Has anyone seen Simian Mobil Disco live?
What on earth are they up to?
I saw them yesterday. They seemed to be miming on a packing case.
Anyone in the audience who was paying attention (alright, me and G) was completely baffled.
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Biginoil wrote: Has anyone seen Simian Mobil Disco live?
What on earth are they up to?
I saw them yesterday. They seemed to be miming on a packing case.
Anyone in the audience who was paying attention (alright, me and G) was completely baffled.
Miming? Dunno about that, they use a table full of instruments to introduce beats/samples/effects...
Haven't (yet) managed to catch their live performance, as their equipment was damaged in transit on the way to Primavera, so they ended up doing a DJ set (started at 3:30am on the last day, so didn't hang round for it).
They're releasing a Live album on 7th July - "Live In Japan", which has already been released in Japan (hence why I've already got it)! Sounds great...
Maybe that sounded a bit harsh on the pretending fucking cheating wankers.
We couldn't see what they were doing. They literally had two flight cases and what looked like the keyboard from a broken accordion.
My point is that it wasn't clear what they were doing - they could have been making an omelette for all we knew.
Biginoil wrote: Maybe that sounded a bit harsh on the pretending fucking cheating wankers.
We couldn't see what they were doing. They literally had two flight cases and what looked like the keyboard from a broken accordion.
My point is that it wasn't clear what they were doing - they could have been making an omelette for all we knew.
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I almost have seen them live. They should have been Underworld's support last year. But the show was cancelled. And when Underworld finally did the gig, some month later, they had another support.
We had this debate not that long ago and I'll say now what I said then...electronic music is for the clubs, not the live arena. SMD make some highly effective, if not very inspiring/exciting, electronica which works well in clubs.
Watching two wallys jump about a stage doing nothing more than fading in and fading out pre-sequenced tracks is dull as fuck and how it can pass as 'live' entertainment is a mystery to me.
I'm covinced it's an ego thing. They're frustrated indie kids who need the stage and the adulation. The original house pioneers made this music to rock the dancefloor, not so as they could eventually get to prance about on stage like rock stars.
Steve Hillage said the same thing in Guitar and Bass Magazine. He said that the difference between rock and electronic music is that people that make rock music are integral to the perfomance whereas electronic music is all about removing the personalities from the experience.
Turning up to watch a dj or electronic artist perform is a bit like dancing to architecture.
Wow - Steve Hillage and David Bowie misquoted in the same post. Do I win £40?
Oh, I dunno, the likes of Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, the Chemicals and Prodigy are all classic examples of electronica best viewed on big beefy sound systems to as-big-an-audience-as-possible.
They're all way too big for clubs.
But then, I guess they've got the visuals to back up their performances (and Prodigy and KW even chuck in the odd vocal).
How may geetar bands are really that interesting to watch?
New Order were always one of the better ones cos no one came close to playing bass like Hooky.
El Jarvo wrote: Oh, I dunno, the likes of Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, the Chemicals and Prodigy are all classic examples of electronica best viewed on big beefy sound systems to as-big-an-audience-as-possible.
They're all way too big for clubs.
When I said it was music for clubs I meant the music was made to be heard in clubs played by DJs not that they should be doing this same 'live' nonsense in a smaller venue. They just shouldn't be doing it at all!!!
Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Chemicals, Prodigy etc....Yes, of course, they all translate well to the live stage but this is 95% down to visuals. All of the above acts put a great effort into creating a "show" and consequently they work well in the live arena. SMD were nowt more than two computer nerds jumping about a stage like some upstart indie band. No effort to put on any kind of performance, no fancy lights and zero musicianship. So why bother? As I said....ego.
Of course you can turn electronica into a performance, but you need to do a bit more than bang on the side of a flight case with your back to the audience.
That Fat Boy Slim wants a fucking word with himself as well.
Biginoil wrote:
That Fat Boy Slim wants a fucking word with himself as well.
And Pete Tong. The whole re-birth of club culture in the late 80's was supposed to be a reaction against the 'cult' of the rock band. It was supposed to be about everyone in the room connecting with the music, not with the personalities who make the music.
Now what do we have?......25,000 people in a field standing watching a grey-haired bloke in his late 40's playing other people's records. With a fucking glow-stick in his mouth. 
How many 40 year old djs with glowsticks in their mouths does it take to change a lightbulb 
Many good points on this thread, particularly the ones that agree with me.
Well, I just tend to dance to it! Whatever they get up to on stage I wouldn't really be that interested in anyway! 
:p
Boatraceface wrote: Just put some berds onstage doing The Can Can or summat for visuals..Job's right!
That'll do! 
That's exactly what Gabrielle's Wish did when I saw them at Roadhouse.
You could see her busters
It's everyone's wish I should imagine,not just Gabby's.
Edit:Who the fuck are Simian mobile disco?What is their problem with having sexy bitches doing the Can Can?
Boatraceface wrote: It's everyone's wish I should imagine,not just Gabby's.
Edit:Who the fuck are Simian mobile disco?What is their problem with having sexy bitches doing the Can Can?
I think they should do - I'd definitely go and see them live then!
They are mixing the next Fabric Live cd
Simian Mobile Disco dig through their record collection for the latest mix in the FabricLive series due out in August.
James Ford and Jas Shaw broke off from indie band Simian to form Simian Mobile Disco back in 2005. “Jas and I had already started DJing while we were in the band," explains Ford. "We started out playing really eclectic sets, because it was more what we wanted to hear – we’d play stuff like Sun Ra, Raymond Scott, really all over the shop. But we really, really enjoyed it, and that was the main thing. Then when the band split up, we sort of carried on DJing."
The pair's new collaboration also continued in the studio leading to catchy acid thumper 'Hustler' (2006), last year's full lengther Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release as well as a new live show. As DJs, Bugged Out! even invited them to do a mix for their rated Suck My Deck series.
Despite associations with some of indie-electro's biggest names (Justice famously remixed Simian's 'We are your Friends' while Ford produced the Klaxons album) on FabricLive41 SMD leave behind their nu-rave mates, and instead mine ambient, nu-disco, electrohouse, techno and even minimal territory.
“With a lot of mix CDs, you do them and you know it’s just going to go out and do its thing, but we always think a Fabric mix is something that sticks around a lot longer. We weren’t aiming to make it the most current mix of tunes; of course there will be a few new things but a lot of it is us digging back into our record collections, just the stuff that people may have forgotten about, or that went overlooked, ” says the pair of the selection.
FabricLive41 includes classics such as Plastikman's 'Spastik' and Green Velvet's 'Flash' alongside nu-disco darlings Hercules & Love Affair and Discodeine as well as new kids Popof and Deadmau5. Aforementioned experimental composer Raymond Scott even gets a look in.
Tracklist
01 Tomita - The Firebird – Infernal Dance Of King Kastechi [Clean Version] – SonyBMG 02 Sisters Of Transistors – The Don – This Is Music 03 Simian Mobile Disco – Simple - Wichita 04 Hercules And Love Affair – Blind [Serge Santiago Version] – EMI 05 Smith N Hack – Space Warrior – Errorsmith and Soundhack 06 Discodeine – Joystick – Dirty 07 Shit Robot – Chasm – DFA 08 Perc & Fractal – Up Tool – Kompakt 09 Metro Area – Miura – Environ 10 Worthy – Crack EI – Leftroom 11 Moon Dog – Suite Equestria – Roof 12 Fine Cut Bodies – Huncut Hacuka – Chi Recordings 13 Bentobox vs Chordian – Aemono - Imprimé 14 Jelo & DeadMau5 – The Reward Is Cheese – Rising Trax 15 Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation [Simon Baker Remix] – Wichita 16 Popof – The Chomper [LSD Version]– Turbo Recordings 17 Raymond Scott – Cindy Electronium – Basta 18 Paul Woolford Presents Bobby Peru – Erotic Discourse – 2020 Vision 19 Moebius Plank Neumeier – Pitch Control – Sky Records 20 Plastikman – Spastik – Mute 21 Green Velvet – Flash – Relief Records 22 The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights [Album Version] – SonyBMG
'FabricLive41'arrives in the US on September 16, 2008 and everywhere else on August 4, 2008>
Midnight Blue wrote: They are mixing the next Fabric Live cd
Ah good stuff, good to see the Sisters Of Transistors getting their first airing...
