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Review + Photos | Flying Lotus @ Roseland Theater (PDX)
Published May 28, 2013
By
Staff Writer
Photo by Colin McLaughlin [I] admit it. Even after many years of music writing, I still have no sense of whether or not an album, or single, or artist’s commercial products are good or bad. Take producer/artist Flying Lotus. Those fish-slap beats, clunky bits of proto-industrial noise, and psych-jazz electronic intrusions…surely those are too much for the general populace? Right? Yet, there Until The Quiet Comes is, squeezing into the top 50 of the Billboard charts; there he is collaborating with Thom Yorke and Hodgy Beats, and there he was on Friday night packing Portland’s Roseland Theater with able bodies thrilled to…
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Published October 19, 2012
By
Chris Barth
[V]isceral and brutal in the most cathartic way possible, Death Grips abused the stage at Le Poisson Rouge at NPR’s CMJ showcase on Wednesday night. Drummer Zach Hill beat his set to bloody bits without a shred of remorse, anchoring an otherwise wheeling and cacophonic set of material from the group’s two full-length 2012 releases. His gunshot beats mixed with a swirl of pre-recorded ether, creating a cyclone of noise in the red-washed room. The Tasmanian Devil turning in the middle of the cyclone, MC Ride, was the center of attention. Shirtless and drenched in sweat, he racing around the…
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