> 313'er Simon Walley (CiM) came through Los Angeles last night, on a bill with > Claire (of Clear/Smallfish/deFocus fame) DJ'ing and John Tejada live. > And what a top night it was!
Great! The Chicago stop of the deFocus mini-tour last Thursday was brilliant as well. The party was at Subterranean, an intimate joint in the Wicker Park hood with 2 floors and some pretty cool sightlines to the stage, little candles everywhere and photograph projections cycling thru behind the stage. Clark Warner from MINUS/Plus 8 camp DJ'd an hour of dynamic electronics while packing plenty of beats and rhythms, a really nice 'journey' kind of a DJ set. Then CiM took the stage for about 45 minutes for a gripping live PA, cutting through old and new tracks and plenty of midtempo techno/idm with his signature 'warm data' style, deep chords and melodies juxtaposed with punchy beats with bleeps and plenty of material I hadn't heard before. Plus cool little 'bolt' style mini interludes to stitch the tracks together in transition. A sonic bridge between Detroit's past warmth and soul with an experimental British twist. Cheers and applause at the close... let's have another EP then Simon! if ya didn't sprain your wrist twisting all those knobs... ;) Finally a DJ set by Clair closed out the night -- cross-fader tricking a wicked and authoritative set of UK old and new (classic Network and Warp records never sounded so good), and packed a walloping portion of both Detroit anthems and obscure 313 classics, a bumping set for the headz brought smiles all around. Took some photos, I'll send out a link when we get some online. So did anyone out west catch the San Francisco show last night? Cheers, Matt MacQueen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
