I will refrain from telling T 'I told you so' [actually I mean Tristan, not the other Mr T].
I had sort of guessed that it wouldn't work and said as much to Tristan who was gobsmacked that I was amongst the fair number leaving the venue after Convextion's solid performance. Personally, I tend to feel Mr Hitchell's solo stuff a lot more deeply than when it's him with Mr Modell. Plus, for the last few weeks, having finally got round to digitizing the Deepchord mix of 'Miranda', I have to say, I've been struggling to see what's good about it, in as much as I tend to struggle to see what's so good about much Deepchord stuff. Imo, it's not so much BC mark II as much as 'BC, AD' [if you catch my drift] with the emphasis more on 'dead' than 'domini'. The pair are so obviously influenced by BC, you'd hope but they'd also learn about the subtlety in almost subliminal changes of atmosphere which you get with BC tracks and which keeps them sparkling for several minutes at a time. So far [again, imo] they've singularly failed to. And if you fail in subtlety, the faults of that style become glaringly obvious and it simply doesn't work anymore. -----Original Message----- From: Toby Frith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (313) Convextion and Echospace @ Fabric A polarised affair at London's Fabric. Gerard was fantastic - mostly ERP style electro that sounded razorsharp on the soundsystem..some new bits and classics, although Vox Automaton was a bit short for some reason. Very happy to see him get a fantastic reaction as well. Deepchord/Echospace was unmitigated sh*te. I'm sure Tristan will elucidate far more than I could, as he was fuming! The sound was muddy, so you couldn't hear the treble at all, but this was an hour of relentlessly dull dub techno with no variation or subtlety whatsoever, and a real shame because one of them (not mr Modell) was having the time of his life behind the laptop. A shame he couldn't obviously hear what sh*te we were hearing. For all the latest news and comment visit www.telegraph.co.uk. This message, its contents and any attachments to it are private, confidential and may be the subject of legal privilege. Any unauthorised disclosure, use or dissemination of the whole or part of this message (without our prior written consent) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. Incoming and outgoing telephone calls to our offices may be monitored or recorded for training and quality control purposes and for confirming orders and information. Telegraph Media Group Limited is a limited liability company registered in England and Wales (company number 451593). Our registered office address is: 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0DT.
