Autechre Autechre @ Berghain April 1

18 cities to play before that, one each night. 18 iterations to mutate and polish the current set.

has to be pretty mental to speed-travel across Europe for one month, bombing a different club each night with the most massive bass.

ima pumped!

fucking berghain?!

_ _^^Berghain^^_ _

  On 3/16/2010 at 1:42 PM, Das Gespenst said:

_ _^^Berghain^^_ _

Nice one, I can clone that

being broke has never been more bitter

o 17 oiros, you'll surely have 17 emergency oiros somewhere?

yeah but not the 50 it takes to get to berlin

but i thats easter weekend right, NICE looks like there could actually be a chance i'm going as some of my mates are DJing that weekend as well

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paint me excitered

Kinda sad I'm not going to any of the lives this time, some would have been within reach... but I haven't even heard Oversteps yet.

today's line-up:

* 21:00 h - 22:45 h Didjit

* 22:45 h - 23:00 h Russel Haswell >>15 minutes? april's fools are on the way ;P

* 23:00 h - 24:00 h Autechre LIVE

* 24:00 h - 01:00 h Rob Hall

* 01:00 h - 01:45 h O.S.T. LIVE

* 01:45 h - 04:00 h Rob Hall.

me me ready now. and to all who are with me tonight, HAVE A NICE AEpril/GESCOM NIGHT!!!

first impression

tbh

it had 3 or 4 fantastic moments, but too often felt like a collection of unfinished/underdeveloped stuff constantly masked by irritating bass drum wankery. i felt the bass, the music not so much.

5/10

i second that. it has lesser melodies than i thought. that 4/4 track in the middle was fantastic.

wow 5/10? thats rough. was it just hard to follow?

yeah pretty much.

like i said, some moments were fantastic. But the whole thing lacked coherence or dramaturgy, progression or flow... lots of tension, but no release. the tension basically ate itself to a point when it became outright annoying. the really good parts were few and far between.. which were relatively straight patterns with less meandering/bass drum poking than 90 percent of it. for example ca. half through the set, out of nowhere a complicated yet straight and energetic drum line and a mean sawtooth bassline. wow! o fuck yeah! (only to be turned into meandering after a few minutes). there were a couple of great build-ups, huge potential, only to be discarded...

so it felt like they pressed play on a decent track, then ruined it by manipulating the patterns semi-randomly, and after a while repeated that with the next track.

it also didn't help at all that Autechre played right after Haswell. My ears were still ringing from the Haswell set, i was expecting Rob Hall and/or OST to play next, a minute later AE just so started their set.

i know this almost sounds bitter, but let me assure you i'm having a great time in Berlin. We came to Berghain with a good set of mind, AE simply didn't deliver.

phling's comments reflect my thoughts 100% after seeing the Oslo set last night.

oh my, we are like, the same person!