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27.August.2010
Computer has taken more role on controlling the visuals, which enables setting more intelligent patterns for lights to follow the music. Besides hearing dark beats, you can also sense the smell of soldering iron in Blastromen studio. Approaching gig in Madrid will bring these latest inventions alive for the first time in Blastromen's history!
06.April.2010
Our debut gig abroad was performed on 4/APR/2010 in Leipzig/Germany, presented by Blackred. After arriving to Leipzig we must admit it's really a beautiful city with old but glorious buildings and nice architecture in many aspects. Event started at 11 pm in the Superkronik -club in Plagwitz. At the very early point the electro side in the club was almost fully crowded during the stomping electro DJ set by Magnetic and Disco 69. Crowd was very energetic and in an uplifting state when we gathered around our equipment.
New intro with opening track "Blasteroids" turned out to be a good start. Actually this was the first time ever "Blasteroids" was performed alive! The set was built to be starting with technologic sounding stuff and turning to be more aggressive and darker till the end. In these terms the last track was an exception, Sky City 1000. We could have had stopped after "Concealed ancient alien dynasty" which was the second last track, because it ended with epic and aggressive mood. That could have been a good decision, because during the last track the crowd latest noticed the difficulties we were suffering. We suffered from technical problems due to messed up second synthesizer and "Sky City 1000" had the worst maltreat. We almost stopped playing in the middle of the track, because it was quite messed up. As persistent galactic guerillas we still played through the whole song trying to hide the mistakes with other elements and effects, but it was a mission impossible. The crowd didn't seem to mind, but this really taught us to improve certain things to avoid them later on in variable gig conditions.
With the visual performing we made few compromises. Normally we have controlled the blue spot lights, strobe light and smoke machine (set low behind us) by ourselves, but in the souncheck we decided to control only the jacket lights, because of unfamiliar control unit for the other lights. In our aspect this caused a bit of lack on the visual performing, but positive thing was to have more time on controlling every other stuff. As a new stuff we introduced new lights on our jacket for the first time. Those new lights matched great with certain parts of the tracklist but could have been more impressive with better adjusted and controlled smoke and strobe behind us and planned usage of the blue spot lights.
After the show and the cheer we got we had a strict timeline to catch the plane, and we feel sorry for packing the stuff off the stage in the middle of the event. After all and despite the technical difficulties the show from our view was one of the best performing situations and we had good feeling to play to energetic crowd that was few times yelling so loud that it also went through the vocoder!
Rest of the evening music supply was great! Rarely you get to hear such a continous electro hit list. Big up to DJ's! Big thanks to the audience and all the people present! Another really big thanks to Blackred & co. and honest respect for their work! These guys with their crew truly know how to host guests with warm welcome and taking care that everything is fine!
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