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TheSteelCube
10-03-2004, 02:41 AM
...as in a person or persons, behind some equipment, making beats in realtime.
I've yet to see one at the Slimelight. Does this interest anybody, given to popularity of dance-ish music upstairs on saturdays?
I'm setting up a small label focussing on techno for cyberpunks. There's some previews there of some of my work - feedback is appreciated.
www.mnemonic-records.com
Also potential contributors can contact me there too.
If the response is good I'll send a demo to the slimelight office to see if they are interested.
(In case anyone is interested.... before moving to London I lived Holland and was signed to Zodiak Commune Records as "The Steel Cube". See www.zodiakcommune.com).
Laters guys,
Rob. ;)
I don't want to come accross as a miserable fucker or anything, but ...
... There are already many gigs at Slime that do exactly what you describe. They really are nothing to look at. The music may as well be well recorded and played by a DJ. That's what I intend to do with the stuff I come up with, if it's good enough! I'm certainly not going to bore people by making them look at me stood behind an electronic box/boxes while my head bobs up & down!! 8)
Skylizard
10-03-2004, 11:32 AM
...as in a person or persons, behind some equipment, making beats in realtime.
I've yet to see one at the Slimelight. Does this interest anybody, given to popularity of dance-ish music upstairs on saturdays?
I'm setting up a small label focussing on techno for cyberpunks. There's some previews there of some of my work - feedback is appreciated.
www.mnemonic-records.com
Also potential contributors can contact me there too.
If the response is good I'll send a demo to the slimelight office to see if they are interested.
(In case anyone is interested.... before moving to London I lived Holland and was signed to Zodiak Commune Records as "The Steel Cube". See www.zodiakcommune.com).
Laters guys,
Rob. ;)
And this differs how from the bands we have had there? , Archtecture, Synapscape, Kiew etc etc etc. Obviously not a regular.
SP maybe if he wore lights on his head when he bopped up and down, could that maybe swing you into enjoying it???? :lol:
He he ... Orbital do that!! ... they have done some great tunes, I've been to see them ... but they still ain't much to watch! :?
Blink
10-03-2004, 11:40 AM
I think SP would rather see the Darkness with all their Spandex and silly antics :wink:
Skylizard
10-03-2004, 12:38 PM
Piss off!!
Spandex not your thing then SP? Or is it just those gay assed twats in them?
Just the muppets ... they're better than Westlife, but who isn't?!
aspex
10-03-2004, 03:21 PM
He he ... Orbital do that!! ... they have done some great tunes, I've been to see them ... but they still ain't much to watch! :?
I found their lightshow good when saw em at some festy in Belgium (with Rancid!!), but the intake may have had a lot to do with that. Still was a great experience - converted a friend who never believed that pure electronic music could have an effect on him...
Yeah, really big bands have wicked lighting shows & stuff, but frankly I just get bored with most small electronic bands. What's the difference between watching some-one behind some leccy boxes or watching a DJ?!!
About 7 or so years ago I walked out of an Underworld gig at Brixton Academy, coz I was bored, and wanted to go to Slime ... Underworld, despite being a favourite band of mine, were nothing to watch.
I saw them play at Somerset House in London this summer ... and their show was fucking awesome ... they had a great light show ... their music was different to album versions ... and the sound was spot-on!!
So, I'm not saying that electronic music is always boring to watch live, but it is usually!! Of course, being a really big band helps!! 8)
TheSteelCube
10-03-2004, 04:37 PM
Yeah, really big bands have wicked lighting shows & stuff, but frankly I just get bored with most small electronic bands. What's the difference between watching some-one behind some leccy boxes or watching a DJ?!
Do you normally watch DJs? Clearly, the point of dance music is to dance to it. Staring at two bald blokes behind a rack of synths is boring, as is staring at a DJ.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinions, which is what I'm after.
BTW: Underworld aren't really live. Live implies the ability to improvise and experiment on the fly. That's actually the buzz people are supposed to get from laptop performers.
I remember ten years ago being told by a trad-goth that dance music was for idiots and DJs were no different from cinema projectionists. It's pretty surreal to watch the same people raving-it-up now to a commercial trance record!
-Cube ;)
Do you normally watch DJs? Clearly, the point of dance music is to dance to it. Staring at two bald blokes behind a rack of synths is boring, as is staring at a DJ.
Of course I don't watch DJs, but that's exactly my point!!
BTW: Underworld aren't really live. Live implies the ability to improvise and experiment on the fly. That's actually the buzz people are supposed to get from laptop performers.
Underworld run a sequence which they fuck around with & tweek on the fly. Their vocals are also live.
What you are describing, we were doing 7 - 8 years ago in High Wycombe, but we had someone playing a Simmons electronic drum kit, a real guitarist, synth player/sequence tweeker, live vocals and two scantilly clad young ladies dancing on the front of the stage. We provided something to watch live!
TheSteelCube
10-03-2004, 06:34 PM
SP - Your old band sounds great - you're absolutely right to put more people on stage for eye-candy. I used to have a Simmonds SDX myself, an absolute beast of a drum machine.
My point about live-acts is that they can give the dancing audience an option other than a DJ. In return, you get original music and the act gets to test out material that may well end up on vinyl. That's basically how it worked for me - my greatest successes were tunes writen on the road.
Clearly you are aware of the potential - and I'm sorry that I didn't elaborate on other instruments and dancing girls in my original pitch. My observations of the Slimelight are based on the fact that I only go occasionally, and then only after 2am. A bad statistic.
My main point really is to give the upstairs crowd a consistent techno set, which I think they all deserve.
-Rob.
PS. I was just being purist when I said that Underworld weren't really live. They do do some improvisation, but there are acts who make their money on producing completely improvised beats from the word go:
Acid Junkies
The Advent
To name just two.
Rob,
You should just give Mak a CD. I'm sure he'll probably book you. Slime already has many electronic bands playing there.
Personnally, I do get a bit fed up with bands that are nothing to look at and not doing anything especially different. That's why you can usually find me turning up around 2:30 - 3am. I like to get mashed & dance!
Bands that look like bugger all, in my opinion, need to provide "eye candy" (nicely put by the way), which will make the whole thing more of a show.
Good Luck!!
SP 8)
TheSteelCube
10-03-2004, 10:17 PM
Cheers for that, I will send Mak a CD.
Nice Hoffman quote by the way....
-Rob. 8)
mr_trikkle
10-03-2004, 10:28 PM
FIREWERKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! :twisted:
GASsMANn
12-03-2004, 12:02 AM
ORPHX
Canadian Minimalist noize act
live on stage @ slimelight
Saturday 08 May 2004
mr_trikkle
12-03-2004, 01:33 AM
what was that reply???? :S :?: :?:
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