plautechred

congrats brian for your wake and bake post number 420 for the broken fader blogginz.

a few things i've come across in the past couple of days.
autechre dj set? hours and hours and hours. listenable for periods of time with some crazy old school dance jams i've never heard before. here

plaid record called heaven's door? only gave it one listen. intriguing. some guitar and drums songs that are a bit mediocre. a couple of headbangers.

also again just in the spirit of new autechre excitement a sick fucking live set from los angeles.

Warp20 NYC Sept 5 - Rave Until the Orange Julius Closes

So last weekend I went to the second night of Warp20 in New York. The show was in the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, which is sort of a bizarre place to see a show, because it's basically the atrium of a kind-of-crappy mall at the ground floor of all the WFC offices.

The show was billed as:

Jimmy Edgar

Hudson Mohawke

Clark

Warp DJs

Jimmy Edgar cancelled at the last minute, and the Warp DJs turned out to be one DJ who played first and played way too long. The only thing more boring than watching some guy DJ in the middle of the mall when the sun is still up is if this same DJ looks completely disinterested the whole time he played. I guess he was just there to fill time, especially since Jimmy Edgar cancelled, but he played probably for about 2 hours: way longer than either of the main acts.

Then Hudson Mohawke played, and I have to say I just don't get it. I mean he makes decent beats, but I'm just not feeling his whole aesthetic. A lot of the elements in his tracks just sound kind of half-assed to me. Whatever, dude is decent, I just don't see what the big fuss is.

Chris Clark (fine, Clark, whatever) played last, of course, and just slayed for about an hour. The whole time he was just rocking two chunky MPCs and a DJ mixer. His set was a mix of crowd-pleasers (Ted, Diesel Raven, Growls Garden, etc.) and unreleased tracks aimed squarely at the dance floor. Most of the unreleased tracks seemed like his personal take on a particular genre (breakcore/jungle, hard trance, and even a dubstep-ish track that was fucking massive) sort of like the drum and bass track on Throttle Furniture. Clark is clearly still one of the best producers on Warp, and I don't understand why they didn't put him on the bill of one of the bigger nights .