The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow Sunday June 17th 4 stars Simple Minds as proto techno pioneers? Probably not, but there’s more than a patina of future pomp stadiumistas early instrumental Theme for Great Cities in the opening few minutes of American electronicist and sometime half of the Skaters James Ferraro’s show. With Ferraro hunched over an old Korg synth, the martial rhythms that pulse his first of two extended pieces on this Braw/Cry Parrot/Shaddaz co-promoted show are a long way from the sublime jauntification of last year’s ‘Far Side Virtual’ album. This is a denser, harder sound, awash with glacial keyboard squiggles and Morriconeish chorales conjuring up a wave of analog nostalgia only for it to be pummelled into submission without mercy. Accompanied by The Bodyguard, who appears to be a dreadlocked technician enabling further sonic adventures, Ferraro goes quiet after thirty minutes, almost losing his audience to incessant chit-chat during the longeurs, before bouncing back with an abstract dub affair more akin to to his recent 'Inhale C-4 $$$$$' mixtape delivered in his Bebetune$ guise. The grandiose clatter it morphs into stretches every which way in a bouncing display of old school classicism. The List, June 2012 ends
DISC 1 1. THE STONE ROSES - Don’t Stop 2. SPACEMEN 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind (Demo) 3. THE MODERN ART - Mind Train 4. 14 ICED BEARS - Mother Sleep 5. RED CHAIR FADEAWAY - Myra 6. BIFF BANG POW! - Five Minutes In The Life Of Greenwood Goulding 7. THE STAIRS - I Remember A Day 8. THE PRISONERS - In From The Cold 9. THE TELESCOPES - Everso 10. THE SEERS - Psych Out 11. MAGIC MUSHROOM BAND - You Can Be My L-S-D 12. THE HONEY SMUGGLERS - Smokey Ice-Cream 13. THE MOONFLOWERS - We Dig Your Earth 14. THE SUGAR BATTLE - Colliding Minds 15. GOL GAPPAS - Albert Parker 16. PAUL ROLAND - In The Opium Den 17. THE THANES - Days Go Slowly By 18. THEE HYPNOTICS - Justice In Freedom (12" Version) ...
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