Shackleton [live] North America dates???

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Yeah, no San Frandisco either...

[fractal]

only a 13 hour drive up to the emerald, come get some!


this is going to be blatantly huge!

[cogi]

Playing LA too now! Saturday 6th

very excited, last time I saw shack I was bouncing around loony.

and sf for you other heads

[fractal]

one more month! rah!!!!

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HEADS UP SAN FRANCISCO!!!

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-03-03/musi ... and-eprom/

Club 6 this Sunday...

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I'm at the SF show right now with a bigass Red Stripe and a stupid grin. He hasn't even gone on yet, but the room's irie and the opener's nicin' it up well... And yeah, I'm a geek fanboy for posting on DSF when I could be dancing. Fuck this smartphone. I'll talk to y'all tomorrow when I'm hurting at work.

[fractal]

lol, that's too funny!


he ripped it in seattle, was dancing all night!

[samsupa]

LOL on posting from the show. SF was great. Fantastic turnout for a Sunday night and the music was unreal!!

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Interesting night. Being that I'm a married fogey poppa with a new baby, going out on "school nights" is almost unheard of these days and I hadn't been to Club 6 for probably 7 years or so (go ahead and tease the geez.) Had already been in party mode this weekend too since my cousin was in town, so it took an extra dash of determination just to get out the door for a show that didn't even start 'til 10:00 PM, knowing I was gonna pay for it today at work. Thankfully the work gods are going easy on me today.

Anyway, back to the show - didn't catch Kush Arora (although I saw him argue heatedly with an industry panelist at a music conference once, fwiw) but made it as Eprom was warming up. There were parts of his sound I liked but it seemed like reading the crowd and finding a balance of energy that suited everyone wasn't happening. Eskmo was alright too, a little more locked on to the vibe but ultimately lost my attention. There wasn't anything wrong with him, just wasn't speaking to me right then. The choice of openers was interesting considering how many glitchy/8-bit type sounds they were both dropping, very different from what Shackleton does.

Shackleton was distracted by the sound initially - any time you have D/A conversion straight through a mixing board it always seems to lose something in translation (reminds me of seeing Jamie Vex'd a year or so ago at Underground and he had the same problem.) I think the kids didn't "get him" as much either, which is fine. Thought I'd see more production trainspotters like me but only saw a couple. Thing is, he doesn't make songs that are the flavor du jour, so when the unknowing types were listening for the wobble and Transformer FX they were disappointed; however, his tunes also have more structure than a lot of the trendy stuff, albeit structure that's subtle, requires you to pay some attention, and plays out over the course of 8 or 9 minutes. By the end of the set he was dropping more of his vintage catalog and turned me into a goddamned Sufi standing in the middle of the dancefloor swaying gently with my eyes closed...

Evening highlights:

~ The anime playing on the projection TV - "Dead Leaves" - some of the craziest shit I've seen in a long time.

~ The two kinda strangely overdressed Asian girls (who were also kinda hot, admittedly) dancing sort of awkwardly and obviously trying to impress some dude they were with.

~ The smoking room inna back.


Shackleton at Club Six