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Originally Posted by _slavo_
seen them live, was a bit disappointing. that album is killer though.
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Is it just me or do shows by electronic acts kind of almost
tend to be disappointing when they're an artist you already like, whose album you have fallen in love with?
I think so, a bit. I'm not into any drug scenes or anything (at least not anymore) so I just go for the music — not a party. And I've been kind of "meh" about shows by some big names that I love/loved like Aphex Twin and Amon Tobin, and while I may have really valued the experience (Aphex being absolute all-time favorite artist), I don't know that the show was really all that good.
Rather, I've tended to be floored when it's a DJ set or something by someone I've never heard of. Like, if I'm at a festival and I go to the DJ tent with zero expectations because no banner-names are on the bill, and I something that just blows me the fuck away. That's happened quite a bit. I go expecting to chill and have a beer or whatever with some background music, and something catches my ear, or some mashup of records hits me like a sucker punch, and then I'm just captivated.
I don't go to many electronic shows anymore, but I feel like the artist has to do something really special to make it a good *show* and not just good music playing. That, or, the surprise of being emotionally impacted by something you didn't expect.