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Emeritus
Reviews 127
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Last Active 12-02-16 10:29 pm
Joined 05-11-11
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| Stranger Vs. Simple Things
Simple Things is a one day festival in Bristol, which this year occupied Colston Hall (+ subrooms), abandoned prison cells, courtrooms and a fire station. It was pretty fucking awesome, but 13 hours of dancing does not healthy body make. | | 1 |  | Nicolas Jaar
Space is Only Noise
The headline act is the only one I missed out on - there were just too many people trying to get in and security started getting pretty antsy. Got shoved to the back of the queue so left for djrum - not all bad then. I hear Jaar was pretty on point. | | 2 |  | Modeselektor
Hello Mom!
Sadly Apparat wasn't able to make it so I couldn't get murky to Therapy, but it's hard to complain really. | | 3 |  | Pantha Du Prince
Black Noise
A change of tone from most of the night: not so much dancing as gawping on my end. | | 4 |  | These New Puritans
Field of Reeds
Expectedly brilliant, and made even better by the fact they stuck mostly to the new album, which is roughly 60 times better than the old one. | | 5 |  | Jon Hopkins
Immunity
Absolute show stealer. I never really got too into the new album but after the show my opinion has changed on him hugely. Really talented guy with a fantastic sense of build-up. | | 6 |  | u-ziq
Lunatic Harness
A surprise act, but I was really disappointed to see him stick too close to Chewed Corners, which just wasn't an appropriate album to play at around the time everyone's drugs started to kick in. Nice to see him, in any case, I just wish he wacked out the old crazy stuff. | | 7 |  | Dopplereffekt
Tetrahymena
Didn't see too much of them but had a great time. | | 8 | | The Field
Cupid's Head
Very appreciated in the wee hours of the morning. | | 9 |  | Darkstar (UK)
News From Nowhere
To be honest with you, I hardly remember a thing from their set apart from the strong notion that I really, really need to get hold of some of their releases. | | 10 |  | Letherette
Letherette
They played far too early in the day, but still impressed. These two released the most overlooked dance album of the year too, so check it out. | | 11 |  | Benjamin Damage
Heliosphere
His set was a lot better than the recent LP would have you guess. | | 12 |  | djrum
Mountains
Definitely up there with Jon Hopkins with a very unique, heavy set which he seemed incredibly comfortable with for a guy who's music tranquilises me. | | 13 |  | Ital
Hive Mind
Ital played two sets: the first not so good and the second a lot better. I've never been too much of a fan so it was nice to see him begin to win me over. | | 14 |  | iTAL tEK
Midnight Colour
Very heavy, very intense and very crowded despite the venue only being about half full. Everyone just seemed to cluster towards the music like moths to a satisfyingly bassy light. | | 15 |  | Vessels
Helioscope
Still killing it. | |
StrangerofSorts
10.14.13 | Overall, incredible night.
Two albums to point out:
Olan Mill - Hiraeth --- for scratching that Winged Victory for the Sullen itch
The Range - Nonfiction --- for the best electronic album of Q4 so far | Brostep
10.14.13 | hell yeah, wish they had these kind of festivals in the US closer than New York (which isn't as impressive as the one in North Carolina, which is a trek) | AliW1993
10.14.13 | This sounds great, glad to hear Jon Hopkins has snagged you. He's never played up here sadly. | EaglesBecomeVultures
10.14.13 | cool list man, sounds dope | scissorlocked
10.15.13 | 12, 3 and 2, and fuck, all of em! Seems someone had a good time | StrangerofSorts
10.15.13 | Yeah mate, had to take a day off everything the next day because my legs wouldn't actually do what I told them any more.
djrum even ventured into hop-hop for a bit - no one was expecting A Tribe Called Quest. | Eloriaz
10.15.13 | Wow, what a line up! Wish there were festivals like these in my area :O
I'm listening to #10 right now and I have to agree. Delicious grooves! | StrangerofSorts
10.15.13 | Mmm - so much good stuff has come out recently so it's hard to give all of them recognition.
Speaking of which, new Tycho single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJBDX3Z0BY | StrangerofSorts
10.15.13 | Also, new Fanfarlo is insane and there's a new Son Lux and SOHN album.
Good mfing week. | Typhoner
10.15.13 | now that looks like fine lineup | postrockpaperscissor
03.18.15 | Wow what a great lineup |
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