Ha ha, this one is cool as well
(seriously, he makes it look so easy and fun)
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Got to have Author & Punisher in there:
And hereās a bit on how he does it allā¦ he builds his own oversized midi controllers out of metal to give the whole thing and even more industrial look:
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Saw this solo live (not in this exact same venue) more than 20 years ago. That was a special moment:
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Deantoni Parks. Iāve just recently discovered this and I find it mindblowing. Mindblowing in its simplicity and execution. Hypnotic, even.
(I know that the samples are triggered via a controller off a laptop, but it might as well be an Octatrack, and it is more than made up for by the fact that heās playing live drums at the same time. This performance is arguably more live than most modular videos out there.)
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I love this one, I love this one as well, dudeās unbelievable
btw I had the pleasure of seeing him live with TMV during the Noctourniquet tour, amazing drummer
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Saw Russell Haswell again at the weekend. He was playing at a Downwards records night in Birmingham just after most of the crowd figured out Surgeon wasnāt coming and fucked off. The few dozen people left in the room were a mix of people who were really into what he was doing and people who really werenāt and seemed quite upset that he kept playing over their surpringly loud but incredibly boring cokehead conversations.
Russell is a master at his craft and fucking hilarious too. Itās inspiring to see a noise artist still finding ways to piss people off in a world that would struggle to look up from their phones and care if you started sacrificing kids on stage.
The juxtaposition between the increasingly silly noises and Russell shouting all sorts of bollocks without a mic created a really interesting dynamic between him and the crowd that meant even the people that didnāt like what he was doing got involved to some extent. He also polished off most of a 12 pack of Heineken during his set, made them turn off pretty much all the lights (because they were putting him off/blinding him) meaning that people were helping him see his gear with their phone lights. It was absolute chaos, but completely orchestrated by Russell. Weird fucker even had his gear on the floor, but stood over it sort of half bending over half falling on it.
Also, quite impressively, he built his whole patch from scratch in about 5 minutes, and it didnāt look simple.
Manās a fucking genius and Iāve come home super inspired.
This isnāt a video of the gig I was at, but the performance and tracks are broadly similar.
Even my wife enjoyed it, but she said sheād have preferred to be laying down listening to it.
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spectacular.
The whole time Iām thinking āwhat if he loses that drum stick!? thereās no extra drum stick up thereā¦ā
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The first campout festival i ever went to: EVEN FURTHER in Wisconsin.
Daft Punk first north American appearance, blew my mind, that was nail in coffin, hooked on gear!
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What I myself donāt understand is how his right arm doesnāt cramp upā¦
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what a nice performance!
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