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2001 |
Perilous 562 Frigid turns 5 this week but you can read about elsewhere in this mag. If you are after Squarepusher tickets at this late stage you’ll have to take your chances and try to get them at the door as all presales have sold out. Another club, EGO, which ran in Dusseldorf for three years from 1998-2000 has put out a double CD set of live recordings from the club. Covering a good cross section of the minimal techno and laptop producers there is one CD of mid-tempo work from Sutekh, Salz, Kandis, Khan and Swayzak and a more experimental atmospheric set of recordings from Noto, Senking, Brinkmann, Opiate and Kit Clayton. For tracks recorded with no overdubs and straight from the sound desk the quality is remarkable and for the gear fetishists there is a fat book of colour photos of the club in action which looks like it would have been quite amazing. Also interesting is a compilation of Russian produced electronics called, unimaginatively, Ru:Electronic, on the Lo label. Unfortunately there are absolutely no liner notes which makes it very difficult to explore the artists on the label further which is a shame because there are some very nice tracks here – Klutch’s melodic opener Strochnik; Fizzarum spooky and bleak scratchy lo-fi laptop electronics; PCP’s 3d audio pops of Jazz Bubbles; and Tenzor’s clunky Qwasha. Overall it seems like Russia has been fast-tracked a whole heap of mid-90s Warp promos and this tends to give the compilation the sort of global nonchalance that would have made liner notes, that actually located the artists somewhat more in the ‘real world’, good. Another collection released by Lo is their entry into the library music arena. Unlike other library compilations this is being billed in much the same way you get those “John Digweed presents” except this time its “Luke Vibert presents”. Despite this marketing the compilation titled Nuggets stands up well and is full of some pretty freaky music produced from Parisian studios during the 1970s and used in TV and film. In some ways the best of these compilations remains the outstanding Raymond Scott Manhattan Research collection for its comprehensive liner notes which extend to a full CD sized hardcover book of 140 pages, but the musical oddities of Nuggets make for amusing listening even if, like the Russian electronics, it leaves you wanting more information. Keep an eye out for the forthcoming Root Manuva album Run Come Save Me out on Creative Vibes in the next few weeks. Featuring a cracking new single Witness and some tasty digital-meets-dancehall production on several of the tracks it’s a grand listen and more vibrant than his debut. Despite Frigid’s birthday technically taking place on Friday the 20th, you won’t want to miss Sunday the 22nd’s entertainment. On the 22nd Jonny Phive drops in with a crew of his friends to launch his Feast Of Beats album. Expect some crazy hip hop action and possibly even some breakin’ which should test the Hopetoun’s rough floor. On the 29th stay tuned for some surprise guests. The next international on the horizon is Scanner who will play alongside Ubin on August 12th. Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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