Pestdemon in deed nailed it pretty well.
I thought Amphetamine Logic could have been longer. Which is rare case, when many time "europeans" tend to do long sets. Maybe it was also because he played first, and I was hungry to hear, but all transitions came quick. All parts I could have listened easy 5 mins more.. perhaps 15min more to total length? It was good, though.
Assault Guard, I didn't see the lack of direction - since I expected none. Camo jacket, short cut hair, brutal mid-frequency noise blast. Worked for me!
Alleypisser was very good until very last minutes. Everybody I talked to, was thinking it was slightly too long. And not overall, but the last thing. I think the flow of set was good, until finally it just started grind the same sound over and over again with going nowhere. I think one of essential things in noise show is the compact ending. It is always better to short with total hard on, than wait the cock soften and soften and just not be sure if this is minor dribbles of piss or end climax. Good set with bad ending.
Tufthunter has its moments. First few minutes was almost like Monde Bruits "psychosomatic performance", but then drifted into aimless keyboard notes via distortion.
Fuzzards was very good. Simple, brutal wall of synths.
I guess LR supposedly suffered from bad sound, but I thought it was good. The thing, that vocals basically brutally over-rided the sound itself in some parts was just good spontaneous element what made these different from album versions. He actually does play real songs, so I liked that they did differ from recorded versions by filthier sound quality. I guess storming out of venue was just part of the very Prurient influenced performance style, hehe..
Jaakko Vanhala did great. I have seen him only play as Zoat Aon before. One can still hear little shadows of his past, yet transformation into high-energy harsh noise has been very good. In times when majority appears to trust brutal and kind of crude textures, it was brilliant to hear the good filter sweep "jap noise" influenced brutality. Material worked on many levels and especially the density of high frequency details was great. Not just fuzzy distortion on top, but endless amount of micro details of sound happening on top of everything.
Quote from: pestdemon on October 01, 2011, 06:48:48 PM
So now the question remains - who won, Freak Animal or Unrest?
Perhaps I merely compensated the loss with extensive trading!
Route back was c. 1000km drive. In heavy duty traffic of Stockholm I cursed I will never return to stockholm anymore, but after meeting Treriksröset and also finding mint copy of Atomage Rubberist #3 at HSon, I changed my mind.
