After a stabbing at George IV last night To the Bone had to find a
last-minute venue, which they managed to put together quite surprisingly in
a few hours, and as far as I know no one missed out as a result. Very
impressive. Obviously sad about the stabbing, but can't say much more about
it because I don't think anyone really knows what happened right now.
So... the night featured Max Duley and Sendex. I don't think Max was quite
at his best due to some small monitors, but still dropped some wicked bits,
including some ancient Baby Ford and a fair amount of Crème-ish stuff.
The highlight of the night was Sendex. I am fairly unaware of his music,
although I'll be making an effort to change that now. The dude played live
for at least three hours to a crowd of maybe 50 in a venue that looked
vaguely like the place in Phoenix Nights. Absolutely nutty place, but those
who were there went crazy for him. He had 707, 303, 101 and MPC-1000. He
didn't seem to be triggering many samples from that, but a few for sure, and
mostly just used it to sequence the other devices from what I could tell.
Anyway, it sounded totally sick. He made the 707 stretch to 808 and 909
territory repeatedly. He traversed the entire range that the 303 can cover,
often with great melodies, and often set those off by duplicating parts of
the melodies on the 101, tweaking all of it to hell and back. Other times he
got the 101 rocking old school baselines, and near the end when he seemed to
have run out of material he started playing new melodies on the 101
on-the-fly. It was tight. The momentum of the set was very Rudiman-esque,
for lack of a better word, and equally impressive. It may sounds quite thin
and one-dimensional from this list of devices, but trust me, it was anything
but. All I can say is, check him if he comes near you.
In the next six weeks we have (by my off-the-top-of-my-head count) Larry
Heard, Kirk Detroitio, Theo Parrish, Colin Dale, Fabrice Lig, DJ Bone,
Akufen, most of Minus, Darshan Jesrani, Convextion, Hieroglyphic Being,
Henrik Schwarz, Stewart Walker, DJ Pete and Dynarec. This says nothing of
the remaining unannounced Spacebase guests. HELP!!!
Tristan
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