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.
Cold loungin' to a festival-within-a-festival — on headphones.
Luciano, dangerously close to drowning in gear.
Luciano sees the light.
Original Hamster and Atom Heart twist up some acidton...
which is a better idea than anyone ever would have suspected.
Pier and Andrés Bucci experience filial tension.
They put those warnings on there for a reason.
A Sunaj Assassin keeps it stealthy.
Daniel Meteo shoots back.
Serafin, in loop mode.
Raving beneath an enormous Calder — who but Geeta could have forseen this?
Sweat on the walls, fizz in the air.
Thomas Melchior freezes time...
...and Soulphiction bumps it forward sliver by sliver.
Soulphiction raising the roof.
This isn't really Soulphiction's Jackmate; it's his hand double.
Soulphiction's Suzana Rozkosny.
Rozkosny aglow.
When he wasn't twisting knobs, Nego Moçambique was cutting rugs like an Ikea salesman.
Styro2000, of Galoppierende Zuversicht, built this thing. It's finicky.
June 08, 2005
Out of the fray
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?
June 01, 2005
Summer is sprung
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...)