Glitch presents Superpitcher (Kompakt, Germany) Date: Sat 3rd Sep, 2005Time: 10:00 pmVenue: Bohem, 467 - 477 Pitt St, SydneyCity: SydneyCost: TBA
http://www.glitch.net.au
I'll actually be in Sydney that weekend, ostensibly for the Birchville Cat Motel/Sandoz Lab Technicians etc. gig that's on the same night, just down the road. I imagine I'll be hovering between the two. Any Sydney people going?
Is there going to be a show in Melbourne?
― jon dale, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
are there any good superpitcher live sets floating around slsk & the like? haven't been listening to today too much - "lovefood" keeps sticking in my throat :(
(hmmn, if there's a melbourne show, maybe I could get some cheap trans-tasman tickets . . . oh, & birchville cat motel + sandoz lab technicians should play a show in AUCKLAND, geez)
― etc, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't come to Melbourne though - I get the impression that the "scene" for this stuff is bigger here, and Spitcher at Honkeytonks is just too good a fit, ya get me.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Django Chaz, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, Superpitcher Sydney is on a Saturday night.
Is Deep Chord still going? I remember hearing that was a good place to go to in Melbourne. Adelaide has *nothing* of this ilk, from what I can tell (Electric Circus maybe, at a push.) Though if there are any Adelaideans out there who wish to correct me...
― jon dale, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
----oh, & birchville cat motel + sandoz lab technicians should play a show in AUCKLAND, geez)
I disagree
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha ha Rhythm & Soul are evil: they put so much effort into servicing you and chatting you up that if you don't walk out with at least one record you feel immensely guilty (also a couple of the guys are quite cute which makes it worse).
Honkytonks is great yes, a weird intersection club actually insofar as on the one hand it's got the best music policy of any dance music club/bar I've been to in Melbourne, and on the other it still attracts more than its fair share of coked up young professionals and younger uni students or service indusry workers who want to be coked up young professionals. But then a lot of the time such people have decent taste in dance music... Anyway unlike many clubs afflicted with this, the combination of the music and the great layout and etc. makes it easy to ignore.
Some of the regular DJs at Honkytonks are part of Little Beasties who are a Music For Freaks act, and MFF is pretty indicative of the basic Honkytonks sound - disco/electro/microhouse with the emphasis on HOUSE. But the international acts they get playing there are more diverse, and basically all the big German artists and DJs play there - I missed the Mayer show cos I was on my way to Europe, but I've seen DJ T, Martini Bros, Captain Comatose, Hakan Lidbo etc. etc.
I think there are still Deep Chord and Liquid parties, which cater more for the post-prog crowd into deeper techier stuff (they're where you're most likely to hear e.g. Kompakt records in the DJ sets). And then there's a lot of interconnected parties playing more electro stuff - BPitchControl etc. Meccanoid's a big monthly one, and then there's another one at Revolver on Tuesdays and quite a few in North Melbourne it appears.
For the more crowd-pleasing electro-house sound Boogs is probably the most high-profile DJ in Melbourne - he plays a big night at the Lounge on.. Fridays I think? It's quite beery compared to the others which are all much more fashionista/trainspotter/freak-friendly, but it works really well - great to see drunken jocks sloshing their beer to Black Strobe etc.
I'm far from being an expert though as I don't go out nearly as much as I'd like to.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
ANY word at all about superpitcher in melbourne?
― jon dale, Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Django Chaz, Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Who's with me?
You're either with me or against me.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 21 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Monday, 22 August 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Michael I'll forgive you just this once.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Monday, 22 August 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Monday, 22 August 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 26 August 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, exactly. He answered half my questions with e.g. "I don't really think about it much. I try not think too much. Don't think too much!" The self-referencing doesn't really make up for the total lack of elucidation. Ah well, I always resent having to include the actual interview in my articles anyway so it'll probably just make it easier.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Monday, 5 September 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Monday, 5 September 2005 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
also: um, anyone want to throw out sad trainspottery what-he-played stuff out there? i've been k-piecemeal w/my microhouse &c listening lately & any chance to get myself up to date at the last minute'd be fabulous.
― etc, Monday, 5 September 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Monday, 5 September 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
I find it near impossible to remain energetic for sets that begin at 2am after working all week 8:30 - 6:30, so it meant that my enthusiasm was lower than it would otherwise have been - I ended up leaving at 3:30 rather than hang around depressed with my own inability to dance. It sounded good though!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jon dale, Monday, 5 September 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
More evidence: The local dance music boards were bursting with people saying "OMG Superpitcher!!" And when I was last in Mighty Music Machine they were playing Alcachofa and talking about those Villalobos pill overdose pics, then the guy behind the counter tried to upsell me the last Lawrence album, and then we started talking about Steve Barnes and My Best Friend.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Django Chaz, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I was in a record store the other day and one of the guys behind the counter was playing Alcachofa over the loudspeaker. He turned to the other guy working there and said, "Hey, this album is by the guy in those pictures." The other guy looked totally shocked, and I can't say I blame him!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.joy.gr/files/2005/7/29/146734/villalobos_des_monats.jpg
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:41 (eighteen years ago) link
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― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
This is how I choose to view him as:
http://www.discogs.com/release/6602
I'm pretty sure there is a better picture of that floating around ILM.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/aug4/bis080405part1.mp3
Does anyone know who that fourth track is by? it's amazing.
― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Does anyone know who that fourth track is by? I've been playing it on repeat and I need to know who it is!
― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link