Here's what I wrote up on Sunday, which bounced because I keep forgetting to turn off HTML formatting. Gerard played some amazing new electro tunes at Fabric last night. Generally I'm more disposed to like his dubby and Detroity techno stuff rather than electro, and I think in a lot of ways that stuff would possibly find him more fans, but he's obviously really feeling the electro stuff he's doing at the moment and he just keeps doing it incredibly well. I find it most impressive when someone can explore a side of themselves relentlessly like this - where they bascially persuade me that what they are doing is right, despite my normal inclinations towards a different side of their sound. There were at least four or five tracks I'd never heard before with those ridiculously intricate massive rubber basslines like in Alsoran, his signature pads, etc. He also played one really organic sounding one that was unlike anything I'd ever heard before, but somehow still recognisably him. I can't wait for some of this to wind up on wax. I think it took a lot of balls to play a set of pure, emotional electro like that to the crowd at Fabric, and I think it went over really well. How were the sets in Manchester and Glasgow received? Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
