woensdag 14 oktober 2009

Fuck Buttons

Yesterday evening, before I went to the cinema to see Berlin Calling, I went to a concert in Kreuzberg Festsaal. As I wanted some inspiration for the evening, I checked last.fm and the most popular event was the concert of Fuck Buttons and HTRK, and the tag cloud of the former is like "noise, experimental, drone, electronic, post-rock". Can't possibly go wrong there :-)
Decided to check it out, and after arriving at about 9 pm and paying 13 euro (2.5 for a beer), the foreprogram started - which was HTRK. Cool group as well, consisting of two asian dudes and a cool deeply-cleavaged (although very un-smiling) chick. Most of the songs sounded pretty alike, but I liked it.
Then came Fuck Buttons, which was a mix of hard beats, distorted guitar, noise, low-fi voice effects (fisher-price radio!) and live percussion, all looped and mixed up on the fly. Very cool. Pop-drone?

The place itself was a regular small concert hall (200-300 people) but with an excellent sound system.
Kreuzberg is a strange place, the area around Kottbusser Tor U-bhf seemed to be filled with drunks, homeless people, crazies and young people.

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