Saturday, May 31, 2008

Convextion live in Manchester

Oh yes. I think its important to convey my excitement here. It doesnt get much better than convextion. Its 1.30am and i was passing out due to certain indulgances (a massive beefburger since you ask) but this shit just woke me right up. So thanks to jeff for putting me onto it - good werk fella.

I wasnt sure if i wanted to put other peoples sets up here, but then a convextion set came out, so thats that really. I went to see him at fabric with the wifey the same weekend this manchester gig was recorded. He completely blew our faces off. Deep lush space bizness. And more electro than last time which pleased her.

This brings me to a general point. What the fuck happened to the big dj's? Isnt this what they used to sound like? Deep, underground, spacey, emotional, dancey etc? I remember when live acts were complete bollocks. There wasnt a single good one. Now there's no decent big dj's. Fuck 'em, its their own fault.

Maybe I just got older? But jesus, so did they, and what self-respecting 40-year old plays music like that?

Anyway, Convextion, please go out and buy some of his stuff. The guy is amazing and deserves to make enough money that he decides to sack off doing anything else with his time. The CD of his recent album is out in a few days. Go get it. I'd also recommend:

1. E.R.P. - Alsoran [Frantic Flowers] -buy-
2. E.R.P. - Event Related Potential [Down Low Music] -buy-
3. E.R.P. - Vox Automaton Frustrated Funk] -buy-

ERP is supposedly the electro alias, so maybe I prefer that stuff as well. Check it out, there's samples all over t'net. Buy the vinyl though. You can get them in nifty colours and they look ace.

Beware, highly addictive.

Thats all for today. Don't be expecting this kind of frenzied activity regularly, these kind of sets don't come along every week.

7 comments:

Jeff said...

Ginormous set is it not? I think he will be making it over Tokyo way sometime soon and I am well looking forward to it!

Nice work on the blog Mark!

Anonymous said...

Unbelievable set. Thanks for sharing.

Paradise Island Blog said...
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Paradise Island Blog said...

thanks Cul!

riftinsound said...

nice man, thanks for this

schuemp said...

thanks for sharing and good luck with your deep shit radio

Jeff said...

I think my favourite moment from both the Convextion radio set last year and this recent one has to be the track Premiata off the Convextion album on Downlow... there is a CD repress/release coming out on the 13th which I have on pre-order from the uber-excitable people at boomkat(essential!)

The thing that always grabs me about that track... the melody as such is very orchestral and immediately I thought it was something lifted off something like Sketches of Spain, but I've cycled through all my Miles Davis stuff and I can't place it...

Anyone else know what I'm talking about? Cheers,