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DigitalFrontier: DJ Shadow Meets Jethro Tull

7 January, 2008 | 6.18AM

Written by: GirlSonic
Filed under: Music News: digitalfrontier, mercury lounge

I’m listening right now to some live recordings of a New York electronica group called DigitalFrontier.

It’s all coming back to me now; the hindi hip hop playing on the speakers of the midnight cab to the Mercury Lounge, the tripped-out dreadlocked crowd, and the stage lights that regularly targeted burning bright beams directly onto our retinas. Like wow, man.

I think of the Mercury Lounge as a strictly analog club, the kind of venue that hosts six different bands on any given night and where success is measured in inches of beer on the floor.

I saw a woman there wearing open-toed heels, and patted myself on the back for having the presence of mind to wear motorcycle boots instead. But I digress.

DigitalFrontier is a unique symbiosis of musical talent.

Their sound last night was improvisational and psy-trance-ish and deliciously danceable.

On the electronic flute, Jesse Stocker wove melodic strands over, under and through the ambient plane of Matt Smilkstein’s keys.

Occasionally, the synth FX and sci-fi vocal samples got a little out of hand and the lead veered off into ‘pan flute of the Andes’ territory.

But the solid groove put down by drummer Sol Montoya and bassist Zach Catarelli held everything together.

This is a young band as yet without a label, and one that I hope will produce a studio recording in the near future.

Either that, or I better start planning which boots I’ll wear to their next festival gig.

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I'm listening right now to some live recordings of a New York electronica group called DigitalFrontier.   

It's all coming back to me now; the hindi hip hop playing on the speakers of the midnight cab to the Mercury Lounge, the tripped-out dreadlocked crowd, and the stage lights that regularly targeted burning bright beams directly onto our retinas. Like wow, man.
 
I think of the Mercury Lounge as a strictly analog club, the kind of venue that hosts six different bands on any given night and where success is measured in inches of beer on the floor.  

I saw a woman there wearing open-toed heels, and patted myself on the back for having the presence of mind to wear motorcycle boots instead. But I digress.
 
I'm listening right now to some live recordings of a New York electronica group called DigitalFrontier.   

It's all coming back to me now; the hindi hip hop playing on the speakers of the midnight cab to the Mercury Lounge, the tripped-out dreadlocked crowd, and the stage lights that regularly targeted burning bright beams directly onto our retinas. Like wow, man.
 
I think of the Mercury Lounge as a strictly analog club, the kind of venue that hosts six different bands on any given night and where success is measured in inches of beer on the floor.  

I saw a woman there wearing open-toed heels, and patted myself on the back for having the presence of mind to wear motorcycle boots instead. But I digress.
 

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