Another great night from the Adverse Camber crew, back at seOne for more Awesome Power. The parts of this night I was looking forward to the most were the live sets from Bogdan Raczynski and Noize Creator. Bogdan unfortunately seemed to be having technical problems and didn't look like a happy bunny. He played a great selection of stomping tunes, mostly stuff that's on Mega Dance Attack Party..., but unlike when I've seen him previously he couldn't mix it at all, there were huge long pauses between every track while he jabbed at his laptop in a very pissed off looking fashion. A shame, but it still kicked ass. Noize Creator on the other hand disappointed by playing a very different set to what I expected, none of his lovely noise scrapes, just an hour of pop mash ups. As Uberdog put it, it made him sound like the breakcore jive bunny.
These minor disappointments were made up for by other great sets. Bin_ray was excellent as usual, but the real surprise for me was $peedranch who I had no idea what to expect from in a solo performance. It was a great set of spazzy beats and harsh vocals, played in what seemed like more of a DJ set. No live vocals, and it included tracks that to my knowledge he didn’t even work on (e.g. Snares’ The Most Sadistic) along side things that did have his vocals recorded on (e.g. Unbornbaby). Scorn (ex-Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris) played an hypnotic dub dnb set, much slower than anything else played all night all nice stuff. Kutchi’s set seemed to take far too long to build after the hyper ending of Scheme Boy’s DJ set but was still very good.
Room 1 was a little gabbatastic for my liking, but I did enjoy what I did catch of Dolphin & Teknoist, and Ely Muff was quite interesting. Panacea seemed only to be there for comedy value.
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