Sunday, November 14, 2004

I recovered from the devastating back-to-back cancellations of Black Dice and Fennesz and headed out to a little Morr Music showcase last night. The Go Find offered guitar pop with simple dance beats. They even busted out a couple of guitar solos, which instantly brought back flashbacks of Ratatat last month, albeit with the rawk histrionics turned way down. Their follow-up perfomance was considerably better, for indeed, Styrofoam and the Go Find (the touring versions anyhow) are exactly the same people. This time, the beats were glitched up, and the guitars smeared out into shoegaze paste. But Lali Puna managed to outdo them. Thanks in large part to a live drummer and bassist, theirs was a set of motorik funk, blasting out the sort of stomach-quaking grooves that Stereolab have largely forgotten how to do. In fact, the squalls of effects added on do recall the Lab/Mouse on Mars collab, except Lali Puna were more like Lab '94 + MoM '04, rather than the Lab/MoM '98.

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