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June 15, 2005

Does a bat beep in the dark?

Sonar is just around the corner, so if I'm ever going to post more MUTEK photos, it's gotta be now. Instead of a proper review, consider this a series of flashbacks.

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Cold loungin' to a festival-within-a-festival — on headphones.

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Luciano, dangerously close to drowning in gear.

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Luciano sees the light.

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Original Hamster and Atom Heart twist up some acidton...

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which is a better idea than anyone ever would have suspected.

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Pier and Andrés Bucci experience filial tension.

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They put those warnings on there for a reason.

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A Sunaj Assassin keeps it stealthy.

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Daniel Meteo shoots back.

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Serafin, in loop mode.

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Raving beneath an enormous Calder — who but Geeta could have forseen this?

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Sweat on the walls, fizz in the air.

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Thomas Melchior freezes time...

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...and Soulphiction bumps it forward sliver by sliver.

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Soulphiction raising the roof.

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This isn't really Soulphiction's Jackmate; it's his hand double.

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Soulphiction's Suzana Rozkosny.

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Rozkosny aglow.

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When he wasn't twisting knobs, Nego Moçambique was cutting rugs like an Ikea salesman.

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Styro2000, of Galoppierende Zuversicht, built this thing. It's finicky.

June 08, 2005

Out of the fray

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Back from MUTEK, with round one of reflections posted on Pitchfork, under the unsubtle title, "The Month in Techno." And what a month, at least first eight days of it. I've got a suitcase full of dirty clothes, some 500 photos to sort through, and more promos than I have time to listen to, but mostly I just want to go back to the live set from Galoppierende Zuversicht (pictured here) and figure out which passage swept my brain away like a shady van with tinted windows. Styro2000 did have some amber-colored buttons on his homemade gizmo... Coincidence?

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June 01, 2005

Summer is sprung

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Greetings from Planet MUTEK. I won't be posting much for a few days (like that's anything new), but in the meantime, tide yourself over with a new mix thrown together while I waited for the taxi on Saturday. 68 minutes of electro-house, microhouse, macrohouse, and a little bit of disco for good measure: it's called Geminimix, and you can download it here.

(Let me know if there are problems with it... I can't get the page to display properly for me, but others tell me it works. Damn Mac Homepage...)