Aphex Twin - New album

[Jan]

I was a little disappointed by his set. Just a few Aphex tracks (Fenix Funk 5, Mookid, some older stuff), but mostly generic gabber/hardcore... Didn't like the visuals either, some fooling around with the AFX logo and a 3D image of his face. And the scat videos were awful... I'm not easily disturbed or anything like that, but I fail to see the artistic value in just wanting to shock people.
Best set of the evening was Squarepusher. He played a good mix of new and old tunes; sadly it ended after just an hour. There is an awesome bootleg of a recent concert floating around and it's pretty similar to his set at STRP.
Close second was Venetian Snares, who played a better gabber/breakcore set than AFX. Of course there were tracks from is recent album Filth, but I also noticed Gentleman and Sajtban from Detrimentalist, Mouth from printf (I had hoped for this), something from Making Orange Things and The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, Hajnal and Második galamb from Rossz, Szycag from Meathole (yes!!!), and Pink + Green.
Vibert gets the third place, his first set was okay (mostly some downtempo stuff, also a few tracks under his Vibert alias). For his second set he played some brilliant drum and bass. I think it was mostly his own stuff, but I didn't know any track names. No Plug tracks. Hopefully he'll release another dnb album in the future.
The AFX set really was the weakest of those I saw.

Originally Posted by King of Snake

batshit insane loud&distorted

I noticed that most people weren't wearing ear plugs. In the past I've suffered from acute hearing loss (unrelated to music listening, almost back to normal now) and tinnitus for life is not something you want to have as a concert souvenir. There are musician ear plugs (for example the Etymotic ER-20), and they are pretty good.