Re: [microsound] MOM

[jochen gutsch <jochen.gutsch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

saw them about 6 years ago and they had a phantastic drummer added to the
line up, and apart from the machines there was a "real" electronic bass
being played. had a dub feel to it and i got very drunk. great BAND.

jochen

> andi toma, in some fairly recent interview, said he would never
> play a show with just a laptop... because it would be way too boring.
> however, i heard that when they played at neptune records, outside
> detroit, they just jammed with two laptops and that it was amazing... much
> more intimate and abstract then their live show could ever be...
> 
> i know when they went on tour with stereolab a few years back, they had
> a burned cd of beats, and then they did all the melodies live over them.
> somepeople
> might think, "playing to a cd? millie vanillie!" but it ain't no worse to
> play along
> prerecorded tracks on your harddrive i guess........
> 
> they pulled some hilarious shit where one of the guys was engaging in some
> super
> intense knob twiddling, so intense, that he actually broke the knob off and
> it went
> flying across the stage. they both had like goofy, "uh oh!" looks on their
> faces. my girlfriend
> said it had to be planned, but i broke up with her years ago, and regardless,
> it was hilarious....
> 

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