The Pole mix album is on general release, even saw a stack of copies in one of the dear ol' HMV stores here in Tranna today. Apparently, it took Betke 6 months to get right, & is based on the kind of sets he lays down in the back room at a Berlin club called WMF where he has a residency. I don't have the listing handy, but it includes tracks by Vladislav Delay, Maus & Stolle, Kit Clayton, Low Res, Cinematic Orchestra, Flanger, Farben, & Pole himself. An absolutely stunning, innovative mix.
The Clayton at Mutek one is a one-off promo-type thing that a friend of Betke's slipped me. Heavy, trance-like (in a good, gamelan orchestra-type way), industrial-strength dub klickery, with lots of extraneous crowd noise that adds to the tribal feel of the whole experience. I like it better than the Monolake/Clayton live set I recently heard here, mainly because he crams so much into 45-50 mins. or so. It never lets up... That said, Henke & Kit's live show really built up over the course of 2 or more hours until it was absolutely flying. They were running abstract, sound-synched/triggered video from their macs onto the wall opposite their live set up, & kind of improvised/took their musical cues interactively from that. The audience could choose to dance, stare at the performers, or stare at the projected visuals. Worked pretty well, I thought. The random, free-floating visuals often seemed related to the beautifully 'textured' images that grace Imbalance/Monolake album covers. Best, Wes On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, William VanLoo wrote: > > Stefan Betke: [komfort.labor] presents ~scape (~scape) > > Kit Clayton: Live at Mutek 00.06.11 (~scape) > > Wow, are these both official release on ~scape? When did/do they come out? > > Cheers, > > Bill > -- > http://www.chromedecay.org >
