----- Original Message ----- From: "Melody Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:08 PM Subject: (313) k alexi/ rob hood in london - thoughts?
> What did everyone think of Rob HOod at Lost on saturday? > > I thought he was good, but a bit too slamming for a set 4 - 6 in the > morning... I was real tired by that time... > > K Alexi was excellent! Although I thought his techno set was better than > his house set... I've been trying to go easy on the London event posts/reviews here, since there's just too much to report without drowning this list in London, but I will bite on this one since Hood always seems to inspire varied reviews, and this was my first time seeing him. First thought: John Kennedy played a really nice warm up set which was a bit more inspired IMO than when we saw him a few weeks before. I must agree that K. Alexi was excellent, and a great surprise. He played a techno set before Fumiya Tanaka and Steve Bicknell in the main room, then after a 15 minute break, picked up in the house room. I completely lost track of time between the two K. Alexi sets, which to me indicates how good they were. I don't remember too many details about the tracks played in either set, but the music was thoroughly midwestern throughout. There were some excellent '80s jack tracks in the house set that were probably the highlight for me. My '80s house trainspotitude is not quite up to snuff though. Robert Taylor, you have been recruited! 4 o'clock rolled around really quickly. Hood wasted no time ramping up. It was at least an hour and a half of solid punishment. I didn't recognize a lot of the tracks, but they were superb. The only way I can describe it is to say it sounded like the thick, chunky beats of European techno with a bit more variance than usual layered with some severely twisted and haunting melodies on top. His mixing was excellent. I think I only heard the beat slip once, and he was right on it - and that is within the context of a really agressively mixed set. He played a lot of records and was in the mix at least 60-70% of the time. Most of the remainder of the time was spent searching for records. He was scratching and cutting left and right. You name it. Really impressive. I'm really glad I got to see it. I just read John O's technotourist interview yesterday, and Hood's own 'punishment' description suited it best I think. 'Murder, murder, murder. Kill, kill, kill!' It was really cool that he passed out a bunch of white labels to the crowd at the end of the night as well. That was a mob! More than anything though, I think what made the night was a great group of people in attendance. As I understand it, turnout was quite slim for a Lost evening (likely due to 4 competing quality events), but almost everyone there seemed to be having the time of their life, and it was totally contagious. Tristan ===== Text/Mixes: http://phonopsia.tripod.com Music: http://www.mp313.com Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Mix in mp3, 'Live in Iowa City' available for a short time from http://phonopsia.isoprax.com
