If it was the same he brought to LA and if my memory serves correct, it was
one of those nice Big Briar ones with the wooden stand, the Ethervox MIDI
enabled one.
jamie.hurlbut
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At 11:59 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
what kind of theremin was it?
-jenn without the -ifer
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>Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:11:40 -0600
>From: "Matthew MacQueen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [313] Ectomorph / Danny Wang gig in Chicago
>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] org [The Music Institute] (E-mail)"
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>My (overdue) comments on this Ghostly gig at Empty Bottle
in Chicago last thursday w/ Ectomorph live and Danny Wang as
DJ.
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>Ectomorph played a set with a LOT of new material I haven't
heard before, with less gear on stage and twin white laptops
with the ectomorph logo glowing where the apple logo should
be. Those kids! The crew is tight and funky, some effects
and mixers, some gear but anyone who saw them live years
ago, they used to have trunks and trunks of gear to travel
with... Anyway the music was no less thick, interesting and
some deeper stuff, trademark dark electronic funk style.
Some improvisation from Danny Wang on the live Theramin (set
up on the other side of the stage) on a couple tracks that
was impromptu and interesting. It's clear unlike most
people who goof around with Theramins, Danny actually knows
what he's doing and can do just about whatever melodies and
notes he wants, which was certainly impressive to me
anyway. Danny leaves the stage and Ectomorph hits a few
more cuts solo, trademark rife-shot tight snares and wobbly
deep 808 kicks. They end with remake/remix/cover/tribute of
Shari Vari with robotic vocals out of the glowing red
megaphone vocoder and overall a nice tight funky set.
Cheers all round.
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>Danny Wang took to the decks, said a few words about
Ghostly, fiddled with a uncooperative mixer for a pregnant
pause and finally and dropped for an opener "I Believe In
Music" (who was this, The Carpenters? Barbara Mandrell and
the Mandrell sisters!? ha ha). This gets my vote for most
creative way to start a DJ set, though not necessarily most
effective? Ha! He was mixing crazy stuff including Depeche
mode's loving refrain 'this ain't no disco' (oh how true for
the Empty Bottle) and having a good time, if a little rough
here and there. Dropped Metro Area 3 and an assortment of
what sounded like plenty of quality old electronic disco
gems. A little rough on technique overall, but as someone
who tries to beatmatch old disco and italo records myself
(before tight sequencing and studio quantizing became the
norm on late disco productions) it's definitely challenging
to pull off seamlessly every time. I applaud the effort to
play older cuts with newer!! Be on the lookout for his epic
remix of Block 16's big cut "Elektrocution", I believe
coming out on Nuphonic.
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>Turnout could have been better for this caliber of talent
at Empty Bottle, which is historically a bar for live indie
and irony rockers, recently starting to book more "electro"
(god forbid they call it techno or house) and a crowd
somewhat notorious for bowling shoes and no capacity (or
skill?) to actually DANCE... but it was a Thursday and there
was in fact a decent gathering of legit groovers getting
down near the stage. Overall a nice night of electronics
and bourbon worthy of a Friday work hangover, hats off to
the artists and thanks to Ghostly for a Chicago presence.
>
>Cheers,
>Matt MacQueen
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