y'all are probly tired of hearing about this, so read it or don't.
i just saw a buttload of my musical heroes last weekend in the uk. here's the whole thing in list form:
1. chris clark - remember that song "shonny" on the "ceramics is the bomb" ep? he dropped about 30 songs and snippets that sound like that and better. he is where aphex was 10 years ago. much better material than his last 2 albums.
2. aphex twin and hecker - i don't what to say. my face got torn off with a spork. hecker did some of the strangest (even stranger than autechre) sound manipulations and aphex dropped some of the heaviest beats known to man. i can't explain it....
3. dubstep - i used to kind of like it, but now i fucking HATE it. anyone see that andy samberg "ras trent" thing? dubstep is totally ras trent. but...
4. ebola - dropped some good, weird dubstep type stuff.
5. totally enormous extinct dinosaurs - i'd never heard of these guys, but they slayed the competition. google them.
6. 2 bad mice - i never understood 90s rave breakbeat, but now i do, and i got more respect for it.
7. british 18-24 years olds - SUUUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!!! there were a lot of young british suburbanites there and i wanted to drop kick them all in the throat. clowns.
9. bass - they got it, we need it. seems like a lot of venues in the u.s. don't have enough bass. we should get some of that stimulus money to boost our bass.
8. letdowns:
skream and benga: clown music. they kept hyping their dj set like it was "the price is right."
ed dmx: played a bunch of boogaloo.
i-f: more boogaloo
fsol: phoned their performance in over ISDN..lame.
tim exile: what a poser.
hudson mohawke and rustie: need more practice.
british food - don't believe what you read...it still sucks. fucking cajun squirrel potato chips? what the FUCK!? it's like everything they eat was manufactured for a long sea voyage. appreciate american freshness.
one more thing:
the market for techno over there is gigantic. even girls liked the aphex set, which blew my mind. it motivated me to get more hype about bfc...we got some good shit! we could get greenbacks for this shit!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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First, this was a dope post, I am glad you updated us on this wild time you had. The US needs more bass, much more. We need to make bass cab's and take them out when we play. Big Huge subs like in cars, but like 10 in the box, and huge amounts of power, with a donk on it.
ReplyDeleteBrit teens and food suck, yeah, I saw that one coming, but fish and chips are the jam. But the rest of it does suck. The teens sucked? Even the girls? maybe that is why the girls were into Aphex, cause the teen boys were all donked out and stupid and fighting. Blame soccer, and Bass Ale.
BFC needs to take over the UK, just like Germany couldn't do in the 40's.