Guapo / Destructo Swarmbots

sonicl · 01.10.2008, 05:44 AM

Two dissimilar acts, connected only by the fact that they're both playing support to Dalek when I go to see him play next week.

Should I be getting excited about either of them?

atsonicpark · 01.10.2008, 09:54 AM

Guapo did a split with cerberus shoal, who are one of the greatest bands ever, and that's the only stuff I've heard by them and it's cool.

EL Guapo were better though

Everyneurotic · 01.10.2008, 11:20 AM

el guapo are pretty shitty; indie techno or some crap.

guapo is kinda like king crimson, only more organic and improvisational, aren't they? i haven't listened to them in a few years.

but that's a weird bill, dälek, guapo and destructo swarmbots (i haven't heard them but they sound heavy and noodly).

atsonicpark · 01.10.2008, 03:10 PM

haha I saw el guapo live and they were actually really great. It was a few dudes with 700 drum machines. the album "Fake french" on dischord is actually really cool, but it's the only one i've heard. it sounds like if fugazi owned 700 drum machines.

atsonicpark · 01.10.2008, 03:13 PM

oh yeah, it's funny.

they played with racebannon, who were just a straight-up dj-based noise kraut rock band (before they turned into boring math sci fi screamo shit and then turned into boring metalcore beasts).. they also played with mecca normal, who lee wrote skip tracer about and were horrible.. and they played with q and not u, who had just lost one of their members a few days before... so, their set was reeeeeeeeeal crappy. Sad.

It was in this attic in an abandoned art museum down some weird dark alley and it was rebuilt on the inside with two huge, um, skate ramps, and people were skateboarding during the set and the entire room had mirrors all around. And the floorboards were wooden and creaky and nails were sticking out and all the other rooms in this attic had paint on them and there were holes in the wall and shit. I think that venue lasted like a month.. animal collective and cock esp also played there...

Cool show.

voided · 01.10.2008, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by sonicl

Two dissimilar acts, connected only by the fact that they're both playing support to Dalek when I go to see him play next week.

Should I be getting excited about either of them?

where's the show?

Everyneurotic · 01.11.2008, 01:30 AM

fake french, that's the album i heard from them and i thought it was really boring, should give it another listen, i guess.

that was a weird show you saw...actually many weird shows in a weird place.

sonicl · 01.11.2008, 02:47 AM

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where's the show?

Bad news for you, I'm afraid - It's in London, at The Borderline.

01.10.2008, 05:44 AM	#1
sonicl invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,527	Two dissimilar acts, connected only by the fact that they're both playing support to Dalek when I go to see him play next week. Should I be getting excited about either of them?
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Guapo did a split with cerberus shoal, who are one of the greatest bands ever, and that's the only stuff I've heard by them and it's cool. EL Guapo were better though __________________
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	el guapo are pretty shitty; indie techno or some crap. guapo is kinda like king crimson, only more organic and improvisational, aren't they? i haven't listened to them in a few years. but that's a weird bill, dälek, guapo and destructo swarmbots (i haven't heard them but they sound heavy and noodly). __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	haha I saw el guapo live and they were actually really great. It was a few dudes with 700 drum machines. the album "Fake french" on dischord is actually really cool, but it's the only one i've heard. it sounds like if fugazi owned 700 drum machines. __________________
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01.10.2008, 03:13 PM	#5
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	oh yeah, it's funny. they played with racebannon, who were just a straight-up dj-based noise kraut rock band (before they turned into boring math sci fi screamo shit and then turned into boring metalcore beasts).. they also played with mecca normal, who lee wrote skip tracer about and were horrible.. and they played with q and not u, who had just lost one of their members a few days before... so, their set was reeeeeeeeeal crappy. Sad. It was in this attic in an abandoned art museum down some weird dark alley and it was rebuilt on the inside with two huge, um, skate ramps, and people were skateboarding during the set and the entire room had mirrors all around. And the floorboards were wooden and creaky and nails were sticking out and all the other rooms in this attic had paint on them and there were holes in the wall and shit. I think that venue lasted like a month.. animal collective and cock esp also played there... Cool show. __________________
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	fake french, that's the album i heard from them and i thought it was really boring, should give it another listen, i guess. that was a weird show you saw...actually many weird shows in a weird place. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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