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Friday, September 25, 2009

Tonight / Decibel Decibel: Source of Intense Pleasure—and Much Angst

Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Tonight Decibel Fest presents two harrowing conflicts for your correspondent. Frank Bretschneider plays SAM at 9; Robert Hood is slated to devastate Neumos at 9:30. My two favorite artists of the fest, going almost big-brained head to big-brained head. Sigh. I will catch as much as Bretschneider’s sure to be mind-blowing A/V performance as I can and then break the speed limit up the hill to absorb as much of Hood’s radical minimal techno as is inhumanly possible. While embroiled in this drama, I will miss all of dubstep mavericks Boxcutter, N-Type, and Caspa's slots at Motor. (They're all young and will return to Seattle soon enough, I rationalize.) Quadruple sigh. Also, #firstworldproblems. Boo hoo.

The other painful clash occurs in afterhours. Dubstep innovator Pinch goes on at 3:15 am at Little Red Studio; experimental-techno hell-raiser Bruno Pronsato goes on at 3:30 am at Church of Bass. On top of that, local techno heroes Nerd Revolt (soon to be relocating to San Francisco) are slated to level Electric Tea Garden at Innerflight’s afterhours shindig. Wah!

Decibel torments us with these sorts of awesomeness gluts all four days/nights of the event. I guess it’s a good problem to have. But it makes me realize that science needs to step up its cloning game, stat.

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1) FUCK DUBSTEP.
2) Techno is still king.
3) See you at Neumos.
4) Then will see you at Church of Bass (I might be workin the door!).

Posted by NaFun

on September 25, 2009 at 10:52 AM

I will respectfully have to disagree with your first point. In reality, dubstep fucks you. And I for one will gladly sleep in the wet spot.

See you later.

Posted by Segal on September 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM

A few years in, and I'll still gladly say- Thank God for dubstep. The genre that is most rhythmically stimulating and open for variance in form and mood of the new bunch. Like poetry for your ass.

Posted by Cootz on September 25, 2009 at 1:43 PM

@Na Fun -you are an idiot. But thank you for avoiding the events that my friends and I plan on attending! Last thing we need is some ignoramus farting up the dance floor when a lineup of UK bass masters are in the house. Go f**k yourself with a glowstick.

Posted by redbelt on September 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM