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May was a packed event, lots to pack in and a wide variety of things.

But only after first making some notes......




Les Dins

Hitting the floor running. Or dancing was Les Dins. Many moons ago the brains behind _minimalVector made quite popular house records. Now plundering the stores near his hideaway in Picardy for Nino Nardini records he's gone back to his roots. Sort of.

Then Chris Cook of Same Actor and Hot Roddy fame (link to wrong cd) linked up with Chris Parfitt of 21 Grams and Noteherder & McCloud for a semi improvised microtonal piece featuring Soprano Saxophone and processed Sitar. Video below, no decent pictures I'm afraid. But heres some audio.


Jammed in at the last minute we had a special appearance from nwodtleM, Canada's king of the cassette cutup. This time cutting up video footage to make music. A technique he obscurely calls "Jawa". It works as funny video montage, and bizarrely, sounds just like nwodtleM.




Capping the evening off we had a return of the excellent Meat Dream from Eastbourne. A male/female DiY noise-art guitar and drums duo with electronics and processing. Not at all like the white stripes.
Not at all.



Les Dins



Chris Cook and Chris Parfitt Live



Meat Dream may 2008 #1



Meat Dream may 2008 #2

stay out of the woods

Due to a catastrophic system failure at 10pm the previous night (oh the joys of 'just doing that final tweaking to the set') Rekalix had to withdraw at the last minute, which is a shame as we were really looking forward to his set.



So minimal impact stepped in with a refined minimalist minimal impact set. Not as expansive as the uberdrone of legend, it was an exploration into the detail of what makes him tick. Illuminating.
minimal_impact.mp3




We're very pleased to have hosted Misha Begley's first live show. A tour de force of Vocoder, distortion, strange loops and abrasive noises crowned with a creepy version of one of my favourite songs (its from "the wicker man", the scariest film ever).
misha_begley-willows_song.mp3



And bringing things to a chaotic and imaginative close was a collaboration between Eastbournes finest and a another group making their debut we had Deepkiss720 featuring Meat Dream. Beyond description as anything that involves Deepkiss720 seems to be it featured home made suits and masks; an electronic mug tree, unplugged leads and all manner of butchered devices.
deepkiss_720_feat_meat dream-35to40mins.mp3



There is some video, too at the myspace page




Visuals by _minimal vector.