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I'm listening to Solvent's disc "Apples and Synthesizers", having seen him play a live-pa at Lotus on Monday night... excellent stuff, fantastic live vocoder work. The name of the album reminds me of a story from the Costa Rica days...
A friend of ours was dating a Tica (Tico/Tica is what CR folks call themselves, kind of like Canadians and 'Canucks'), and was at her house for the first time, meeting the parents and having dinner with them. Something came up in conversation, a comparison of two dissimilar things which I no longer remember, and his opinion was asked; he replied
"Oh, es como... manzana y naranja..." ("Oh, that's like.. apples and oranges")
The family looked a little confused, but then agreed, smiled and moved on. It wasn't until later, when the younger sister asked what he'd meant, that he realized that instead of "naranja", he'd said "merengue", a
style of music and dance popular in South America. Still, the family had processed his message, decided that apples and dancing *are* pretty different things, and understood.
Heh. When I started typing that anecdote, I figured I could bring it 'round to being something deep and meaningful about the techno, but I think it's a little too out there. I'm not going to bother deleting it tho. :)
So the set in Calgary went terribly - three major technical problems; the mix sounded awful on the big system even after trying to tune the rig for a good hour (I *really* need to spend more time tweaking the new rig on a big system). The microphone failed utterly for both songs, and then at the end of the set, halfway through the "big ender" track, the power went out on stage. Just to add insult to injury, the laptop stayed completely stable and all the rest of the gear rebooted! People told me they liked the show, but it really wasn't the show I wanted to put on. I was very disappointed.
Since then I've played another show, booked by the Kcuf Uoy guys for a Lotus Long Weekend show. That went a lot better, a lot of the bigger kinks were hammered out of the rig - it still has a ways to go before I consider it "perfect", but I doubt it'll ever actually get there. :)
Now, I'm back in the studio - well, sort of, I've been going out to a lot of shows and stuff lately, checking out what everyone else is up to, shopping demo CDs and such around trying to drum up some gigs. Last year at this time I had *five* upcoming gigs; this year I have zero. :/
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