show reviews

I've played a lot of shows recently, and I thought I'd review the few of them.

6/20/08 - Audiobuddha CD release party at El Rey Theatre

Despite being lightly attended, this was a fun show. I opened the night playing with Ken Cornell and Clint as my backup guys, and dropped a new song, tenatively called "Wake up call" - another anti-political piece. The crowd was responsive and I did sell a few CDs. DJ Flobug dropped a lovely set of breaks/electro as always, and proved that he is one of the best DJs in this state, and one of the best that I know of in general.

Audiobuddha finished up the night with their unique trance/world music mashup, showcasing sounds from their new CD. Quite a good set, very chilled out at times and energetic at others. I got a few pics:



You can see them all at my flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/botkiller

I will be reviewing Audiobuddha's CD soon.
6/27/08 - Warehouse 21 Grand Opening

I arrived a few minutes late to set up, thanks to NM being the land of orange barrels. The place was packed with All-agers and numerous old Santa Fe heads. The new building is AMAZING, it's huge, has great parking, and one of the best lighting systems I've seen in any place that isn't, or even is, a huge club. When the Reds drop on you, they're FUCKING RED. I love it. The stage is huge. The sound system is coming together nicely. I played this set by myself, but kids seemed to be into it. It was short but sweet, and I broke out "the cool sunglasses", which you'll see soon.

and then, I went back to Albuquerque, to play ANOTHER SHOW.

6/27/08 - The Stove, with Nanocrack, Blood for Soil, Diverje and Vertigo Venus

In keeping with working to be the hardest working man in electro, I got to the Stove after playing my Santa Fe set at about 10pm with all my drum gear in tow. I missed Nanocrack's set and came in in the middle of Blood for Soil's, but liked what i heard. Very old school industrial like.

I set up the kit, and somehow we all fit onto the Stove's small stage. The PA handled us nicely, and low and behold, when we dropped "Enough to destroy", the place went off like a fucking fuse, with heads jumping all over the place and lights going off, and lots of dancing. A nice surprise.

Vertigo Venus closed the night, again to much acclaim, we had to rip through our set, but did quite a nice one with a lot of energy.

This was probaby one of my favorite shows in awhile, it's always nice to see how the crowd at The Stove reacts.

More shows coming up, as always, and I'll work to review them as I go along.