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most intense music you ever heard performed live?
 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:15 [#01770232]
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im really curious..


 

offline fanny_sunshine on 2005-11-04 20:17 [#01770235]
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chemical brothers.

SORRY, but live they have yet to be bettered by any other
electronicans, yes, even afx and pusher and brian and his
bummer minstrels.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 20:18 [#01770236]
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i foresee an incredibly varied range of definitions of
"intense music" forthcoming in this thread.


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2005-11-04 20:18 [#01770237]
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mogwai live at glastonbury 1997.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:18 [#01770238]
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well i was more thinking of something not pre-recorded. but
i guess people will name electronic stuff since it's
excellent electronic music blah blah


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2005-11-04 20:20 [#01770241]
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Hmm, tough question.

come back to that one later i think.


 

offline staz on 2005-11-04 20:23 [#01770244]
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Autechre!


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 20:25 [#01770247]
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i'm going to say...

elysian fields
the melvins (back in that trilogy period around '00-02)
shellac
skinny puppy

sorry for the lack of surprises ...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:26 [#01770248]
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you ever attend jazzy gigs..being from nyc and stuff :)


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-11-04 20:28 [#01770250]
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tool live, circa lateralus.

squarepusher is up there as well.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 20:28 [#01770251]
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yeah, i've been to plenty of very fringe, avant-garde gigs,
actually. many, i'd say. some of them were excellent.
none of them were as "intense" for me as the ones i've
mentioned here.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:29 [#01770252]
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you saw ribot play yet?
(you might have told me that already but my memory sucks..)


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 20:31 [#01770254]
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i don't think so, no... strange how zorn and cohorts play
at the tonic all the time and i've just never made it out to
see them. i saw derek bailey once. not ribot, though...


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2005-11-04 20:31 [#01770255]
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caribou
venetian snares


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:32 [#01770256]
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is tonic zorns place? i'd love to visit that when im there
:)


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2005-11-04 20:32 [#01770257]
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aphex, quart 97
björk, quart 98
satanstornade, bergen 03 (and not in a good way)
seigmen, trondheim 05



 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2005-11-04 20:33 [#01770258]
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the most intense music is only ever done by a symphony
orchestra.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 20:39 [#01770262]
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it's a nice little place: LAZY_TITLE

saw EF there, bailey, thurston moore trio... they had a
month of zorn-related projects there. was it last year or
two years ago?


 

offline axion from planet rock (Sweden) on 2005-11-04 20:41 [#01770263]
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sorry but i havent seen anything live yet.

that mean i have missed much stuff


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:48 [#01770266]
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man oh man..must get some money together and come see this
some time soon :)


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-11-04 20:48 [#01770267]
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American Music Club



 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-11-04 20:50 [#01770269]
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leftfield in 1996. they had live musicians, it was amazing.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-11-04 20:51 [#01770270]
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Were you on bongos?


 

offline axion from planet rock (Sweden) on 2005-11-04 20:57 [#01770271]
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there is probebly good artists that is around me but i dont
hear about when is it and where it is



 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2005-11-04 20:58 [#01770273]
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doddodo

she started by collapsing out onto the stage looking very
much like the picture below, with the microphone stuck down
her throat while she made gutteral noises,

she played really overdone sounding melodies to breakcore
controlled via a drummachine, right throughout the tracks
she would make more gutteral noises to the music, scream
random stuff, and wave her hands like a symphony when
melodies came in,

I know I don't make it sound that insane or awesome but it
was.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2005-11-04 20:58 [#01770275]
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pic


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 20:59 [#01770276]
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haha, looks and reads wicked!


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-11-04 21:01 [#01770277]
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Making guttural sounds and random noises are always more
"intense" than actaully saying anything. And easier.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2005-11-04 21:04 [#01770279]
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definitely, she really knew how to get the crowd going as
well, which was half of it's awesomeness, she had everyone
doing that "repeat after me thing" except with vocal noises,
it's funny hearing a crowd of 50 or so people making animal
noises.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 21:05 [#01770280]
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i think dog was being a bit sarcastic there :)


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 21:10 [#01770287]
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easier? that's highly debateable. besides, who cares if
something is "easier" to do? what difference does that
make?

so many people like to say, "oh this incredibly wimpy folk
pop is so emotional and intense and deep because listen to
the tiny quiet sounds you can even hear the yawns coming
from the disengaged art crowd audience who would have been
better at home with their limited vinyl version of this
song..."

it can go either way. sometimes the loudest stuff is
intense. sometimes the quiet stuff is intense. it depends.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 21:12 [#01770289]
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how's dream theatre for intense?


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 21:14 [#01770291]
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they're intensely nauseating!


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-11-04 21:16 [#01770293]
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Well "easier" implies less thought goes into it, I could do
an intense 45 minute album now just shouting into the laptop
and turning up the distortion EEEFX. We can all cry and crap
ourselves on stage but the more you pander to the
Andolescent Reflex the more you become Blink 182 when you
want the be Swans.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2005-11-04 22:24 [#01770315]
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the more you pander to the Andolescent Reflex the more you
become Blink 182 when you want the be Swans.

???????!!


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-11-04 22:32 [#01770320]
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?????????????


 

offline mimi on 2005-11-04 22:33 [#01770321]
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sigur ros





































lol jk. let me think of a real answer...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 22:33 [#01770322]
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yeah, talk it out you two..good going.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-11-04 22:33 [#01770323]
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that made perfect sense to me. i wrote a response, but
thought better than to post it since it was nothing either
of us don't already know.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-11-04 22:37 [#01770327]
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i'd be interested to read it though :)


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2005-11-04 23:00 [#01770331]
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well, what does that sentence have to do with anything, it
makes no sense


 

offline xf from Australia on 2005-11-04 23:29 [#01770342]
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yeah, i reckon we got ripped seeing doddodo in brisbane, due
to the heat.

the whole act was quite good, but no costume antics and the
set seemed rather short (20 mins perhaps)? i could hardly
see it either, place was tiny and overfilled.

i'm not sure what was better, watching the act, or watching
random people pass the windows behind them as they performed
(was in a venue on a heavy street corner, large full-length
windows) and seeing them go WTF


 

offline D-Steak from Kansas City, Mo. (United States) on 2005-11-05 02:01 [#01770360]
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godspeed! no doubt about it.


 

offline uviol from United States on 2005-11-05 02:20 [#01770362]
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Mouse on Mars in 2001, interestingly enough. They aren't my
favorite by any means but hot damn they put on an amazing,
loud, rip roaring show. I went with my cousin and we were
both floored.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-11-05 02:52 [#01770365]
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Common (when he was touring with electric circus)
Jaga Jazzist
Xploding Plastix


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-11-05 03:01 [#01770367]
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seeing Joe Colley two nights in a row in NYC this past
September. The first set he did with Jason Lescalleet, and
the two of them blew the roof off the joint (almost
literally, at one point a wave of noise that Colley
generated caused dust to rain down on him from the ceiling).
both of them have sort of theatrical set ups (Lescalleet had
giant reel to reels with really gnarled tape scattered
across the floor, and Colley basically drew source material
from the sound of him dropping and scraping a cheap
microphone across the hardwood), and they were both very
very physically into it, shaking back and forth, and ending
the set suddenly, by knocking their chairs over suddenly
(doesn't really translate well i know, you had to be there).
I'm almost certain that Colley went into the little room
behind the stage and puked afterwards... it was funny.

the next night he did a solo set where he started with these
little oscillators that he was jiggling around in his
pockets and gradually over the course of the set he built up
to a massive cacophony... 2/3rds of the way through he
crawled underneath some of the rafters on all fours and
retrieved these radios that he had planted underneath. both
of which were clearly generating noise through his board...
once again. incredibly intense, and incredibly physical.



 

offline _gvarek_ from next to you (Poland) on 2005-11-05 03:41 [#01770369]
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Mike Oldfield, live in Katowice 1999.
Enslaved, live in Krakow 2002. Their drummer is a freakin'
machine!


 

offline solariumface from brussels (Belgium) on 2005-11-05 04:13 [#01770379]
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pan sonic


 

offline solariumface from brussels (Belgium) on 2005-11-05 04:13 [#01770381]
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o I forgot tim hecker live


 

offline nacmat on 2005-11-05 04:30 [#01770389]
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I havent seen much music live... but for sure mr snares


 


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