Monday's show was excellent, if sparsely attended. Congrats to Jian Cui and Shanshui Records for putting on a great show, and here's hoping there will be many more after this.
Sulumi's music is like a sunshine overdose. Crystal clear game boy melodies high high high in the mix, with all the beats and rumbling noise just below the surface.
Dead J was all over the place stylistically, veering from downtempo to techno with deep deep basslines. Check out the August 4th show - it's a cd release for his new record.
Municiple - from the US; steady steady techno + twisted reggae vocals. Very, very nice.
iLoop was noisy as hell, and that boy can jump. Every one of you should go get his EP Don't Break My Core, part of the Shanshui.zip box.
HardOff - UK via Japan. The picture doesn't show it, but this guy dances more than any laptop musician I've ever seen. I know that's not saying much, but still. And getting an audience here out of their seat and dancing? That's hard work. The music? Absolutely fucking destroys. Somehow he seemed to squeeze every kind of music ever made into 10 seconds.
Double Fish - Awesome. A fine way to end out the electronic music. Now, I swear there was some video game music samples in there - Ninja Gaiden, maybe.
Godot, from Shanghai, were the last act. They play instrumental post-rock in the vein of Explosions in the Sky. Highly recommended, especially for all of you that live down there. They've got a new album out, but it's a shame they didn't have any on them at the time.
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