On 5/27/02 12:56 PM, "Kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Radioboy/Herbert was totally mad, destroying products from corporate Icons > like McDonalds, Gap, and Starbuck. I think he was using the Roland VP sampler, > live to sample in his acts of mayhem. His hyperactive, lurching stage > presence was riveting to watch.
Agreed. As Radioboy, Herbert may have the most mercurial stage prescence I've seen. The delight you feel is the unbridled joy of destroying those Icons. To be honest, I disliked the Radioboy material as downloads, but the tracks really come to life when you see the performance, and realize how subject to chance the sounds are. > And Richie Hawtin has nothing on him for > volume. I had foam plugs in and it was still loud. I thought something was > falling from the ceiling and hitting my forhead, but it was the sound from the > PA hitting my skin. I'm not too sure about this. Linda and I managed to score double-sided passes and crept off to watch Rich from his stage for an hour or so. I should have taken you up on the plugs, Kent. "Control" was the archetypal Richie Hawtin experience. The smoke and blue strobes remove your visual sense, the volume effectively renders your ears useless. All you're left with is the intensity of the bass, which regulates your breathing, and Richie deciding when you inhale and exhale. This forced surrender was fun for me once, but it left me a little cold last night. There literally was no tonal content, and very little variation in the beats. From my perspective, no real groove or funk. > Shake was Shake, which is to say a just about perfect musicians' DJ. He > was all over the place genre-wise but always with an ear for heartbreakingly > beautiful melody. I knew I missed something while I was next door. Dammit! Fortunately, when we left at about 6am, we decided to pop back in to see how Carl was wrapping things up. Stevie Wonder's "Another Star" was the perfect antidote for my mood, and a great melody to have ringing around in your head as the morning sun illuminates the sewer steam on the drive home through Detroit. -- im --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
