[audio] Baseck vs Diskore live in Los Angeles, 16 March 2012

OG Darkmatter punk kids Baseck vs Diskore live at Blue Moon Nights, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, 16 March 2012.

In this recording, I'm not sure who plays which songs. If I remember correctly, Baseck was playing live, not djing as he sometimes would, whereas Diskore was most likely djing.

There was a power outage from 14:00-18:00. I could have edited that out, but I left it in, just because.

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[audio] Mark Hosler live in Tucson, 17 April 2013

Mark Hosler (of Negativland) live at Plush, Tucson, Arizona, 17 April 2013.

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

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

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[audio] Devo live in Napa Valley, 15 January 2012

Devo live at the Uptown Theatre, Napa Valley, California, 15 January 2012.

I was lucky enough to record a bunch of shows for Devo during their California tours of 2011 and 2012. They're a great bunch of guys, they had a great tour crew, and the album that they'd recently released and were touring in support of, Something for Everybody, is an amazing album and is still in high rotation at my house 10 years after its release.

This concert was when Devo was in their hard rock phase, due primarily to Bob1 turning up the distortion knob on his distortion stomp box to maximum. It's not really a sound that suits them I think.

But the good news is that his guitar is buried in the mix more so here than the other Devo recordings I made, and the synths are more prominent as well, which makes for a more pleasing combination. This is my favorite recording that I made of them because of that.

If you want to hear Devo sound like a heavy metal band, go find that abomination of a recording of them at The Observatory in Orange County as recorded by Moshcam. It's all over YT. I have no idea who mixed that recording or why they thought it was a good idea to make Devo sound like Meshuggah.

Personnel on this recording:

Mark Mothersbaugh: vocals, synths, guitar

Bob Mothersbaugh (Bob1): guitar, vocals

Jerry Casale: bass, synths, vocals

Bob Casale (Bob2): guitar, synths

Jeff Freidl: drums

(0:00) Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)

(5:25) Peek-a-Boo!

(8:33) What We Do

(11:47) Goin' Under

(15:26) Fresh

(18:15) That's Good

(22:05) Girl U Want

(25:25) Whip It

(28:20) Planet Earth

(31:15) planetary interlude

(34:00) Satisfaction

(37:30) Secret Agent Man

(41:13) The Uncontrollable Urge

(45:00) Mongoloid

(49:54) Jocko Homo

(55:20) Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA

(1:02:28) Gates of Steel

(1:06:30) Corporate Anthem

(1:07:43) Freedom of Choice

(1:13:25) Beautiful World (with Booji Boy)

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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] Crowhurst live in Los Angeles, 23 May 2013

Crowhurst live at Five Star Bar, Los Angeles, 23 May 2013.

I had a video of this entire performance up on YT for a while, but YT killed it for, what else, copyright infringement. Which has me scratching my head, because it's all pretty much improvisational noise with a drummer.

The only thing I can think is that the singer recites a few lines from the 1960s rock song House of the Rising Sun (at about 17:00 in). But it's not like the band is playing the song; the singer is just babbling off the lyrics to more improv noise with a drum beat. Is that why YT killed the video? Do they consider that copyright infringement? Ridiculous.

But what does YT care? You've heard the expression regarding monstrosity companies like Google: 'too big to fail'? Well, Google/YT isn't too big to fail, they're too big to care. There are so many thousands of videos uploaded every minute to YT, what the hell do they care if they kill one of them, even if it is on the flimsiest of justifications?

So, that video is no more. But here's the audio.

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[audio] Zeller live in Los Angeles, 19 March 2015

Zeller live at Berlin, Los Angeles, 19 March 2015.
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[audio] O/H live in Los Angeles, 20 March 2015

O/H live at Nuit Noire XI at Jewel's One, Los Angeles, 20 March 2015.

O/H = Rich Oddie of Orphx and Dave Foster of Huren and Teste.


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Video I shot-

[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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[audio] Youth Code live in San Diego, 27 Sept 2013

Youth Code live at The Void, San Diego, 27 Sept 2013.

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[audio] Medicine live in San Diego, 13 September 2013

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Kim Gordon (ex-Sonic Youth) organized a big ol' indie music festival in San Diego for a weekend in the fall of 2013, with all sorts of bands playing in clubs all over town. I recorded indie rock shoegaze legends Medicine at The Void on 13 September.

This show featured lots of technical difficulties. I don't remember what exactly the problems were, but I edited out a couple gaps of no music of two or three or four minutes in the middle of this set. Problems with drums or mics or vocals? I don't remember. And even now, you'll hear guitarist Brad Laner do a four and a half minute improvisational noise thing at about the 26 minute park, because I think the bassist broke a string and had to replace it.

So, not the smoothest show, but at well over an hour, they do manage to play a bunch of tunes.

For me, doing the mixing and mastering of rock bands is much different than electronic music artists. With electronic music, there's no acoustic sound coming off the stage, so it's very easy for me to control, and I usually end up using about 85 or 90% board feed versus 15 or 10% room sound in the final mix.

With rock music, the board feed always sounds super awkward because there's so much acoustic sound coming off stage (drums, guitar amps, bass amps), that the board feed doesn't usually have much more to it than vocals. So, I end up using a whole lot more of the room mics in the final mix with rock bands. It's usually more like 50/50 board feed vs room mics.

Here’s a bunch of videos I made of this performance-

One More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqnsXhkdQQk

Acura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGxcVsYx3b4

Officer Dillon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGxcVsYx3b4

Never Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61tWg0LnMVg

[audio] Xanopticon live in Graz, 28 October 2006

Xanopticon live in Uhrturm Kassematte, Elevate Festival, Graz, Austria, 28 October 2006.

'Give it up for Mr. XanoptiicoOOOON. XANOPTICOOOOOONN!!'
 
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Elevate Festival in Graz is one of the premiere music and social awareness festivals in all of Europe. 

Graz is a smallish town in the southeast of Austria, and Graz is generally known for two things- it's a college town, and that Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in a suburb of Graz. Now that Elevate Festival has been a yearly occurrence since the mid 2000s, Graz is now known for three things. Well, also that complete eyesore of an art gallery building, so four things.

Elevate is a week-long festival, with all sorts of political and social panel discussions, demonstrations of the latest high-tech innovations, and a bunch of music.

The four music stages of Elevate sit at the top of a mountain in the center of town. Outdoors, there's a main stage and a secondary stage, and two more stages sit inside the mountain. Seriously, they are caves, and the mainstage is gigantic with a massive sound system, and the second stage is where all the crazy music happens.

The first night in the small cave features experimental and avant-garde musics of all styles and instrumentations. The second night features hard, aggressive electronic music. Industrial / breakcore legend Eiterherd has been involved with the festival since the beginning, and has organized all the bands for this venue.

So if you find yourself in that part of the world in October, look it up. Because Graz is such a small town and Elevate is such a high profile event, finding a hotel room can be a challenge. But if you can work it out, you won't regret going.

https://elevate.at/en/

[audio] Author & Punisher live in Salt Lake City, 15 July 2019

Author & Punisher live at Metro Music Hall, Salt Lake City, 15 July 2019

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(0:00) Intro

(1:53) Pharmacide

(6:26) Nihil Strength

(11:05) Nazarene

(15:06) A Crude Sectioning

(20:32) Beastland

(26:45) Terrorbird

(32:18) Ode to Bedlam

Big news from Author & Punisher if you haven't heard.

He'll be opening for Tool on their upcoming US tour through January. Bunch of dates on the west coast and through the midsection and ending up in New Orleans. Catch him if you can, in the unlikely event that the show in your town didn't sell out in like one second and you actually have a chance to get tickets.

This recording is from six months prior to that tour, in Salt Lake City.

Video of the full set is here-

[audio] Dalglish live in Los Angeles, 15 February 2015

Dalglish live at Complex, Los Angeles, 15 February 2015.

Dalglish aka OST aka O.S.T. aka Original Sound Transmissions aka Rook Vallard aka Rook Valard aka Rook Vallade aka Chris Douglas. Mirrored here-

[audio] P·A·L live in Munich, 30 October 2009

P•A•L live at Feierwerk, Munich, 30 October 2009.


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[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] Noisex live in Los Angeles, 24 Sept 2010

Noisex live at Das Bunker, Los Angeles, 24 September 2010.

I think Raoul Noisex was having some problems with his low end synth in this performance. It seems to cut in and out at random spots in multiple songs. Still sounds pretty good.

And that's Das Bunker founder Franck H-Bomb at the end ranting and raving about something. Not quite sure what. I think he's just professing his love for Noisex. Loudly. Right on, Franck, we're all right there with you. We all love Noisex.

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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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