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What more can you ask for? A free event turned into success from the folks at Imputor? Records. Pictures from this event in San Diego can be found here.
While 300 (or so) people walked through The Casbah during this evening, most of them probably left with a good understanding of the current state of abstract electronic music. Stay tuned for more from the Imputor? V.so series of Live (& Free) events or check their website at www.imputor.com for all the latest information.
Below is a synopsis of what you may have missed if you didn’t trek over to the Casbah on February 8th, 2003.
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back by popular demand! the revival of the imputor? v.so series of events for 2003! last year we brought you acts like richard devine, phoenecia, otto von schirach, bogdan raczynski, cylob, dntel, kid-606, and many more. this year our manifesto remains the same: something a little different… creative, original, moving, real live performers busting out all OG shit on various computers, samplers, gameboys, PDAs, synths, MIDI controllers, and other toys and gadgets. no whack-ass fake hipster dj generic trance-house-hi_nrg bullshit. we’ve been on hiatus since the closing of the juke joint, but we’re coming hard in 2003 @ the wonderful casbah. this v.so is a special mexican-wrestling style event with our friends from the oakland-based n5md label.
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Proem is Richard Bailey, an Austin Texas native, who hit the ground running with his debut album Burn Plate No.1 (Hydrant Records). He followed up that album a year or so later with Negativ on Miami’s M3rck records and has landed for a spell with n5MD for his next
full-length Among Others on MiniDisc. Proem has also spread his wealth around by doing remixes for the likes of Machine Drum (M3rck), Codec (Component) , Gridlock (Hymen), and many others.
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Portland (aka Spencer Lytle) is obsessed with his computer and the sounds that it makes. He uses these sounds to write music that expresses his emotions in ways words never could. Love, sadness, anger and everything in between can be heard swimming through his songs meshed intricately with crackles, scrapes, clicks and washes.
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Where do we begin with qp? He’s all over the place: Listed as one of URB magazines “Next 100,” Split 7″ with Sindri+Otto von Schirach sold out in 2 days, commercial work for Nike, Nordstrom, Shift Japan, and Lotria Films, remix work for Mystic and FCS North, tours/shows with mu-Ziq, Luke Vibert (Wagon Christ), Scanner, DJ Spooky, Lesser, Nautilis, Jega, Marumari, Add N To X, Amon Tobin, Broadcast, Modest Mouse, and even Erykah Badu! And lest we forget his just-as-busy alter ego… wait, what’s his alter-ego? OH YEAH, it’s a secret.
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Jordan, as he is known to his friends and lovers, will be testing out some new material from his perpetually unifinished debut album It Takes A Nation Of Indie Rockers To Hold Me Back, out sometime this decade on imputor? records. A San Diego native, imputor? co-founder, disgruntled ex-indie rocker, and gratuate of UCSD with a degree in cognitive science, the snodgrass has been known to use his UCSD research findings in mind control experiments with his music, as witnessed on his recent remix work for San Diego bands Ilya, Via Satellite, and Tristeza, as well as a compilation appearance along side artists such as Electric Company, DJ Spooky, Leafcutter John, Joseph Nothing, Languis, OST, Dntel, + a ton more. He’s recently shared the stage with the likes of múm, Nautilis, Randomnumber, Dntel, Hrvatski, Greg Davis, Fax, Thingy, The Spacewurm, Languis, IQU, Ursula 1000, FCS North, The Album Leaf, + more.
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Gameboy conductor extrordinaire. Yeah, he makes music with Gameboys. I bet you didn’t know that was possible, eh? You know this dude is hardcore, because he’s also done work for Native Instruments, maker of such computer software as Reaktor, FM, Traktor, and others. Trash80 makes the tools that make the music you like. Beat that!
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