This is the second installment of battery, and as I'd missed the first, I wasn't about to miss out again. Besides, I was really curious to see electronic music at Necropolis, Auckland's legendary underground punk rock dive venue.
Things took ages to get started, with DJ Suicide playing his industrial records for ages. He's getting better at mixing; he'll go far, especially now he's picked a name for himself.
Finally Gho:la set up. They had a laptop and a synth, and some other cool devices, and continued the industrial theme. They were very good, but I was starting to get bored of all the music being in time.
So, I was happy to see k5k was DJing next. I was hoping for an all out assault of breakcore and stuff, but no. It seems like every time I see this guy DJ it's more disappointing than the last time, although I'll give him a break this time because he was only using vinyl, and I'm sure most of his good tunes must be on CDR. Eventually he played a couple of songs decent enough to dance to, but I got so bored I went outside and down the road to buy a drink.
Bloodbox eventually got their shit together, and played for all of about 10 minutes. Since they were just screaming along to their backing tape, it sounded quite like their album «structure against self», only with the vocals lower in the mix, which I thought was an improvement.
Things really wound down after that, especially when someone came up the stairs yelling paranoid stuff about the police being outside, just like every other gig I've been to here. Appearantly if I'd stayed past 01:30 I would have witnessed k5k in a DJ-battle with Suicide; instead I was home making sushi. I win the battle!
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5 years ago
