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Fathers of Invention FRIDAY, MARCH 2 0 , 2 0 0 9 PAGE 1 3 From left: Dave Konopka, Tyondai Braxton, John Stanier and Ian Williams of Battles. PhotocourtesyoftheWall Fathers of invention Watching New York math-rockers Battles perform their searingly complex music live can be a life-altering experience BY JacK HEWSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER arp Records is a titan in underground A more instrumental direction at the A ‘TUG-OF-WAR’ music and hosts some of the most London-based label has prompted the Now emerging from a brief break following consummate electronic innovators of signing of a number of guitar-focused acts, a year and a half touring to promote its the past 20 years, including Autechre, but it is Battles’ inclusion that arguably acclaimed first LP Mirrored, the band WSquarepusher and Aphex Twin. One of its serves best to reconcile Warp styles old and is only just beginning to work on fresh most recent signings is neo-prog rock outfit new, a viewpoint Braxton shares. material and Braxton is elusive as to the Battles, which pays its first visit to Taipei “I feel like we’re a natural extension of direction the next record may take. this Wednesday at The Wall (這牆). what they had being doing. And I feel like “It’s so new right now that I really don’t “We’re all really thrilled and honored they were trying to push themselves to get know, it’s really hard to tell where we’re to be working with these guys,” says out of the solely electronic ‘IDM’ [intelligent gonna hop to next.” guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist, dance music] world ... In a funny way I But by the multi-instrumentalist’s Tyondai Braxton, fresh out of the shower, think we’re a pretty good example of that account, it appears that the nature of the talking on his cell phone from New York. logical next step.” ensemble’s song-writing process makes its “To be honest it couldn’t be a better fit. In addition to the heavy deployment sound particularly difficult to predict. We’re really close with the label and we of effects, including Braxton’s trademark “It’s like the Senate floor the way this really share a lot of aesthetic ideologies pitch-shifted vocals, it is the layering of band works ... The feel of the band’s with them ... I feel like they really get loops that defines the New York quartet’s sound is the tug-of-war between the four us and I feel like we really get them. sound; a technique more commonly found of us. The youngest person’s 30, the oldest It’s just been this fun, exciting working in techno than rock. The advent of the person’s 40; everyone has been playing relationship. We couldn’t be happier.” “loop-pedal” has allowed such techniques their instruments since their teens ... Battles, however, represents a significant to be replicated, in real time, live. everyone has a strong sense of themselves departure from the typically sequenced “The master of the band that everyone ... The sound of the band is the result of nature of previous Warp projects. goes to is the loops … We send loops to these four strong personalities fighting “I think there’s no substitute for the this amp behind John, and then we switch and bouncing off of each other, battling if human element,” says Braxton with notable from that amp to our live amps. So John you will ...” conviction. “The most important element has to listen to those loops and he has to in this band is there aren’t machines doing stay in time with those loops almost like a it … We use technology but only as an metronome. And then we lock into John. extension of our own technique. We don’t It’s this kind of figure-of-eight circle of PERFORMANCE NOTES: rely on it to cover up our lack of skills in as all of us relying on each other,” explains far as being able to play.” Braxton, who is unenthused at the prospect WHAT: Battles of trying to incorporate more sequenced WHEN: Starting at 8pm on Wednesday SPECIAL EFFECTS material into future projects. WHERE: The Wall (這牆), B1, 200, Roosevelt And few would doubt the band’s pedigree, “It kind of goes against the way we work Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市羅斯福路四段 consisting of ex-Helmet drummer John and the kind of mission statement embedded 200號B1) Stanier, ex-Don Caballero guitarist Ian in what we do … It would be kind of a cop- TICKETS: NT$1,200 at the door or NT$1,000 Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist Dave Konopka, out to suddenly have just a pre-sequenced in advance from White Wabbit Records, and of course Braxton, son of Anthony click-track for John to play to. Can’t do it. located inside The Wall’s shopping complex Braxton, pioneer of the free-improvisation Can’t do it,” he says, laughing at his own movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. slightly theatrical insistence..
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