Sunday, May 15, 2005

Prefuse 73


Prefuse Drummer
Originally uploaded by Nicolemc99.
Prefuse 73 put on a great show Friday night at the Bottle. Scott Herren brought along a live drummer and bassist and a couple of DJs for the entirely instrumental, very danceable set. Hardly anything was played off of the new Surrounded by Silence, which was surprising considering both Beans and Tyondai Braxton of Battles guested on the album and could have come on stage for some collaboration. Other than that, I didn't mind that they skipped on the vocal tracks, because without the real vocalists/rappers there, it would have been pointless. And I like One Word Extinguisher more than Surrounded by Silence. Battles played some very, very mathy rock, which was interesting until it seemed like they were just showing off their time signature changing abilities (because that's all math-rock is, right?) Beans opened up, squeezed into a tiny corner of the stage, where he rapped to a CD and danced like a crazy man to his own rapping in his awesome sweatshirt.

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