Went to see Richard Kirk in a small cinaema in Bristol.. show started with a film basically stepping back in time to early 80's Sheffield with very raw footage of cabaret Voltaire doing a home recording from a bedroom...a look at the scene with human league and abc and afew visual efx etc.. one track in particular was pretty amazing big phat 303 bassline must have been early 80's.. ?????
Then after a short interlude he came on... with a plastic carrier bag..took a couple of minidisks out, stuck a cd in..sat down and lit a fag (cigarette for all you American folk) and proceeded to make astonishing music...he had this effects box which I now want and he started with 2 pretty thumping techno numbers then proceeded to go into dub with some blissful basslines echoes and everything that you could possible want from music... (well me anyway) all the time this was going on there was a kind of 'stakker' video going on in the background... got to say this is the closest I have come to doing acid for a long time.. he even did some weird techno / electro remix of test one... play the 5 tones... If I had to sum it up..i'd say it was jus filthy dubbed out techno..... This guy is a f*****g genius..... One strange thing was the venue tho..it was a cinema, so everyone was sitting down.... apart from me and my g/f who were up shuffling around unable to cope with hearing music this good without dancing..... surely that's what its designed for.... pretentious arty people who probably didn't know wwho he was anyway didn't dance.. oh well their loss :)
