Neurodancer

From the description above, it sounds like they reversed the arc, because the first one had pretty much escalating intensity from beginning to end – not sure about the actual material being played though.

Talking about Lisbon A here, it would be hard to ask for a better first time seeing them, that amalgamation of dance styles being twisted and mangled in ever unexpected ways, but still making you unable to sit still – they definitely didn’t let the auditorium context get in the way of smashing everyone’s face in with the most satisfying beats. Speaking of faces, given it was a Portugal debut there was also this kind of communal feeling in seeing so many familiar ones that I got to know from this kind of music over the years, all of them clearly waiting a long time for this and with a big smile by the end of it. Can’t wait for the recording!

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This was a masterclass

This is too fucking sad. Been a fan of most stuff since Negative Fascination and always admired the consistency in and around the music. Plus, he was an incredible DJ, blew my mind twice – I was lucky to be on the lineup of the last one, though some damned delays didn't allow more than a few minutes with him, you could tell he was an enchanting person. Huge loss.

Another reissue coming up: https://wemerecords.com/shop/ceephax-acid-crew-ceerial-port-ice-ice-baby-vinyl-pre-order/

Here's a couple of electro mixes I've done, you can find tracklists inside

Yes! Will most likely be sold out by the end of the day.

https://www.culturgest.pt/en/whats-on/autechre-ae_live-2024/ At long fucking last it happened

April 9 at MUTEK Barcelona: https://barcelona.mutek.org/en/news/mutek-barcelona-announces-autechre-as-the-first-headliners-of-the-2024-edition More here: https://autechre.warp.net/shows

Pretty sure there won't be any in the short term, I saw a comment from Disciples on IG where they said something closer to the original packaging could be coming out next year. I couldn't resist but ordering both right away, love these records too much.

YES – I've been feeling that the various Drexciya-related reissues of recent years were building up to this. Not even that bummed about it coming in one of those often dangerous PVC sleeves. Nevermind, it's housed in "clear poly inner sleeves", nice!

I found this Drive file earlier today in the forum. Do you mean Numero festival in 2000?

I guess you could say this of many festivals where Richard plays, since they need to have a certain financial capability, but this Kalorama thing is such an incoherent, badly organized, shitty capitalist theme park, that this is what you would expect from most of the crowd – either that or run for their lives, which a lot of people did too. After a delayed start because of issues with the cube visuals, at some point during the set I got the impression that they crashed and the stage lights acted alone as backup for like 10 minutes. It was also around that time that we got (in response, as I like to think of it) a glorious noise section. Anyway, all I can say is that it was another Aphex Twin show that felt to me like the peak electronic music experience, but Vordhosbn... wow.

After that strong Higher Dreams debut, this mini-album is out now and sounding pretty good: https://albertabalsam.bandcamp.com/album/15-billion-elektrovolt

Yeah, nothing on CE's Bandcamp yet, dunno why it came out so early on Spotify.

The ever-prolific Carl Finlow will be dropping a 3x12" album not even 6 months after the great Plasmoids 2LP. Vinyl seems to have been pushed to mid-July but you can already stream it:

Did I get it right that it was the last track? Damn, I would’ve crumbled apart right there.

I would name Swans as one of my favorite bands in any given day (in particular that 87-95 period), but admittedly I don't listen to much non-electronic music anymore, so I lost track of their records after To Be Kind – I also saw them for the first time in that year, it was a thing of noisy beauty but also made me think this reformation era is really all about the live setting. So in the current tour they came back to my city and I had little doubts about going, even if unprepared... and again, it was worth every cent. It's an interesting lineup, the current one: no electric guitars anymore, but the bass is louder than ever, and there's more lap guitar and mellotron layers, so I felt a more pronounced southern gothic vibe along those walls of sound. Can't go wrong with that.

So that's two European gigs confirmed for day 1 and day 4 of Semibreve – now I can dream...

Def gonna get Grace, great album!