Dan Deacon, The Deathset - Silent Barn
by JonathanMay 5, 2006
This bill is testament to what everybody knows already - that there’s still something strange in the Baltimore air. Straight outta the charm city underground, both of these artists, despite their brisk raw approaches to music, employ drum machines, sequencers, and even iPods live - bringing it with the kind of pure spastic energy that are prompting more than a few argue that Baltimore is the new Berlin, and then… some.
Dan Deacon, freakish modernist composer, funky dresser, and one-man wonder, takes the stage with more gadgets than Quintron and proceeds to put on a show, I mean a real old-fashioned work-the-crowd show, that, within merely a few minutes, forces his audience to decide whether he’s the best thing since Teflon coating or the worst thing since the bedbug epidemic of 2006. While his repertoire includes many dimensions of the bizarre, from slow minimalist instrumental etherea to dynamic cartoon music, in live performance, this mad scientist morphs into a one-man disco ball, hurling thunderbolts of booty-licious dada sing-alongs at his audience.
And Deacon should be particularly on because he’s in the unenviable position of following the Death Set. Led by Australian transplant Beau Velasco, and currently featuring Ecstatic Sunshine’s non-Ponytail guitarist Matt Papich, the duo’s frenzied electronic take on punk rock is fully full-speed-ahead. Velasco’s distinctively tuneful helium chipmunk vocals float atop. I think he got naked last time I saw ‘em…
Charm city indeed…
Dan Deacon, The Deathset, Despot, High Places, secret guest, dj REZOUND (War & Moon)
Silent Barn
915 Wyckoff Ave @ Hancock
Ridgewood, Queens
L-Halsey or M-Myrtle/Wyckoff
$8
Dan Deacon:
“Lion With a Shark’s Head” MP3
“Pizzahorse” (live) MP3
“My Name Is Robert” MP3
Missy Model x 11
The Adventures of Mr Bumbershine featuring Dr Witherbean
The Death Set:
“Intermission” mp3
Paranoia MP3
http://www.dandeacon.com/
http://www.thedeathset.com/
