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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
SUPER
MEGA ULTRA CREW / FRONTIER TELEGRAPH / DJ SEXY MEAGRE DRIVE
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5/£3
Super
Mega Ultra Crew
Dface
uses a looped violin, an MPC2000, a couple of midi controllers and a laptop
to bring you sweet, dirty , sonorous, disgusting
music.
He likes Squidgy Bass and monster beats and
hopes you do too.
Frontier
Telegraph
Frontier
Telegraph is a side project of Michael Huggett,
the synthesizer/piano player in Hastings legends Rumiko Jr
(www.myspace.com/rumikojr)
and occasional live collaborator with Rashamon.
The music, selected from hours of Saturday afternoon sonic doodling, is a
celebration of happy accidents, wilful ignorance, thwarted objectives, and
the temporal. Recording almost exclusively using vintage analogue devices
for their lack of precision and tactile nature, Frontier Telegraph playfully
embraces all forms of electronic music whilst failing to successfully
realize any. The first compilation, 'Workings Out in the Margins' is
occasionally available on Dizzy Tiger Music Co and the follow up, 'Pocket
Sea Battle (Big Whoop!)', is nearing completion.
DJ
Sexy Meagre Drive
DJ Sexy Meagre
Drive is a 16bit soundtrack lover who will be playing unedited Sega Megadrive
soundtrack faves from the console daze.
There
will be an elektrocreche available for
any unaccompanied toys who will be looked after
during the intervals by our professionally trained team of volunteers. And
anybody else that wants to bring along a sound toy to play with.
Hosted
by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
We
have video and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog
from all our recent shows at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/
There
are other videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace
page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity
There
are also downloads available of some complete Spirit of Gravity sets at
www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity
There
are now also some of _minimalVector’s films
featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at the Vimeo
HDTV page
www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity
·
Reviewings:
Sorry
its so brief, we've been busy with plans for the
summer. Looking interesting.
Last
month's Spirit of Gravity was a journey from abstraction to the concrete,
starting with minimalist single piano notes ringing slowly reverbed
against ticks and echoes from Komuso
regulars Derek and Cliff. The Fallow Deer brutish barks and squalls added
texture and unease before the twosome were joined by a guitarist adding
threatening guitar washes and eventually by a keyboard player weaving his
way around them while a drum loop slowly integrated into the sound.
Gagarin
picked up the ball and added to it, from washes and clicking ticks of
percussive sound, into more structured songscapes.
Gradually thickening the sound and bringing the tempo
and rhythmic structure up a level. Gagarin played a variant of his
new 7” single (get it, its good) and ended on a high. Probably the hit of
the evening we sold all the copies of his CD he had on display.
Finishing
off the evening were Urban Delights who picked the tempo up from
where Gagarin left it and added vocals and guitar in a way that had me
reminiscing with Steve “minimal impact” about the Old Days at the Love Ranch.
Urban Delights had given us some images to process in the _minimalVector
software and they worked really well with the chaps bouncing around in front
of the lurid yellow and reds like the cover of the Planet Cook LP.
Then,
last week Same Actor and Noteherder
& McCloud represented the SoG Collective
at the Beatabet event at The Shunt Lounge under
London Bridge. It’s the kind of place that has you saying “It’s a very
good space” and feeling like a twit, BUT, it IS an amazing space:
labyrinthine only half describes it. Beatabet
had it for 4 days and must have involved nearly two hundred artists playing
for over two thousand people in an amazing feat of organisation. We were
really pleased to be involved, both Same Actor and Noteherder
& McCloud played great sets making full use of the underground
resonances of the place. We’re hoping to get Same Actor and his sitar back
down to the seaside soon.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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