pfe


 no.19


 from.age


It's late Sunday night and the weekend was all a bit much 
   but I find myself in a pub with electro playing....

frigid's fromage boasted Neotropic, 
        at $3 entry it's too good to believe.
   The Globe was packed on both floors, 
  freaks and kids trying to be freaks lined the walls and floors.

        After an extremely bass heavy Cold Cut 
 in Auckland I was interested to hear the queen of 
            Ninja Tunes play her 
                       "epic/serene/violent  
      tracks that enveloped in a dense fog of 
               swirling sound and distant wailing/
      psychedelic's whipping up a retro frenzy."

(anyhow)

    standing at the back of a floor of people 
             wondering why they are all sitting...
  I was told 'That's what they do in Sydney', 
     I'm quite happy to say 'fuck that' and join the three or four 
 in the middle dancing from the start.

     What she played was unexpected....
   an hour of the soundtrack to any number of blacksploitation flicks. 
 The set sounded like she had bought it at a 
     second hand record shop in Pitt Street for $5, 
           and was played more like selection than djing,
          one track after another.

   The crowd was unsure but for $3 no one could complain,
I certainly wasn't about to. After a few tracks
 some got into it, others waited for 
              her to kick in the   
   drum'n'bass rhythm's,   which never came. The only tracks 
resembling anything from the late 90's came in the form of 
                         Beck and one trip hop number....

The weirdness of watching a Neotropic video backdrop, 
       (a nineties left of MTV style vid, scenes of 
       Japan, cities, text and repeating icons), 
   with sounds from the 70's...


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k a  l i b  ~ k

 
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