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  1. SQUATCHING: Girl Talk

    May 24, 2012 by Dave

    DOWNLOAD: MP3 of “No Pause”

    To this day, GirlTalk remains one of the best shows that I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing.  I feel that it’s important to make a distinction between “seeing” or “going to” and “experiencing”.  He was playing a festival in San Diego on one of the back stages tucked away in a poorly lit alley at the same time as Modest Mouse.  This becomes important because that meant that there was an incredible filter going on in the audience.  Everyone that was watching Gregg Michael Gillis go nuts on his laptop wanted very much to be there.  The back alley was packed and the energy was palpable.  There wasn’t a single moment I wanted to raise my camera to take a photo because I was too busy dancing like a crazy person.  And beyond that, I have the deepest respect for anyone that can successfully mix 322 samples in a single album. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3296/2968758633_2ffac11f83_b.jpg (source material for “Feed the Animals”)

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  2. The Pacific Festival:OC Reviewed

    August 26, 2011 by Steph

    Written for TheAudioPerv.com
    Photos by Tamea Agle (photobytamea.com)
    More photos below.

    Upon arriving at the large canyon where Pacific Festival: OC was situated, my first thought was “where is everyone?” Even though the festival had already been going on for about an hour before my photographer Tamea and I got there, there was no line getting in and barely anyone wandering around the grounds. We staked out the place, crossing through the main stage area, through the array of still-close food trucks, to a giant dirt lot pulsing with electronic beats.

    AROD

    Gotta Dance Dirty’s AROD was positioned in a colorful Teepee-of-a-stage and grooving to white headphones behind a laptop and a turntable or two. Everything felt like the wrong setting. The crowd was sparse and the sun was bright overhead in what looked plainly like a desert, but the tunes were dark, hot, and wet. AROD is the girl at the club who is drunk and sweaty but too far gone to care. The samples were a whirlwind of textures, never leaning too house or aggressive–just a good time. Or rather, it would have been given the right place and crowd. He was just a victim of festival scheduling, but still made a good impression.

    Sneaking into the artist lounge to take a break from the sun and re-collect, we were happy to discover, THERE WAS HUMMUS. Once we had come up with a game plan, we set out for the Pacific stage where Superhumanoids was up next. (more…)

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