I've still got to get round to whittling my Japan pix and edit the rest of the audio recordings. I mostly blame coming back and then going straight to Bloc for a weekend of getting thoroughly trash-ed. There was some good music to be had at Bloc: I finally got round to seeing Tim Exile's new setup... I was in full geek-mode for his set as his technical merit was for superior than the latest style of tunes he's pushing. Beardyman's set was along similar lines to Exile's - lots of improvisation and looping spits into a mic, building layers and then dubbing and twisting it up. Both are technically wicked and put on a real show.
A lot of people had big expectations from Aphex Twin and Hecker but all we got was egos trooping the colour. Mr Twin not only insisted they setup 6 speaker stacks in the main arena, he then forbade the sound engineers from using the panning device used to control the 6 stacks until he had finished his set, two-thirds into the weekender event. Then the music - I gave it about 10 minutes of being in a part of the room which meant just getting bursts of glitchy repeats from the speakers nearest me whilst not being able to hear the rather duff electronica which made up the actual music. I felt like grabbing Selected Ambient Works II and giving it a quick listen to avoid completely writing the man off.
Thankfully there was one excellent bit of lineup programming - sticking the hard-as-nails Dylan and Robyn Chaos on as the last set of the weekend. Meant I got to have a good boogie before I stumbled off to bed.
