Nik Gomez.com » Search Results » aphex+twin http://nikgomez.com hello all, this site has been run, edited, published, designed, maintained by myself since March 26th, 2007, but I've been doing web design circa 2000. I am a junior at USC majoring in computer science business administration. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:50:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Live Music List http://nikgomez.com/live-music-list/ http://nikgomez.com/live-music-list/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:34:51 +0000 Nik Gomez http://nikgomez.com/?page_id=1986 Bands that I have seen live (if it’s bold, it was amazing):
  • !!!
  • 2 many djs
  • Abe Vigoda 2x
  • Aceyalone
  • The All American Rejects
  • Against Me!
  • Amanda Blank
  • Animal Collective x2
  • Anti-Flag
  • Antony & the Johnsons x2
  • Aphex Twin
  • The Aquabats
  • Arcade Fire x3
  • Arctic Monkeys x2
  • Atlas Sound
  • A-Trak
  • Atreyu
  • Avenged Sevenfold x2
  • Avi Buffalo
  • Baroness
  • Basement Jaxx
  • Battles
  • Beach House x2
  • Big Boi
  • Bjork
  • Black Dice
  • Bouncing Souls
  • Boys Noize x3
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Buraka Som Sistema
  • Busdriver
  • Busta Rhymes
  • Busy P
  • Chairlift
  • The Chemical Brothers
  • Chromeo x2
  • Clutch
  • Coheed and Cambria x2
  • Cold War Kids
  • Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  • The Cool Kids
  • Crowded House
  • Crystal Castles x3
  • CSS
  • Cults
  • The Cure
  • Cut Copy
  • Daedelus x2
  • Daft Punk
  • Dam Funk
  • Dan Deacon x2
  • David Scott Stone
  • De La Soul
  • The Dead Weather
  • Deadmau5
  • Death From Above 1979 x2
  • Deerhunter x2
  • Del Tha Funky Homosapien
  • Delorean
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan
  • Diplo x2
  • Disaster
  • DJ AM
  • DJ Lance Rock
  • Down To Funk
  • Dredg
  • Duran Duran
  • Eighteen Visions x2
  • Ellie Goulding
  • Erol Alkan
  • Erykah Badu
  • Esperanza Spalding
  • The Expendables
  • The Fall of Troy
  • Fatboy Slim
  • Fever Ray x2
  • The Field
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Florence + the Machine
  • Flosstradamus
  • Foals x3
  • Four Tet x2
  • The Fratellis
  • Friendly Fires x2
  • From First to Last
  • Fuck Buttons
  • Funeral Party
  • Gang Gang Dance
  • Girl Talk
  • Girl Unit
  • Girls x3
  • Glass Candy
  • Gogol Bordello
  • Gorillaz
  • Gossip
  • Grand Archives
  • Green Day
  • Green River
  • Gui Boratto
  • Gym Class Heroes
  • Hands
  • The Hanks
  • Hawthorne Heights
  • Hellogoodbye
  • Helmet
  • Hercules & Love Affair x2
  • The Higher
  • The Hives
  • Hot Chip x6
  • Hurts
  • Interpol
  • Ital
  • Janelle Monae
  • Japandroids
  • Jay-Z
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
  • Joker
  • Jonsi
  • The Juan MacLean
  • June
  • Justice
  • K’naan
  • Kanye West
  • Kate Miller-Heidke
  • Kavinsky
  • Kid Sister x3
  • The Kills x2
  • King Krule
  • Kings of Leon
  • Kinski
  • The Kooks
  • Kraftwerk
  • LA Riots
  • Lauryn Hill
  • LCD Soundsystem x2
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Less Than Jake x2
  • Local Natives
  • Lupe Fiasco x2
  • M.I.A. x2
  • M83
  • Machinedrum
  • Mae
  • Magnetic Man
  • Major Lazer
  • Maluca x2
  • Mando Diao
  • Manu Chao
  • Mariachi El Bronx
  • The Matches
  • Max Tundra
  • MEN
  • Mickey Avalon
  • Mika
  • Mika Miko
  • Morrissey
  • Mos Def
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • MSTRKRFT x2
  • Mumford & Sons
  • MURS
  • Muse
  • My Bloody Valentine x2
  • My Chemical Romance x2
  • N.A.S.A.
  • The National
  • Nickel Creek
  • Nine Inch Nails x2
  • NOFX
  • No Age x5
  • The Noisettes
  • Nosaj Thing x2
  • Of Montreal
  • The Offspring
  • OFWGKTA
  • One eskimO
  • Orgasmic
  • Para One x2
  • Passion Pit
  • Paul McCartney
  • Pendulum
  • Phoenix
  • Phosphorescent
  • Poncho Sanchez
  • Popo
  • Portishead
  • Portugal. The Man
  • Power
  • Prince
  • Proxy
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Ratatat
  • Real Estate x2
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Rings
  • Rise Against x2
  • Robyn x2
  • Rooney
  • Rusko
  • Rye Rye
  • The Roots
  • Santigold x2
  • Saosin
  • SebastiAn
  • Sebastien Tellier
  • Sepalcure
  • Silversun Pickups x2
  • Simian Mobile Disco x2
  • Sleigh Bells x2
  • Smith Westerns
  • Spank Rock
  • Spiritualized
  • Steve Aoki
  • The Strange Boys x2
  • Straylight Run
  • The Strokes
  • Sun Araw
  • Surkin
  • Teen Inc. (aka Inc.) x2
  • Tegan and Sara
  • Them Crooked Vultures
  • Thom Yorke (Atoms for Peace)
  • Tiesto
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Tokimonsta
  • Tokyo Police Club
  • Tool
  • The Transplants
  • Trash Talk
  • Tune-Yards
  • TV On the Radio
  • Twin Shadow
  • Vampire Weekend x3
  • The Very Best
  • Vuk
  • Wavves x2
  • The Whigs
  • Willie Nelson
  • Wolf Parade
  • Woods
  • X
  • Xanimo
  • The xx
  • XXXChange
  • YACHT
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs x2
  • yMusic
  • Z-Trip

Festival Concert List

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this girl definitely looks like Skrillex

I deplore Skrillex and the music he makes. I cringe when people say things like, “I love dubstep! Have you heard of Skrillex?” Sure, you could make the argument that (like Deadmau5) he’s bringing people to electronic music that otherwise would have kept listening to Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson. Right. Because those are the kind of people I want at a Chemical Brothers or Aphex Twin show.

Tumblr is a wonderful thing. It gives us gems like this.

(via the infamous Coachella Forum)

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Sly Stone back in the day rockin the fro

While I write up my posts for this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, here’s something to tide you over. I wasn’t able to see Sly Stone on Sunday, but from what I’ve read, I missed quite a show! Not that it was full of music or anything…

This had been the rumor, and suddenly it was true: the original Family Stone back together again. But the original band included Sly, and Sly wasn’t playing along. “Fuck rehearsal,” he said, sitting behind a keyboard at the front of the stage.

This post by Ben Greenman at The New Yorker summarizes his experience watching the webcast of the “performance” in pretty entertaining detail. One of the guys who I went to the fest with mentioned that this might happen, that Sly is known for pulling this stuff. But I just brushed it off thinking back to how everyone doubted Aphex Twin would actually come in ’08, but he showed up and gave us quite the sonic pummeling. Looks like my friend was right.

There’s Still a Riot Going On -The New Yorker

]]> http://nikgomez.com/2010/04/19/sly-stone-at-coachella-10-the-new-yorker/feed/ 0 Coachella ’08: Day 1 http://nikgomez.com/2008/05/03/coachella-08-day-1/ http://nikgomez.com/2008/05/03/coachella-08-day-1/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 08:50:15 +0000 Nik Gomez http://nikgomez.com/?p=295 Coachella 2008 has come and gone, and it was amazing. Two (our trip was cut short) hot days in the desert and plenty of good music later, here’s my rundown of the artists I saw on Friday. I hope my reviews can give you insight onto how great live music is. Here are some quick links to find the artist that you might be looking for (but check out the rest too!): Battles, Dan Deacon, The Breeders, Vampire Weekend, Diplo, Pendulum, Aphex Twin, Fatboy Slim. Head to the bottom to check out some SICK pictures.

Friday

We arrived at the polo fields a little later than we wanted to, but Battles was a great band to start the weekend off with. Seeing as their songs are well over the typical 3-4 minute mark, they only played 5 songs I think. Regardless, the buildup that Battles is so great at accomplishing made every song well worth it by the end. My obvious favorites were Atlas and Tonto (the two songs that everyone knows best), but they did play a few others off of their LP. Great music, but not too much in terms of show.

I had such high hopes for Dan Deacon. After listening to his music and kinda liking it, after hearing and reading about his mind-blowing live shows, after having my heart set on being amazed… this was a downer. Don’t get me wrong, running around in circles and making a massive tunnel in a hot tent is fun, but the whole playing on the same level as the audience doesn’t work. If you aren’t right next to Deacon, or obliviously gone on E, there isn’t too much other than loud, high-pitched electronic sounds peaking the speakers. Sorry, I know that everyone loves his live shows. I must have missed something.

This doesn’t really count as a full set because I came and left midway because there were other bands I wanted to see, but for the few songs I stopped, sat, and listened to, the Breeders impressed me. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, seeing as (just like the Pixies) tons of major artists site the Breeders as being big influences.

From what I’ve read this week, everyone thought that Vampire Weekend was boring. I must respectfully disagree. I’m not sure what everyone was expecting, but this band is full of Ivy-Leaguers, and their music sounds as such. I don’t know how they could have made the show entertaining other than by playing their music flawlessly, which they did. I thoroughly enjoyed the show and danced a bit. One thing that I did find odd was when they said that they were going to play a “new” song, and proceeded to play something that consisted of dog barks. I hope it was a joke. They played another new song that was pretty darn good. Vampire Weekend is probably the most mainstream indie band right now, well deserved.

Walking into the tent preparing for the amazement of Pendulum, Aphex Twin, and Fatboy Slim, Diplo was a past-time for me. I expected to hear some stuff similar to what I’ve heard from his original material, and it was nothing like that. He played a good mix of electro, a sick remix of Smells Like Teen Spirit, and other stuff that I enjoyed. Another plus? When he played Paper Planes, MIA herself came out onstage and danced a bit. The only part I disliked was when he started to play Burial’s Archangel and one of the massive balloons floating around the Saraha Tent hit one of his turntables. It completely knocked the needle off of the vinyl. I love that song, so it sucked that I didn’t get to hear it through. Good set nonetheless.

Last year, one of the members of Pendulum played a DJ set in the Dome. This year, they were playing a live set, and I was psyched. Pendulum does one of my favorite remixes (the Prodigy’s Voodoo People), and I knew that their mix of drum ‘n bass and rock would turn the Sahara Tent into a pit. I really don’t consider them a drum ‘n bass group anymore. They perform with a full drum set, an electric guitar, a bass, a set of synths, and an MC. Their sound hits so hard, and their set was great. They played Voodoo People and all of their other hits as well as some other newer songs off of their album that will be released soon. They had their wall of lights behind them; it was a complete live performance.

Pendulum -> Aphex Twin. Really? Incredible. There were a number of surprises through Mr. Richard D. James’ set. One was that he actually showed up. Back in 2001, he was billed to play, but cancelled at the last minute and got Squarepusher to replace him. Needless to say, when I saw his face on stage, I breathed a sigh of relief. Surprise #2, he didn’t play his own material. Well, I guess it wasn’t that big of a surprise, but I was kinda naive going into this set.

This hour-long set became the ideal example of how a set should progress. The first half consisted of some ambient techno, hip hop, and other electronic stuff. As the set moved out of this, RDJ moved into more IDM/glitch material. The lazers started to kick in, and the house lights were beginning to freak. Around the 45 minute mark, the full on thrash glitch stuff switched on and the “Come To Daddy”-Aphex Twin I know was blaring through the speakers blowing everyone’s mind. This was when the animal dancers came on stage and completed the out-of-this-world psycho performance that Aphex Twin is famous for. At the end, RDJ looked up, gave us a thumbs up and an ear-to-ear smile. Wow.

It was good that Aphex Twin was as great as he was, because Fatboy Slim came on about 30 minutes late. At Coachella, a festival known for tight set times, that’s not OK. So when the curtains finally unveiled Fatboy’s huge displays, we were kinda tired and pissed. My mood didn’t really change. He didn’t really play any of his own original material; the set was much of the same that I’ve seen in YouTube videos of his other live shows. He has one of the best back-catalogues of any electronic artist, and I don’t quite understand why he wouldn’t exploit that. It’s a great light show, but I left early because it was past 12 and the music wasn’t anything that I couldn’t hear from any other average DJ.


These incredible pictures of the Coachella weekend are from Mick 0, Caesar Sebastian, and Jevon Feinblatt.

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