![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
PSA #1 -- ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fabulous_papaya reminded me of this: Simian Mobile Disco's contribution to SSBB's summer special. One of these days I'll post a SFW music video again.
PSA #2 -- I know some of you have Beatport accounts; if you log in and go to http://www.beatport.com/mutek you can download a free promo album of MUTEK weekend's Piknic Electronik artists. Better, it lists all the other Beatport promos in the sidebar, some of which are still free. XD (If you don't have a Beatport account, don't - it can only end in penury.)
So I, uh, got my photo taken with Michael Mayer. At the time I was like "I'm going to make my friends jealous :D" but now I'm retroactively embarrassed. XD; ( Cut for space. Contains not only an account of MUTEK but also the Beer Fest and a karaoke party. IT WAS A BUSY WEEKEND, WHAT CAN I SAY. )
...You know what, I'm going to post this and write the rest after. orz
[1] Wighnomy Kempt; not his real name. "Nice shots" in that they were taken with a superior camera - I'm lazy about posting MUTEK pics as there is a high-ish correlation between "techno nerd" and "person who documents his/her life in minute detail through online multimedia blogging", so all one has to do is search tags on Flickr for other people's handiwork. XD
[2] Where I take notes on hipster/raver fashion. XD Currently I'm groping at the edges of a master thesis re: acceptable t-shirt designs, f'rinstance one cannot wear a shirt proclaiming one's allegiance to the act whose show one is currently attending, therefore for simplicity's sake no one wears shirts for dance/electronica acts at all, however t-shirts for record labels and/or stores and/or other festivals are okay, as well as t-shirts of non-specific but attractive design involving headphones, cassette decks, etc. Also, since MUTEK is for minimal/experimental electronica, it is de bon ton to wear a shirt proclaiming one's allegiance to 80s metal, Led Zep, or Billy Joel.
[3] Metropolis was cracking down more than usual - signs posted everywhere, bag and pat-down searches with no exceptions - but once people were in it was the usual free-for-all. That and what are you going to do, throw out the DJ? orz There was a youngish security dude leaning against the stage dead centre and glaring disaffectedly at nothing in particular, which was intimidating until everyone eventually realized he couldn't be arsed to uhh actually do anything. He seemed pretty miserable actually, I talked to him for about 5sec and got the impression he really hated the music (i.e. probably had a pounding migraine all night). XD;; At the end of the night he was making out with a random girl though so I suppose it wasn't a dead loss for him.
[4] Wouldn't you be suspicious of anyone who had a bangs-over-one-eye haircut and "Glühen 4" as a DJ alias? I'm just sayin'.
[5] Not the same thing as "schaffel-step". (Another thing I do is make up names for dance moves: "microhouse hip thrust", "boxing mime", etc. "Pure" techno dances - as opposed to breakdancing or jacking - look like autistic stimming to me, which gives one something to ponder re: social context.)
fabulous_papaya reminded me of this: Simian Mobile Disco's contribution to SSBB's summer special. One of these days I'll post a SFW music video again.PSA #2 -- I know some of you have Beatport accounts; if you log in and go to http://www.beatport.com/mutek you can download a free promo album of MUTEK weekend's Piknic Electronik artists. Better, it lists all the other Beatport promos in the sidebar, some of which are still free. XD (If you don't have a Beatport account, don't - it can only end in penury.)
So I, uh, got my photo taken with Michael Mayer. At the time I was like "I'm going to make my friends jealous :D" but now I'm retroactively embarrassed. XD; ( Cut for space. Contains not only an account of MUTEK but also the Beer Fest and a karaoke party. IT WAS A BUSY WEEKEND, WHAT CAN I SAY. )
...You know what, I'm going to post this and write the rest after. orz
[1] Wighnomy Kempt; not his real name. "Nice shots" in that they were taken with a superior camera - I'm lazy about posting MUTEK pics as there is a high-ish correlation between "techno nerd" and "person who documents his/her life in minute detail through online multimedia blogging", so all one has to do is search tags on Flickr for other people's handiwork. XD
[2] Where I take notes on hipster/raver fashion. XD Currently I'm groping at the edges of a master thesis re: acceptable t-shirt designs, f'rinstance one cannot wear a shirt proclaiming one's allegiance to the act whose show one is currently attending, therefore for simplicity's sake no one wears shirts for dance/electronica acts at all, however t-shirts for record labels and/or stores and/or other festivals are okay, as well as t-shirts of non-specific but attractive design involving headphones, cassette decks, etc. Also, since MUTEK is for minimal/experimental electronica, it is de bon ton to wear a shirt proclaiming one's allegiance to 80s metal, Led Zep, or Billy Joel.
[3] Metropolis was cracking down more than usual - signs posted everywhere, bag and pat-down searches with no exceptions - but once people were in it was the usual free-for-all. That and what are you going to do, throw out the DJ? orz There was a youngish security dude leaning against the stage dead centre and glaring disaffectedly at nothing in particular, which was intimidating until everyone eventually realized he couldn't be arsed to uhh actually do anything. He seemed pretty miserable actually, I talked to him for about 5sec and got the impression he really hated the music (i.e. probably had a pounding migraine all night). XD;; At the end of the night he was making out with a random girl though so I suppose it wasn't a dead loss for him.
[4] Wouldn't you be suspicious of anyone who had a bangs-over-one-eye haircut and "Glühen 4" as a DJ alias? I'm just sayin'.
[5] Not the same thing as "schaffel-step". (Another thing I do is make up names for dance moves: "microhouse hip thrust", "boxing mime", etc. "Pure" techno dances - as opposed to breakdancing or jacking - look like autistic stimming to me, which gives one something to ponder re: social context.)
