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May 01, 2005
Prefuse 73 live at Local 506
When I was joking about how Prefuse 73 and Battles were going to have to fit all of that gear into the back corners of 506 last night, I didn't even realize that Prefuse would be coming with the full rhythm section and the periodic double-drummer attack! Awesome. It's always a treat to hear a great drummer pound out hip-hop beats live. I forgot to ask who that gentleman was....so if anybody out there knows, please say his name.
Battles brought the heat as usual. On paper they originally seemed to be a bit of an odd choice to open for Prefuse 73, but after the night was all over it seemed to make a lot of sense. Battles' rhythmic noise-rock has a lot of really nice looped-out Steve Reich-y repetition in it, and Prefuse 73's instrumental machine-funk and deconstructed hip-hop aren't quite so abstract-sounding when anchored by the full force of live bass and drums. I'm a little surprised that Ty Braxton never joined Prefuse onstage for one of those Surrounded by Silence collabos, but maybe there just wasn't enough room up there...
Posted by Tim at May 1, 2005 03:49 PM