey. The drummer was indeed a character.. |
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the whole shellac q&a thing was class, true, and in fact the 'guy from chicago' was standing right in front of me and i got a great kick out of the interaction going on.. it added a nice extra layer to the performance, but yeah, very samey stuff. i enjoyed his "kill him, fucking kill him" song about his wife cheating on him; it was the only shellac song i was familiar with, but that was about it. and yea next time i spot you at a gig will be sure to wander up and kindly request some aphex acid :) what's this dynamix II rematch - hadn't heard of it..? Also, were decal on after plaid? Cause i left (very, very reluctantly) before plaid finished their set and had arrived there towards the end of the rednecks, so i never saw decal - i just presumed they'd played first. |
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I hope there will be a live recording available soon! |
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doubt it :D "plaid - live [djset] @ vicar st 04-11-29.mp3"... ahh ya never know.. :) |
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see, this is something I admire in other people that appreciate IDM; you tend to find a quality where we really really /like/ hearing new music, especially in mix sets. most people seem to only enjoy live dj sets or music if it's the same old shit they've heard a million times. the most enjoyable sets i've seen have often been in small crowds, where most people have pissed off because "the music's too wierd/i don't know it", and you find there's just a few people really enjoying it. been a while since i've experienced that, sadly :( |
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and i have no idea if plaid read these messageboards, but a lot of other artists do so fuck it - get your arses down to australia. i'd kill to see plaid live, and it's the kind of music i know i could drag friends to, and they'd appreciate it too. |
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i still haven't got it togther to record at live gig...but i'd kill for arecording of Plaid's DJ set... its all i could think of when they played "why didn;t i bring me MD player asnd mic?!!!" Decal wa on just before Plaid but didn't play that long. He was excellent though. |
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i belive it's best if you stand still while recording..how many times did you manage that at a gig? btw, i kinda wish i'd see them dj instead of an live thing, which was good, but nothing i didn't hear before... |
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i belive it's best if you stand still while recording..how many times did you manage that at a gig? no shit. i've considered doing this and paying for a friend to come, just that they have to stand reaaaly still right next to the mixing desk. becomes kind of obvious, though :-) |
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my mates usually just find a place to put the mic/recorder or ask the artist/staff. I fooking love live recordings and ain't fussy about sound quality either. |
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you PUT the mic/recorder somewhere and leave it? shit, trusting country over there. over here, the stuff would be nicked in no time. i'm not too fussy either, but a high quality recording is gold. recordings where the recordee is jumping up and down like a madman are unaudiable, anyway :( |
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yeah... just place the thing under your jumper on stage and dance riiight beside it. Its not a trusting country at all.... i mean, we shipped a lot of my thievin bastard relatives to where you are at. We could be related! |
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