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Yep I listened to both, I prefer the new one, though the old one was good as well.
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Damn, been to the Dour Festival yesterday, was great. I saw:
Au Revoir Simone: better than I thought it would be. I thought it would be boring electropop, but I actually liked their melancholic tunes. Kinda reminded me of Telepathe
Deerhoof: as greedrex would say, it fookin ruled. A lot of fun involved - at one point they were playing with a basket ball, at one other the singer was trying to kick both guitarists. Really really enjoyed
L-Vis 1990: We only wanted to have fun and dance like fools at this point so we didn't really care about the music - a basic techno DJ set. He's not really good though, the crossfades between the tracks were not great at all, and there were too many segments without beats - come on, you're only going to see those kind of DJs because you want to dance, so he should not mess for too long and go straight into the beat
Killing Joke: killer set. I don't know them very well, but I liked their set. Jaz Coleman is completely mad. "Imagine someone tells you you have only three years left to live!! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?! YOU'RE GOING TO DO A LIST!!! OF ALL THE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO!!!!! And when it will be the day when you have to leave, YOU WILL LOOK AT THE SKY!!!"
and, last but not least...
Animal Collective!! third time I saw them, still completely incredible - might be my favorite show I've seen by them actually. The transitions between the tracks were awesomely done (and often abrasive), there were new elements everywhere in all tracks, the light works and projections beautiful.
Setlist:
Chores (the new version is beautiful, it begins with a long ambient intro)
Leaf House (fantastic transition)
Summertime Clothes (massive kicks everywhere involved!)
What Would I Want Sky (keeps getting more and more awesome)
Slippi (they brought back the screams!! I thought I was going to die of happiness)
Bleed (their new track, I was really happy to see it; it was magnifiscent)
My Girls (epileptic lightshow)
Lion In A Coma (still great...)
Daily Routine (Panda changed one or two of his vocal lines and it was really beautiful)
Fireworks (ultra-extended version... the middle jam keeps getting greater. Everytime I see them I'm like, man, this is getting a bit boring, they should not play it anymore, and then I'm seeing it and I'm like "this is really great")
Brother Sport (pure awesome bliss obviously.)
I thought they were touching perfection. It was really mindblowing.
Also it was kind of fun, they were playing at 23.30 and Killing Joke's set ended at 23.00, so I could have seen the beginning of Mercury Rev's set, but I decided to go straight into the tent where AC were going to play, even though I was going to have to wait 30 minutes, in order to find a good place to see the show (I ended fourth or fifth row, center, so it was perfect). And their gear was already onstage, surrounded by violet lights, and there was already a lot of people, everybody was sitting down, it looked a bit like a sect, but it was great.
Fuck Buttons were playing after AC but unfortunately I missed them, as my uncle & aunts, who were going with me (and drove the car...) had seen the Mercury Rev set under the rain and were kind of iced, plus tired.
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