Greg, could I use this on LD? Martin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Earle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:01 PM Subject: Re: (313) Tomorrow - Detroit - 5 years of Ghostly > On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:54 PM EDT, Sam Valenti IV wrote: > > Ghostly International Presents... > > > > Music From The Wires For Ears, Vol. 5 > > Five Years of Ghostly > > > > Featuring > > > > Matthew Dear (live vox) > > Dabrye > > Midwest Product > > SV4 (DJ) > > Since no one seems to have reviewed the Ghostly tour, I'll have a > go ... > > The Ghostly tour rolled into Los Angeles last Saturday night. I > got there at 11:30 and unfortunately missed out on seeing > Midwest Product. > > Dabrye was up next. By the beard and the baseball cap I knew I > was in trouble. Another Whiteboy-does-Hip-Hop thang, yup. My > overall impression of him was that he's really good at cooking up > some phat basslines, breaks and beats, but he doesn't know what > to do with them. The songs have little structure above and beyond > the basslines/beats, and often ended so abruptly that the audience > was caught off-guard and didn't know to clap. My feeling is that > he'd do well to collaborate with someone (hasn't he done so with > Scott Herren, Mr. Prefuse 73?) that knows melodies and song structure > that can lay stuff over the top of his reasonably good underlying stuff. > > Last year at Movement I saw Matthew Dear do a serviceable, if not > exactly memorable, set at the Underground Stage. This time around > things were completely different - there was a table on stage with a > PowerBook, a mic(!) in the middle, and a small stand with another > keyboard next to the mic. > > Matthew strolled up on stage all swayve and de-boner wearing a > white v-neck shirt and a black suit jacket(!!!) - looking nothing so > much like a cross between Pete Sampras and John Tejada :) He was > followed by someone else wearing a casual brown sportcoat and a > bright off-white tie. Well, this should be interesting, I thought ... > > And, indeed, it sure was! I don't know how to describe the "backing > tracks" per se, but they were sorta minimal Tech-House-y in that > sorta "Yeah, I'd recognize these as Matthew Dear" if you heard 'em > separately sort of way ... but the main surprise was, Matthew sang > on all of 'em!!! He conjured up the ghosts of Bowie and Sylvian, > in a deep voice singing lyrics that I could only make out snippets > of, but which conjured up the ghost of John Foxx in a detached, > angular, (dare I say it) Electroclash-ian fashion. Let me put it > this way - normally I really don't like vocals with my Techno (or > House) music, but this was brilliant! Somehow it all worked. > Highly recommended. > > Matthew Dear, Crooner Extraordinaire - who'dathunkit? > > - Greg > > >
