Rimbaud III wrote:

sparky wrote:I saw him again a year later supporting at the Royal Festival Hall: still very good, but he was playing up more of his electronic funk/soul singer angle, which I didn't like so much. He does that well, but it is nowhere near the revelatory ferocity of his improvised pieces.

I was at this performance.

He's a damn fine live performer, and I thought his live show on this night was considerably better than Squarepooper's, who simply sat at a laptop in a stovepipe hat and pressed a few buttons on his laptop. That came as a surprise given the live performances I'd been to before.

That was the one! I thought Squarepusher's music was fine, but the performance was cynical. Wasn't he sitting at an old oak desk with his laptop? Funny for the first minute.

I remember Lidell was wearing a crazy red outfit made of CDs with little video cameras attached to his head. It would have been totally Barley were it not for the way he came across to me as a genuine eccentric once he hit the stage.

sparky wrote:I remember Lidell was wearing a crazy red outfit made of CDs with little video cameras attached to his head. It would have been totally Barley were it not for the way he came across to me as a genuine eccentric once he hit the stage.

A paranoid schizophrenic's take on Liberace, I thought.

Rimbaud III wrote:

sparky wrote:I remember Lidell was wearing a crazy red outfit made of CDs with little video cameras attached to his head. It would have been totally Barley were it not for the way he came across to me as a genuine eccentric once he hit the stage.

A paranoid schizophrenic's take on Liberace, I thought.

Perfect! HA HA!

gjhardwick wrote:

tommydski wrote:
Chris Herbert.

a little bit of shameless self promotion here. I recently released Diluted, a limited run cdr (110 copies) of a 57 minute radio session, broadcast on Resonance FM, that Chris composed.

And very good it is too!

more info about it can be found here - http://www.low-point.com/LP007.html

I was listening to this last night and have to say that it is indeed very good. Quite different to Mezzotint, too. Looking at the website, it appears that copies may still be available.

Rimbaud III wrote:He's a damn fine live performer, and I thought his live show on this night was considerably better than Squarepooper's, who simply sat at a laptop in a stovepipe hat and pressed a few buttons on his laptop. That came as a surprise given the live performances I'd been to before.

re: Squarepusher and the Godly British Warp Boys, I think their inconsistency (esp. live) is a flaw that is inherent to all of them. From my experience, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Chris Clark are all equally likely to completely rule or completely suck on any given night. And I have a strong feeling that this is mostly not due to a will to experiment and take chances (though it is obviously there) or massive intake of drugs or whatever, but because they are perfectly aware that a large part of their audience will eat up anything they churn out.

I guess this is what happens when you're being called "Mozart's 14th reincarnation" in the music press over and over again.

sparky wrote:

gjhardwick wrote:

tommydski wrote:
Chris Herbert.

a little bit of shameless self promotion here. I recently released Diluted, a limited run cdr (110 copies) of a 57 minute radio session, broadcast on Resonance FM, that Chris composed.

And very good it is too!

more info about it can be found here - http://www.low-point.com/LP007.html

I was listening to this last night and have to say that it is indeed very good. Quite different to Mezzotint, too. Looking at the website, it appears that copies may still be available.

Copies are still available if anyone wants to buy one!!!

sparky wrote:it appears that copies may still be available

Yup! there's still a bunch left, please feel free to buy one as it all goes to help little inner city Brummies have a weekly wash err swim.

(Different - it's probably closer to yer regular ambient recordings. Was all done super quick in one take and then stitched together for broadcast. Mostly it's a series of lunchtime binaural recordings made around the canals close to where I work - it features the slightly alarming presence of running water.)

cjh wrote:

sparky wrote:it appears that copies may still be available

Yup! there's still a bunch left, please feel free to buy one as it all goes to help little inner city Brummies have a weekly wash err swim.

Hmm. I'd better buy another copy to make a donation for the extra chlorine required...

As an aside, is this the beautiful Art Deco swimming pool that you showed here? Nice.

cjh wrote:(Different - it's probably closer to yer regular ambient recordings. Was all done super quick in one take and then stitched together for broadcast. Mostly it's a series of lunchtime binaural recordings made around the canals close to where I work - it features the slightly alarming presence of running water.)

I particularly like the way that the record is put together. I have to listen to it again to pin down why, but this was something that struck me last night. Perhaps the slightly spooky running water motif is what does it. Well done with making fresh, running water sound creepy, Chris!

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Josef K wrote:Add n to x

Absofuckinglutely.

can anyone help me? the electronic song im thinking of is probably 80s and features a man saying the following among, other things:

"its just a rush, rush, cash...i know you think im crazy...nespar? evrybody!needs somebody!sometimes!sometimes!"

its fucking rad i havent been able to find who its by or what its called. the video features a wierd stockbroker type guy wearing a cap and ranting along.

please help.