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Aphex Twin, Jamie Lidell, Scotch Egg @ Bestival. 5/6/7 Sept

August 24, 2008

Bestival Festival hosts a stella line up this year.
we're particularly looking forward to >>

Jamie Lidell on Friday 5th Sept on the Main Stage.
Performing a solo show 17:15 - 18:00.

Aphex Twin on Saturday 6th Sept in the Big Top
Performing laptop DJ set 1:00am - 3:00am

DJ Scotch Egg live band (Drum Eyes) Sunday 7th Sept in Club Da Da
Performing full live band show 19:00 - 19:40

Also look out for the special back to back DJ set from JAMIE LIDELL & N>E>D in the Xbox Social from 11pm - 1am on Friday night.

www.bestival.net

check out a nice clip of AFX djing recently at Coachella Festival, LA.

And a review of Aphex at Oxegen Festival 08, Ireland from www.state.ie
The arrival of Richard D James or the APHEX TWIN onto the Pet Sounds Stage is a moment. The tent is heaving with expectation and it’s all let out as Richard, obscured by strobe lights, drops the first tune of his mammoth 100 minute DJ set to pure elation. Accompanied from the off by hardcore pornographic visuals and heavy old-school electro, the mass of people start to move as one. The excitement comes from not knowing what he will do. Will he play any of his own stuff? Will he take the piss? Evidently, shortly afterwards it appears, he is in fact taking the piss. Either that or really bad sound which has plagued the Pet Sounds stage so far. Richard is either panning a song from left to right speakers to disorientate and piss us off or the sound really is that troubled and it’s about to cut out. After about 10 minutes of this we get back on track with off-kilter electro. The visuals display some rather hilarious footage; from the TV show Monkey, a live audience feed, classic rock performances to strange films like The Executioner which features a man in a wheelchair getting strangled. Nice. Strangely, while the beats drift down rapidly from the stage, the crowd try and put some shape on things by shouting in unison “Whoomp! There it is! Whoomp! There it is! “. It’s odd and State hopes the person responsible is pleased.

As the set starts to take in harder beats, something amazing happens. In a surreal expression of hardcore mongedness, three gurners in AFX t-shirts appear and gurn at the audiences sporadically throughout the show (Youtube example). If heads weren’t chemically unbalanced before they certainly are now. From there on in, it’s jungle and drum & bass highlights including skewed snippets of the revered Squarepusher Breezeblock and a couple of tunes from Druqs including ‘54 Cymru Beats’. The music starts to scare security and mild panic sets in as they block off access with security gates to many of the tent entrances, even though the tent is nowhere near capacity. They relent after 10/15 minutes and the skewed party continues until a shower of drum breaks slowly collapse signalling the end of a highly unusual but totally essential festival experience. Aphex, we salute your unorthodox ways.

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