Dead Voices on Air w/ cEvin Key + more

Caught wind of this awesome gig on short notice but was fortunate enough to wrangle up a solid crew to attend with me. Fellow Bacteria Cultist Eddie N. and the awesome Candice as well.

cEvin Key's work with Skinny Puppy and Download have been HUGE influences on me and Dead Voices On Air are some of my longtime favs as well. I haven't seen em play since '99!!

This was going on at some place called Zanzibar in Santa Monica. Killer venue, KILLER sound system.

First up was Surachai, who played a kind hard industrial/techno with screaming distorted vocals and with sampled metal riffs seeping in for good measure. Bonus points for rocking an insane modular system to create his racket.



Next up was Wet Mango (I think?) who made some killer chopped up gabber/IDM type stuff using Gameboys? Yeah, sounds lame, but it was actually pretty rad.



Then cEvin took the reigns and started blasting high BPM Japanese style dance music. It was part DJing part live performance. It was pretty rad for awhile, but it kept going and going and going. I think his set went on for close to 2 hours.



I couldn't hang after awhile and Candice and myself went outside for a little walk. But upon returning, cEvin was closing out his set, and Mr. Mark Spybey (DVOA) joined him for a bit before seamlessly flowing straight into a short DOWNLOAD set!!! Yes!! I immediately woke right the fuck up to hearing these classics. Set list included (and I could be wrong here because I suck at remembering some of their titles) "Suni C", "Sidewinder", and "A Turin Cloud".



From here Mr. Key bowed out and began the Spybey vs. Gnome set. Things mellowed out nicely to some quieter and stranger atmospheres.



From this point on, Mr. Gnome stepped out and was quickly replaced by some other dude. From which they began playing some standard DVOA tunes. it was killer, even heard my one of my favorite songs, "Geong G'uma".



Totally solid night, and video to prove it! Enjoy!

Miscellanious visuals



Download - A Turin Cloud (excerpt)



Dead Voices On Air - Geong G'uma (excerpt)



Spybey vs. Gnome



Miscellanious visuals 2


GREAT show, I got to meet cEvin for the THIRD time, and Mr. Spybey for the first! totally nice dudes. I mentioned to Spybey that he "needs to play more often as the last time I saw you was in 99!", he goes "Oh yes, at The Smell!" and he remembered it well. Awesome.

This was hopefully a good precursor for more great shows for the forthcoming year.

To see more fantastic shots, check out the post on Candice's blog here