I take back what I said previously about the Go! Team record. I now love it. Thank you Jamie. I also think I should dO a better job of describing the Go! Team experience; my original post didn't do it justice. The few songs I saw were just pure, intense joy. Maybe it was the heat, but it felt like they had handed out drugs to everyone. Everyone in the crowd, even the press pit, were grinning ear to ear, jumping up and down, laughing, screaming for more of the horn-sampling goodness. Crazy.
I'll also wearily point you to this interview I did last week with Paul at A Blog Soup. I come off as a pretty big asshole who doesn't know what he's talking about... so I guess that means he got it right. Please take it with a grain of whatever you want (absolutely no offense to Paul).
Now to wrap-up day one of Intonation.
7:20 pm - Prefuse 73
I don't mind Prefuse's earlier glitch-hop stuff, although I never got way into it like some of my friends. Initially I had been a little excited because I knew he was touring with a full band (unlike Four Tet...). But since I hadn't really heard his latest releases in much depth, I missed his performance. It sounded pretty strange from across the park while I was hanging with friends, and I heard it wasn't that great.
8:00 pm - Death From Above 1979
Ah yes, finally. The performance we had all been secretly, pateintly waiting for. This was the only time during the festival that a stage was used twice in a row, perhaps because someone thought DFA1979 could set up faster than a band with more than two people. Ah, naive festival organizers.
Once the drumset was set up and the keyboards all checked, DFA1979 flew into a rage, immediately ripping into their usual set-opener "Turn it Out" with screeching feedback and flailing drums. The crowd began pulsing furiously with excitement, while people hopped the pit fence [security will be discussed further in later posts...] and began dancing non-stop. My personal highlights were, as expected, dance-floor-filler/heavy-metal-killer "You're Lovely (But You've Got Lots of Problems)", scorching single "Blood on our Hands" (which they didn't play last time I saw them, disappointingly) and pop-song-gone-evil "Going Steady", featuring a mid-song switch from bass to keyboards. Also, over the past few months the duo added even more to the grand-finale ending on the song "Do It!", which seriously rocked and showed how tight they had gotten on tour.
There's not much else I can say about DFA1979, except that if you dig their music, you have to fucking catch them live. People say lots of things about the band and their live show, but it all comes down to one thing: Jesse F. Keeler has the best bass sound known to man, and if I could stick my head in his eight-speaker cabinet I would. It'd be worth going deaf. It's just that devestating, that pulverising, that enveloping. GAAAAAH.
9:00 pm - Tortoise
I don't listen to Tortoise, and I didn't want to start then. Me an' my crew left, got Thai food, and proceeded to crash hard-core. I have seriously never been so tired. At least we didn't have to get up for the same thing the next day only earlier... oh wait. We did. Intonation Day 2 coverage coming soon.
P.S. - Intonation so far: Part I, Part II
1 comment:
Hi There.
I just want to say that i dont think you came off like an asshole. and if oters feel like that, that was not my intent. i did do a bit of editing, so know that its possible i did a bad job editing.
Talking with Peter was fun and informative, and it was obvious to me he knew his stuff.
His site is still one of my favorites
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