[audio] Aphex Twin live in Roskilde, 29 June 1997

So this Aphex Twin recording has been floating around the internet for decades. Live performance (back in the good ol' days when Richard used to actually play live, not just dj) from Roskilde Festival in Denmark in 1997, as broadcast on Swedish National Radio.

I saw a recent post on Dark Circle Room (here, where you can download the original tracks that I used for my remaster- darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2...e-festival.html) where it is described as the complete performance as opposed to some other versions that have been around for years.

So I downloaded it. The audio from that original broadcast is really good- stereo board feed combined with stereo audience mics for applause, the same way I do all my recordings. And while it does sound very good, once I popped it into my DAW, I saw and heard that it really needed some help. It had a very weak low end and sounded just kinda lifeless, like it had no spark in it at all.

So then I fixed it- pumped some low end back into it, brought some excitement back to the overall sound, did some trickery with the phase and the panning, beefed up the audience sounds a bit.
Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, 29 June 1997

0:00 (unknown)

5:55 Bucephalus Bouncing Ball

11:47 To Cure a Weakling Child

17:33 Laughable Butane Bob

23:18 Heliosphan

29:56 Lichen

33:00 Inkey$

35:05 Crappy

40:46 Girl/Boy Song

44:34 Digeridoo

50:46 Come to Daddy
Mirrored here-

[audio] Tomoroh Hidari live in Vienna, 15 January 2010

Tomoroh Hidari live at Arena 3 Raum, 15 January 2010.

Tomoroh Hidari graduation party. That's Rachael Hecate giving the introduction and doing her HAIL SATAN! thing.

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[audio] Richard Devine live in Los Angeles, 25 February 2005

Richard Devine live at iComplex offices, 25 February 2005.

Back in the 90s in LA, there were a few dj/artist collectives that would organize the underground-y electronic music shows- Darkmatter Soundsystem (the only one that now, in 2020, still organizes shows) handled most of all the breakcore shows, Mashup Soundsystem also did breakcore shows, ELM did idm shows, usually on the harder/darker side, but sometimes not, and would regularly bring some combination of Otto v Schirach / Phoenecia / Richard Devine to town (Pet Shop show in Silver Lake is legendary!), and also Infinite Complexity aka iComplex did probably the widest variety of musics, idm and industrial and techno and dubstep and drum and bass and other random stuff.

And this is not to mention LA's long-running industrial club Das Bunker, still going strong, but quite frankly is a whole lot less underground than those others I mentioned. Although Franck and company still will have some good live acts play their hallowed halls every now and then.

This Richard Devine show was actually not a proper concert; it was a private party for about 15 or 20 people. I don't remember why Richard was in town, or if he played some other show that weekend. Honestly, I don't even know how I was invited to this one, except that iComplex head honcho Whoman is a super nice guy who thought I should be there I guess.

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2 (6:51)

3 (10:13)

4 (16:23)

5 (21:19)

6 (28:33)

7 (33:21)

8 (38:09)

9 (42:48)

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[audio] Joy Through Noise live in Los Angeles, 15 August 2014

Joy Through Noise live at Complex, Los Angeles, 15 August 2014.

Mirrored here-
 

[audio] Wisp live in San Francisco, 6 November 2009

Wisp live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 6 November 2009.

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[audio] Famine live in Toronto, 1 March 2006

Famine live at H2-0s at Darkrave, Toronto, 1 March 2006.

Industrial-IDM-breakcore crossover.

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[audio] Otto von Schirach live in Budapest, 19 March 2010

Otto von Schirach live at A38, Budapest, 19 March 2010.

With Balázs Pándi on drums/percussion.


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Some pictures here- https://www.a38.hu/en/picture-gallery/otto-von-schirach-volkova-sisters

[audio] Clock DVA live in Denver, 25 September 2016

Clock DVA live at Syntax Physic Opera, Denver, 25 September 2016.


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Here’s a video I shot that night-

[audio] Cyrusrex live in Seattle, 7 June 2008

Cyrusrex live at El Corazon, Seattle, 7 June 2008.

This performance hits me as a little bit more on the experimental side of IDM, certainly more so than his album.


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[audio] bloodysnowman live in San Francisco, 6 Oct 2010

bloodysnowman live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 6 October 2010.


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[audio] Enduser and Kid 606 live in Budapest, 11 December 2009

For my friends in Budapest.

I post this on the tenth anniversary of this show, first time posting either of these performances.

Enduser and Kid606 live at A38, Budapest, Hungary, 11 December 2009.

Enduser played first, Kid606 second. You can hear during the last song of Enduser's performance, that Miguel 606 soundchecks his computer a couple times.

(0:00) A Trip Down

(2:30) Wisdom 05

(6:55) Not So Distant Drums

(11:19) Switch

(15:23) Manouvre

(18:00) Basement

(21:53) Berlin Dub

(24:49) Shot Gun Anthem

(27:39) Stormbringer (Enduser remix)

(29:59) 2/3

(34:17) 1/3

(38:47) The Catalyst

(43:08) Death Vest 09

(48:05) End of a Beginning (Sublight Version)

(54:30) Remain

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Flyer-

[audio] d'Arcangelo live in Vienna, 20 March 2004

d'Arcangelo live at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, 20 March 2004.



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Tracks-

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(4:12)

(8:30)

(11:00)

(15:23)

(17:57)

(21:57)

(26:32)

(31:12)

(35:43)

(39:25)

(41:22)

(46:06)

(52:09)

[audio] Genesis P-Orridge live in Los Angeles, 17 July 2014

Genesis P-Orridge live at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 17 July 2014.

Genesis came to LA to raise money for a documentary film he was trying to make in Africa. His presentation featured a brief, live musical performance.

Musicians for the first two songs of this recording are Cyrus Rex on electronics, Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb on vocals, and Los Angeles underground music luminary Baseck on electronics.

Douglas and Cyrus Rex would go on to form Black Line shortly after this performance. I don't know if these first two songs are Black Line songs, or perhaps songs that Cyrus composed as DJMREX, which was his moniker at this time.

Genesis then grabs the mic at about 10 minutes in, and does spoken word for the remaining 10 minutes, while everybody else lays down some lovely noisy synth parts, which I think were largely improvisational.

mirrored here

[video] Squarepusher live in London, 26 October 2006

So I posted the audio the other day on Mixcloud and HearThis.

In the description, I wrote about the video. Well, I synced up my newly remastered audio to that video and posted it to YouTube a couple days ago to see how fast they would take it down. Surprisingly, it’s still up.

So I just made it public if you really want to check it out. It’s pretty much not worth watching because it’s so small. But, if nothing else, it’s an excuse for me to get the audio on YouTube for people who prefer to listen to stuff on YT, or who don’t know about my Mixcloud or HearThis pages.

[audio] Squarepusher live London, 26 October 2006

Squarepusher live at Electric Proms at Electric Ballroom, London, 26 October 2006.

This concert video I believe was originally recorded by the BBC. It was a long time ago. I don't remember fer sure.

The video production was obviously done by a pro crew- multiple cameras, jib/crane shots and tracking shots, glitch editing. Really slick all the way around.

But a couple other things baffled me. First, it was posted super small size- 400 x 224. No doubt they'd originally recorded in 1080, so why post something so ridiculously, unwatchably small?

Second, the audio mix was absolute rubbish, even though it, too, was professionally recorded, with big stereo sound and stereo audience mics, like the way I do it. But whoever mixed it thought it best to drop all of the low end out of the mix so that it sounded like some shitty 1970s transistor radio.

I was reminded of it when one of the songs popped up in my car the other day, which prompted me to do a full remaster of it. Luckily, I still had the original video tucked away in one of my hard drives.

So I grabbed the audio, pumped some healthy low end back into it, and gave it the usual treatment of fixing levels, smoothing out all the rough edges and whatever else it needed. This is the audio you hear here.

Even though the video is ant-sized, I went ahead and re-synced my new audio remaster to the video. I'll try to post it to YouTube, but they're so draconian about copyright issues, I doubt they'll allow it.

Remastered using Ocenaudio and Presonus Studio One 4, with Izotope and FabFilter plug ins, April 2019.

Thanks for listening. Brian.

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2. 5:22

3. 10:29

4. 15:39

5. 19:58

6. 26:07

7. 29:58

8. 34:24

[video] Clock DVA live in Denver, 25 Sept 2016

Clock DVA 'Sound Mirror' live at Syntax Physic Opera, Denver, Colorado, 25 September 2016.

Epilepsy warning on this one, lots of flashing/strobing lights.

[audio] Gridlock live in San Francisco, 17 October 2004

Gridlock live in San Francisco, 17 October 2004 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

Gridlock live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, California, 17 October 2004.

Gridlock's hometown show (more or less), touring in support of their Formless album, so they play many from that release, as well as a bunch from earlier releases, and a couple of their more obscure tracks.

If anybody knows the titles for tracks 9 and 16, please let me know, and I'll update the tracklist.

1. Pallid (0:00-4:17)

2. Return (4:17-9:46)

3. Voiceless (9:46-14:30)

4. Displacement (14:30-19:03)

5. Scratch (19:03-21:32)

6. Uh4.17 (21:32-26:01)

7. Estrella (26:01-30:38)

8. Recycle (30:38-35:43)

9. unknown (35:43-38:51)

10. Without (38:51-43:15)

11. Sever (43:15-49:28)

12. Bring Out Your Dead (49:28-55:34)

13. Program41 (55:34-59:09)

14. Individual Totem: In Memorial (Gridlock remix) (59:09-62:56)

15. De/Module (62:56-67:23)

16. unknown (67:23-69:54)

[audio] Autechre live in Toronto, 9 May 2001

Autechre live in Toronto, 9 May 2001 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

Autechre live at Steam Whistle Brewing Company, Toronto, 9 May 2001.

This is another Autechre board tape that I post-produced into a concert recording- gave it a lot of crowd sounds, some room ambience, and remastered the actual music as well.

There are a handful of Ae board tapes from the 2001 tour out there, and this Toronto performance is one of my favorites, so I wanted to give it some special treatment and really fix it up.

Most importantly, there was a nasty bit of digital clipping immediately after the 6 minute mark which I fixed up manually, which required about a half a day of tedious pencilling out flattened waveforms in Soundtrack Pro, but it's worth it.

I've seen the venue listed for this show as being the Steam Whistle Brewing Company and also The Opera House. I don't know which is correct, or if both are correct, or if one is more accurate than the other.

Presonus Studio One for arranging, DSPing and mixing. All mastering done in Soundtrack Pro.

Rodent516 live in San Diego, 6 August 2014

Rodent516 live at Fully Patched at Kava Lounge, San Diego, 6 August 2014.

The music in the first half of this video reminds me very much of EP7, so I guess I'll recommend this video if you like that era of Autechre.

[video] Nommo Ogo live in San Diego, 19 July 2014

Couple from Nommo Ogo live at Che Café, San Diego, 19 July 2014.