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as far as I know, not in attendance!

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've got my tix for Sunday - anyone else gonna be there...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I should be, I believe milton as well

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be there Saturday and Sunday. Although, maybe ... just maybe ... only Sunday. The Stockhausen piece seems like it will be the one to catch.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

the friday night show with a surround rework of James Tenney & the 3 Ligeti electronic pieces should be good too -- actually all the local names on the bill that I've heard do great work

Alvin Curran is playing tomorrow at Recombinant, might be ok, I'm going.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

well I am really lookin forward to this personally, having just heard Hymnen for the first time a few weeks ago. I'll be the guy with the "Mars or Bust" button (I have no idea what any of you look like, altho I hear Dominique is hotttt)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

any and all of the nude hip hop photos are exactly what i look like. oh wait, wait ... i mean that they're not. i forgot.

well, i'd certainly like to meet any and all of you ILMers headed to the event. how shall we do this?

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

everyone start chanting "I - L - M - I - L - M" during the stockhausen piece. then we'll slowly gravitate towards one another until we form a tribal-like circle in the middle of the auditorium. cool?

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

4'33"

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm meeting up with a few other folks prior to the show so not sure what my deal will be... Shasta you goin?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i can't make it. i'm hosting a dinner party. i will be thinking of you guys though, hymen is one of my faves (if you catch my drift).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

perv

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

big crowd last night - did anyone else notice any distortion at certain points...? I heard some pops that definitely sounded like digital artifacting...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

on the high end, definitely -- was actually sitting right next to mixing board near Matt and Cliff, and especially in second half, saw a lot of crazy sounds that were direct results of crazy movement on the mixer. still loved it tho. actually, I totally forgot ILM people were going to be there -- would love to have met up!

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I would have too but we got there a little late and then my will call tickets weren't there and I was surprised by how many people were there etc. In general I enjoyed it, although the piece is totally harsh at certain points and probably longer than I would have liked. Also coulda done without those pussies leaving in the middle of the first section!

My favorite parts were the "red" vocal recitation in the first section, and then those endless rolling ring-modulated waves going back and forth in the second one. We were right next to the far-left speaker in the back though, and definitely caught some way-too-loud frequencies at certain points.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't loud enough for me -- a lot of those distorted rips are actually on the tape, and Matt was augmenting them at the mixer. the little dropouts & spittles in the chords at the beginning of the second hour were definitely ADAT glitches though (Matt made a joke about the 'state of the art' DA88 tape deck they had to rent in order to play the ancient tapes sent from Stockhausen Verlag)

hearing the piece in surround was like hearing it for the first time, I was fully gone from the very first filter sweep

SF Sound = city treasure, can hardly wait until their new season begins in March

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

totally otm -- every sf sound show I've seen has been great

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

last night was a William Wegman film show in Berkeley, but what's the haps tonight? tomorrow there is some Kitsune artist (Nightmoves) over at the Rickshaw, saturday there is Matthew Dear and the Kontrol party.

what's the haps tonight?!

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

byznich, milton, Sue C @ Helmock Tavern for one

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh so did you move here after all?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

First Thursdays downtown (not music related)

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

me? yes, I'm in oakland

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

"First Thursdays downtown (not music related)"

eh? what's goin on downtown today?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

dunno really. going to a friend's opening near the Academy so figured i'd stop into 49 geary. haven't been in a bit.

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

daz i kue (bugz in the attic) at levende lounge, if you're into that sort of thing...

― mikebee (heywood), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

cameron spinning @ fujiya & miyagi

umm... yes plz

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

i need to get tickets to that show pronto.

― tk (tk), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

is f&m at the mint lounge or at the karaoke bar mint?

― mikebee (heywood), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's at the actual SF Mint:
http://www.jm.com/roofing_systems/images/99-01-22_1.jpg

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's what used to be BOCA near 5th and Mission.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

San Franciscans. Come out tonight if you're looking for a good bar with good drinks, and perhaps some disco. Shameless self promotion, I know. Either way, it will be a good time. Chill, but definitely fun. Also, Friday is Lindstrom & Carl Craig, as you know. Quickly followed by a ton of other great shows, and some more in the near future that I can talk about as soon as they're confirmed. Let's just say there's nothing at any festival worth going to this year that won't be coming to Mezzanine. I love my job!
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― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

mint lounge is BOCA? which is a spot that shut down primarily because of the constant noise complaints from the tenants upstairs? this will end well...

― mikebee (heywood), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

BOCA has no residents upstairs. it's an office building.

what's going on in SF, people?

― Cameron Octigan, Monday, 26 February 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure the noise complaints were a major cause of the problems there -- as i heard regular stories from its owners, Will & Monica of Blasthaus.

what's going on in SF is the same thing that's been going on since 1997/8 - NIMBY-ism, gentrification, suburban people moving into an urban environment and then fighting super hard to turn that urban environment into the suburbs...

but honestly, if you went to the Gun Club last night, it would have seemed like 1993 all over again!

― BATTAGS, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

gun club was easily the funnest nights i've had out in the city in a LONG time.

― jaxon, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! We're playing Bottom of the Hill tonight.

http://www.societyofrockets.org/2-27-bttm-hill.jpg

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

So, the upcoming Kontrol party looks good, eh?

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

the Gun Club thing was fun, eh? the last few times i've been to their parties it's been a very marginal turnout and just more depressing than fun, so i didn't go. also, i was up until 8 am with some friends the night before, so ... i was still in recovery.

i think i'm getting old. going out with my friends is more fun than seeing ANY specific artist. i mean, even when i'm at a show that i thought i'd be interested in, i just get bored. i don't know.

― Cameron Octigan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

wait till you get my age, sonny.

i really wasn't expecting much. last time i saw sweeny and twitch at gun club, i wasn't really feeling it. way too techy. the first dj or two were playing techier stuff again (which got me kinda scared), but the 3rd guy came on (think he played at double dutch one night) switched things up to a really nice disco set and i was totally stoked.

this thing really was a rave. pretty funny. you had to call the day of to find out where it was. it was in an abandoned office building (next door to hemlock), had projectors on the walls and went till 6. luckily they kept serving drinks all night. super hipstery. the first time i've danced in years.

― jaxon, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

that's not an abandoned office building -- that's Moulton Street Studios. those doors around the main room led to a few very tricked out studios!

― BATTAGS, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

shakey - i wish i'd checked this earlier and come along to see you. ended up at the trannyshack. bye bye san francisco.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

let me chime in on gun club... i'm from san diego and actually flew up just for the evening just to see tim and twitch. might sound a bit crazy, but i'd always wanted to experience an optimo night, and a ticket to SFO is way cheaper than an international flight to glasgow, so i was actually saving money! (and the ticket was dirt cheap)

can't add much more to what's already been said. it was completely worth it, i had such a fantastic time. EVERYBODY was getting into it and it was nuts.

twitch is down here tonite in sd, but the bar he'll be at is quite small (and quite legal, no 6am shenanigans like at gun). tim was here last week and he set it off so I'm sure twitch will be great, but it certainly won't be like sf. very very glad i made it.

― bobdazzla, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Stirry why u brake heart!! I didn't even know you were in town : ( We could've done some Hawkwind covers for you.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

bob I'm going to the SD show tonite too. can't wait!

― sous les paves, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

a month or so ago, someone asked when the Michael Mayer/Gui Boratto show will be.

it's just near the end of May. still a ways off, but it's happening. Kontrol DJs and Dirtybird dudes are also performing.

― Cameron Octigan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

this is at mezzanine?

― BATTAGS, Thursday, 1 March 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

yup

― Cameron Octigan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

autolux, mañana.

― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who works downtown, or comes home through that way ... stop by!

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/jcoctigan/solidgold1.jpg

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also ... at Mezzanine.

03/16 The Presets, Crystal Castles
03/17 Audion, Boys Noize, Para One, and Freeform Five
04/27 Soulwax, Fox n' Wolf
05/31 Michael Mayer, Gui Boratto

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

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Btw is that your blog? I'm afraid I may have made some less than courteous comments there in the past; if it's yours you have my humblest apologies.

― viborg, Sunday, 4 September 2011 22:25 (fourteen years ago)

no, that's not my blog--my blog is here: http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com

heading out to see optimo in a few! will report back!

― geeta, Monday, 5 September 2011 00:50 (fourteen years ago)

How was it?

I like that article about Conrad Schnitzler you wrote. Honestly I'd never heard of him before but fascinating that he seemed to influence so many other artists, including Thomas Fehlmann among others. I couldn't figure out a way to comment on the blog in a way that allowed me to use a recognizable name, but I was just going to say it was an interesting article, so no biggie.

― viborg, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)

thanks, glad you liked it!

The Optimo gig in NYC was tough. They had played in SF the night before--a four-hour set, they told me--and they'd only slept for an hour. Then they flew cross-country to NYC, and ended up spending the entire day in transit because their flight from SF was delayed. They flew into Newark, apparently, landed at about 2 AM, cabbed it up to the venue in Brooklyn at top speed and made it there a bit before 3 AM. Back on the decks, right after a six hour flight and no sleep! The venue (Littlefield) closed at 4 AM. The NYC gig was good, even against the odds, but I wish I'd been at the SF gig.

― geeta, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:01 (fourteen years ago)

one of the many great moments in their set was when they suddenly dropped in this old northern soul tune

and wow, what a tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS-ZOTVYu6U

― geeta, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:09 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah, and seeing all the horse meat disco guys up front lose their heads to 'menergy'

that was a moment, right there

― geeta, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

The SF gig was indeed spectacular, but I have a feeling they play a lot more often in NYC. Apparently this was their first time playing together in SF. I wish they would have played a little more of the classic 90's house that the SF crowd seems to love. Overall just a really nice night though.

― viborg, Friday, 9 September 2011 13:56 (fourteen years ago)

now thats a tune.

― mark e, Friday, 9 September 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

Looks like fun. Been meaning to check out this venue. How is the sound system ?

DJ Harvey (Locussolus / Sarcastic Disco)

Eug (Face / Public Release)

Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better)
Odd Job
Workshop

Face and Public Works Present: DJ Harvey & Mike Simonetti

-DJ Harvey (Locussolus / Sarcastic Disco)

-Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better)

-Eug (Face / Public Release)

21+

$10 presale and $10 from 9:30-10:30 (click attending on facebook for this discount), then $15 after.

$3 coronas and $3 Face slammers from 9:30-10:30.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=265958563446604

― oscar, Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

Erase Errata is playing there tomorrow night; T.I.T.S. record release show!

― sarahel, Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:57 (fourteen years ago)

fuuuuck i wish i could go to harvey

― lukas, Thursday, 17 November 2011 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

Kimo's is rumored to be closing.

I saw the first bay area appearances of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Andrew WK, Lightning Bolt (the Power of Salad & Milkshakes footage shows me standing on a table here)... lots of good memories.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:39 (fourteen years ago)

what I heard is that it's being sold, and the new owners don't plan to have live shows anymore.

― sarahel, Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:40 (fourteen years ago)

how was harvey ? could not make it :( i have a strange masochist tendency in hearing the details about an awesome set i should have checked out.

― oscar, Saturday, 19 November 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

good weekend: Ewan Pearson on Friday, Alvin Lucier on Saturday

not sure if I can make the first one, definitely going to the second.

― lukas, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/events/flyer/2012/5/us-0525-370475-front.jpg

― Dominique, Sunday, 20 May 2012 01:25 (fourteen years ago)

sick flyer

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 20 May 2012 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

wow, how has it been five months since that event.

hey bay area, my friends and I are doing a new wave/synth oddity/techno Halloween party at a nice art space in Berkeley. all local DJs, a few rooms, most likely a non-Burner crowd. cheap tix. come one, come all.

http://www.facebook.com/events/1115379675268447/

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― Dare, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

four months, five months, math sux

― Dare, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:51 (thirteen years ago)

haha i just got a facebook ad for this show!

― sarahell, Saturday, 6 October 2012 18:02 (thirteen years ago)

I'm moving from Dublin to Berkeley so I'm gonna start paying attention to this thread.

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Saturday, 6 October 2012 18:17 (thirteen years ago)

eight years pass...

A friend of mine has started up a very informative substack showcasing San Francisco/Bay Area musicians and artists, record labels and events/releases. Lots of focus on new/underground up and coming artists but also looking back to some legends of old too. Not limited by genre or scene, though some of the early posts focus on a few labels and genres, everything is on the table if it's worth sharing. Latest post covers Oakland's Lower Grand Radio, Xyla, Lunchbox, and Santana among others.

Linky: https://whitecrate.substack.com/

― octobeard, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:01 (five years ago)

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