Rusty live
Nov. 21st, 2005 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusRusty Santos took a break from recording the new Momus record last night, playing an intimate show at a club in Prenzlauer Berg.
Live, Rusty is a tight, needy ball of nerdy energy, hunched over the mic in his baggy-ass jeans, an arty New York hipster commanding the complete attention of a room of arty Berlin hipsters, screeching in a sort of charming post-punk new wave neurotic way. He's a "singer-songwriter", but he's also manipulating his sound actively the whole time, crouched down over his Boss Dr Sample unit, sampling beats or guitar phrases and looping them, then singing and playing over the loose, jumpy loops. The processing is pretty extreme, wild pitch shifting and ring modulation on the voice, deliberately out-of-time beats made from amp clicks. The result is sort of like Devo crossed with Buddy Holly, produced by Laurie Anderson. Here's an mp3 of his sound:
Rusty Live clip (2 mins. 04 secs.)
If, based on this, our collaboration sounds like an unlikely one, given all I've written about the kind of sound I'm after, you might not be surprised to hear that already all those rules seem to have gone out of the window. Maybe they only existed to be broken, to make pop music seem attractively forbidden. Anyway, yesterday's song "Moop Bears" was an infectious, rattly, chaotic jazz shuffle not a million miles from the "Belleville Rendezvous" theme song. I'm also finding the songs of Plan B, a British white indie rap artist, quite attractive at the moment — check this video, which I discovered thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
david_f's blog, or a new song called "Kidz". I'm thinking of doing a rap song today, somewhat in the manner of "Timecode", about a hard nut who stabs a bonsai tree and boasts about it. I know it's off the program, but allow it, bloods!
Live, Rusty is a tight, needy ball of nerdy energy, hunched over the mic in his baggy-ass jeans, an arty New York hipster commanding the complete attention of a room of arty Berlin hipsters, screeching in a sort of charming post-punk new wave neurotic way. He's a "singer-songwriter", but he's also manipulating his sound actively the whole time, crouched down over his Boss Dr Sample unit, sampling beats or guitar phrases and looping them, then singing and playing over the loose, jumpy loops. The processing is pretty extreme, wild pitch shifting and ring modulation on the voice, deliberately out-of-time beats made from amp clicks. The result is sort of like Devo crossed with Buddy Holly, produced by Laurie Anderson. Here's an mp3 of his sound:
Rusty Live clip (2 mins. 04 secs.)
If, based on this, our collaboration sounds like an unlikely one, given all I've written about the kind of sound I'm after, you might not be surprised to hear that already all those rules seem to have gone out of the window. Maybe they only existed to be broken, to make pop music seem attractively forbidden. Anyway, yesterday's song "Moop Bears" was an infectious, rattly, chaotic jazz shuffle not a million miles from the "Belleville Rendezvous" theme song. I'm also finding the songs of Plan B, a British white indie rap artist, quite attractive at the moment — check this video, which I discovered thanks to
david_f's blog, or a new song called "Kidz". I'm thinking of doing a rap song today, somewhat in the manner of "Timecode", about a hard nut who stabs a bonsai tree and boasts about it. I know it's off the program, but allow it, bloods!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2005-11-21 09:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-21 09:48 am (UTC)All us anglophone Berliners have them.
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Date: 2005-11-21 09:49 am (UTC)Reminiscent of the ending of the film 'Tabou' when Beat Takeshi's character cuts down a magnificent cherry blossom tree in full bloom symbolically insinuating his decision to kill the young, effeminate swordboy at the center of all the dangerously disruptive homoerotic hijinks amongst the royal security ranks.
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Date: 2005-11-21 09:50 am (UTC)Re: Rusty
Date: 2005-11-21 10:10 am (UTC)I like the Cinema-auditorium quality of the recording.
I've always thought it interesting how the weight and shape of a Fender Stratocaster seems to promote a physical jerky style of singing/playing, e.g.s: Byrne, Holly, Hendrix doing "Hey Joe" etc.
The much heavier weight and smaller shape of a Telecaster tends to dictate a more static but forceful performance: Barrett, Strummer etc.
Although Rusty has the appearance of torch-wielder for the Verlaine/Hell/Vega/Byrne baraka in dub, there's something gleaming through that lot that is entirely of his own substance.
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Date: 2005-11-21 10:38 am (UTC)(odot)
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Date: 2005-11-21 11:31 am (UTC)rap rappin'
Date: 2005-11-21 01:13 pm (UTC)(oh shit Olivier asked you already) ahhhhhh
Antonin / Digiki
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Date: 2005-11-21 03:39 pm (UTC)alin
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Date: 2005-11-21 06:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-21 07:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-22 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-22 08:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-22 09:41 am (UTC)i was serious. i'll send you an email really soon.
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Date: 2005-11-22 06:31 pm (UTC)"Not one to miss out on a very, very, small insignificant art performance that only appeals to the people that created it and the small enclave of sycophants that follow them"
take another look at that photo, no ones interested in anyhting but themselves, theres been a shift in the past few months and you havent picked up on it, better hurry up n do summat, like actually create something or write about something worthwhile other than content to a self serving audience.
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Date: 2005-11-22 06:34 pm (UTC)