Last night I dropped by Superdeluxe for nine dollar beers and Jim O'Rourke, who turned out to be a little more than a decade older and schlubbier than I remember and playing some not enthralling Japanese-style noise. But what was hamazing was this guy Strotter Inst from Switzerland. You can't entirely tell what's going on from the photo, but in essence he has devised a very lo-fi drum machine by re-shaping vinyl, cutting discs so the stylus bounces or, more exciting, adding protrusions to discs that rhythmically slap against rubber bands stretched across the decks, on which the stylus is resting. This video has terrible sound, but should make that awkward description clearer:
The output is almost as amazing as the setup - pulsing, ultraprimitivist dance music.
Strotter plays again tonight at Soup in Koenji/Nakano: http://ochiaisoup.web.fc2.com/schedulethis.html
This is a must-see.
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