Re: review--l.a. ninja show

Ninja Tune/Discreet (ninjah@generation.net)
Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:48:51 -0500


>kid koala... wow!! a friend of mine mentioned that his set must be somewhat
>rehearsed (i did see him grab a stack of jacket-less records right before he
>went on), but i still dug it!

Sure it's rehearsed. When you play 60 records in 20 minutes with no
headphones it takes a certain amount of planning. We forgive him cause he's
just so damn good.

>i can say pretty much the same thing about the guy from dj food (was it kev
>or
>pc?).

It was Strictly Kev

>dj vadim--maybe i just don't get him...

Vadim works on his own sound. The reaction has been different in every
city. His ultra-slow/creaking door hip-hop style was quite well received on
a lot of nights. I guess it all depends on where he fits into the context
of the show.

>the last beef that i have about the music deals w/herbalizer & dj food. why
>was only 1 dj there from each of those groups?

The Herbaliser is actually a 7 piece live band, I only wish we could afford
to bring them all over here to play. Ollie and Jake are the main producers
behind the band. When it comes to DJ'ing, Ollie is for the most part The
Herbaliser. Patrick (P.C) couldn't make it for this tour. The one thing you
have to understand is that we are doing Stealth shows all thru Europe, UK,
Japan, and North America. We try to give each place the best lineup
possible. I quite like the fact that by bringing over just Kev it has
forced him to interact with Kid Koala and create some new sounds (for
example, they have been doing some awesome remixs of Coldcut's - Beats and
Pieces every night of the tour)

>*the venue*
>
>the venue was the troubador which *sucked*!

That's the word from the road also. I don't suspect we will play there
again. The fact is that for the most part we really don't know what kind of
space we are playing in untill we arrive there.

Anyway, I got a lot of positive feedback on the show. Most of the comments
were "show rocked, venue and a lot of the audience sucked". Thanks for the
criticism, it's always listened to.

See Ya

Ninjas