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Date 13th May 2000
Venue The Planetarium, Jodrell Bank, England.
Line-Up Kubusschnitt; Airsculpture
Availability

This concert has been released in full on the Quark Soup 2CD.

The concert was also recorded from the audience using a binaural system. The results have been released by Neu Harmony as part of a 6CD official bootleg set. This also features the Jodrell 2000 concerts by Radio Massacre International, Under the Dome, Arcane, Paul Nagle and Kubusschnitt.

Comments

B&W view of the Jodrell radio telescopes In our previous visits to Jodrell Bank, while we were inspired by the planetarium environment, we had pretty much performed normal sets. This time we decided that we wanted to do something more ambient to play to the space.

We decided to split the set into two halves. The first would be ambient, with a light sequence somewhere round the middle. The second would be a sequencer-fest. We'd start that with Pete sequencing, and then cross fade it into one of Adrian's. This was something we'd not tried before, and it would involve a tempo change too, but we went for it anyway!

The Kubusschnitt guys played an excellent set, especially given that they had switched from a quartet to a trio at the last minute. After their powerful sequence driven set, the ambient start seemed like the right idea to give the audience a rest before blasting them with yet more sequences!

The first half of the set featured sparse random tone clusters, a delicate syncopated sequence, string ambience... The feel seemed just right for the laid-back Jodrell ambience. Having said that, after about half an hour a few of the serious sequence heads were getting restless and it was time to change.

The second half featured two massive sequences, segueing into each other. This is probably the heaviest sequencing we've done, and the most wig-out lead work too. A no-brainer for CD release, really.


Overall Probably our favourite to date, not least because it broke new ground

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